COLLECTION OF SCRAP METAL LAGGING IN SOME REPUBLICS

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMEMf>s OR RADIO BROADCAST>s OD t:0.
COUNTRY USSR
$EIBJECT Economic ?- Metallurgical industrys
ecrap?-metal collection
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PUBLISHED Daily aeerspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 Feb - 7 Apr 1951
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M03COW PLAIITS SLOW ~~ Moscow Vechernyaya Moskvas 6 Mar 51
Plants of ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy have successfully completed
the 1950 plan. Production of Trig iron and steel in 1950 increased 17 percent;
rolled metal and iron pipers 16 percent; and railroad rails, 11 percent. The
demand for rolled metal, x?ailss pipes, P.ud many other products is steadily
gro~ring.
In this connection, the ct~llectioa of metal scrap ae as additional source
of raer material is becoming increas~ly important. Unfortunately, insufficient
attention has been given to this matter in recent months by Moscow enterprises,.
Especially plants manufacturing lrnr-power nentomobilass including the "Kalibr"
Plant, the "EMIZ" Plant, Automobile Repair Plant Ho 2s and several othere~ have
been lagging in the collection of scrap.
The city offices and divisions of "Glawtorchermet" (Main Administration
of Procurements Praceasi~gs and Sale of Ferrous Metal Scrap) and "Glavvtorts-
vetmet" (Ma1n Administration of Procurements Proceseings and Sale of ftonferrous
Metal Scraps have failed to make sufficient use of their rights to supervise
the collections distributions and epipping of metal scrap. Mara small enter-
prises,lna~e not eves been contacted is this ~8naectiOn, and available re-
sources era not being utilized. Plant fto 1 of "Vtorchermet" (directors Manturov)
has not been meeting its pledgees and only 70 percent of its plan for delivery
of metal scrap to metallurgical plants have been completed.
TRADE UAION GROUPS TO SUPERVISE COLLECTIOft =~.Moscows Izveetiya, 28 Mar 51
~ fleeting of chairs~n of plant committees, as well as directors and chief
engineers of Moscoer City and Oblast enterprises, including "Krasnyy metallist."
"Ro~vetas" Novo-Kramatorsk P]ant'lmeni"Stalin, Podol'sk Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze,
Perovo Machine Euilding Pleats and others, erne held in the Cenral Committee
of the Trade Union of Workers,of genus-Machine Building. ,;- ?
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Yaroslavtsev, chairman of the Central Co~nittee of the Trade Union, stated
that trade un~.on organizations must strive daily tc fulfill and exceed the plans
for collection, processing, and delivery of scrap metal for metallur8lcel plants.
Enterprises of heavy-machias building have huge reserrres of scrap metal; foie
example, the "Uralmash" Plant alone has accumulated about 30,000 tonb of scrap.
The meeting decided that ;^% work done by leading eniarpriaea ip collect-
ing scrap should be set ae~ an ezample to other heavy~industsy enterprises.
UKRA',IAN SCRAP COLLECTIOft FAILS TO M~E1` P1AN ~- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 17 Feb 51
The main suppliers of scrap iron in the Ukrainian SSR, including consumers'
ccoperativee, the Ukrainian office of "Glavutil'syr'ye" (Main Administration
for Procurement, Reprocessing, anc~ Supply of Usable Scrap and Industrial
.,,~..~_+-...~,e~-~,.,.a,~ xv$tems? failed to meet the Jan-
Waste for lIIaL1aLT~,f J g nuu vaaor,.a.....~~--?----- -.
The fficesoofc~Glavet6rchermet"iof the Ministryrof Ferrous Metallurgy area.
operating inefficiently. The collection of scrap iron ie an important task
of the state. It is eesential that the needs oY metallurgical plants be fully
mct.
TACK OF METAL DELAYS STEEL SMET~'YNG ~~ Moscaa~, 1`s?id, 25 Mar 51
-- -?----=-__, _-_.we:~. :.a rlnar.--.-M-?,..,ee'+r l~aq~~ P~verienced a shortage
of metal scrap? 'rnerc uova .+~
be used the minute it was delivered. Ia some cases, smelting in open-hearth
'because the flia?nace
furnaceR wad delayed for One or 2 hours, or even longer,
charge was not received at the proper timeA ~tAthe^same h77imegcravecollection
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and delivery to ~;he plants are badiy organized.
SOME UKRAINIAN PLANTS SHOW GOOD EXAMPLE ....'Moscow, Pravda, 25 Mar 51
Many enterprises of Kiev have formed special bzigades Yor collecting scrap
metal. Dis2?ing 19519 collection centers o? `?Glav~torchermet" have received
about 25,000 tone of array ~?etal collected by Kiev plants.
The ?CBol??hevik" Plant in Kiev has organized, its scrap collection ea-
tremel~~ well. In 2~ months, the plant collected and delivered 1,7y-4 tone oY
metal shavings, than sheet cuttings, and wasteproducts of casting, and con-
siderably exceeded the first-tyuartcr plan far t2~f.s rro~?k? The plant pledged
to deliver to "Glawtorchea~et" not leas than 5,000 tons of metal scrap by
the end of the yeaz? The "TraIIssigaal" Plant has delivered more than 100 tons
of ferrous metal scrap to metallurgical enterprises in 1951?
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 23 Mar 51
Steelworkers of the Metallurgical Plant imeni Dz~r~ nsteelifrom metal r-
zhinsk are daily smelting hundreds of tone of h3gh~~q
scrap obtained from scrap piles st the plant. The pile-driver shop has foxymed
a brigade for collecting scrap within the plant area, with the result that 2,000
tone of metal were collected in 2~ months for resmeltl.ng. Recovery of scrap
is now being mechanized.
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BELORUSSIA LAGGING I1V SCRAP COLLECTION ?? Minsk, 85vertskaya Belorussiye,
24 Mar 51
The Belorussian SSR is one of the main suppliers of metal scrap for metal-
lurgical plants of the Southy the Volga region, &? behind~he~demand for this
collection and shipping of scrap metal are lagging
raw material.. The large reserres of scrap metal in Belorussia are not being
fully utilized, and collection of scrap in the areas of Yormer battlefieldb and
in rural areas (machine-tractor stations, machine=tractor repair shops, sov-
khozee, end kolkhozes) is poorly organized.
The system of consumers= cooperatives of the Belorussian Union of Coopera-
tives (chais7en, Akhremchik) is authorized to procure and ship scrap metal
thrmsagh rayon consumers= unions and rural consumers= societies. During a
period of 2~ monthes, the Belorussian Union of Caopes'atives failed to reach its
o ~~r-? ....+,"~ dPllverv by 10,7 tons. Out of 175 existing rayon con-
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sumers' unions in the republic, only 76 were engaged in the prccure~aut o~
scrap metal.
The Belorussian Office of ?iGleyutil'syr?ye" (chief, Vecher) moat give
theecollection of scrap from theTpopulation, frsomobuil..dingiadministratians,
and other organizations. No special trucks ~nt~as tbieeeystem failednto dap
in cities and rural caamcunities. During 2~ ,
liver 4,9!!0 tons of scrap to metallurgical plazats.
Industrial enterprises and railwoad~transport organizations of th~~ re-
nubllc are also lagging i.n their deliveries of acz?ap. Doting the first quarter
1951 the Minsk 'lutomobil? Plant (directoa, Magiooroda), the tractor plant
(director, Suslav), the bicycle plant (director:, d'orobey), and other enter-
prises, failed to meet the state P~ fo~? scrap delivery. At the same time,
scrap metal Yound in plant caeca, including metal shavings, waste products,
and depreciated equipment, is left umased for years and is subjected t~ cor-
rosion. As a result, the state suffers aonsiderabl.e losses. Scrap metal
which has been procured'4ut not shipped is of no value. Everything must be
done to ensure prompt shipping of this material to a~'~allu-r81ca1 enterprises.
The collection of scrap metal is a mattes of natioa?-wide importance, and
everyone, including Komsomole, pioneers, schoelchildren, and all workers,
should take an active part in it. All of t3ae metal round in fields, cities,
tic+nacenterstof "Glavvtlorchermet," c~oasumersolcooPpra'atives,landrOficeaoofeC-
"Glayntil'syr?ye: The government has given permission to include in the local
budgets of individual rayons, rural soviets, or cities, the cost of scrap
collected in that area and delivered to "Gl.avv'torchermet." ~andeotheracultural
used for repairs of school buildings, village reading rooms,
establishments.
LATVIAN RAILROAD SYSTEM CRITICIZID ~? Riga, Ciaa, 7 Apr 51
The Railroad-Car Service of the Administration of the Latvian Railroad
System received a plan for metal=scrap collection which specified that 1,440
tone of metal scrap were to be shipped to metallurgical Plants during January
1951. However, the railroad-~^ar serr9.ce decided that dais requirement was too
high and reduced the plan to 800 tons. ~ebuttthe actualnful.Yihllment ofathe~
ser?*i.cP were notified of the reduced plan,
plan saes .at organized or supersieed. As s result, metallurgical plants f+siled
to receive hundreds of tone of metal scrap during January.
The same situation existed in February, with the only difference that the
scrap=collection plan wee reduced to one third of the original plan.
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The railroad-car service was not the only one that reduc ~itPsQP~~
arbitrarily. The locomotive service also reduced its Janua~Ystem failed to
scrap-collection plans. As a resu~to,~ st~at~e~in the first 2 months of 1951.
deliver 2,790 tone of metal scrap
some responsible railroad offlcials, including the head of the Ventspils
locomotive depot, apparently consider the collection of metal scrap unimp'o'r-
tant and unnecessary, since the depot did nos fulfill its P~ ~~ rcent~of
tine months. In March, for example, the depot completed only 3 P
t,~ plan, Meclangs, head of the railroad-car service, has done..nething to
fa~iledeto meetlaeingletaaehofBtheirrscrep-collectiongplans ing195 ~~s eve
~~nnn_rex k~nrrFiRPRISES ENTER COMPETITION ?_ Moscow, Izvestiya, 29 Mar 51
Georgian plants are competing for the aucceseful procurement oY metal
scrap. special brigades have been organized in shape oY the Tbilisi Loco-
motive and gailroad-Cnr Repair Plant imeni Stalin Yor the collection of scrap.
plant has collected and delivered actotalsofemore tthan 860 tons oYssc pe
metal.
The Tbillei Locomotive-Repair Plant, the Machlne-Tool BuildingF~ t
iameui ip)J+.z.:., t1..a T4rsgiy Paper Combine the Zestafoni Ferra811oy s
9 11a +_
and other enterprises oY the republic have also been successful is ca.-.~..~--
int scrap metal.
ARMEAIAN SSR MEETS PLAN -- Moscow, Trod, 29 Mat 51
The "Avtodetal'" Plant in 7Cerevan collected and delivered 250 tone oY
scrap metal during the first quarter 1951?
The %erevan Electric-Machine-Building Plant collected 830 tons of scrap
metal in the past 3 months.
The Armenian Ssl~ as a whole fulfilled the March Plan Yoz' collection oY
ferrous metal scrap ahead oY schedule.
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