The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
U.S.S.R. Opens
Gigantic New
Machine Plant
Factory at KramatOrsk
Is Largest of Kind
In the World
tspeelaI 70 Dc Dale WOrkerl


MOSCOW, Sept. 81 Cby wireless)
The Soviet press is devoting much
space to the forthcoming official OPP
ening of the machine construction
plant at Kramatorsk-a new giant
of the Second Five-year Plan.
This plant has no equal in the
power and the perfection of its
equipment. Its various shops have
a capacity which exceeds the indi-
vidual capacity of all similar shops
throughout the world.
The foundries have a capacity of
$4,000 tons annually, or double the
capacity of the shops at Krupps,
and AS times the capacity of the
Armstrong Vickers plant in Eng
land; 4 times larger than the Skoda
works in Czechoslovakia, and three
times larger than the United Steel
Company in America.
Four Open Hearth Furnaces
Nowhere else in the world have
iron foundries 200-ton cranes which
make possible the production of
castings weighing $50 tons each.
Kramatorsk's steel foundry, with its
capacity of $4,000 tons of castings
also has no competitors. -Four open
hearth furnaces and three electric
furnaces with a capacity of 100000
tons of smelted metal annually,
bring the plant into the first rank
for the production of highgrade
steels.
The thermic stoves, capable of
treating 1000 tons monthly, are the
largest in the world. Krupps can
treat 1900 tons a month and Skoda,
1900 monthly. The forging and the
stamping shops are especially
powerful. They can produce 10000
tons of forgings annually. (Krupp,
10000; Ansaldo in Italy, $4,000;
United Steel, 100000.
23,S69 Workers
The annealing stoves and numer-
Gus cranes make it possible to deal
with articles of any size and weight.
When the plant is working full ca
pacity, it will have 23,869 workers,
including 1875 engineers and tech
nicianS.
The Soviet newspapers, in a lead
ing article on the approaching OPP
ening of the plant, states:
The biologists of capitalist tech
nique are now agitating for the
construction of medium-sized and
small enterprises, which should
more easily resist the destructive
forces of crises. But the new Kra-
matorsk giant will annually pro-
duce six complete sets of equip
ment for blast furnaces, thirty sets
of equipment for open-hearth fur
naces, three blooming mills and six
teen other rolling mills, twenty
thousand tons of metallurgical
cranes, sixteen -compressors,
equipment for cooking stoves, etc.,
etc.
Tremendous Economic Victory
1.-THE starting of two heavy ma
chine construction plants, one at
Kramatorsk and one in the Urals,
is tremendous victory on the front
of the struggle for the economic in
dependence of the Soviet Union.
The idea of socialist industrializa-
ton is embodied with exceptional
force in the enormous and Well-lit
shops of the Kramatorsk plant, in
its excellent planning and in the
well-considered selection of its mod
ern equipment.
The factory has had good reason
to take the name of the creator of
this idea and the organizer of its
naturalization, namely Stain.
Even the external appearance of the
plant bears the imprint of the era
of the construction of classics
socialist society.
Social Extensions"
In addition to the gigantic scope
of its industrial architecture, we
also see concern for the living
people who are the builders of So
cialism. Every shop has its social
extensions which contain places
for workers rest-rooms, evening
technical schools, dining rooms, Ii
braries, hairdressers and shower
baths. The flowers and the foun-
tains along the two-kilometer street
of the plant would do honor to any
park in any big city. The construc-
ton of the new town-New Krama-
torsk-is going forward along better
and more cultured lines that many
of our other new constructions"
In the new town, the Machine
Construction Institute, the Voca-
tional School, two secondary schools,
dining clinics, hospital, dis
pensaries, nurseries, and kindergar-
tens have already been built.