New Britain herald., 1930-12-01
President of Russian State Planning Commission Tells of Progress of 1n- dustrializati0n Plan.
{Copyrght, 1880, by the Associated


 industrialization plan not only has has given every promise of comple- tion within four years instead of five.
 The present task says M. kuibyshev. who is responsible tor , putting the five year plan into oper- etion, consists of fulfillment of the plan before schedule, that is, within four years"
 In an exhaustive report on the first two years of the plans opera ton, which ended Oct. 1. M. Ruby shev presents figures to show an in crease beyond the planned produc- tion estimates in every department mentioned, not in single one he lists do the results come beneath what had been projected. |, Claims Called Fantastic
 Who does not remember the claims advanced by the greatest bourgeois economists and politicians that the estimate of the five year plan were unreal, Utopian and fan tastic? Who does not remember the talk that they were mere bo!- shevist delrium? To this day cries . are heard of the failure of the far reaching plan for the reconstruction Of the national economy of the So- viet Union," he writes, !. The past two years operation of the plan furnishes sufficient material both for verifying the reality of it's provisions and for verifying the jus tice of the objections and doubts which the plan aroused among rep resentatives of bourgeois economic thought. The past two years have revealed piatiletka Gas the plan IS . cdlled) being exceeded in the most important sections Of national econ- omy"
 There follow figures showing piatiletka's progress:
 In two years, NJ. Kuibyshev says. total output in planned industries under piatiletka is estimated at 29,- 338,o0O.O00 rubles (abon s14,690,- . V0o,o00).
 The excess of fulfilment of pia- tiletka for the first two years is par ticularly remarkable in the field of | heavy industry" he writes, while piatiletka provides in this field for 12.476, 900, 900 rubles, the actual out put was 13,764,0 ,00o,oo0 rubles.
 The extent to which actual out- put exceeds estimates may be gaug ed from the following figures:
 Oll-Estimated under piatiletk;; 28,o00,Q0O tons; actual output 3O,- . 600,O0O tons
 steel-Estimated 9,soo.oo0 tons; output l0,200,0oc
 Rolled metal-Estimated 7,600, ,000 :, tons; output S,300,0O0 tons.
 ElectrotechnicaI-E 586,- 000,O0O rubles, output 781,O00, ,0o0 Iubles.
 Agricultural Estimat- . cd 472 2,0oo,ooo rubles. output 5l5.- O0D,0o0 rubles.
 Machinery Exceeded Hopes
 'The production of general ma ' chinery during the first two years also exceeded the plan.
 Though estimates for the first year of piatiletka proved exceeded. particularly remarkable successes were achieved by socialist industry in the second year. In 1S29-30 the gross output increased 25 per cent. exceeding piatiletka estimates by ) per cent.
 Tt must be emphasized that the increase in the output of industries producing means of production cd 1act n exceeding the planned figure for the year by 16 per cent
 Tn short in all important indus tries We are progressing beyond piatiletka figures.
 "A less rapid tempo of growth h Was recorded in the light industries in which available agricultural and \ raw materials acted a. limiting factor. The stimulation of native raw materials and resources will enable us next year considerably to exceed the piatiletka estimates in the light industries as we'll as (food cotton, etc.). On the whole, the pre-war level of industrial produc- ton already has been doubled"
 Building Far Ahead
 NJ. kuibyshev continues to say that building program figures are also far ahead of the piatiletka es- | inmates, and continues to a discus sion of agriculture: "A very great advance has been made in the field of agriculture. The sown area in- creased from 1lS,ooo.ooo hectares tp to 30"
 He states that due to improved cultivation methods the gross grain crop of this year was 86,500,OU0 tons against 71,7o0.oo0 tens in 1929. an increase of 2o.e per cent. Mar kctable grain produce, he said, was ( S2.6 per cent above piatiletka provi- sions. Thus" he states. "the grain problem has been fundamentally solved"
 With regard to collective farming he says that upwards of one-fifth Of peasant households have joined in the collectives-that is, that more than 5,000,000 peasant households have rejected individual farming oiEd iidNS tdheI up NOiiCStiNS ioi III irg. The collective planted &c., 100000 hectares as compared with 20,600,000 planned for the fifth year of piatletka. In the grain re- gions 45.S per cent of the peasants have joined the colIectives.
 Mentions Other Successes
 M. kuibyshev proceeds with .as- sertions marking success of social ization of liy estock, liquidation of the kulak or landed peasant class surpassns of piatiletka quotas by the railroads and improvement of the cultural standards of the popu- lation. Wages, he says, have in- creased 12.1 per cert