REDS' NEW PLAN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 5

REDS' NEW PLAN

SECOND FIVE-YEAR SCHEME OUTLINED MORE PRODUCTION AND HIGHER, WAGES BILL, (UP. A. hv Elec. Tel. Cop.vriffno MOSCOW, Jan. 12. M. Molotov, president of the People’s Commissars, addressing tho Central Committee of the Communist Party, outlined the provisions for 1933, the first year of tho second Five Year Plan. " M. Molotov estimated that the gross production would increase by 16) per cent., with only 5 iier cent, increase in tho number of workers. Moire food would be. available, but its transportation to the workprs must be improved. The latter’s efficiency must be indreas'ed, and the cost of production lowereti. *•

‘ The great problem of. agriculture, he said,: was to increase the field. He anticipated that the 1933 production of cereals would increase by 13 peir eent., cotton by 8 per cent, flax by 20 per cent., without; an increase in the cultivated.; areas. Industrial, wages would increase by 9 per cent, compared; with last year.

M, Molotov stressed the necessity ofl acquiring technical knowledge, iul stancing the fact that 2,000,000'. skilled'hands had been absorbed into in. duptries in the past two years, , v' ' ; ■ : * v ' ,