The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25


MOSCOW (By MaiD.-The fol-
lowing is a summary of the report
on the Five-Year Plan, its accom-
plishments and prospects, as given
before the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Soviet Union by Com
rade Krshishanovski:
"Our Five-Year Pla. meets with
complete understanding and enthu-
siasm amongst the workers of Eu-
rope and the United States, not to
speak of our own workers. On the
other hand, the bourgeois econo-
mists and the social democrats are
faced with a riddle. They utterly
fail to understand what is happening
in our country of the proletarian
dictatorship.
"The present period is an epoch
Of proletarian revolutionary crea-
ton which has no equal in the his
tory of the world. 1t is an epoch
which is not only decisive for the
Soviet Union, but for the whole
world.
Danger Signal to Capitalism.
Progressive bourgeois econo-
mists who have grasped with diff
ficulty the meaning of our efforts
declare that if our Five Year Plan
is carried out to the extent of rs
per cent then this will be a danger
signal for the capitalist world. We
are not satisfied with carrying out
our plan 100 per cent, not to speak
of rs per cent, and we are exceeding
our own achievements everywhere.
"In the second year of our plan
we will have fulfilled many of those
tasks which actually belonged to
the third year of the plan. With
regard to agriculture we are already
reaching the figures contained in
the fourth and even the fifth year
Of the plan.
"a fundamental socialist trans
formation is already taking place
in agriculture. Instead of the
planned 100000 peasant farms in
the collective undertakings, we al
ready have 100000 peasant units
in the collectives in the R.S.F.S.R.
alone and 178 connected territories
have been collectivised. The number
of soviet farms totals approximately
1000.
Capitalism Can't Do 1t.
"The national income for 1929-30
viii rise by 20 per cent, thing I'M
paralleled in the history of labor.
Our efforts have made such deep
impression upon progressive cap
italist economists that there is even
talk of a capitalist five-year plan.
The Japanese Politician Viscount
Goto, who visited me, declared:
"You know l must confess that
although / have travelled all over
Europe this is the only corner L
have found where work for human
ity, as a whole, is being carried on.
would like to create such an insti-
tuition for planned economy for ia
pan, but I am afraid that is impos-
sible owing to the relations of the
political parties in Japan and the
general economic system there.
Figures which seemed utopian
even to some of us are now becom-
ing hard reality. Many of us
doubted whether the Five-Year Plan
could give us 80 milliard rubles, but
the year 1929-30 alone will give us
II milliard rubles, and of this IL
milliards will be expended again for
agriculture, about A milliards for
cultural work and only IT milliards
for administrative expenditure and
the defense Of the country.
Electric Plow at Work.
"This year we will produce 100000
XIV. hours Of energy in our over
land stations. We are carrying out
Lenin's plan of the electric plough.
This year. the electric plough will
commence work side by side with