The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-30
RUSSIA PLANS
VAST PROGRAM
OF EXPANSION
Breath Taking Proposals
May Bring Millions
to America.
BY JOSEPH HI. BAIRD
United Press staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 30.-A breath
taking program of industrial eX-
pansion and social betterment that
may mean many millions of dollars
to American trade and offers hope
of vastly improved conditions for
Russia'S people was revealed today.
The official newspaper Izvestia
announced the plan formally as
having been approved by the po-
litical bureau of the Communist
party, the ruling body. 1t is to be
submitted to the party congress in
January and will be approved auto
matically.
The project is part of the second
f1ve-year plan that eliminates in
1887. In it are included plans for
factories, canals, power plants, rail-
ways, more efficient farming
methods so far as industrial life
goes.
More Food, More Pay
For the people, the proletariat in
whose name the Communist leaders
seized power in the Hateful autumn
of 1917, the project offers things
they never have had in RuSSia's his
tory.
In their part of the program are
more food, more luXuries, more pay,
prospect of advancement in their
work, abolition of illiteracy.
For American trade, the plan Of
fers possible chance to sell motor
cars, tractors, machinery and rail-
way equipment.
Soviet heavy industry which was
built up during the first f1ve-year
plan will be relied upon for a large
part of the manufactures required
under the new project.
But it was thought probable that
the program would open up an i'm
portant Russian market to the
United States, thanks to the re-
sumption of diplomatic relations.
magnitude is Revealed
The magnitude of the project was
shown by the fact that Soviet pro-
duction for 1887 is estimated at
103,000,000 rubIes (nominally SSH
100000, 000), compared with 43,OOO,-
100000 (nominally $21 10000, O0O) in
1882.
Other 1887 goals compared to 1882
are to increase the consumption of
meats, butter, fish, eggs and sugar
threefold, at the same time reduc-
ing retail prices 35 per cent. Thus
the proletariat would be rewarded
for their sacrifices while industry
was being built up.
The total of workers would be in
creased by 80 per cent, and wages
would be increased materially.
The following factories are to be
built: Fifteen textile, twelve cot
ton, eleven silk, twenty-one shoe,
seventeen meat packing, six soap and
twenty-three food products.
Five thousand kilometers (3.105
miles, of railways are to be electri-
fed and $500 kilometers $500
niles of new trackage built.
Two Canals Planned
Two canals will be built, from the
Volga to Moscow and the Volga to
the Don.
A giant hydroelectric plant to be
built on the Volga will far surpass
the wondrous Dnieperstroy.
Five million qualified workers are
to be trained and 100000 technical
specialists. =
1t is planned completely to liqui-
date illiteracy by seven years of
compulsory education for every
child in The Soviet union.
Finally, the entire agricultural in
duStry is to be observation-disclosures
lied into efficient cooperative
groups instead of being left to in
dividualS.
The "politburo' approved the def
milton Of Premier Molotov:
BY the second f1ve-year plan the
Soviet union will be changed into
an economically independ Mt
country and the leader of Europe in
technical advancement"