The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

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| to the investment work and the building of
houses which is one OF the chief hindrances
to the development of coalmining; (d)
crisis in the power supply in the Don Basin.
| the Kusnetz Basin and in Kisel, so that the
development and the level of INFLAMMATION
are limited: (e) slowing down of tie
mechanization of coal production thus ag-
gravating the labor and housing problems
| "6. The Power Industry (a) slowing
down of the tempo of identification; (b) the
causing of crisis in the power supply at the
most important points, the Don Basin, Len
| ingrad, Moscow; Co the slowing down of the
building of power stations and the extension
of the building periods double and triple so
that capital is tied up including consider
able quantities of monetary capital whereby
temporary crisis in the supply of electrical
power are caused; Id non-coincidence of
the dates at which Individual sections of
the power stations are completed and the
dates at which individual sections of the
equipment arrive, thus also causing capital
to lie unmused; tel expensive productive
costs for the building of power stations as a
result of irrational planning; IL delay in
the building of heating plants.
a. The Fuel Supply (a) considerable
reduction of the tempo of the fuel supply
industry; {b) reduction of the production of
local fuel, particularly peat and coal in the
Moscow area (c) limitation of the tempo
of development in the Kusnetz Basin; I'D
delay in the measures for the improvement
of the quality OF the coal for smelling pur-
poses and as a result worsening of the
quality of coke and metal" Statement on
the 21st Of September, 1930)
The sabotage work in this direction was
begun by the. old engineering Central Com
mittee. The new Central Committee which
began to work in the second half of 1928,
strengthened the work for the causing of a
disproportion in connection with the new
aim of producing a crisis in the year 1890,
particularly as the carrying out of the old
tactic especially in the plan work was made
practically impossible, as Ramzin says "as
result Of the energetic carrying out of the
general policy of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union"
THE fundamental measures in industry,
declared Ramzin, 'had to be directed towards
aggravating the already Inevitable economic
difficulties -. :"
Continuing, Ranzin declared that as far
as he was aware there had been no definite
concrete plan for the causing of an economic
crisis at the moment of the intervention
"The chief task of the Industrial Party con-
sisted in a systematic work and the direction
of the economic system SO that by carrying
out the above mentioned measures the econ
omic difficulties would be acute1y aggravated
and in this way favorable basis for the
intervention created" Statement on the
21st of October, 1900
In general the sabotagers saw the 1880
crisis in the following form:
"a particularly acute crisis was to occur
with regard to the fuel supply in the central
industrial area and in the Northwest dis
trict, and this would then Immediately de-
velop into a catastrophe with the military
interruption of communications with the Don
Basin and as a result of the weak and OBJ
viously insufficient development of the pro-
duction of local fuel such as the peat and
coal in the Moscow area, and the unpre-
paredness Of the consumers for it's broad and
rational utilization. A similarly acute crisis
was to develop in the metallurgical industry,
and particularly in the war industries as a
result of the retarding of the development
of the metalIurgical industry Here also the
military interruption of connections with the
metallurgical south would cause an immedi-
ate catastrophe. The cutting off of the Don
Basin with its coke and benzol industry was