The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
Carrying Out the Five Year Plan in Years

1t is not so long ago that the
Planned Economy Commission put
forward the idea of drafting the
Five Ycar-PlaIi in two forms: One,
modest so-callad "minimal vari-
ant" and the other, the socalled
"optimai variant" It will be re-
membered with what energy the
right-wing opportunist elements and
the bourgeois specialists opposed the
optimal variant of the Five-Year
Plan. II is characteristic that these
clements regarded even the mini
NAL variant as extremely strained
and only possible with the greatest
possible efforts, We can still hear
their warnings Especial care with
the figures" Scientific honestly"
Conscientious calculation of all the
factors of the economic situation,
and all the other apparently object
i've arguments with which a number
Of groups in the State apparatus,
in the economic organs, in the trade
unions and also in the Party sought
to hide their petty bourgeois vacil-
lations and their opportunist fear
Of the generous program of the
socialist offensive.
The Party and the working class
cid not permit themselves to be con-
fused by these pessimist warnings
and fears. They did not believe the
prophecies of the right-wing ele-
ments who declared that in the very
first year of the Five Year-Plan the
economic life of the Soviet Union
would enter into chronic crisis if
the optin1al variant of the Five
Year-Plan were taken as the basis
for the CONSTITUTIONAL program. The
10th Conference of the Communist
Party Of the Soviet Union and the
9th Soviet Congress adopted the
optimal variant Of the Five-Year-
Plan and it alone.
Reality has completely refuted the
Jeremiahs. 1t must even be said
very clearly that reality has over
taken even the economic tempo of
development projected in the op-
timal variant of the Plan. The first
year of the Five-Yea Plan showed
clearly that the figures set by the
plan for the development of the vari-
Gus sections of the national econ
omic system, would have to be re-
vised, but not in sthe sense that
these figures were too high, but in
the sense that they were too low.
Let us examine the control figures
for industry in the economic year
1929-30. Do they confirm the pro-
phecies of the right-wingers accord
ing to which the speed of economic
development decided upon by us,
was impossible and exaggerated?
Not in the least. According to the
optimal variant of the Five-Y Year
Plan of the Planned Economy Com
mission, the second year of the Five
Year-Plan should have seen 10.6
per cent increase of industrial pro-
duction. The Five Year-Plan con-
firmed by the 9Th Soviet Congress
almost doubled this figure. And
what does reality show? In reality.
our politico-economic position and
the opening up of great reserves of
socialist reconstruction, permits an
increase of production for the year
1929-30 not of 10 per cent, not of
20 per cent, but of an average of
28.7 per cent. The increase of pro-
duction of the industry producing
the means of production, will not
be % per cent as provided for the
Plan, but 37.5 per cent. (Since the
publication of this article in the
"Ekonomitcheskaya Zhisn" a fur
Their increase has been decided upon.
Ed. Imprecorr.) This means moth
ing more nor less than 81 per cent
increase Of that program contained
in the most daring, the optimal vari-
ant draft of the Five Year-Plan.
This is the speed with which social
list industry is advancing in the first
stage of the reconstruction, at a
time when the socialist competitive
scheme is still in it's beginnings. The
perspective opens up before us that
we shall be able to carry out the
Five Year-Plan within four years.
1t must be pointed out in this con-
nection, that the friends" of our
industrialization, amongst the pessi-
mists and opportunists Of all shades,
were not long ago Of the opinion
that it would be great victory of
the Soviet Power if the minimal
variant, j. e. that draft of the Plan
whose proposals for the coming year
have been increased threefold by
reality, were carried out in six years.
Perhaps the right-wingers think
Of taking their revenge in agricul-
ture. Perhaps the Party and the
Government have made some mis-
takes here. No, this is not the case.
The tendencies of agricultural devel-
opment offer the right wingers no
consolation. Let US take an ex-
ample:' The collectivisation plan
provided for the formation of 1000
collective undertakings in the R. s..
F. S. r. in the economic year 1928
20. Up till the LIST June /. e. in the
first eight months Of the economic
year, 11.340 collective undertakings
had been formed. It NAV reason