Evening star., 1933-12-31
AT HUGE PROJECTS
IN RUSSIANS PLAN.
Second Five-Year Program,
Dwarfinu First, Will Mean
SeIf-Sufficiency.

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food industry, 306; automobiles, 837;
tractors, 1923; machine building, q;
coal. 235. to 152 100000 tons; oil. 2l3.
47,0o0o 600 tons; pig iron, 1872, to 49,
100000 tons; steel, 35, to 100000
TONS copper, 1872, to l55,000,0O0 tons;
timber. 174, to 58,4l0 900 cubic yards.
The completion of the giant scheme,
announcement of which was delayed
more than year, IS intended to make
Russia ultimately induStrially equal to
her most powerful capitaliStic neigh
bors.
1t pays more immediate attention to
the needs Of the people than did the
first, which was devoted primarily TO
the heavier industries The average
yearly rise in the production of con-
sumers goods would be % per cent,
compared to II per cent annually un-
der the first flveyear plan.
The Tass (official Russian) news
agency. reporting in detail on the Sec
ond five-year plan, said:
THE estimated volume Of production
for the whole of industry at the end of
the second piatiletka thve-year plan),
is 103, 900 900 900 900 rubles dhe ruble
at par is about 81 cents; at current ex-
change about 81 cents. The Russian
estimate is based on prices as OF
19262D against 43 900, 900 900 600 at
the end of the first piatiletka. repre-
Senting an increase of nine-fold as
compared with the pre-war level.
New Enterprise Vast.
'In order to fulfill this program the
technical requirements have been out
lined in ali fields of national economy,
so that about 80 per cent of all prod
uctS Of industry will have been OBJ
tanned in 1887 from new enterprises
constructed or reconstructed entirely
during the course of the second piati-
letka.
THE complete mechanization Of all
industrial processes, the creation Of new
power enterprises. accomplishment Of
the electrif1cation Of industry, the wide
development Of electrified transport, and
the adoption Of electrical power in agri-
cultural operations is planned
1T is planned to double the capacity
Of ferrous metallurgy and also to widely
reconstruct the iron mining industry.
Great development in the
most important branches of the light
and food industries is planned
An increase in the productivity Of
labor is outlined amounting to 63 per
cent; and reduction of production
costs 26 per cent. with great improve
ment in the quality of production. The
increase in agricultural production is
estimated at about 27000 900 900. 000
rubleS, more than twice the increase
realized in the first pitailetka
Tractor Stations Increase.
"The increased production planned
for agriculture will be achieved BY
means OF complete collectivization ana
technical reconstruction in the whole
OF agriculture. for which purpose an In
crease in the number Of machine tractor
stations has been outlined up to 5000,
as against 2.446 in 1892
The number of tractors will be in
creased from 2,225 900 up to 100000
The number Of auto trucks will be in
creased more than u times. The COM
plete mechanization of agriculture and
the adoption OF agro-technical meas
ures to supply chemical fertilizers for
the greatest part OF the sowing area,
and irrigation projects in order to ex-
pand the irrigated soil area up to l.
0Oo,0O0 hectares (about $500 900 acres)
Is planned.
There is plan to increase freight
turnover and railway transport I'D to
so2 600 600 100000 ton-kilometers: river
IVY; automotive transport to 16, 900 =
o00 100000. Technical reconstruction
OF national transport Is planned, with
the laying Of about $500 kilometers
on main hnes such as the Ural Kuz-
netzk Transbaikalian Railroad, the Us
suri Donetz Railroad and others.
Rail Equipment Boosted.
ut Is planned to increase the num-
Der OF locomotives up to $4,000 instead
OF 1880 and increase the rolling stock
to 100000 instead Of $50 900
The entire railway system will be in
creased to $4,000 kilometers instead
OF $4,000
An enormous construction under
taking in artificial waterways (the
building Of new canals and the dam
ming OF rivers) is planned for the
creation Of unified water system for
the European part Of the U. S. S. R.,
which will unite the White Sea and
the Baltic and Caspian Seas and in
crease navigable waterways up to 101,-
900 (kilometers).
1T is planned to increase the num-
ber of automobiles and trucks by eight
times; highways by 10l 900 kilometers
instead of $4,000. and to extend civil
airlines up to $4,000 kilometerS instead
Of $4,000
The education Of 5000, 900 workers
also the graduation Of 100000
specialists as against 478,000 who were
graduated from high schools and engi-
neering schools in the first piatiletka.
School Expansion Planned.
"The number Of skilled specialists
in all fields of economy will amount
to 10000 persons instead Of 2,700,-
600. Extensive development in scientific
and technical institutes and laboratories
is planned.
THE second five-year plan provides
capital work amounting to over 133,-
900 100000 rubles, as against 5O,500,-
100000. OF this 69, 500, 100000 will be
for industry: more than $4,000, 900, 900
for agriculture and more than 26,OOO,-
900 900 for transport.
New and reconstructed enterprises
will cost altogether 132,000,0 0,00o,o 900
rubles, as against 38,600, ,00O,0 900 in the
first five-year plan.
During the second five-year period
will be finished the Uralsk & Kramatorsk
Machine-Building Works; the Lugansk
g. Orsk Locomotive Works and num-
Der of other large undertakings on which
construction began in the first flve-year
period.
Auto Production Higher.
ut Is planned to expand the Gorky
automobile plant to production of $780,
900 machines annually; and to expand