The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17
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iCo?It17tueG from rage OpeJ
profits, while the capitalist oil con-
Germs cannot do without the immense
super profits.
The Oil War.
Generally Soviet goods, particular
ly Soviet oil acts in the world mar
ket as a factor for lowering prices,
thus relieving the position of the con-
sumer-masses. Therein, said Stain,
is the secret why the oil magnates of
all countries, and particularly Deter
ing, are raising loud cries against the
Soviet government and the anti-So-
Wet oil industry.
Their policy, he continued, Of oil
prices and robbing the consumer
masses in fashionable phrases about
Communist propaganda" is thus a
mask for their activities.
Peasant Problem.
In answer to the question how col
lectivism is being realized in the mat
ter of the peasant problem, Stain
pointed out: "We intend to realize
collectivism in the peasant problem
gradually, by economic, financial and
cultural measures of a political kind"
Several years ago, he declared,
numerous middlemen stood between
industry and rural economy in the
form of private capitalism. The situa-
ton, however, has radically changed
since. Today, Stain continued, in the
exchange of, goods between the town
and the village, the share of the CO.
operative movement and the state
commercial organs may be considered
not only prevailing, but dominating,
or even monopolist. As an example
he cited the production of sugar, beet
root, cotton, ETC., raw materials, prices
and quality determined not elemen-
tally mot as result of game in a
disorganized maTket), but as result
of definite preliminary contracts be-
tween sugar and textile syndicates on
the one hand, and tens of thousands
of peasant economies organized in
beetroot and cotton growers coopera-
tive societies on the other hand. 1t
may be confidently said, Stain con-
tinued, that all branches of agricul-
tural, including grain production, will
gradually pass over in such a form
development which will be a direct
approach to collectivization of the
rural economy.
Ultimate COllectiyism,
All-embracing collectivism, he said
will be achieved when the peasant
economies will be reconstructed on a
new technical basis thru mechanics
ton and Identification, and when
the greater part of the peasantry will
be embraced by cooperative organiza-
tions, and when most villages will
have agricultural societies of collec.
twist type.
| Marx said, continued Stain, that
no new social order can be consoli.
dated in history without being in.
tensely financed with hundreds anc
hundreds of millions being spent fol
this purpose.
II believe" he said, "that we are
entering a stage of development il
rural economy when the state begins
to be in position to intensely fl.
nance the new social order. The fact
that socialist industry has already Sc.
cured role of the dominating eie.
ment in the national economy, anG
leads rural economy, is the best
pledge that peasant economy will fol
low the way to further collectiviza.
| ton"
War Communism.
After replying to the question as tt
what were the main difficulties under
war Communism when an attempt
was made to suppress money, Stain
replied to the question on Scissors,
pointing out that the industrial pro
ducts are still being Sold somewhat
dearer than they might be under Other
conditions. This, he declared, is due
to the fact that industry is still young
and it is necessary to protect it from
competition from without. To d.
away with this negative point for the
peasant economy the government ant
the Communist Party set themselve!
the object Of carrying thru the policy
of gradual, but constant reduction O
prices of industrial goods.
"The example is well-known," de
clared Stain, that during the las
year we have been able to reduc,
from eight to ten per cent of tn,
prices of industrial goods. Industrial
organizations Systematically bring
down the cost and selling prices O
industrial goods. The cornerstone o
Soviet economic policy without which
it is impossible to have either i'm
provement or naturalization our in
dustrial economy or consolidation O
the union of working class and tn
peasantry."
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