CRITICIZES METALLURGY MINISTRY, AGENCIES; CITES INDUSTRY-SCIENCE SPLIT

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1950
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Economic -Iron and steel
Daily newspapers
Moscow
7 .Tuns - 13 7u1 1950
REPORT
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lii~ FLaml?liii Lt`f]Llvt: []g@ilC:i@o 6f tt'le inini6try of %hc r`LCtail'1r Nicol ~: :Cotes f
USSR an::l'the ffiikatistry itse73 have recently bren criticized for shortcomings both
c+n th_ production level and on. the admi.nistratien levelo
Ro11ib.~~mill.xorkera at the Novoal'agil'akiy Metallurgical Plank have written
~.:~ open 1a+.ter to KT.iL?min, Minister of the Metallurgical Industry, in which they
s:as,~: that an in4;oJ.erable condition has arisen at the plante For a long time
ikiW. pJ~.nt?e rolling mills have been idle and. the workers have not been meeting
,.AcFOrzing to an ordar from the ministry9 the gap betyeen the production of
1~as~ plsr_~i;?s open-hearth shop~and thr_ req~xirements of its rolling shops. should be
c:o. p.; ~d by $elivary of metal from Plante belonging;, to . ?G].av+sraJ:met" (Main Admin-
.>.straticn of the Ural Metallurgical Industry) and`:,'~i#lavspetsstal;" (Main Adminie-
ta:atioc of Specia3. SteelB)o This ox~er,, however, ie not being fulfilled, e'hd neither
main ,flninistration ?is providing .the meta7,o For example,. the "Gladiaralmet" plants
is file first 4 mouths of 1950 fell short of their quota by 4,548 cons9 including
:3 ~b2~3 tons front the Chusgi*oy Plant, alone o "Glavspetsntal "' plants ,have fallen..short
by more th~sn 11,500 tone, .The. Chelyabinsk, ZJstoust~ and Kushva plants owe much
metal to the Novo~Pagil'skiy Planto The directors of the4e plants iriclud.ing
ZRb?i:t~'~:v (director. at Chusovoy}9 Dekhsinov. (director a~ Chelyabinsk) Nesterov
(dixr:ctor.at Zlatoust)- and Markov (director at Kushv'a),.bave taken a formal.3sbic
att:ttttde toward. PulYilJ.ment oY the ministry's Urde~y;'and~ it ie for.this reason ,
aJ.one that the Novo~gil'skiy m1]1a are not operating at fl}ill capacitye (1')
3'haa matallur~loal plabt~~' aupptyiag metal to the Kirovograd "lir~.snaye' Zvezda"
PJ.snt, Ministry of AgicictiJ.tural-Machine Building USSR; consistently violate their
d=livery contracbae TYAe Kirovograd plant produces the most modern types of trac-
t?ter and':gorse-drawn plows and is fully capable of meeting Its production pledges
i'i it wEr;e not for the supply plantae The Stalino and Makeyevka metallurgical
p1~xn?~+ ware supposed to deliver 620 tone of metaal during May, which they have not
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dan.a. "b,e Karntaxtti.novka Flaat imsai Fnmze still owes the plant metal which
?;aas due in February. .C:? April and May, the Dnepropetrovsk Plant was to roll
5.:id 3elivrr- 240 tone of 2-millimeter shaat. Thin order has not yet been de-
live.red, The Dneprodzerzhinsk and Suliaakiy (Rostov Oblastj plants are aim?
ilarl.y behind in ordeis. The 'tinistry of the Metallurgical Industry USSR
should take steps to-s~ake its plants meat their orders.(2)
At the conference of meta7.lurgists of the East and the Urals, which ended
S)I1 2 z7v_ly in Sverdlovhk, serious criticism was :leveled at the activity of the
msi.xi admi.nietrationa of the Ministry c+f the Metallurgical Industry, particularly
'`Glavsperatal?," "Gl~svuralmet," and "Glavmetebyt" (Main Administration of Metal
Sales sad Diatributioa).(3) Zakharov, steelworker at the Magnitogorsk Combine,
criticized the ministry-for-fafiing to support and -disseminate the Stakhanovite
~?n.rk methods and to pi~hliph tachni.cal literati?r~ or. htp -speed eta?1 smelting.
iJah~kov, steelworker at the Verkh-Isetskiy Flant,~stated that "Glavepetstal'"
also does net~diaeeminate leading work methods throughout its administration.
Its representatives rarely visit its enterprises to give on-the-spot aid to
~rorkers . (4 )
On the shoxtcominga in cooperation between science and the metallurgical
industry, Go Nosy, director of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, writes
that certain scientific workers in scientific research institutes are not keep-
ing pare with the rate oP development of Soviet metallurgy. In recent years,
ferrous metallurgy enterprises have instituted a number of great improvements,
but the ma~c;ity of new ter_hnical ideas behind these improvements originated at
the: plus themselves, without active assiataace from institute workers. Such
important problems of new metallurgical technology as the operation of blast
furaacns nn 100?perceut sinter instead of ore, the use of aself-fluxing sinter,
xutamatization of open-hearth furnaces and rolling mills, electrification of
plant-transport, iacrease in tonnage and the rebuilding of open-hearth furnaces,
and. basic i.*nprovements in the technology of smelting steel (ranting in,an inter-
media.ta ladle, cantina high?auslity at.eels in 1ar~P onPn-hearth Piirnnrwat m_nnog_
arse re3lme in open-hearth smelting) were all solved for the most pert by workers
i..r. p1R+~i;=, A number of the most important achievements of plants which have re-
sv.lted in radica]. improvements in production methods have not found a theoretical
heals in science. High-speed smelting is one of these methods which is in exten-
ai~e ?.tae but: has not yet been studied from a scientific viewpoint.
Fla*~te lone a .large quantity of metal because cf such defects as scaling any
a~lnuniferaoity of tb.e steel. The struggle against scaling is one of the greatest
problems of quality metallurgy. Scientists have. thus far avoided the problem.
The chief cause for the withdrawal of certain acientifir, workers from the
solution of basic problems of metalltu?gy is that they are not familiar with pro-
dirciirin praci:i.ce, but rather fear it and at+.empt to remove themselves from real-
i.toY in quest of pure science. Evidence of this attitude is the fact that a con-
aid,4rable proportion of scientists have eluded the school of production and have
ev.t.rec the temple of science straight from the classroom. Directors of chairs
s;id re:aesrch 1.aborstaries: xFU.?s1y iri8it sate~pri sae,:. a.Y~d 'they-rnti,re_ research work
at pla~ta is done by aspirants and young acieatific workers during the summer,
a.c:ord_tr.,g to a previously determined sad extremely narrow program.'
Recently there: has not been one occasion when our great metallurgical
scientists have visited such a metallurgical plant as the Magnitogorsk Combine
and .made thorough atudtes of the problems Pacing the enterprise. Such visits
?~!cuhi act as a real stimulus toward introducing into practice the .latest seise??
tific and technical achi.evemente and would at the ssme time draw the attention
of scj.e.nce to the most pressing problems faced at the plants. The principle by
whir_h personnel are selected for scientific work only from the classrooms cannot
be upheld.
The removal of a section of scientific personnel from production practice
bas hs.d i~.nfavorab.le effects on the condition of certain bxai:chea of metallurgical
science, particularly that of the metallurgy of steel. .A.t present, there is no
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plants Yor 3-5 years Yor production training. To improve the trai'nin~ oY young
apeciali'sts, the-;meta.]1.nrgy chairs of higher educational`inatitutes`?ffisd technical
school? should be Yi1led~vith high~.y que~.ified specialists xith production ex-
perience: The`chieY'method oY improving the qumlifiaatione of engineers should
be lectures given by-?outatanciing scientific woikers and reports by pleat vorkera
on the most~impoxtant?technieai problems of plants.
Plant laboratories should become the centers of scientific research work.
The labs' equipmeut'should be'on:e;~par with that in scientific hi'gher'shcoola
and inet~.tutes, Scientific research institutes aho~ld be set up at the large
metallurgical enterprises.(5)
1. Komsomol'akaya Pravda, 7 Jun 90
2. Izvestiya, 7 Jun 50
3. Izvestiya, 5'Jul 50
4. Trud, 4 Jul 50
5. Izvestiya, 13 Jul 50
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