The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
Immediate Communist Tasks Under RTSaS Economic Policy

abolition of the payment Of wages in
such a form as involves in practice
their reduction inferior food substi-
tutes, payment in notes Of large de-
nomination, etc.), and also warrants
the adoption of a series Of decisive
measures directed against the irregu-
lar payment of wages. The Party de-
mands that all the economic organs
should in the future combat these
defects, and insists upon the regular
payment of wages being the trst duty
of the economic organs.
The improvement of industry and
of transport, which is due to the
heroic efforts of the forces of the
working CLASS, must find its express
sion in an improvement of the situa-
ton of the workers. The trade union
organs must direct their permanent
attention to securing, that these two
lines-that of economic improvement
and that of the improvement Of the
welfare of the working class-shall
show certain measure Of congruity.
Role or Unions,
The process of the reconstruction
Of our industry is unavoidably accom-
panied by an increase in the number
of the proletariat, by its consolidation,
by the raising of its material and cul-
tural level There results from this
the particularly urgent task of the
trade unions of devoting themselves
EAR more than hitherto to the organi-
cation and leadership of industry.
Special care must be given by the
trade unions to the selection of the
organizers promoted from among the
working classes who are capable of
occupying positions as leaders Of the
state industry. The Party, the trade
unions and the economic organs must
for this purpose take upon themselves
the task of preparing groups of such
leaders from among the ranks of the
workers by means Of special schools
and also by means of drawing wide
masses into the discussion on the
economic situation and on the current
work Of the industrial undertakings.
at which Representatives Of the eco
numir organs. trade unions, IF the
Parry and Of the non-party workN;s
of industry are to be regularly held.
Conferences of the different branches
are to come together, in order to dis
cuss the current questions concerning
the productive life, in order to arrive
at conclusions based on the data fur
nished by the reports, and to provide
possibilities of exchange of expert
ence. These conferences must enable
the trade unions to study carefully and
to control the management of the I'M
dertakings and to help by every
means the economic organs in the inn
provement of the economy, in the
fight against bad management and all
avoidable additional expenditure, etc.
w. Foreign Trade.
The monopoly of foreign trade
forms one of the fundamental ele-
ments of the entire economic policy
of the Party. The monopoly of for
eign trade has fully justified itself, in
particular under the conditions of the
New Economic Policy, as weapon
Of defense against the country being
stripped of it's wealth by foreign and
native capitalists, as well as a means
of socialist accumulation.
1t was only by preserving in it's en-
tirety the system of the monopoly of
foreign trade, that we were able to
attain to an active trade balance and
to concentrate the income resulting
from foreign trade into the hands of
the state.
1t is by hindering with all means
the loss to the country resulting from
the payment of imported goods which
could be produced in the country it,
self, that the monopoly of foreign
trade makes it possible to organize a
planned import Of those good which
are indispensable for the development
of our industry and the peasant econ
omy. The monopoly OF the foreign
trade must also in the future be pre-
served in its entirety as the most i'm
portant element Of the economic pol
icy of the Party, especially in the
period of the New Economic Policy.
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