MORE HOUSING ... NEW FIVE-YEAR PLAN USSR planning large advance in prosperity By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW Breathtaking proposals for the biggest increase of prosperity any nation has ever known — a peaceful challenge to the entire would — were disclosed here with publication of directives for the Sixth Five-Year Plan. at The peaceful atom is to be the vast new force in Soviet industry — and its part: ner will be a great increase of automation. With these as a basis widespread technical want to build their own houses., 75 television stations; color tele- Education: By the end of the! Vision will have been started. developments are planned. Atomic power plants with a total capacity of two to two- and-a-half million kilowatts Will be built during the next five years in areas where there are no other sources of power. And the Soviet Union will be the first nation to use atomic “nergy for peaceful transport Purposes, by constructing an atomic-powered icebreaker to °vercome obstacles that have hitherto hindered the develop- ment of Arctic transport. her important aspects of a Plan that emphasizes continued Concentration on heavy industry are: “ Higher wages in agriculture, industry and offices. “ Education to the, age of 17 for every child. “A doubled output of houses and flats. Greater expenditure on so- cial services. And there will be color tele- Vision . . . more cinemas . - - More food ... the biggest hydro- Clectric power station in the World . . . more stores... . _The draft plan, which occupied Ive and a half pages of Soviet newspapers on January 15, will discussed’ throughout the coun- ‘ty and will then come up for final discussion and approval at the forthcoming 20th Congress of ‘he Communist Party of the So- “let Union, to be held next month, The draft is already the result Many months of discussion throughout the country, starting at factory level and going right Up to the ministries. tere ‘are some of the other high points of this plan of the People: Wages: In the next five years wages of industrial workers and office staffs will rise by 30 per- ent. Incomes of collective farm- tS, in cash and kind, will be up 40 percent. Houses: More than five million New flats and houses will be uilt — more than double the figure of the last five years. €re will also -be increased State loans to help those who ia Five-Year Plan there will be uni- versal secondary education up to the. age of 17. The nominal fee now paid in the senior classes of secondary schools and in the universities and institutes will be abolished. The number of new schools will double that of the past five years. Social insuranee benefits: There will be increased expenditure on social insurance, pensions, aid for large families, higher matern- ity benefits, improved. conditions for women workers, longer mat- ernity leaves during pregnancy. More hospitals and sanatoria will be built. Soviet people will have more entertainments: The number of theatres will be increased — 30 percent more movie theatres and plans for the production of 120 full-length feature films every year. 4 The radio and television net- work is to be extended, and by 1960 there will be not less than There will be more and longer holidays. Additional rest homes and holiday centres will be built, with government expenditure ris- ing sharply to provide more and longer free holidays for working people. There will be more food. At the end of the plan people will be getting 85 percent more meat and meat products, 59 per- cent more fish, 70 percent more sugar, nearly three times more milk, eggs and dairy products. There will be more clothing. Double the amount of woollen goods, double the silks and nearly four times the linen goods. Travelling will be easier. Steam locomotives. will be banished from main railway lines, to be replaced with gas turbine loco- motives and diesel and diesel- electric engines. Between:40 and 49 percent of all goods trains will be hauled by diesel-electric engines. Most of the important lines will be electrified, together with the HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS ... MORE WAGES ... suburban lines in the main in-, dustrial centres and the entire main line from Moscow to Irkutsk. There will be more than 4,000 miles of new railway line, in- cluding a line from Alma Ata to the frontier, giving a new rail- way link between the USSR and the Chinese People’s Republic. Working will be easier. Automation will lighten labor in many factories — without causing unemployment. Soviet industry will go over from the automation on single factory shops to entire plants. Automation will Be used in the electric power industry and the oil industry to obtain a reduc- tion of labor. JANUARY 27, 1956 — MORE EDUCATION ... There will be more automation in the steel industry, with remote control of furnaces, and automa- tion in the smelting and refining of copper, ledd, zinc, nickel and precious metals. Farms will be more productive: By 1960 Soviet agriculture will be producing 180 million tons of grain a year. This year alone 75 million jacres of former virgin land and fallow land will be brought under cultivation. Increases in cattle, pigs, poultry and sheep breeding are planned. New dairies and vegetable farms will be established around the big cities, with greenhouses using surplus heat from the elec- tric power stations. There will be more electricity. Electric power production will increase by 88 percent, with the main concentration on new power in the Far East and Siberia. The world’s biggest hydro- electric station, with a capacity of 3,200,000 kilowatts, will be built at Bratsk and Krasnoyarsk, on the River Yenisei. The document declares that the Soviet Union now has “all the necessary conditions for accomplishing, in peaceful econ- omic competition and in the shortest possible time, the main economic task of the Soviet Union which is to overtake and surpass the most developed capitalist countries in pro- duction per head of the popula- tion. It says that in drawing up the directive, the central committee of the Communist party has taken into account proposals made by the people in many thousands of industrial establishments and farms. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3