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


of pits deepened yearly did not increase
between 1925 and 1929, on the contrary it
decreased.
with such plan of development of the
Don Basin and its actual carrying out, a
great crisis in the fuel supply industry must
have occurred in 1880 in accordance with the
general directives of the Industrial Party
concerning the preparation for intervention
in this year.
1.-THE Kuznetz Basin with its tremendous
possibilities of speedy development is of
especial Importance as a powerful mobliza-
ton basis. AS a basis for the fuel supply
in the heart of the country free from the
danger of invasion and destruction at time
of military action, the Kusnetz Basin should
have been prepared at any time for pro-
duction considerably exceeding the local de-
mand and should have been considered as a
district of Importance to the whole Soviet
Union and in particular for mobilization.
This role OF the Kusnetz Basin was DELHI
erately disregarded by me and by the whole
sabotage organization of the State Planning
Commission in accordance with the inStruc-
ton of the Industrial Party when working
out the Plan for the development of the dis
trict. Obviously reduced tempo were given
when the Five-Year Plan was drawn up and
in particular in relation to the tasks of the
years 1930-31. Apart from the development
of the basic fuel supply district, the Don
Basin and the Kusnetz Basin, the develop
ment of local fuel supply is of tremendous
Importance for the whole fuel supply plan
and in particular in relation to the defense
of the country (the local coal fields, peat,
etc.. In particular this is important with
regard to districts which are greatly DEEPEN
dent on fuel supplies brought from great dis
tances, for instance, the Leningrad district,
the central industrial district and the Ural
district.
The weakness of the existing transport
facilities of these fundamental fuel supply
districts increased by the general disorgan-
izing work of the Industrial Party, would
have quickly led to the complete paralyzing
of the fuel supply in period of crisis or
military action and would nave made it i'm
possible to utilize 6 district like the Kusnetz
Basin of such Importance for mobilization.
". The impending of the development of
oil transport and the creation of an obvious
disproportion between the production of oil
and the existing transport means; waters and
railways, belong to the sabotage measures
directed towards the destruction of the fuel
supply Statement of 3rd November 1900
Referring to the metallurgical industry
Ramzin declares:
1.-The minimal rates of development carried
out by the Industrial Party in the metal
1urgical industry can be seen by comparison
of the figures of cast iron production accord
ing to the Five-Year Plan of the State Plan
ming Commission reight to ten million tons)
with the latest figure of seventeen million
tons or almost twice as much. This slowing
down of the rate of development in the
metallurgical industry whilst simultaneously
increasing the extent of the investment works
led inevitably in 1880 to an acute shortage
of metal and to a crisis in the metal supply:
1t is sufficient to point out that the deficit
of sheet iron increased from year to year and
in 1929-30 had reached 81 per cent.
1.-The metal shortage is made still more
acute by the fact that the assortment Of
metals do not fit the demand and that also
a disproportion exists between the production
and the demand for individual metallurgical
commodities. The metal shortage was ag-
gravated by irrational usage"
Tcharnovsky, who has directed the sabo-
tage work in the metalurgical industry, de-
clared.
With regard to the supply of the metal
working industries with metals, our main aim
was to create deficit of supply in all forms
of metal and half manufactured goods to
meet the needs of the Peoples Commissariat
for Ways and Communication and other Off
cial institutions. This was done above all by