Draft decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the national economic plan for the third quarter of 1931

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Appendix No. 3

to p. 11, ave. PB No.  47.

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of  July 5 , 1931  No.

National economic plan for the III quarter of 1931

(Approved by the Politburo of the Central Committee on July 5, 1931).

We have achieved a number of indisputable successes in the struggle to fulfill the plan for the third decisive year of the five-year plan. Already in the spring of 1931, more than half of the peasant farms were involved in collective farms.

Thus, the task set in the field of collectivization by the plan of the third year of the five-year plan was solved, and the socialist sector in agriculture received an absolute preponderance over the individual sector.

Victories are being won one after another in the struggle for the early fulfillment of the five-year plan. A number of the largest enterprises and selected industries have fulfilled their five-year plan in 2½ years. More and more major enterprises of our socialist industry are added to the red list of enterprises that have fulfilled their five-year plan.

The most serious victories were also achieved in the struggle for the fulfillment of the plan for the spring sowing campaign. The sown areas in the spring of 1931 had already significantly exceeded the sown areas in the spring of 1930. By June 20, the MTS had exceeded the planned spring sowing program for them by 12%. sowing 20.26 million hectares.

By June 20, over 58 million hectares had been sown by 200 thousand collective farms, which united 13 million peasant farms, while 12 million individual peasant farms had sown only 28 million hectares. As a result, the sown area of ​​the socialist sector of agriculture (collective farms together with state farms) reached over 70% of the total area of ​​spring crops. All this testifies to the fact that the collective farm peasantry has become the central figure in agriculture, and the elimination of the kulaks as a class on the basis of complete collectivization is coming to an end not only in grain crops, but also in the raw material regions of our Union.

Along with the indisputable successes we have achieved in implementing the plan for the third and decisive year of the five-year plan, the results of the first half of the year testify to the unsatisfactory progress in fulfilling the plan by individual branches of industry and transport. The development of industrial production and construction has significantly lagged behind the planned targets in a number of industries, the fulfillment of the task to reduce the cost is extremely unsatisfactory, the plan for rail transportation is not being fulfilled, etc.

Underfulfillment of planned targets for industry is largely overtaken by transport difficulties in the 1st and early 2nd quarters, difficulties with labor force, in view of a sharp change in the situation in agriculture, a high turnover of workers, mainly due to the inconsistency of tariff policy ("equalization" ) new conditions, the presence of numerous facts of "depersonalization" in relation to workers to mechanisms, etc. It is of particular importance that economic organizations are clearly lagging behind in restructuring their work in accordance with new conditions and new tasks of their work, which is especially necessary in view of the rapid development of construction and an increase in production.

Underperformance of production programs, and, in particular, quality indicators, along with insufficient work to mobilize funds from the population, led to non-fulfillment of the financial plan for the first two quarters, to the impossibility of forming the intended state reserve and to the need for some increase in prices for a number of manufactured goods.

Noting that there are material and technical prerequisites for fulfilling the plan for the third and decisive year of the five-year plan, and that the broad masses of the working class and working people are experiencing further growth in production and the development of emulation and shock work, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR considers it absolutely necessary to fulfill the national economic the plan for the third quarter, based on the tasks set in the annual plan, special attention in the plan for the third quarter should be paid to the fulfillment of the task for coal and metallurgy, to the preparation and successful completion of the harvesting campaign plan and to the preparation of transport for autumn transportation ...

Based on this, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR proposes:

by industry

1. To establish the size of the gross industrial output planned by the Supreme Council of the National Economy for the third quarter of 1931 at 6.970 million rubles, which will amount to 26.6% of the annual plan. For the NKSnab industry, set the gross output at 1.105 million rubles.

Establish the following tasks for the main industries:

for the extraction of coal ..................... 23 million tons
for coke burning ........................... 2.350 thousand tons
for oil production ........................... 7.600 thousand tons
for pig iron smelting ........................ 2.030 thousand tons
for hire ................................ 1.730 thousand tons
in mechanical engineering ...................... 1.344 million rubles.
steam locomotives NKPS ................................. 285 pieces
freight wagons in 2-axis calculation ..... 16.040 units
for agricultural machine building 230.0 million rubles.
combines ................................... 2.000 pieces
electrical engineering ........................ 300 million rubles.
for tractors ............................... 15.280 pieces
for the procurement of commercial timber ....... 9.9 million kb. meter
for cement ........................... 10.800 thousand barrels
for shoes ................................... 24 million pairs
for sugar ................................... 260 thousand tons
for fish ..................................... 760 thousand tons
for canned food ............................ 330 million cans
for vegetable oil ....................... 35 thousand tons
by cigarettes ............................. 20 billion pieces
for confectionery .................... 135 thousand tons

To oblige the VSNKh and NKSnab to achieve in the third quarter of 1931 a decrease in the cost of production in the amount of 10% (with tax) against the average annual cost of 1930.

2. The volume of capital investments in the industry, planned by the Supreme Council of the National Economy, shall be 2.280 million rubles; in the industry planned by NKSnab, 240 million rubles. and in the industry planned by NKVneshtorg - 25 million rubles.

on power construction

1. Capital work on regional power plants is set in the amount of 270 million rubles.

2. The increase in the capacity of regional power plants for the III quarter is set at 391 thousand kW.

3. Electricity generation by district power plants to establish in the III quarter of 1931 at 1.275 million kW. hours.

on transport and communications.

Accept the following quests:

a) freight turnover by rail in the III-nd quarter should amount to 88 million tons against 77 million tons according to the plan of the II-nd quarter;

b) the cargo turnover of river transport should be 30 million tons with a delay or 39.5% of the annual target;

c) the average daily loading of 66 thousand wagons.

Capital investments for NKPS should be set at 750 million rubles, for Tsudotrans - 140 million rubles, for NKVod - 115 million rubles. and for civil aviation - 40 million rubles.

Capital investments in communications should be set at 56 million rubles.

in agriculture

A significant increase in collectivization in the spring of 1931, the coverage of collective farms by more than half of the poor and middle peasants of the USSR, the successful implementation of the plan for the sowing campaign in MTS and state farms - set the following main tasks for agriculture in the 3rd quarter:

a) further deployment and piecework coverage of all collective farmers;

b) fully and timely harvesting and storage of crops with maximum control of losses;

c) the development of animal husbandry on state farms and collective farm commodity farms and the creation of a fodder base as the main prerequisite for a decisive struggle for the socialization of the large-scale livestock industries of collective farmers;

d) execution of the program according to p. x. construction, primarily of silos and livestock buildings, grain and vegetable stores, enterprises for the primary processing of industrial raw materials and livestock products;

e) carrying out the winter campaign and preparation of winter plowing in the amount established by the 1931 plan.

According to this:

1. To oblige the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR to complete the production of harvesting machines in full in the amount established by the resolution of the Enforcement Commission dated 04/29/1931 and to hand over in the 3rd quarter of the NKZ USSR all equipment for the amount of at least 200 million rubles, including harvesting machines agricultural and threshing machines at least 140 million rubles. To increase the number of MTS by the end of the 3rd quarter to 1308 with a tractor fleet in MTS to 650 thousand HP.

2. To complete the herd in state farms and collective farm commodity farms during June and the 3rd quarter in the following amounts: for cattle - 1200 thousand heads, for pig breeding - 315 thousand heads, for sheep breeding - 2000 thousand heads. To oblige the NKSnab of the USSR and Soyuzmyaso to procure and deliver on time to trusts and collective farm commodity farms the specified amount of livestock.

3. To approve for the III quarter the amount of capital investments in agriculture in the amount of 1.170 million rubles. Of this amount, to approve 172.9 million rubles for silos and livestock buildings, 46.5 million rubles for grain and vegetable stores, 99.5 million rubles for the purchase of productive livestock.

for construction in general.

1. Determine the total volume of capital investments in the national economy for the III quarter at 5.800 million rubles.

2. Propose to all departments, based on quarterly limits, to establish firm title lists of construction for the third quarter with a maximum concentration of investments and material and financial resources at the most important construction sites, so that, first of all, the facilities put into operation within 2 Half a year, and submit these lists for approval by the STO through the USSR State Planning Committee.

3. Simultaneously with the submission of title lists for the III quarter, the assumptions about the construction plan for them for the 4th quarter should be given for the whole range of the most important objects.

according to the financial plan.

The total volume of the financial plan for the III quarter of 1931 shall be determined in the revenue part at 9.877 million rubles and in the expenditure part at 9.877 million rubles.

Considering the enormous tasks of financing the national economy in the third quarter, to oblige the NKF, State Bank, VSNKh, NKPS, Narkomsnab and all other economic people's commissariats to economic agencies, as well as SNK of the union republics and the region (region) executive committees unconditionally ensure the fulfillment of all income items of the financial plan, as through the mobilization of funds from the population and trade, and especially through the internal resources of economic agencies on the basis of the further introduction of cost accounting and a saving regime.

Significant under-fulfillment of the plan for the first half of the year poses particularly important tasks for the third quarter, which is of decisive importance for the fulfillment of the plan for the third year of the five-year plan.

In the presence of the material and technical security of the plan, its full implementation is directly dependent on the ability of economic organizations to restructure in accordance with the new situation created by the rapid growth of industry and the socialist restructuring of agriculture. From relying on a spontaneous influx of labor, it is necessary to move on to organizing the influx of new workers, their training and consolidation in enterprises. The salary system must be rebuilt from the point of view of eliminating impersonality and equalization and ensuring an incentive to improve qualifications and eliminate turnover. The most decisive way is to end the impersonality that leads to deterioration in the use of equipment, slowdown in the growth of labor productivity, etc.

The issue of attitudes towards specialists should be resolved in a new way: along with speeding up work on training new cadres, all old specialists who strive to actively participate in socialist construction should be used as much as possible.

Finally, self-financing should be introduced more energetically and decisively into the entire work of economic organizations - the main condition for a serious growth in savings in the socialist sector and the most important prerequisite for a successful struggle against the mismanagement and bureaucratic clumsiness of economic organizations.

All the forces of the working class and collective farmers must be thrown into the struggle for the fulfillment of the plan for the decisive quarter of the third year of the five-year plan, which requires on the part of the governing bodies a real strengthening of concrete practical leadership in all economic development.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

Administrator of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

Capital work plan for the third quarter of 1931

(in million rubles)

Purpose of funds	Appointed for 1931 recalculated	Appointed for the 1st quarter	Appointed for the II-nd quarter	Estimated for the III quarter
I.  National  economy :
1.  Industry :
a) industry of VSNKh	6.067	1.000	1.803	2.280
b) other industry	400	115	120	145
c) handicraft-industrial cooperation	148	32	41	50
d) disabled cooperation	fifteen	3	4	3
e) fishing cooperation	26	five	6	2
f) industry of grassroots subordination	25	five	five	five
Total by industry	6.681	1.160	1.979	2.486
2.  Electrification : (district stations)	833	150	220	270
3.  Agriculture :
a) public sector	1.934	509	513	661
b) Traktorocenter	520	162	102	159
c) collective farms	955	269	254	310
d) c. x. cooperation and individual. economy	165	60	61	20
e) science and personnel	69	ten	20	20
f) reserves	100	-	-	-
Agriculture total	3.743	1.000	950	1.170
4.  Utilities and housing	603	70	110	160
5.  Housing cooperation	98	12	20	25
6. Supply and trade
a) associations of NKVneshtorg	92	eleven	25	25
b) associations of NKSnaba	609	120	145	240
Total for trade	701	131	170	265
7. Consumer cooperation	404	75	113	115
8. Air civil transport	121	thirty	thirty	40
9. Tsudotrans and Soyuztrans	444	87	112	140
10. Transport NKPS	2.213	351	488	750
11. Water transport	433	92	90	115
12. Communication	254	48	48	56
13. Economic agencies of the NKF	3	five	2	1
Total for the national economy	16.531	3.211	4.332	5.593
II. Socio- cultural events
1. Enlightenment	378	50	55	90
2. Healthcare	244	thirty	38	60
3. Bodies of labor protection and social security	ten	five	-	-
Total social cult. activities	632	85	93	150
III. Narkomvoenmor	200	40	70	57
IV. other expenses	43	-	-	-
Total	17.406	3.336	4.495	5.800

 

Unified financial plan of the USSR for the third quarter of 1931

Income

(in million rubles)

Sources of coverage	Estimated for the III quarter
	Profit	Depreciation	Accrual to the markup on social-cult. needs	Other facilities	Total
I. Funds of the socialized sector
1. Industry:
a) industry of VSNKh	510	165	55	6	736
b) handicraft industry. cooperation	83	4	23	1	111
c) disabled cooperation	12	-	2	-	fourteen
d) fishing cooperation	-	1	-	1	2
e) prom ‑ st of lower subordination	nine	-	-	-	nine
	614	170	80	8	872
2. District power plants	fifteen	fifteen	-	-	thirty
H. Agriculture	19	45	five	eleven	80
4. Utilities	200	17	1	4	222
5. Forestry	-	-	-	five	five
6. State trade
a) merger of NKVneshtorg	1	1	-	1	3
b) unification of NKSnaba	199	thirty	3	12	244
c) special commodity fund	-	-	-	275	275
7. Consumer cooperation	114	fourteen	50	five	183
8. Transport
Tsudotrans, Soyuztrans	ten	7	-	-	17
NKPS	648	162	1	46	857
water	61	22	-	6	89
9. Communication	66	-	-	1	67
10. Credit institutions	115	-	-	761	876
11. Economic agencies of NKFin	3	-	-	1	4
12. Special. funds of departments, consisting. on the sovereign. and local budget	-	-	-	32	32
13. Others	-	-	20	100	120
Total for I	2.065	483	160	1.268	3.976
II. Tax
1. Agricultural tax	-	-	-	-	225
2. Sales tax	-	-	-	-	3.215
3. Customs revenue	-	-	-	-	80
4. Other taxes	-	-	-	-	110
5. Local taxes and fees	-	-	-	-	55
6. Fee for worker housing construction	-	-	-	-	60
Total for II	-	-	-	-	3.745
III.  Funds of insurance organizations
1. Social insurance	-	-	-	-	590
2. State insurance	-	-	-	-	230
Total for III	-	-	-	-	820
IV.  Raised funds of the population
1. Loans	-	-	-	-	325
2. Self-taxation	-	-	-	-	125
3. Contributions and shares in cooperation	-	-	-	-	233
4. Savings banks	-	-	-	-	85
5. Bonds of Traktorocenter	-	-	-	-	45
6. Repayment of loans on the defense industry complex of the State Bank	-	-	-	-	135
7. Others	-	-	-	-	fifteen
8. Advances for agricultural machinery	-	-	-	-	24
Total for IV	-	-	-	-	987
V. Union funds	-	-	-	-	100
Vi. Unallocated funds	-	-	-	-	80
TOTAL	-	-	-	-	9.543
Equity participation in capital investments :
collective farms	-	-	-	-	133
from. x. cooperation and individual. farms	-	-	-	-	thirteen
irrigation	-	-	-	-	3
collective farm contributions to the cultural fund	-	-	-	-	20
TOTAL	-	-	-	-	9.877

Unified financial plan of the USSR for the third quarter of 1931

Costs

(in million rubles)

Purpose of funds	Capital investment	Strengthening working capital	Operating and other expenses	Total for the 3rd quarter	Appointed for 1931 recalculated
I. National economy
1.  Industry :
a) industry of VSNKh	2.280	+ 588¹ *	55	2923	7.799.0
b) other industry	146	fifteen	-	161	505.0
c) handicraft-industrial cooperation	50	47	7	104	281.0
d) disabled cooperation	3	ten	-	thirteen	42.0
e) fishing cooperation	2	2	-	4	28.9
f) industry of grassroots subordination	five	-	-	five	25.0
g) industry regulation	-	-	five	five	21.9
Total for industry	2.486	662	67	3215	8.702.8
2.  Electrification (district stations)	270	-	1	271	848
3.  Agriculture :
a) public sector	661	154	78	893	2.653.3
b) Traktorocenter	159	72	-	231	570.2
c) collective farms	310	2	33	345	1.141.0
d) c. x. cooperation and individual. economy	20	ten	2	32	170.6
e) science and personnel	20	-	-	20	69.0
f) reserve	-	-	-	-	100.0
g) regulation of agriculture	-	-	7	7	35.1
Total for agriculture	1.170	238	120	1.528	4.739.2
4.  Utilities and housing	160	-	35	195	753.3
5.  Housing cooperation	25	-	-	25	98.0
6. Supply and trade
a) associations of NKVneshtorg	25	thirty	-	55	80.0
b) associations of NKSnaba	240	468	five	713	2.138.4
c) trade regulation	-	-	ten	five	20.6
Total for trade	265	498	ten	773	2.239.1
7.  Consumer cooperation	113	100	1	216	504.0
8 . Air civil transport	40	-	nine	49	150.0
9.  Transport NKPS	750	34	8	792	2.754.7
10.  Tsudotrans and Soyuztrans	140	1	8	149	-
11.  Water transport	115	-	1	116	447.2
12.  Communication	56	-	-	56	254.1
13.  Economic agencies of the NKF	1	1	1	3	2.9
14.  Other activities	-	-	55	55	36.6
Total for the national economy	5.593	1.534	316	7.443	21.529.9
II. Socio- cultural events
1. Enlightenment	90	-	818	908	3.628.9
2. Healthcare	60	-	270	330	1.202.7
3. Bodies of labor protection and social security	-	-	240	240	1.036.8
4. Adm. social cultural work	-	-	sixteen	sixteen	68.4
Total social cult. activities	150	-	1.344	1.494	5.936.8
III. NK Voenmore	27	-	293	350	1.310.0
IV. Specialist. troops	-	-	36	36	128.0
V. Management	-	-	163	163	696.2
Vi.  Reserve  and  other  funds	-	-	116	116	433.5
Vii. State Loan Payments	-	-	100	100	382.0
VIII. Gosstrakh	-	-	131	131	285.9
IX. other expenses	-	-	17	17	122.3
Total expenses	5.800	1.534	2.516	9.850	30.824.6
Payments carried over since 1930	-	-	-	-	350.0
Abbreviation for admin. expenses	-	-	-thirty	-thirty	‑100.0
	5.800	1.534	2.486	9.820	31.074.6
Insurance fund	-	-	57	57	163.0
TOTAL :	5.800	1.534	2.543	9.877	31.237.6
¹ * In addition, 6.3 million rubles. pass under Art. 14 to increase the working capital of Soyuztsetmet.