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Inangahua Times, 7 November 1934, Page 4

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Soviet Enterprise Moscow, Oct 2 Approximately 24,000 people will be employed in Russia’s newest giant industry, the Kramatorsk machine-building plant in the Don basin, the centre of the Russian coal industry. The announcement was made at the formal opening of this enterprise, which is to produce the machine that will make the machines. It is claimed that the plant will be the largest of its kind

in the world : its output will be twice that of the great Krupp works, which have hitherto supplied Russia with much of her equipment for heavy industry. No longer, it is held, will the country be dependent on foreign markets for the purchase of equipment for her ferrous metallurgical

industry. The Soviet Government Is aot repeating the practice of former years, when costly equipment in newly-opened factories was entrusted to semi-skilled operators, peasants fresh from the plough. Russia has now called in her young engineers, Jbhe products of her technical training schools, and placed them in command, each with a number of apprentices.

Kramatorsk will provide annually equipment for six blast furnaees, 30 open-heath furnaces, three blooming mills, 16 rolling mills, equipment for chemical and coke industries, and

cranes with a lifting capacity up to 20,000 tons. While in the

inauguration of her industrialisation programme, only six years ago, Russia relied'primarily upon foreign technical guidance, this plant, the press proudly asserts, was eon-

structed largely with Russia’s own technicians, vary few foreign engineers having been employed,