SWIFT TRANSFER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20601, 31 October 1941, Page 6

SWIFT TRANSFER

RUSSIAN FACTORIES WORK ON NEW SITES INCREASED PRODUCTION (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Piphs Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) lteed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 30. Some details of the amazing extent to which Russia has been able to transfer a large number of her most important war factories from the east to the west of Russia is told by a correspondent writing from Kuibyshev.

He tells of two factories which he visited, one from Leningrad and one from Kiev, which had been transferred lock., stock and barrel, to the east. They were actually producing a greater output in their new location. A big plant which left Kiev within three days of the order to evacuate arrived with personnel and resumed production. Not only was the plant able to fulfil the August production plan up to 107 per cent, but in September the plant nearly doubled the output which had been achieved in Kiev.

Local Workers Trained

The factory brought GOO workers and specialists from Kiev and engaged and trained many local men, women and youths. With the arrival of the migrant industry, new life sprang up in the district, roads, water and electricity supplies being provided. On August 3 a Leningrad factory was dismantled and placed on the railway. Three weeks later production was resumed in full swing, combined, moreover, with the production of a small local plant. A thousand such factories, says the correspondent, have been equally successfully transferred from White Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltic States.