1933" OBJECTIVES
SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN
INCREASES IN PRODUCTION
MOLOTOV'S ESTIMATES
United Press Association—By Electric TeleKraph—Copyright. (Received 13th January, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, 12th January. M. Molotov, President of the Council of Commissars of the People, addressing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, outlined the provisions for 1933, the first year of the second Five-Year Plan. , He estimated that the gross production would increase by 16+ per cent., with an increase of only 2 per cent, in the number of workers. More food was available, but its transport to the workers must be improved. The efficiency of food transport must be increased, and costs of production lowered. The great problem in agriculture was to increase the yield, and in this connection he anticipated that the 1933 production of cereals would increase 13 per cent., cotton 8 per cent., flax by 20 to 32 per cent, without any increase in the cultivated area. Industrial wages' would increase 9 per cent, as compared with last year. M. Molotov stressed the necessity of acquiring technical knowledge, pointing out that two million skilled hands_ had been absorbed into industries in the past two years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 7
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1891933" OBJECTIVES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 7
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