The daily worker., 1926-05-22
This Spring Has Seen
the Soviet Union Take
Big Strides Forward
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE chorus grows. Not to be outdone by Junus B. Wood
the Moscow correspondent Of the Chicago Daily News,
Walter Durany of the New York Times joins in applaud
ing the brilliant economic gains being achieved in the Union
of Soviet Republics Only part of the headline appearing
Prosperous: Production Increases Railroad Traffic Gains
and Unemployment is Reported Reduced"
Atho of the few correspondents who has been at
all fair in reporting Soviet developments Duranty was
among those who recently predicted dire things for the
Workers and Peasants Repubicc Reeraon of his past
fears and the outlook that he pictures the present time
are contained in this paragraph:
internal situation the Soviet Union Not only have the obvious
queues
gold vauta BUT THE PRODUCTION FIGURES AND
THE RAILROAD RETURNS ARE MOVING STEADILY UPWARDS"
1t is the increase the production figures of course
that helps solve all the other problems Goods produced
the growing demands of the great peasant popua
ton This increases flow of farm products from the
land creating surplus available for export thus establish
ing the soviet credit in other lands the of imports
to the Soviet Union Duranty is always good at presenting
figures. Especially eloquent the figures setting forth
the results achieved by the transportation system Here they
e average number of freight cars handled per day April was
24e24 INCREASE COMPARED WITH
LAST YEAR Coal shows an increase Of 1ts per cent? metal products
of 1t7 timber
NUMBER OF IDLE FREIGHT CARS ON APRIL
ducsd May tst to soa2"
Whatever unemployed workers there in the Cities
going back the land with the spring sowing help
bring thru successfully the 1926 crops Labor is prem
um the land This in spite of the agricultural
machinery that being used in the Soviet Union i'm
creasIngly large scale.
1t Henry Ford, the other day, who was boasting
that of his tractors manned by doing
the work that formerly required 900 with 1000
This took place in Soviet Armenia. But this being dup
in all sections of Soviet Union which has placed
the largest order with the Ford In all its history
Thus the agricultural situation in the Soviet Union is
just the of what is in the United States where
bankrupt andIess farmers leaving the soil fockng
into the cities in effort to find work in the industries
already overcrowded with workers seeking maintain
standard of living against the wage cutting campaigns of
the employers.
And all the time the daily experiences of the Russian
workers. in running their government and building their
socialist economy, results in gradual improvement in
all directions. The wasteuI methods that employed
under czarsm being sweptno the limbo of things past
Superfluous personnel is being eliminated Overhead
other expenses being reduced declared
tai savings thus brought about total close half billion
roubes about II per cent of the entire budget of the
Union.
All this is being done in the of Coolidge
omy that the profits of the proteers may be increased
in capitalist America, strengthening the ruling class
the workers.
1t is being done by the workers and peasants So
Wet Union for themselves This that every advance
struggles lift their standard of living upward beyond
anything the world has yet With the spring of 1926
the Soviet Union strides ahead Even the capitalist press
forced to admit it.