WASHER SHORTAGE STALLS PLOW, CULTIVATOR OUTPUT; MISSING BOLTS STOP MACHINE TOOLS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 324
• Publication Date: November 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
USSR
Economic; Technological - Agricultural-machine
building
Daily newspapers
USSR
9 - 22 Aug 1950
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WASHER SHORTAGE STALLS PLOW, CULTIVATOR OUTPUT;
MISSING BOLTS STOP MACHINE TOOLS
RED TAPE IN MINISTRY STALLS PLANT'S OUTPUT -- Moscow, Pravda, 22 Aug 50
The desk of Director Solomentsev of the Chelyabinsk Agricultural-Machine
Building Plant is piled with letters and telegrams from all corners of the USSR --
the Ukraine, Tambov, Kishinev, etc. They all clamor for the delivery of plows
and cultivators.
The plant is not meeting its production schedule. In the first half of the
year, its total output showed a deficit of 2,500 cultivators, 500 plows,'and
several hundred thousand rubles' worth of spare parts.
At Vle last staff meeting, Solomentsev spoke at length of the inefficiency pre-
vailing in certain shops. The press forging and tool-making shops were not up to
par. Ths production of hardware was lagging. Rejects were causing great losses.
However, he only touched on-the crux of. the problem, namely, the ill-starred spring
washer.
This simple. little item, weighing only 6 grams, is responsible for the entire
backlog. Every cultivator requires 377 such washers and every plow, 170; but the
washers are not made in Chelyabinsk, they axwlbimportbd from all parts of the USSR --
Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Tashkent, etc. As a rule, they are not available
when needed.
During the first 6 months of this year, 'the p lint dispatched 76 telegrams and
letters to the Ministry of Agricultural Machine 'Building, Glavsnabsel'mash (Main
Administration of Agricultural Machine Supplies), and various slants, requesting
that the deliveries of washers be expedited, that,they be sent by plane, in what-
ever condition they might be. The plant would assume the cost of transport, temp-
ering, and other responsibilities connected with their shipment. In consequence,
the plant spends twice as much as it should on this item.
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The washer is a vezy )rdinary product, and any automatic could turn out in a
few days enough washers to cover the plant's needs. But all of the plant's ex-
hortations fall on deaf ears within the ministry. The latter has shown complete
lack of interest e=ther in insuring an adequate supply of washers or installing
an automatic in the plant. It does not even trouble to answer the letters.
Moreover, the plant receives hundreds of tons of different types of metals,
but ie unable to get a few dozen tons of the type that is essential to its pro-
duction. As a result, its premises are stocked with metal, but it ie unable to
assemble any machines.
It is time to put an end to the planlessness, red tape, and bureaucracy in the
Ministry of Agricultural-Machine Building. -- Sitov, Pravda correspondent.
PLANT LAGS -- Yerevan, !Communist, 16 Aug 50
The Echmiadzin Machinery Plant is the only enterprise in the Ministry of
Local Industry Armenian SSR which produces plows, harrows, and other implements
for the republic's kolkhozes. This plant invariably fails to meet its norms.
It fulfilled the 1949 plan only 24.7 percent and the first quarter of 1950 only
21.7 percent.
The situation changed somewhat with the appointment of the new director,
D. Afrikyan. A pneumatic hammer, turning lathe, and milling machine, which
had stood idle, were repaired and put to use. However, the successes thus ob-
tained were not made permanent. In June, production began to fall again. For
instance, a 70-ton crank press stood idle for .O days in the molding shop be-
cause it lacked two bolts, which could have been easily made in the machine
shop. A polishing machine stopped working for lack of a nut. Chief Engineer
Bagdadyan ordered the machine tool taken apart and the shaft dismounted and
threaded to fit a nut that was available; this operation took 18 days. Many
examples of such gross inefficiency are to be found in this plant.
Another intolerable situation in this plant is the manner in which it is
supplied with tools and materials by Mestpromsnabsbyt (Local Sales of Industrial
Supplies). For a long time, the plant has been unable to obtain such necessary
tools as drills, chucks, and screw tgps. For want of Texrope drive belts, a
drilling machine had to be stopped.
The plant's personnel consists mainly of young people, who built the plant
only a few years ago and then took their places at the machine tools. They
are still quite inexperienced. The Ministry of Local Industry Armenian SSR Lad
the Echmiadzin Rayon Party Committee must give serious attention to the opera-
tion of this plant.
WARN NEw DIRECTOR ON PLANT CONDITIONS -- Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 9 Aug 50
Enterprises in Uzbek SSR which are subordinate to all-Union ministries
have been performing poorly this year in comparison with last. Plan fulfillment
index for these plants during the first half of 1949 was 100.6 percent. First
quarter 1950 was met only 93.2 percent, and the second quarter 98.8 percent.
One of the worst offenders is the Frunze Agricultural Machine Building Plant
imeni Frunze. It is behind in the delivery of number of items. The cause of
the situation is pool labor organization, excessive rejects in the molding shop,
and irregular supply of wood and metal stock.
Shipulin, the recently appointed. director, had better take steps to correct
the situation.
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PLANT PUTS OUT INCOMPLETE HYGROMETERS -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 15 Aug 50
Last year, a number of cotton-raising kolkhozes were unable to dispose of
their product because their cotton contained to much moisture. Much time was
wasted in shipping the cotton back and forth.
Thereupon the Ministry of Local Industry Uzbek SSR assigned to the Tashkent
Metal Products Plant the task of producing hygrometers for the koLchozes. The
plant was to put out 80 such hygrometers in June and 120 in July. However, it
failed to meet the schedule. It produced only 150 of these instruments; and even
these are useless because they are not equipped with weights and thermometers.
The management was able somehow to put 50 of these hygrometers on the market; the
rest are still lying about in the assembly shop. The ministry and plant manage-
ment blamed plants of other cities for their failure. However, a check-up showed
both the ministry and the plant to be at fault inasmuch as the order for the
production of these items was issued too late.
REJECT SUGGESTION -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 15 Aug 50
Olender,foi?eman in the brush shop of the Util 'promkombinat (By-products
Industrial Combine) Artel, and Engineer Sedel'nikov of the Tasheel'mash Plant
have designed a cheaper and more durable brush for the cotton-picking machine;
the existing type does not last more than one or two seasons.
Though the new brush eliminates the need for materials which are in short
supply and reduces the number of drilling operations, the brush is not being
put into production. The Tashkent Plant approved the design at first. Later,
Chief Designer Panov rescinded an order for testing the brush because, he said
this would involve a complete change in the design of the separator. However,
everyone in the plant knows that the new design would bring the plant great
savings.
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