NEW FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 9

NEW FIVE-YEAR PLAN

PROMISES IN RUSSIA PEVELOI’IXG ASIATIC AREA. Weary Russia, who looked to the autumn of this year for the completion of the Five-year Plan, now sullenly faces the prospect of a new “Piati , letka”—a second Five-year Plan. The second plan aims at the in lustrial development of Asiatic Russia. It is ostimtited to cost twice as much as the first. Five-year Plan, but it is claimed that if will raise the standard of living more than *threc times as high as the present level. Every engine of (Soviet propaganda—press, wireless, clubs, cinema and stage —is un--1 gaged in “putting it over” to tho Russian peoples, but. the series of break downs this year in the factories, on the farms, and on the railways makes it more difficult to popularise the second plan than the first one. The plan includes tho electrification, of main line railway services, the laying of nearly 20,000 miles of new track. ’ the building of new rolling stock, the doubling of the coal output, and multiplying six fold the electric power. It also provides for tho complete collectivisation of the farms and the “liquidation” of individual farmers, the complete mechanising of agriculture, the doubling of cotton and the trebling of sugar-beet crops. New houses are promised to the workers and the establishment, of a chain of stores to do away with cen tralisod distribution, the abolition of rationing and the substitution of a wide development of Soviet trade.”