The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
SOVIET INDUSTRY IN 1881

disastrous for metallurgical plants, where it not
only disrupts production but also subjects the
furnace to serious deterioration. Among other
factors to which the low output in the iron and
steel industry in 1881 is attributed are insuffi-
cient coal supply, the tendency toward equaliz-
ing wages which was not seriously combatted
until the latter part of 1884, and unsatisfactory
conditions as regards food, clothing, and shelter
for the workers. The radical measures instituted
in the second half of the year to overcome these
shortcomings, together with the great increase
in the total capacity Of netallurgical plants are
expected to make possible the fulfillment Of the
large program Of production set for this year
New Steel Mill Construction.
AS regards construction work in the iron and
steel industry, 1881 witnessed big achievements
constituting the basis for rapid increase in
production this year and the coming years In
addition to the Magntogorsk and Kuznetz
plants, which have been constructed at cost of
hundreds of millions of rubles, several other new
steel mills will start operations this year, in
GLIDING Krivoy Rog, Kosogorsk Lpetsk, zapor-
ozhye, and Martupol. Moreover, several plants In
the Ukraine have undergone such extensive re-
construction that they practically constitute new
plants. For instance, the Makeyevka plant, which
in the pre-war period produced 100000 tons Of
pig iron annually, produced 100000 tons in 1881,
is scheduled to produce $4,000 tons in 1882, and
when reconstruction work is complete, will have
annual capacity of 100000 tons In the cur
rent year 26 new blast furnaces are scheduled
to start operations and to produce % million
tons of pig iron. Their total capacity is set at
IA million tons
Construction and reconstruction work on
plants producing high grade steel, Of great i'm
portance to the machine building industry re-
suited in a trebling of output in 1881 100000
tons, as compared with $1,000 tons in 1880.
The output this year is expected to reach 100000
TONS while the full capacity Of such plants now
under construction or in process Of reconstruc-
ton totals 100000 tons.
Other Industrial Construction.
Extensive construction work was carried on In
all branches of industry in 1881 Total capital
investments in identification and large-scale in
dustry under the Supreme Economic Council
amounted to billion rubles $35 billion as
compared with 81 billion rubleS in the preceding
two and ione-quarter years New plants with
total value of S.5 billion rubles in the preceding
two and one-quarter years. Among the new
plants completed last year were number Of
very large works built and equipped in accord
ance with the latest technique and having excep-
tonal significance for future industrial develop
ment. few of them are listed below:
Mimi Novgorod automo-
bile plant ........,...... I40 900 automobiles
Moscow C"AMO") automo-
bile plant ............... 10000 trucks
Kharkov tractor works . $4,000 tractors
Saratov combine works . 10000 combines
Ural machine building
plant Girst section) ...
Moscow machne-tool plant $500 screw machine
Mimi Novgorod machine
tool plant .......,....... 1880 milling
Ural copper-snelting plant 10000 tons copper
A number of plants practically completed in
1881 commenced operations in January of this
year. Among the most noteworthy of these are:
the Magntogorsk steel MILL the Berezniky
chemical plant, and the Moscow ball-bearing
plant. Many other large factories upon which
the main construction work was carried out in
1881 will be completed and start operations this
year.
Sixty new coal mines were opened last wear
with total capacity of 20 million tons -Four of
these have an annual capacity of l million tons
each. Capital investments in the coal industry
last year amounted to 627 million rubles ($323
Million, or nearly double those in 1880 1920
million rubles).
Last year there were completed a number of
new electric power plants, with combined ca
pacity OF one million kilowatts as much as in
the two preceding years and nearly equal to the
total capacity OF all plants in 1913 Some of the
mott important of the new stations are: Zuevo
10000 XIV. present capacity; Kashira, 100000
XIV; Nigres, $4,000 kw 1vgres, 10000 XIV; Lenin-
grad end plant), $4,000 XIV; Cheliabinsk, a.
900 XIV, and Magnitogorsk, $4,000 XIV.
The necessity Of accompanying the construc-