RUSSIAN INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 9

RUSSIAN INDUSTRY

Success for Five-year Plan Claimed Moscow, April 26. The Soviet Central Statistical Bureau announces that the industrial side of the second five-year plan has been completed nine months ahead of schedule. Coal, oil and some-other commodities are stated to be lagging behind the production peaks set for them under the plan. The production of all commodities is now given as seven times greater than in pre-war days. Russia claims first place in the world for the output of farm machinery, and second place in Europe for electrical power and aluminium. The production of machines and machine tools is stated to be 10 times that of 1914. Beginning on January 19, 1934, the second five-year plan provided for 1937 production to be two and a half times greater that of 1932, when the first plan ended. An increase of 837 per cent, in motor-car production was called for, and three times tlie number of tractors had to be built. Seven thousand miles of railways was to be constructed, and agricultural output doubled. Living conditions, health and education were to be improved, and 50 per cent, more students added to schools and colleges. Eighty per cent, of the new production had to come from enterprises built or reconstructed during the first plan.