RUSSIAN INDUSTRY
FAILURE OF MOTOR WORKS. FIVE-YEAR PLAN NOT SATISFACTORY. (CKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT ZLtZ TfclC TELEGRAPH— COPYBIGHT.) "RIGA, April 14. The Soviet's great motor works at Nijninovgorod, employing 25,000, are reported to bo a failure, tho authorities' h;test attempt at manufacturing revealing conditions tantamount to sabotage. Millions of roubles' worth of plant, motors, electric apparatus, and machine parts are lying in three feet of water ia flooded warehouses.
A special commission has ordered tho immediate construction of new warehouses and also an investigation to discover thci culprits. The Soviet is further anxious regarding the unsatisfactory condition of tho Five-Year Plan in connexion with coal, metallurgy, and agriculture.
The Ukraine and North Caucasus are so backward in production that torchlight ploughing and sowing brigades are working all night.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20523, 16 April 1932, Page 15
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