The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Huge Increase in
Soviet Coal and
Other Production
Further Rise in Living
Standards of Masses
Assured
By yERN SMITH
European Correspondent, Daily
Worker

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MOSCOW, Dec. 1S.-The November
coal output was 31.8 per cent higher
than that of November last year.
Coke production was 344 per cent
higher; pig iron, 27.6 per cent; steel
3A.9 per cent, rolled iron and steel
25.4 per cent higher.
Despite these tremendous increases,
the Soviet workers are determined on
still greater efforts, because the plan
is not quite fulfilled; coal production
was fulfilled 94.2 per cent Of the Mo-
vember plan: pig iron 875 per cent:
coke, 1871, steel, 8s.4 per cent.
Increases Daily Output.
The average November daily output
OF coal was 229, o40 tons; pig iron,
22,980 tons; steel, 22,0e0 tons. The
rate Of production is increasing, for
example, the coal output for Decem-
Der 7th was 243,70o tons. Nationwide
efforts have begun to fulfill the yearly
plan in the remaining days Of De-
cember and to present figures Of new
victories to the 18th Congress Of the
Communist Party, meeting in January.
Intense interest has been aroused in
this drive to put on the Red List all
those plants fulfilling or over fulfill
ling the plan. Thousands Of workers
have signed collective challenges to
other plants, also challenging compe-
tition between departments in the
same plants. Numerous factories al
ready on the Red List have now chal-
lenged each other to produce millions
of rubles worth Of goods in excess OF
the plan as q present to the country.
Workers to Lower Cost of Production.
Challenges have also been made in
regard to the lowering of production
costs, improvement OF technique,
utilization Of the working day, etc. In
Moscow Province alone there are al
ready forty such factories. Outstand-
ing examples in other cities are, the
Red Triangle Rubber Factory, Lenin-
grad; Gomel Glass Factory, Krifoi;
the Rog Iron Mines in the Ukraine,
with already finished production Of
100000 tons Of ore, and the Red Oc-
tober Metal Plant in Stalingrad. The
Red Putilov Works, Leningra d,
pledges seven turbines by January LIST
and twelve thousand kilowatt tur-
bine by the beginning of the District
Party Conference, also five new farm
all type tractors and six hundred
thousand rubles worth of tractor
spare parts.
Scientists Pledge Increased Research.
This is typical of the attitude of the
work ers throughout the country
toward the approaching Party Con-
gress. Competition pervades all
fields. For example, Moscow University
scientists have pledged enlarged cour-
ses for the scientific lectures in the
factories. increased research work,
etc. Some pledges are arriving for
next year. Thus at the Donbas Udar-
niks' second meeting, just finished
pledges were made for sixty million
tons of coal for next year, contrasting
with fifty million tons for this year.
To Increase Consumers Goods.
Statements of the Peoples Commits
sars in the light industry, supplies,
| forestry, promise greatly increased
production and improved quality in
consumers goods next year, particu-
larly textiles, clothing, furniture,
canned goods, dairy products, sugar
| products, soap. The Conmissar of
Heavy Industry promises special at
tention to the production of machin-
cry for the light industry and Is work
ing out plans to insure ordering
within proper time, selection of the
right machines, proper supply, spare
parts, adequate transportation, etc.
These plans insure s. further huge
rise in the living standards of the So
Wet masses for the next year.
Thus far nine provinces and five re-
publics have settled all grain accounts,
including state deliveries for payment
in kind for the use of machine, trac-
tor stations, reserve supplies, stock,
food and have been given permission
for all Kilkhozniks to sell as lndivid-
uals the surplus grain distributed to
individual Kilhozniks and amounting
frequently to over ton per person.
Every effort Is being made to flood
villages with consumers manufac-
tured goods which the peasants Or
der when they sell the grain not
needed for their own consumption.
The Republics which have settled
their grain amounts are Crimea, Tar
tary, Bashkiria, Mo1davia and Ar