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1 fe great Seven-Year Plan, launched simultaneously with the 21st Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the beginning of Jast year was a shock
to the West. But it is nothing to the panic in which the supporters of capitalism are
likely to be thrown by the Soviet plan which will be presented to the 22nd Congress of

the party next year.

_ For expert planners, scien-
tists and ordinary workers are
now joining forces to draft a4
Master plan for Soviet econ-
Omic development over the
next 15 to 20 years.

Some aspects of this plan
Were discussed at a conference
In Moscow called by the state
Planning committee. Its main
targets include:
® The complete electrification
of the Soviet Union.
Comprehensive automation
of production.
© A great further develop-

ment of the chemicals in-

dustry. :

®@ The planned distribution of | progress to be expected can be |-
gleaned from the details of the}

machinery and manpower.

All this will make. it pos-
sible to achieve the most ef-
fective use of available re-
sources.

When it has been carried
out, the plan will have laid the
material and technical basis of
communist society, in which
distribution of goods will be
made “according to needs”. in-
stead of “according to work.”

And it will have- given the

| Soviet people by far the high-
est living standard in the
world.

Some idea of the speed of

electrification plan.
During the years of that

put will expand seven or eight
times over. ;
Lenin once described com-
munism as ‘‘Soviet power plus
electrification of the entire
country.” The first part of that
formula has long been achiev-
ed — the second part is now
assuming ‘decisive importance,
Mr. Khrushchev - commented
recently. ;

Social security for all.

On Nov. 7 the working people of the Soviet Union.
will celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the founding of
‘the first socialist state. They have much to celebrate.
The scourge of unemployment has been completely abol-
ished. Standards of living are rising steadily. There 1s

By 1962 all factory and office workers will have a
40-hour week. The gradual change over to a 30-35 hour
Working week will start in 1964. Socialism has made all
this possible — and will make more

possible in the

future, as this article shows.

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By 1970 power output will
| have topped 900,000 million
kwh. — roughly 4,400 kwh.
: per head ‘of population:
| But by 1980 the figure will
have’ rocketed to 2,300,000
million—over 11,000 kwh. per
head.
| ¢Phe electrification plan, to-
| gether with the similar ad-
vances being planned for all
other aspects of the economy,
will be the kernel of the con-
struction of communism.
‘Targets, of course, still have
to be set, but already. in 1957
/Soviet planners anticipated

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plan Soviet power station out-|’

A Soviet weaving department, equipped with automatic
looms, showing the widespread introduction of labor-
Saving machines which is. making it possible for Soviet
workers to soon enjoy the shortest work week in the world.

that by about 1972 steel out-
put would approach 120. mil-
lion tons a year.

That is considerably more!
than half a ton of steel for!
every man, woman and child
in the U.S.S.R.

Coal output will certainly |
exceed 750 million tons a|
year by the completion of the
long-term plan, while output
of oil will‘exceed 400 million
tons (according to 1957 esti-)
mates).

And the Soviet Union willj

become the world’s grea‘ esi
producer of iron ore — some
250-300 million tons ainually;
compared with a litle under
95 million tons las: year.

Parallel advances will be
achieved, too, in «very section
of the consumer goods and
foodstuffs industries.

The master plan is being
worked out and co-ordinated
realistically in consultation
from factory and farm level
up to the state-planning auth-
orities.

November 4, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5