ECONOMIC - FERROUS METALLURGY, SCRAP DRIVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
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• Publication Date: November 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
INFORMATION FROM
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SUBJECT Economic -Ferrous metallurgy, scrap drives
LANGUAGE Russian
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?urbers in narent.i:cses .?c^er to appended sources.'
Soviet scrap-r_o11cr.t.ion agencies have been consistent. i^ their failure tc
organir.e and exploit scrap drives, ccording to a half-ru:re diatribe in tl:e
6 June 1953 Issue of Pravda.
The p:.ner termed scrap metal r. prime eler.:ent in steel production, and
warned that a scrap shortsle not onl;: !r.i;;ht bring Soviet. steel production to a
starde.t.i].]., but might cripple the entire :rational economy as xe11.
Pre?,~da then deplored the fact t.hrt; ;outer sc:?ap drives have "enlloxed in
a morn ~-!i bureaucratic apathy and nubli.c indifference". It asserted that scrap
collections must not be rele~yated to a position of secondary importance and sug-
rcnted :.tra perhars the neatest fatat. -.~..s in urderstressing the need for proper
ornanization on the plant level.
Ti~~ :~aoer then cautioned Soviet plant direct.crd t.h^: scrap drivn_s are
terminated not by collection but r:aiu: by utilization of the scrap. It
ch^rged that there have been r.l' too tran^ instances of scrc:p metal being used
to ~y'-dc roads and to ^ui7ri bull:,?, unsirhtl}? f^nces, and strted that such
irratio:al and irres?o::sii,le ,refs rust cease forth;+ith.
Noreover, Pravda, ri'nt.inued, quality control shcu'.d be in:?tituted to
fc:cilitat.e scrap .^.olacctien r:nP, distribution' nLu;t.s, :nd f?.ctcries f? rip;; =
.?:r?c scrap outnut.:;hrnad adr their ecrc:n ;.ccording tc size.
p~?.vda conclude;'. 'c?? atati: g th^t the U~'S_?, is enable of topping its scrap-
drive nn^us, terrain; t::is a matt~_ of record. It called on alt :ror'rers, farmers,
and plant msra:;ors i.o do their p^-rt toward o successful scrap-collection pro-
gram.(1)
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Uzbek SSR
,lccording to Pravda Vostoka of 19 b!arch 1953, the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant
receives both ferrous and nonferrous scrap. In 19`,1, it had a surplus of 52.5
tons of nonferrous scrap which it sent tc. "Glavvtortsvetmet" (ldain Administration
of nonferrous Scrap tfetal). In 1952, only lj tons were shipped, while this year
"G lavvtortsvetmet" had not received even one kilogram of scrap by 19 t?tarch.(2)
,Pravda Vostoka of lei December 1952 reported that the production schedule of
the UzbeY. Plant's open-hearth shop was threatened by n scrap shortage.
In t?ovember 1952, it stated, the Furnaces lay idle for 100 hours. Such
enforced inactivity exacted a considerrble toll in expensive materials (e.g.
pig iron, mnzut, ref^~ctories) and manpower. The paper declared thn+. this st.^rY.
inefficiency was attributable directly to the plant's scrap suppliers, who had
not main*ained their delivery schedules and had shipped unsorted and ungraded
scrap. The Uzbek Office of "Glavvtorchermet"(tfain Administration of Ferrous
Scrap tdetal), the principal scpplier, met onl;; 50 percent of its October 1952
norm and achieved an even poorer record the following month.(3)
Moscow City and Oblast
hloskovsY.aya Pravda of 12 Jure 1952 reported a projected scrap drive for
combing 1?foscow City for all available scrap. The paper stated that there were
innureeruble scrap piles in idoscow plants, railroad yards, and private homes,
and even an old broken do~.m bridge which had been rusting since 1910.
Industrial plants, accordins to the paper, were scheduled to start grading
their scrap. ,:any machine-building plants had been raking no distinction
between carbon and el].oy steel scrap and, as a result, titaniur~, nickel, tungsten,
molybdenum, any other valuable alloying elements had been lost.(9)
;,ccording to bfoskovsl:ava Pravda of 20 tdnrch 1953, the "Rlelarostal" Plant
has not been receiving ..^,ufficient sr_rap. The plant requested 150 tons of high-
seeed ^tccl. tailings and 56C tons of cuts titute tailings for January and February
1'153. The Technical :,dministration cut this order down to 95 and A50 tons,
respectively, and even then did not fill the order. The '~;la?nrtorshermet" btoscow
City and ;doskovsi:aya Oblast administrations have also been guilty of similar
inconsistencies, according to the raper.
G:oskovsYa;;a Pravda charged that this scrap shortage is often artificially
induced. It stated that, for some obscure reason, the managers of these admin-
istrations tolerate the stocl:plling of tens and hundreds of tons of quality
steel tailings. The taper concluded with the statement that it was. high time
these superfluous reserves be depleted.(4)
Georgian SSR
In a scnthirg review of the Tbili.^,skaya f~blast scrap drives, Zarya Vostoka
of 1~ December 1952 reported that many of the rayons made en inexcusably poor
showing. .l:hall:alnkskiy Rayon, for example, fulfilled only 15.8 percent of its
norm during the first 10 months of the annual scrap drive; ~.digensY.iy Rayon,
only 35.3 percent; ,and httskhets}a y Rayon, 51.b percent. The paper added +~,:,+
this record, however mer.;;er, was in sharp contrast to that of nspindzskiy,
Bo,^,danovskiy, Lagde};hskiy, and Telavskiy rr.?.;ons, which had not even begun their
scrap-collection drives.(5)
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Sovetskaya Estoniya.of 24 December 1952 reported that the Estonian SSR had
a generally good record in the second and third quar+Pr 1952 scra? collections,
with most of the cities and rayons exceeding their corms. The paper added how-
evers :hat some rayons should make more use of available resources for the col-
lect~~n and distribution of scrap.(6)
Pravda U1~?ainy of 20 September 1952 reported that the Dnepropetrovsk
Metallurgical Plant imeni Petrovsk recovered 146,680 tons of "lost" metal from
tailings. The plant had pledged to recover 50,000 tone of scrap in 1952 and
60,000 tons in 1953?(7)
Moldavian SSR
According to Sovetskaya Moldaviya of 18 May 1952, the Moldavian SSR was
resorting to cash awards in an effort to spur socialist competition in scrap
collections.(8)
SOURCES
1. F'.oscow, Pravda, 6 Jun 53
2. Tashkent, Pravda Vosto}:a, 19 Mar 53
3. Ibid., 16 Dec 52
1+. Moscow, MosY.ovstcaya Pravda, 20 Mar 53
5 Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 16 Dec 52
6. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 24 Dec 52
7. Kiev, Pravda Uksainy, 20 Sep 52
8. Kishinev, Sovetskaya I?foldaviya, 18 htay 52
9. Dloskovskaya Pravda, 12 Jun 52
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