The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18

the part of all economic organs. The
struggle against wasteful expenditure
of any kind therefore constitutes an
essential economic requirement.
As regards the state budget, consi-
derable gains have to be recorded.
The normal resources of revenue have
increased. The note press is playing
an increasingly less important role
as means of covering expenditure
In the future, every effort must be
directed towards increasing the Pc
cuniary resources Of the state with
out increasing the burden Of taxa
ton on the working strata of the pop
ulation, by increasing the yield Of
profit derived from the state lands
and undertakings.
Budgets.
At the same time there is an un-
doubted improvement in the prepa-
ration Of the budget estimates them
selves. For some years past the So
Wet power has been striving at the
creation Of real budget. But 1t was
only in the last year that any consi-
derable improvements were attained
in this direction. We have for the
first time, budget estimates which cor
respond to the true state of affairs,
and which to a greater extent than
hitherto permit one to foresee and to
calculate in regard to the state ad-
ministration and economy.
The introduction Of the chervonetz
has, Of itself, considerably facilitated
the possibility of proper accounting.
and consequently also Of a systematic
control over economy as a whole, as
well as over single undertakings. The
Improvement and perfection Of the
budget plans have constituted the
next step. But it is only by improving
and perfecting the currency reform,
that it will be possible, on the basis
Of stable currency unit, to formu-
late effective financial plans for in
dustry and trade, to conduct a cor
irect calculation and to organize a re-
liable system of recording and &C.
counting.
The currency reform must there
fore form one Of the essential pre-
requisites for the necessary increas-
ing Of the co-ord;natica between the
various parts Of the national econo-
my, and it will for the first time pro-
vide real basis for the effective sys-
tematic control of economy.
VIII. On the Necessity Of Increasing
the Basis of Planned Economy.
1t would be fundamental mistake
to assume that, with the preponder-
ance of the small peasant economy,
with the increasing Importance of
the world market and of its prices in
our economy, the state planned man
agement would be able to exclude the
possibility Of crises under the N. E. P.
The present crisis emphasizes, how
ever, the necessity of increasing the
efforts towards co-ordinating the
single branches of the national econ
omy, and extending the basis of plan
ned economy in the work of the state
economic organs.
In far greater measure than here
tofore, the Party must learn to CO.
ordinate the elements Of the state
economy in their mutual relations
with the market. This task Is facili-
tated by that fact that we have now
gained considerable successes in re-
gard to the creating OF fundamental
premises for the management of
planned economy, without which it
could easily transform ITSELF into a
bureaucratic utopia. These premises
for successful planned economy con.
sist Of: l. the creation of a stable
valuta, 2. the organization of credits,
3. the accumulation of material re-
sources with which to operate, 4. the
realization and strengthening of GER
tain forms of the organization of eco.
nomy trusts and the like), 5. the ex-
istence Of a number of Individual
plans, constructed on the basis of ex-
perience, in the first place of we'll
founded budget plans and the like.
The existence Of these conditions
furnishes the possibility of far more
successful work than hitherto of the
state organs of planned economy. The
next tasks are the strengthening of
the "Gossplan," the increasing of its
role in relation to financial and ere
dit policy, the creating of closer con-
nections between its work and the
work of the Peoples Commissariat for
Finances, the Superior Council for
Peoples Economy, the Peoples Com
missariat for Agriculture, the Com
mission for Interior Trade and the
like, the strengthening OF its local or.
gans and the like.
The next task Of the "Gossplan'
must be the systematic study of the
current market conjuncture, and the
elaboration Of fundamental measures
aiming at influencing the trend of
the market. The "Gossplan" must be
actually guaranteed that position
which was indicated in the resolution
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