The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-04
The Year Of Great Change

ficult by the, problem of financial accumula
ton. 1t is likewise, faced with the problem
'of cadres, the problem of recruiting tens of
thousands of loyal technicians and experts for
the work OF Socialist construction and of train
ing Red technicians and specialists from the
ranks of the working class. +
If the problem of accumulation may in the
main be considered to have been solved, the
problem of the cadres still awaits its solution.
And " view of the technical reconstruction
OF industry this problem of eadres is deei-
Give problem of Socialist development. There
fore, it is the duty of the Party to tackle this
problem Immediately and carry through its
solution without fail. =,
The third achievement, which is organicaIly
related to the first and second, lies in the
radical change in the development of our agri-
culture from primitive system of individual
farms to an advanced form of collective farm
ing, to JOINT tillage, to machinery and tractor
stations, and to working co-operatives and col.
lective estates based on up-to-date methods of
cultivation, and thus finally to gigantic Soviet
estates equipped with hundreds of tractors and
combine-rnachines.
In this connection the great success of the
Party lies in the fact that it has managed
to transfer the main mass of the peasantrv in
number of districts from the old capitalist
path of development Thy which only hand
full of rich peasants and capitalists profited
while the great majority Of the peasantry were
merely aboue to vegetate in misery to new
methods of Socialist development (by which
the rich peasants are ousted and the middling
and poorer ones equipped in a new manner
and supplies with new tools, tractors, and agri-
cultural machinery, so as to give them the
possibility of emerging from their need and
their dependence on the kulaks and of proceed
ing on path of cooperative, collective Gull
tivation). The achievement of the PARTY lies
in the fact that it has succeeded in organizing
this radical change in the peasantry itself and
in taking over the lead of the broad masses
OF middle and poorer peasants notwithstand-
ing the tremendous difficulties placed in it's
way and the desperate resistance of all sorts
OF sinister forces, from the pope and the kulak
to the Philistine and Right opportunist in its
own ranks.
In this connection l may cite few figures.
In 1928, the area under cultivation in the So
Wet farms. figured at 1,425,50O hectares with
an output of more than million metric centals
OF grain, while the cultivated area of the COL
lective farms was 100000 hectares with an
output of roughly 3.5 million metric centaIs.
In 1929, the area of the Soviet farms under
cultivation was $4,000 hectares with an out
put of about million metric centals of grain.
while that of the collective estates stood at
4,262,O0O hectares with a production of rough-
~ IL million metric centals In the year 1880,
again, the area of the Soviet estates will. ac-
cording to the estimate, figure at 3,2S0,0OO
hectares with an output of IS million metric
centals of grain, while that of the collective
farms is to amount to Is million hectares with
an output. of roughly 40 million metric centals
In other words, the commercial grain produc-
ton OF the Soviet and collective farms together
is estimated to- amount in the coming year to
more than half the output of all our agricul-
ture. ~E -[
Such vigorous rate of Development is un.
known even to our Socialist industry the devel-
opment Of which is undoubtedly characterized
by sufficiently prodgious strides. Is it not
obvious. therefore, that our young Socialist
agriculture has a great future before it and
is capable Of real wonders in the way of de.
velopment?s S,.A t .
This gigantic achievement in the development
of the collective farms is attributed to mum.
Der of reasons, OF which the following at any
rate may be mentioned. Il
In the first place this success is to be as
cribed to the fact that the Party has pursued
the feminist policy Of an education of the mass.
es and has Systematically led the peasants in
the direction of collective cultivation BY pro-
motion of the co-operatives tits to be ascribed
to the further fact that the Party successfully
opposes both those who sought to exaggerate
this movement and to fester the development
of collective farms by means of DEGREES (i. e.
Left" phrasemongers) and those who sought
to retard the action of the Party (i.e the half
hearted dolts Of the Right.
. This exceptional success in the direction of
constructing collective farms is, moreover, at
tributable to the nice perception of the Soviet
authorities in regard to the peasants growing