SOVIET MOTOR OUTPUT

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1932, Page 8

SOVIET MOTOR OUTPUT

A COMMUNIST CRITICISM.

“WILD RUSHES AND STAGNANCY.”

Moscow, Sept. TB.

From the day they opened down to September 1, 1932, the total output of the Societ’s four industrial motor “giants” is, according to a leading article in- Pravda as follows: — Stalingrad, 37,000 tractors. Kharkoff, 10,100 tractors. . > ■; Moscow, Amo Works, 11,300 lorries. Nijni Novgorod, 1800 lorries. That looks a lot, says Pravda,, for a country that started from notiring. But it is terribly little in terms of -Russia s requirements. . » . Not one of these four model giant?, Pravda continues, lias succeeded, m fulfilling ■ the plan, and their production is extremely irregular — wild rushes followed by semi-stagnancy, which is not the way to work the most most costly Fordised conveyor plants. The root 'cause of all this is now disorganised supply,, due to the transport crisis, and downright shortage of raw materials such as steel and iron, as' . well as delayed deliveries of fittings manufactured by other plants. The Kharkoff Works, for instance, stopped producing almost entirely because they could not get deliveries of radiators from Stalingrad. In accordance with the new tactics Pravda ‘ brands the Communist a P a ' gers and secretaries of cells bv name as responsible, but admits that the living conditions of the workers ought to be improved, all trace of equality of wages finally wiped out, and nieework and bonuses substituted. The root difficulty, in my opinion, is that these ultra-modern industrial giants copied from America, have been built in surroundings of Mow civilisation . utterly unsuilted .to them, and the more • mofleSt factories would probably have shown better results here.- A ■'." ■:/ ■ • ■ <■" ■' '■ '■ ’