STEELWORKERS BEAT NORMS, PLEDGE SAVINGS

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• Publication Date: July 13, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Iron, steel
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily, weekly newspapers; weekly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 24 Mar - 19 May 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
CLASSIFICATION SECRET p~jr CBET
THIS DOCUNINT CONTAINS INFORMATION AASCTINS THE NATIONAL Dar1NNE
OF THE UNITED STATU WITHIN THE E{A~NO O- [aROHARI ACT tO
MON 05 THIS aaraYnON
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 19119 - 1950
DATE DIST. 13 Jul 1950
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED "INFORMATION..
SOURCE Newspapers and periodical as indicated..
STEELWORKERS BEAT NORMS, PLEDGE SAVINGS
ffiumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources
Leading iron and steel workers contt>siged to spur the economy drive and
to break production norms in April and May. The Kuznetsk Combine imeni Stalin,
which completed the 4-month plan for the. entire metallurgical cycle ahead of
schedule, has been achieving new production successp0,,.in May. At bleat fur-
nace No 3, a coefficient of 0.82 for capacity utilTtiption of the furnace hs's
been attained as compared with the norm of 0.891(1) In 12 days of May, blie
combine's blast-furnace workers produced hundreds of tons of above-plan pig
iron and achieved a coefficient of 0.85-for capacity utilization of the fur
nace as compared with the planned 0.89.(2) A large-capacity blast furnace
is rebuilt in 63 days at the combine.(3)
The combine's steel production has also been.high. I4?12 days of May,
the average production of steel per square meter of hearth in the second open-
hearth shop exceeded the progressive norm by 230 kilograms.(2)
At the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, for 25 days in April, a leading
steelworker averaged 9.81 tons of steel per square meter of hearth and produced
668 tons above plan.(4) The three Magnitogorsk steelworkers who started the
recent economy drive and who operate open-hearth furnace No 3, in April saved
45,000 rubles and produced 1,315 tons of steel above plan.(5) In 10 days of
May, these same workers obtained 10.42 tons of steel per square meter of fur-
nace hearth. This is one more ton than in April and considerably exceeds the
norm established for furnace No 3. They also produced 1,350 tons of steel
above plan and saved 56,000 rubles' worth of raw materials in that same 10-day
period.(6)
The Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant imeni Ordzhonikiije is furnishing
steel columns and other metal structures for the main passenger room of the
"Komsomol?skaya-kol'tsevaya" Station of the Moscow Subway.(7)
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At the beginning of 7950, the Party organization of the blast-furnace shop
of the Novo-Tagil'skiy Metallurgical Plant set the coefficient for utilization
of the furnaces at 0.88, to be reached in the near future. Some administrators
at the plant felt that this figure was impossible to attain except in the far
future. However, it took only 3 months to reach the goal.(8)
With the success of the high-speed steel melts at the plant, a new schedule
was drawn up in which the average length of the melt is set at 8 hours 30 min-
utes, or 2 hours less than the former norm. In March, the open-hearth shop in-
creased the smelting of steel 34.3 percent over March 1949. The leading worker,
who set the all-Ural record of 15.3 tons per square meter of hearth, achieved
an average of 8.8 tons per square meter during 20 days of April and produced
164 tons above plan.(9) The new record melt at the plant is 6 hours 25 minutes
with a production of 16.1 tons of steel per square meter of hearth (10) at
open-hearth furnace No 2 (11). The record of 16.1 tons is almost 10 tons above
the progressive norm. The time schedule was exceeded by 3 hours 5 minutes.(12)
In the field of savings, in 1949, the commercial cost of production put
out by the plant decreased by almost 10.percent and the plant obtained nearly
18 million rubles above plan in savings.(8)
In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a leading steelworker at the Kushva Metallurgical
Plant recently obtained 11,4 tons of steel per square meter of hearth as com-
pared with the norm of 5.5 tons.(13)
A group of workers at the Serov Metallurgical Plant was awarded the Stalin
Prize in March for developing and introducing into production new methods of
forcing blast-furnace smelting. Among the winners was Gennadiy Fukalov, opera-
tor of blast furnace No 3, who has achieved 0.64, the highest coefficient for
blast-furnace utilization in the world.(14)
A leading steelworker in the open-hearth shop of the Dobryanka Metallur-
gical Plant, I4olotov Oblast, recently obtained a record production of 7.14
tons of steel. per square meter of hearth as compared with the planned 5.6 tons.(15)
In Moscow, workers at the "Serp i molot" Plant have made the following pledges
for economy- in open-hearth shop No 1, to produce each month at least 6 melts on
saved fuel and to operate one day per month on saved ferromanganese and pig iron;
in shop No 2, to produce no less than 4 melts per month on saved fuel; and in the
section-rolling shop, to operate the "750" Mill li days per month on electric
power saved by the shop.(16)
In the postwar period, the "Serp i molot" Plant has done much to mechanize
labor-consuming processes. Up-to-date mechanization has been adopted in the
open-hearth furnaces and rolling mills, large gantry cranes have been installed
in the shops, and some sections have continuous production lines. But hand labor
is still used in freight handling, packing, and loading, and hand labor is the
main cause for the lowered efficiency in the leading sections. The plant mechan-
ization bureau has pledged to put into effect in 1950 sufficient proposals for
mechanization to release 200 workers from labor-consuming operations. Mechaniza-
tion of all loading and unloading work can be accomplished in all the plant's
shops, according to the bureau.(17)
Workers in the plant laboratory of the Stalino Metallurgical Plant have done
much research on increasing the weight of the ingots of open-hearth steel. The
engineers changed the form of the ingot molds and increased the weight of the in-
gots by 300 kilograms, thereby considerably decreasing metal waste in rolling
operations. The new method has helped to decrease the consumption of the expen-
sive molds; previously, 45 molds were used in casting 1,000 tons of steel, whereas
now only 39 are needed. The rolling cycle has also been speeded up. The new
method has been put into effect in three shops and will help the plant to save
4" million rubles annually.(18)
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Metallurgists of the Makeyevka Plant imeni. Kirov have started rolling com-
plex steel profiles for use in building automotive agricultural combines.(19)
Steelworkers at the Stalingrad "Krasnyy Oktyabr l" Plant are regularly ob-
taining 9-10 tons of steel per square meter of hearth, almost double the planned
norms.(20)
The Odessa Cable Plant is meeting a large order for the construction of
high buildings in Moscow, Recently, the plant shipped a consignment of espe-
cly durable cable to be used in elevators.(21)
In 1949, the Kazakh Metallurgical Plant substantially accelerated the
turnover of working capital as compared with 1948, and in the first quarter of
1950 the turnover has been speeded even more. This has resulted from a de-
crease in the time spent in basic production cycles, by extensive adoption of
high-speed smelting, and by a sharp increase in the productivity of equipment,
as well as more economical use of raw materials and fuel. (22)
The plant's open-hearth workers completed the 5-month plan for smelting
steel on 16 May. The shop completed five high-speed melts on saved mazut in
the last 15 days.(23) By the end of the month, workers expect to produce a
trainload of steel above plan.(24)
Pukhtin, chief of the rolling shop of the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, wrote
an article in the newspaper Za metal]. in which he stated that the open-hearth
shop of the Kazakh Metallurgical Plant is a close copy of that of the Uzbek
Plant, but that there is a great difference in the dependability of their per-
formances. The article criticized workers in the Uzbek Plant who are slow in
adopting the advanced methods of the Kazakh workers. At the Uzbek plant, the
"door performance of the commutator of the charging machines often results in
breakdown. A similar situation faced the Kazakh steelworkers, but they made
a change in the structure of the commutator and their charging machines now
operate continuously, The blueprints for the structural change in the commu-
tator were delivered to the Uzbek plant, but the deputy chief of the open-
hearth shop is still studying them after one month.(25)
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lzvestiya, No -111, 11 May 50
Moskovskaya Pravda, No 72, 14 May 50
Ogonek, No 14, Apr 50
Trud, No 103, 30 Apr 50
Komsomol'skaya Pravda, No 104, 1 May 50
Trud, No 115, 16 May 50
Gudok, No 40, 2 Apr 50
Krasnaya Zvezda, No 102, 29 Apr 50
Komsomol'skaya Pravda, No 103, 30 Apr 50
Trud, No 110, 10 May 50
Leningradskaya Pravda, No 110, 10 May 50
Sovetskaya Belorussiya, No 95, 10 May 50
Kommuuist, No 103, 30 Apr 50
Komsomol'skaya,rptavda, No 81,, 5 Apr 50
Izvestiya, 'No 78, 1 Apr 50
Leningradskaya Pravda, No 113, 14 May 50
Moskovskaya Pravda, No 59, 28 Apr 50
Pravda Vostoka, No 105, 6 May 50
Leningradskaya Pravda, No 71, 24 Mar 50
Pravda, No 121, 1. May 50
Trud, No 113, 13 May 50
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, No 99, 12 May 50
Krasnaya Zvezda, No 117, 18 May 50
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, No 104, 19 May 50
Pravda Vostoka, No 108, 10 May 50
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