The daily worker., 1932-10-31
TOWARDS 18th ANNIVERSARY OF
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION!
USSR Registers Successes
in Coal, Metal Industries
Superiority of New System Won by Victorious
Victorious November Revolution
U.S.S.R. 4th In
Coal Production
Growth RateUnknown
In Rest of World
Gable BY Inprecorrl

| NSdHAC ny
MOSCOW, Oct. 30.-Coal is essen
tial to the development of every in
dustry. lin 1920 Lenin said at the 1st
Miners Congress that "No factories
and plants are possible without a
coal industry. Coal is industry's real
bread"
Given the scale and rate of social
ist construction, the Soviet Union es-
pecially needs coal, that bread of in
dustry. Therefore the development of
the coal industry in the Soviet Union
reached volume unheard of and un-
precedented in the world.
Under Czarism, Before the War
In 1918 the output of coal in Gar
ist Russia amounted to 29,100,000
tons. The Don Basin was the basic
and almost unique source of coal at
that time. But the Don Basin was in
| the center of the civil war which
left it destroyed, with flooded shafts
and frozen coal.
In 1920 the output of coal in the
Soviet Union amounted to 100000
tons. The work of restoring the Don
Basin and developing production in
other regions was started. The pre-
war level of production was exceeded
in 1927 when 32,700,000 tons of coal
were mined.
Having reconstructed its coal in
dustry in SO short time, the So
Wet Union started to develop it at a
rate unknown in any capitalist coun-
try in the world. During the ten
years of highest development of the
coal industry in the capitalist world,
the maximum output occurred in
Germany (150 per cent?. In the So
Wet Union in period of five years
(1927-1931), the coal output has
risen by 173 per cent.
USSR Takes Fourth Place In World
| Fifty-six million, seven hundred
thousand tons of coal had been mined
in the USSR during the year 1881.
The coal production was almost dou-
bled in comparison with 1913. The
Soviet Union took the fourth place
in the world in regard to coal pro-
duction having exceeded France, Po-
land and other countries.
simultaneously with the enormous
rise in the output of the Don Basin,
new coal mines were discovered and
mined. The second and third coal
basins of the Soviet Union, Kuzhas
and Karaganda, are developing and
speedily rising. Coal is being mined
at the Moscow Coal Basin, in the
Urals, in Middle Asia, etc.
Mechanized Industry.
The coal industry of the Soviet
Union is being fundamentally recon
structed. In 1918 mechanized produc-
ton of coal formed / per cent only
of the total output, while in 1881 II
amounted to Sc per cent and in 1897
it reached 70 per cent.
! Tremendous new construction is
proceeding simultaneously with re-
construction. Three hundred and
nineteen new shafts are under con-
struction with a total yearly output
of 239 million tons.
Contrast With Capitalist Production
The great forward stride of the
coal industry in the Soviet Union is
an especially vivid feature showing
the advantages of the economic sys-
tenn established by the victorious
proletariat at time when the capi-
talist countries are experiencing a
heavy crisis.
In the first eight months of 1882
the coal output of the Soviet Union
form ID 220. per cent of the produc-
tior ' the corresponding period OF
1917, hat of the United States 56.f
per cent, that of England 71.6 pei
cent and that of Germany Ills pei
} cent.