rere || oil | a a ae Aims of the new Soviet Seven-Year Plan for 1965 are: WAGES: Real wages up 49 percent, with wages of | loWer-paid workers almost Moublea, "HOURS: First the gen- “al 40-hour week, then 35 prs (with 30 hours for PMiners), A universal five- day week with no loss of Pay. Thus the Soviet Union yl have the shortest work- )8 day and the shortest Working week in the world. _ OUTPUT: Total industrial Moduction up by 80 per- nt, agricultural by 70 per- “nt, electric power by over 100 percent. tg FOOD: Meat and milk Moduction up over 100 per- ent, sugar nearly 50 per- tt, more, butter, eggs, fruit, : Plan at a glance. vegetables (and available all the year round). TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM as Soviet aim world’s highest standards increase in capital invest- ment in the health serv- ices,doubling the number of hospital beds and extend- ing the free services. HOUSING: Construction of 15 million new flats in the towns and seven mil- lion houses in the country- side — more than doubling the construction of the pre- vious seven years. PENSIONS: Increases of up to two-thirds in mini- mum old age, disability and widows’ pensions. EDUCATION: Elementary and secondary pupils in- creasing to 40 million (from 30 million). Secondary edu- cation extended from seven to eight years. Over 2,300,- 000 specialists to be trained, compared with 1,700,000. cNDoN—a strong protest loot | what amounts to an ‘| by British Prime’ Mini- arold Macmillan to the. 5 Nhade Czechoslovak people was 0 gg at the British Foreign Of- loyal week by the Czecho- , Brit ambassador to Britain. . Ish Foreign Secretary j & Lloyd made it worse bsp es to accept the pro- hd Dr. Miroslav Galuska, I Year-old ambassador. bch, Ncident, as told by a hy peovak embassy spokes- aN 0k place at a reception Noy © Swedish embassy on | Mber 5, yg Cian is said to have t+ aluska, in the presence ih, [&€ other ambassadors, Ys the political and social twa in Czechoslovakia “tye hot last long and that a ®m” would be restored. ity Boeee according to the bat pe spokesman, also said ithe hoped that the Czech ibis ‘sador would live to see ¢ Mole — = Se. ae ee The r , : by & €ception was attended ndoy of the ambassadors in : = Macmillan insults zech ambassador It was the first meeting be- tween Macmillan and Galuska, who was posted to Britain last June. In his protest, Galuska call- ed attention to a recent Brit- ish note, sent on September 12, in which it was stated that the political and economic sys- tems of the Eastern European countries were exclusively the concern of those countries. He asked Selwyn Lloyd if the Czechoslovak government was to understand that there had been a change in the British policy toward Czechoslovakia. The British Foreign Office later issued a calculatedly pro- vocative statement, announc- ing rejection of the protest — without answering Galuska’s accusation or answering his question on the government’s policy toward Czechoslovakia. The statement said Macmil- lan’s remarks “arose out of the prime minister’s memories of the late Jan Masaryk and other Czechoslovaks whom he had known in this country. The for- eign secretary did not accept the ambassador’s protest. t Rye) C, ets non! ADVANCE NOTICE Tickets for the 200th Burns Anniversary Banquet and ag at $1.50 each are now available at the People’s °Perative Bookstore, 307 West Pender, Vancouver. 4 Concert program. will include Vancouver's finest Cnr 3: . : : : iD? tin Scottish dancing, songs, recitations and piping. On . 5 * . . * é ! miss this historic “Night wi? Burns”. Get your By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW-—Breathtaking plans for development of industry and agriculture and im- provement of living standards have been presented for nation-wide discussion, leading up to the Communist Party’s 21st congress next January. They open up the practical possibility of the Soviet people, being able to achieve the high- est standard of living in the world in the years following 1965. These gigantic perspectives are contained in the Seven- Year Plan for 1959-65 submit- ted by Nikita Khrushchev to the central committee of the Soviet Communist Party and approved by it. The wider world perspectives are immense, too. | By the end of the plan the Soviet Union will be producing more industrial goods per per- son than Britain and Western Germany, now the most devel- oped capitalist countries of Europe, and will be approach- ing the U.S. level in most items and surpassing it in some. The socialist countries will, by 1965, be producing more than half the world’s total in- dustrial output, thus ensuring the absolute superiority of socialism over capitalism. . “This,’ the plan declares, “will be a world historic vic- tory of socialism in peaceful competition with capitalism. “Apart from the fact that the achievements of the Soviet Un- ion and of the other socialist countries threaten nobody they are also a guarantee that peace and the security of the peoples will be preserved. “The Seven-Year Plan is the Soviet Union’s concrete offer to the capitalist world to com- pete in peaceful economic ac- tivity, for the Soviet Union is opposed to any competition in the arms race.” As the result of the victory of socialism the Soviet Union “has entered a new _ historic phase of gradual transition from socialism to communism” and the new plan “will consti- tute a decisive stage in the creation of the material: and technical basis of communism,” On the provision of more food, and in greater variety, the plan says: “In the coming seven years the Soviet Union will overtake and surpass the most advanced capitalist countries in produc- tion per head of population of a number of basic _ food- stuffs.” This audacious claim is to be made good by rapidly in- creasing total annual grain production to 180 million tons by 1965 and by doubling and trebling the rate of increase of the country’s cattle, sheep NIKITA KRUSHCHEV Invitation to peaceful economic competition and pigs. Mechanization and electrifi- cation of agriculture is to be further developed and over one million tractors and about 400,000 grain harvesters are to be supplied together with vast quantities of other equip- ment and fertilizer to agri- culture. The plan emphasizes that higher living standards can only be brought about by big increases in~ heavy industrial production and big increases in labor productivity. Heavy industry must come first; and so the plan provides for substantial increases in pro- duction of ferrous and non- ferrous metals, rapid develop- ment of electrification, stepping up of the chemical industry and increased exploitation of gas and oil resources, with coal taking third place as the basic fuel for industry. Output of the engineering and metal-working industries is to be almost doubled, while the machine-tool industry is calied upon to ensure the man- ufacture of all up - to - date equipment, incorporating the latest discoveries in science and technology, which Seviet in- dustry will need. A big place is given in the plan to the further develop- ment of the natural resources of the eastern areas of the Soviet Union, particularly Si- beria and Kazakhstan. A third powerful iron and steel centre is to be set up there, while a big non-ferrous metal industry is also to be established. A powerful aluminum indus- try is to be built up in the Krasoyarsk territory of Siberia. The coming seven years will be a decisive stage in imple- mentation of Lenin’s idea of - the complete electrification of the Soviet Union. By 1965 elec- tricity production will have increased to 500,000 - 520,000 million kilowatt hours, more than double this year’s produc- tion. The proposed rates of in- crease in the production of fabrics, clothing and footwear will enable the Soviet Union to approach the U.S. produc- tion per head of these items by the end of the plan. November 21, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3 | | { { | | | | |