ECONOMIC - CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140326-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 326
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Construction materials
HOW
PUBLISHED Semiweekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 Aug 1952
USSR CONSTRUCTION MAT3RIALS INDUSTRY
CRITICIZED AT 1952 REETING OF TRADE UNION COMMITTEE
The Fifth Plenum of the Central Committee of the trade union of
construction materials industry workers was held in Moscow on 30 and
31 July 1952. In a report to the plenum, Nikulin, Deputy Minister of
the Construction Materials Industry USSR, stated that brick production
increased (7 percent between 1950 and 1;52. The average volume of produc-
tion per cubic meter of kiln rose from 72) bricks in 1950 to 1,100 bricks
in 1952.
The deputy minister stated that in a majority of cement plants the
output by rotary kilns exceeds designed capacity. Cooling the firing
area by water has made it possible to increase the output of clinker.
However, he continued the Soviet brick industry has been slow in
instituting new methods into its manufacturing. The brick plants of the
RSFSR and the Ukraine have converted only ho and 8 'kilns, respectively, to
firing brick by accelerated methods. In the USSR to a whole, only 25
plants have been drying brick by accelerated methods.
According to Levitskaya, chairman of the Central Committee of the
trade union, the USR brick industry still has not mechanized its pro-
duction methods and brio': setting has not yet been mechanized.
P. A. Yudin, Minister ,, .nsttuctior, I'ateri?sls Industry USSR,
severely criticised plant directors and trade union officials who have
been slow to introduce improved work methods into manufacturing. The
minister called upon the trade unionists to exercize greater control
over labor conditions and mechanization of working methods. He also
stressed the necessity of cooling kilns in cement plants by water and of using
accelerated methods in forming, drying, and firing brick in brick plants.
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In reporting on the housing situation at enterprises of the construction
materials industry, Basilov, Deputy Minister of the Construction Materials
Industry USSR, stated that in 1952 more than 450,000 square meters of living
space were to be put into use, but that, in the first 6 months of the year,'
only 63,800 square'meters of living space had been made available for workers
of the construction materials industry. He criticized Glavkirpich (Main
Administration for the Brick Industry) and Glavtsement (Main Administration
for the Cement Industry) for their failure to fulfill their quotas for pro-
viding living quarters at their subordinate enterprises. Only the following
main administrations fulfilled their quotas in this respect: Glavstandartdom
(Main Administration of Standard Housing Construction), Glavsantekhprom
(Main Administration for Sanitary and Technical Products Industry), Glavgips
(Main Administration for the Gypsum Industry), and Glavtop (Main Administra-
tion for the Procurement of Local Fuel). According to Basilov, building costs
continue to remain high, mainly because the finishing work on buildings is
done by manual labor rather than by machinery.
Bos'ko, secretary of the Central Committee of the trade union, stated that
the main reason construction quotas were not being fulfilled was the poor organi-
zation of labor. He further stated that some chiefs cf main administrations and
plant directors still consider housing to be secondary.
He declared that cblast, kray, and republic trade union corcmittees had
been exercising weak control over the construction r,_ workers housing by fail-
ing to make sufficient demands on their superiors for hcu:in--.
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