The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
SOVIET union
TO OUT.STR|P
ALL NATIONS
5 Year Plan Making
Big Strides
BY d. MISHUSTIN.

According to the computations OF
competent expert members of the
Soviet State Planning Commission,
he Soviet Union is now, economic
ally speaking, at stage of deyel-
pment which the United States
:ad reached about SO years ago, Its
;peedier rate of development, how
ever, will enable the Soviet Union
TO outstrip the most advanced
Countries of Europe in a matter of
5 years and the United States
themselves in a further similar Pc
.iod. If we compare the level of
production in the Soviet Union and
that in other countries with the
level in the year 1913, we shall see
that Great Britain has not yet re-
gained the pre-War level, of which
it still falls short by 10 per cent,
while Germany is at about 104 per
cent of it's pre-war output in spite
of a gigantic influx of foreign cap
ital. Only the United States has
reached level of about $50 per
cent of the record for 1918. The
Soviet Union, on the other hand,
which suffered far more severely
as result of the war, had already
last year reached 120 per cent of its
pre-war output level.
In coal-mining the output figure
in the United States is now about
80 per cent in comparison with pre-
war times, whereas in the Soviet
Union it is 1874 per cent. In five
years, it is computed, the coal out
put in the United States will be
around 105 per cent of the 1913 rec
ord, while in the Soviet Union it
will figure at 230 per cent. Great
Britain has now an output of 81
per cent of the pre-war quantity;
in five years, at the rate of develop
ment recorded of late, it should have
81 per cent.
The Coal and Iron
AS regards the volume Of its coal
output, the Soviet Union now occu-
pies fifth place after the United
States, Great Britain, Germany,
and France. France is at present
raising So million tons per annum
and the Soviet Union SIS million
tons. According to the computa-
ton of the experts attached to the
State Planning Commission, France
will in five years time be raising
81 million tons in year and the
Soviet Union 70 million tons, so that
the Soviet Union will then have ous-
stripped France and occupy fourth
place. In the output of pig iron,
meanwhile, the Soviet Union will
advance from sixth to third place.
In the United States the share
of human and animal labor in pro-
duction figures at per cent, the
share of mechanical energy at SO
per cent, and the share of caloric
energy for chronological purposes 45
per cent. In the Soviet Union the
corresponding figures are so per
cent, % per cent, and q per cent.
In the Soviet Union there are 0.9S
h. p. of mechanical energy per
worker, and in the United States
4.3 h. p. In five years, however,
the Union will have got up to a
status of roughly 2 h. p, that is
to say the number of h. p. per
worker will have been doubled.
In the United States, meanwhile,
such a development, j. e. a doub-
ling of the mechanical proportion
in this sense, would require not 5
but 26 years. 1t is remarkable,
moreover, that according to the five
year-plan the yearly accretion OF
mechanical forces per head Of the
workers figures at 35 per cent,
while in the United States the in
crease has of late years been no
more than 10 per cent.
Beating the U. S. A.
Projected industrial constructions
comprising the erection of giant
concerns, will greatly accelerate oul
progress. In the Dnieper indus.
trial district the output Of electric
current for productional purposes
computed per head of the work
ers, will be eight times as great as
the corresponding output for thu
whole of American industry. Al
the rapids of the Dnieper, water
turbines of a record capacity o!
$4,000 kilowatts are now under con
struction.
In the productivity Ct work, too
there will be essential changes
Over against an increase in tn
working output in the Unite'
States between 1919 and 1925 o
SO per cent, there was in the Sovie
Union an increase of 1876 per cen
in 1925-26, 14.7 per cent in 1927
%, and II per cent in 1928-29. Il
five years there is likely to be al
increase of altogether 10 per cent
The gross output of the German
chemical industry stood in 1927 a
value Of 1000 million roubles. Il
the Soviet Union it is at presen
$50 million roubles, but is likely t,
increase in the cource of the neg
five years to 2,160 millions. Il
Germany 100000 tons of nitro
genous fertilizers are now produced
in a year; in the Soviet Union onl!
Il, 900 tons. But in 1888 the Sovie