The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
WORLD CONGRESS-.
OPEN IN MOSCOW
AS MANY ATTEND
Communists Call For
Greater Struggle


the world capitalist system and
which are fighting against world
capitalism for world socialism.
The draft further attacks the
social democracy as the chief sup
port of capitalism in the camp of
the workers and regards all other
tendencies, like anarchispl, guild So
cialism, ETC., as social democratic
forms.
The draft declares that relations
between the Communist Parties of
the West and East are prelimin-
airy condition for proletarian hege-
mony and dictatorship.
The plenary session of the Cen
trail Committee Of the All-Union
Communist p PARTY has approved the
draft and appealed to the members
to file proposals for corrections with
the Program Committee of the
Sixth Congress.
Grain.
Continuing his address, Stain
then dealt with the questions of
grain policy. He pointed out that
the adoption of extraordinary meas
ures succeeded, in the beginning of
1928, in recovering the ground lost
during the previous year and in
overcoming the grain crisis.
"The results for this January to
March are normal, though the de-
struction of the autumn paintings
in the South Ukraine and Northern
Caucasia have caused strong pres
sure on the peasant supplies in other
districts at a time when the harvest
prospects are still uncertain. This
has resulted in a recrudescence of
the extraordinary measures such as
illegal searching of the peasants
farms, ETC., which have endangered
the workers and peasants alliance.
"Of course, the workers and
peasants alliance has not been de-
stroyed, but only endangered. Some
comrades have lost their heads and
exaggerated the danger, the speaker
said, but the prospects of a good
harvest and the abandonment of the
extraordinary measures have caused
the situation to. become peaceful
again.
Farms Split Up.
"The basis of the grain difficult
ties is that in spite Of the fact that
the area under cultivation has
nearly attained the pre-war figure,
peasant agriculture has become split
up. Small scale agricultural pro-
duction is Improbable and low,
whereas the towns and industries
are developing rapidly, with con-
sequent development of the demand
for grain.
"The solution of the problem lies,
in the first place, in increased grain
productivity on the part of small and
middle scale production; in the col
lectivization of small and middle
scale farms and improvement in the
existing Soviet farms.
people who believe that small
and individual farms are the be-
ginning and the end of agriculture
have nothing in common with
Leninisn1," the speaker said. "The
chief characteristic of the present
situation is that increased productive
ity of the small scale farms is no
longer alone sufficient to solve the
problem, although this increased
productivity is the chief task before
the party at this moment.
Two Tasks
1.-TWO new practical tasks, there
fore, arise: Increased productivity
of the collective farms and the i'm
rrovement of the Soviet farms.
Apart from the general causes,
The Plenum's resolution enumerates
the following specific temporary
causes for the grain purchase
crisis: Loss of balance in the mar
kets in consequence of the quicker
growth of the peasants de-
mand for industrial goods; the I'M
favorable relation of grain prices to
other agricultural prices; the errors
in the planning system, particularly
regarding prompt commodity sup
ply; insufficient taxation of the
possessing sections; errors of party,
Soviet and purchase organizations;
violation of Soviet legislation
through administrative arbitrari-
ness, ETC.; exploitation of Soviet err
rors by capitalist elements in town
and country.
"In order to abolish these specific
temporary causes it is necessary to
abandon illegal searches of peasant
farms and other violations of Soviet
law; to abandon any recrudescence
of requisition methods and at the
same time to guarantee more elasti-
city in the state regulation of COM
merce; to make certain increases in
the price of grain; to organize and
regulate commodity supply in the
grain districts and Immediately to
form a state grain reserve.
Alliance Not Ended.
at is stupid to say that the alli-
ance between the workers and pea
SAINTS is finished. If this were true
the peasants would have reduced the
grain producing area whereas the
grain producing areas have actually
increased everywhere.
"Some comrades think that in or
der to consolidate the alliance of the
workers and peasants we must con-
centrate on textiles instead of heavy
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