FAILURE OF SOVIET WORKS
MACHINERY LYING IN WATER. INDUSTRIES IN DIFFICULTIES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 5.5 pan. Riga, April 14. The Soviet’s great motor works al Nijninovgorod, employing 25,000, are reported to be a failure, the authorities latest attempt at manufacturing revealing, conditions tantamount to sabotage. Millions of roubles worth of plant, motors, electric apparatus and machine parts are lying in three feet of water in flooded warehouses.
A special commission has ordered the immediate construction of new warehouses, also an investigation to discover the culprits. The Soviet is further anxious regarding the unsatisfactory condition of the fiver year plan in connection with coal, metallurgy and agriculture. Ukraine and the North Caucasus are so backward in production that torchlight ploughing and sowing brigades are working all night.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 7
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