RUSSIAN INDUSTRY SHORTCOMINGS
Admissions In Moscow
(Received February 17, 9.20 p.m.) MOSCOW, February 16.
M. Malinkoff, secretary of tlie Central Committee of the Communist Party, acknowledged shortcomings in industry and transport in the Soviet Union when the eighteenth all union conference of the party opened. Admitting big errors in production, he indicated that some. Commissariats produced in 19-10 not. only less than was provided for in the Five-Year Plan but less than in 1939. “Tlie electrical industry has too often broken down." be said. 'tSrhe railways and shipping have not fulfilled their goods transport plans and passenger trains ace often overdue.”
He ascribed the errors to bureaucratism in tlie commissariats, which bad not exercised sufficient control. “Many regional and city committees slackened off'.” Ire said. “They were dealing with agriculture, but they were forgetting tlie mines and factories, [laying attention only when an enterprise got into a real mess.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 123, 18 February 1941, Page 7
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