The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17


tools and agricultural machinery; (c)
support of the village co-operatives
and the like In all it's measures re-
garding the peasantry the Party must
have regard to the necessity of help
ing by every means the poorest and
middle strata of the peasantry, in
particular the cooperative farming
bodies, in order to save them from
being pushed out by the great
peasants.
The peasants economy is the fun
damental basis for the reconstruct
ton of industry, and, as a conse-
quence, for the growth of the working
class, as the peasants market is the
principal market for Industrial prod
ucts. The peasants economy, on the
other hand, is the principal supplier
Of raw materials for our industry. For
this reason, the greatest possible sup
port must be granted to the peasants
economy, not only in the general in
terests Of the Soviet power, but in the
interests of the most rapid develop
ment Of industry itself.
u. State Industry.
Only the development of the nation
allied heavy industry can create an
unsuitable foundation for the probe
tartan dictatorship In view of this
fact, the Twelfth Party Congress
gave precise instructions as to the
measures which must be adopted and
Systematically carried out by the
Party, in order to strengthen and to
develop our state industry.
The state industry has, in the last
twelve months, shown considerable
development, it has increased its ont
put and improved the quality of It's
goods, whereby the production has
steadily increased from month to
month without any sudden squirt of
decline.
The tempo of the development of
the state heavy industry in the past
year has somewhat exceeded that OF
agriculture and Of small and home
industry. (If one takes the whole
production of heavy industry one sees
that, compared with the year 1921, it
has nearly doubled. The total guam
tity Of the state industry has risen to
IS per cent of the pre-war quantity.J
In particular the successes OBJ
tanned in the sphere of the fuel econ
omy furnish the possibility of a fur
ther reconstruction of the remaining
branches of industry. Transport is in
a. condition so as to meet, without
special difficulties, all the demands of
the national economy. Along with
this there must be recorded a series
of successes obtained in the organi-
cation of production in the factories
and works and in the organization of
industry as a whole.
High Prices.
The present crisis has, however, re-
Yealed also in this sphere number
Of unhealthy symptoms, the eradica-
ton of which forms one Of the most
urgent tasks of the Party.
In their eagerness to make good
the losses sustained by industry in
the first year of the New Economic
Policy, several economic organs have
incorrectly carried out the instruction
of the Twelfth Congress regarding the
necessity Of striving to place industry
on a profitable basis and have in
creased the prices to level which
could only be paid by those having
the greatest purchasing power The
high prices of the goods collided with
the low purchasing power of the mass
peasant market. The goods remained
unsold, and not only failed to yield
the expected profits to the industry,
but as result it's undertakings were
threatened by insolvency and shut
ting down Of production.
The syndicates, which were set up
in the struggle for the domination Of
the market and for the fixing Of uni
form prices, were the immediate pro-
moters Of this policy of high prices.
This policy was the undoubted result
of the improper use of the monopoly
Of several branches of industry with
an insufficient development of regulat-
ing organs.
The socialist accumulation is fun
damental and decisive factor for the
fate Of the proletarian dictatorship
under the New Economic Policy. Il
is, however, mistake from the point
of view of socialist construction, If in
the prices of the goods there are in
cluded, besides the cost Of production
and the necessary minimum of profit,
the expenses for such a rapid recon
struction and augmentation of the
foundation capital, as are obviously, at
the present time, beyond the power Of
the great mass of the population OF
the country. II will be much more
necessary in the future to coordinate
the policy as to prices with the most
important peasant markets and to CO.
ordinate the tempo of the develop
ment OF industry more strictly than
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