KUZBASS FALLS SECRT ON LOW-ASH COAL DELIVERIES TO MAGNITOGORSK

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• Publication Date: June 25, 1951
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KUZBASS FALLS S'ECF.T ON LOW-ASH COAL DELIVERIES TO MAGNITOGORSK
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Several workers in the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant published an open
letter to A, F. Zasyad'ko, Minister of the Coal Industry, complaining that the
plait did not receive an adequate amount of low-ash coal from the Kuzbass..
They stated that in 1950 the Kuzbassugol' Combine had consistently failed to
keep to its schedule for delivering coking coal according to types. For ex-
ample the plant received. 134,786 tons of above-plan Kl coal, which has a rel-
atively high ash content, while deliveries of low-ash K2 coal fell about the
same amount below the plan.
The same held true of gas coal shipped to their plant, they said. The
Mine imeni Ki.rov sent the plant Lena of thousands of tons of above-plan high-
ash coal, but the Pionerka Mine, which was supposed to send low-ash coal, did
not send anywhere nearly the same amount.
This situation still prevails in 1951, they continued. During January,
11,144 tons of K1 coal above the plan arrived at the combine but deliveries of
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ugol' Trust in the Kuzbass, which mines K coal with the lowest ash content,
was 4,240 tone short on its fuel deliveries to the combine and in place of
this, Mine No 9 shipped 5,172 tons of a lower gradeo(1)
About a month after the appearance of the letter from the Magnitogorsk
workers, two open letters commenting on it appeared, The first, signed by two
.,a the the{,.,,,on of the Thine committee of the Mine imeni Stalin,
came from Prokop'ycvsk. The second was written by a Trud correspondent in
Novosibirsk.
The first letter stated that, in the first 10 days of February, 4,934 tons
of low-ash K2 coal were earmarked for Magnitka, but on orders from Glavuglesbyt
they were shipped to the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine in Stalinsko The Kuznetsk
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Combine, it said, already bad a considerable store of K2 coal on hand, and the
Magnitogorsk plant receiv-d. a ~-c.rsiderabl,- additional quantity of high-ash coal
besides the tens of thousands of tons, which it already possessed.
The second. letter. ,tated that 40 daye before the beginning of a quarter the
Kuzbassuglesby' usually submits to Glavkoks its plan for all types of coal output
from each sine, Glavkoks establishes the daily obligation of the Kuzbassuglesbyt
to issue fuel, including the mine from which
bit is to asis of this, tthe he plant
is to go, arni cn~ amount to be sent
Kuzbassugl.~sbvt on 3 January submitted to its office in Osinniki order No 7-11
on shipments of coal from the Kandalep station to the Magnitogorsk and Kuznetsk
combines and. to the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant,
Certain trarsportata.oO reg,.L ttions, the letter explained, are in. a large
measur: respeosiblo for inequitie, 'n distribution, For example, the letter
stated., the Chelyabinsk plant roceive~, monthly 7,000 tons of exces,3 high-grade
fuel. which should go to Magnitogorsk, The Mine imeni Vakb.r,ish-v DJ' the Kag&n-of K, ovic:huigo.ll Trust was to ship daily 33 tons
l f0K1tcoal and 7.ll tnns
ofpplied
However , the letter. continued, to 1
at this station, hundreds of abo-.e-plat, tons of high-ash coal of the K1 type are
shipped,(2)
In reference to the series of letters described above, Zasyad'ko, Minister
of the Coal Industry, has informed the editorial staff of Trud that the plan
for the delivery of Kuznetsk coking coa to the ferrous metallurgical industry
was fulfilled 100..7 percent in 1950. The plan for delivery of all types of
coal wes fulfilled except for K2 osl.. Glavkoks, he said, had drawn up mine
and plant coking-coal m xtur'es without calculating the necessary conditions for
routing the coal shipped. This circumstance and also the operational regulations
of Glavkoks resulted in an inequality in the delivery of coal according to types
and. plants,
An agreement has been reached mitt the Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy,
Zasyad. ko continu.ed., whereby, start...g with the second quarter, changes will be
introduced. i n the coking charge wh ch will make it possible to fix routing with
the least deviation from the danced. delivery of Kuznetsk coking coal,(3)
1, Moscow, T.ud, 7 Feb .51
2 1?hi.d?. 7 Mar 51
3. 7bido, -l1 Apr 51
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