GREAT SCHEME FAILS
Soviet’s Huge Motor Works 5-YEAR PLAN IN JEOPARDY (Rec. April 15, 5.5 p.m.). Riga. April 14. The > Soviet’s great motor works at Nijninovgorod, employing 25,000 hands, is reported a failure, the authorities’ latest attempt at manufacturing revealing conditions tantamount to sabotage. Millions of roubles’ worth of plant, motors, electric apparatus, and machine parte are lying in three feet of water in flooded warehouses. A special commission, has ordered the -immediate construction of new warehouses, and also an investigation to discover the culprits.
The Soviet is further anxious over the unsatisfactory condition of the Five-Year Plan in coal, metallurgy, and ' agriculture in. the Ukraine and North Caucasus where conditions are so backward that torchlight ploughing and sowing brigades are working ail night long.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 172, 16 April 1932, Page 11
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