Evening star., 1952-08-20
Stain Orders Party Congress
To Convene October 5; Session
Will Be First Since Before War
Meeting Called
To Approve New
Five-Yeur Plan
Hv the Associoted Press


up a fifth five-year plan to in
crease Soviet industrial output 70
per cent by the end of 1855.
A decree OF the party'S central
committee. published in all Mos
PortinI Text of New Stotute Of the Com
munist Porty. Poee AZ
cow papers, said the party's top
control body, it's Politburo. would
be replaced by a "Praesidium"
which would have the function of
guiding the work of the (party)
central committee between ses-
SionS."
The changes in party organiza-
ton are provided in a new statute
to be taken up by the Congress.
Authority Unquestioned.
The Politburo, deriving its power
theoretically from the Central
Party, is in fact the ruling body
of the Soviet Union, and thus OF
world communism. 1t is made up
of Prime Minister Joseph Stain.
party general secretary, and 10
others, plus a number of alternate
members and has welded unques-
toned authority under Stain.
The party secretariat, however,
remains under the new statutes.
The new statutes provide for
changing the tWo-decade-old
name of the party-from the all
union Communist Party (Bolshe-
viks) to the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union"
Western observers here consid-
cred the meeting announced for
October S would be the most i'm
portant held in the Soviet Union
since the end of World War II.
The Communist congress was
announced in a decree Of the
party's Central Committee, pub
lished today in all Moscow news
papers over the name of Stain.
The announcement included di-
receives the congress will be asked
to approve for the new, fifth five
year economic plan. This, the
party decree said. would cover the
years 1851 through 1855.
Deals With Percentages.
The directives, which are ex-
pected to be the basis of the new
economic goals the Soviet govern
ment will set, call for total Soviet
industrial production to increase
IL per cent annually. BY the end
of 1855, total output would be 60
per cent greater than in 1850.
LAS with previous Soviet eco
nomic announcements, today's
pronouncement dealt only with
percentages. The proposed di-
rective gave no tonnages or other
production quantitiesD
Stain presumably will attend
the party congress and it was con-
Sidered possible he might make
one of his rare public addresses to
the meeting. Stain was the main
speaker when the party congress
met last in 1889.
A five-item agenda was listed
for the forthcoming congress:
/. Report Of the party's central
committee, to be given by Com
mittee Secretary Georgi M. Malen-
kov.
(Malenkov. a key member Of
the Politburo, in recent months
has been widely considered in
the west to be Stalins heir. He
is one of several secretaries of
the central committee, and his
selection to give the important
committee report seems addi-
tional evidence of his dominant
position in the communist
hierarchy
2. Report of the Central Inspec-
ton Committee of the party.
3. Consideration of directives
on the fifth five-year plan.
4. Changes in the statute OF
the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union.
S. Election of central organs Of
the party. This election of such
important bodies as the central
committee which names the
Politburo-is likely to rank with
the f1ve-year plan directives ir
Importance and interest.
Increases Ordered.
Today's party decree said tht
Congress should consist of tw,
delegates for each 5000 member
of the party-one with vote ant
one with an advisory voice."
The proposed economic direc
tives set forth a number of in
creases for individual industrie
to make by 1855 over their 1876
output. These included:
Steel, 62 per cent; coal, 43 pc
cent; oil and petroleum, IS pc
cent: grain, 40 to SO per cent.
The directives also call for tn
volume of retail trade in the Stat
and cooperative stores to increas
70 per cent by 1855 over the 1875
total, with meat sales to the popu
lace to go up 80 per cent an
butter sales to rise 100 per cent.
The plan also provides that tn
Soviet national incomes shoule
in 1855, be 60 per cent more tha
it was in 1850.