The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
PLAN Is
FORGING AHEAD
IN SOVIET UNION
Report on Advances CT
First 2 Years

MOSCOW.-The Council of Peo--
pies Commissars of the Soviet Union
has adopted the following decision
the economic plans for
the special quarter October-December
1880.
During the second year Of the Five
Year Plan which has just concluded,
great success was achieved with the,
work for the building up of socialism
and the basis was laid for the COM
pletion of the full plan within four
years.
The gross production Of the whole
of large-scale industry grew by Is
per cent, and the production of the
heavy industries by 40 per cent. Cap
ital investments in the socialist Sec
ton of the economic system rose by
"a per cent, the capital investments
in socialist industry showing an in
crease of SO per cent. AS a result of
the rapid development of production
and the tremendous extent Of the
constructive work, the number Of
workers in industry grew considerably
as result of which unemployment
was liquidated. This fact represents
one of the greatest achievements Of
the working class in the current year.
Another important achievement was
the increase of the area under seed
in the collective agricultural UNDER
takings to SO million hectares, ale
though the Five Year Plan gave 206
million hectares as the final figures
at the conclusion of the fifth year.
In the most important grain districts
more than half of the peasant farms
have now been organized in collective
undertakings. The Soviet farms have
sown million hectares for the COM
ing year, whereas the final figures OF
the Five Year Plan were million
hectares. AS a result of the develop
ment of the collective and Soviet
farms the total area under seed In
the Soviet Union increased by IA mil
llO1 hectares CIllS year.
Thanks to the fundamental dev.
elopment in the direction of collective
farms and to the development of the
Soviet farms, the grain problem may
be considered as solved and it is now
possible to further the development
of industrial crops such as sugar beet
and cotton.
This great success is the result of
an uninterrupted struggle against
tremendous difficulties intensified by
the bitter resistance of the declining
classes. The Communist Party and
the working class of the Soviet Union
developed their attack on the cap
italist elements and undertook the
liquidation of the kulaks as class,
carrying through this policy as an
integral part of the collectivisation of
agriculture.
With regard to railway transport ID
was decided: to increase the freight
turnover by SO million kilometre tons.
or by 31.2 per cent as compared with
the quarter average in 1929-30; to
increase the daily average use Of the
goods wagons to 1876 kilometres; to
increase the productivity per capita
by 26.1 per cent as compared with the
quarter average of the preceding year.
Capital investments for transport to
total 655 millions rubles, including in
this figure the reduction of the cost
of building production.
The capital investments for post.
telephone and telegraph services to
total Is million rubles.
The expenses for peoples education
and for trade training to total 8o5
million rubles, not including expenses
for the training of workers In indus
try The total number of students to
be $4,000 at the high schools, $4,000
at the technical high schools and
227,00o at the workers faculties.