The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
BujJding Socialism IN Soviet Russia

gang pillow, and the tractor and the
gang pillow, in turn, are to replace
the individual productive unit of the
poor peasant with the collective
farm of the combined poor peasan-
try of the village.
The Five Year Plan is now in OPP
Grafton for one year. The first year
provided for an increase and extern
sion of the large sized socialized
industry by 81 per cent. The ac-
complishment of the first year ex-
ceeded this assignment with an
actual extension of "a per cent. The
Five Year P I provided that the
cultivated area of government
, farms was to increase during the
first year by IL per cent. The
actual increase during the first year
was 27.5per cent.
A most astonishing progress can
be recorded in the program of col
lectivization of agricultural pro-
duction. The plan provided for the
first year an increase of the sown
area of collective farms by 112 per
cent. The actual increase is $50 per
cent. The number of collective
farms increased from October LIST,
1928 with 1894 of collective farms,
to over $4,000 collective farms on
June 1, 1929.
The rapidity of growth of socialist
economy in the Soviet Union opens
the perspective of putting the econ
omy of the Soviet Union at the head
of all nations. Even assuming that
the growth of the economic capacity
of the capitalist United States will
maintain its past rate of speed the
Soviet Union will outstrip the
United States within about Is years.
But the progress of the building of
socialism can not and will not be
measured merely by its productivity
or by its productive capacity. This
progress, because it is the progress
of socialism, must manifest itself
also in rapid improvements in the
conditions under which the working
class of Russia lives and works, and
it does. The working hours of the
Russian worker are today already
the shortest of any other worker
of the world. While wages and
working conditions of the capitalist
countries in most instances are con-
siderably under the pre-war stand
ards the Russian worker not only
registers tremendous improvement
over the pre-war standard, but wit
nesses and produces rapid further
progress in this improvement. In
the capitalist countries the post
war days have witnessed system
attic liquidation of social insurance
and protective labor laws. The
Soviet Union, on the other hand, has
initiated and is carrying thru the
most extensive social insurance and
labor protection ever conceived. To
this we must add that in their appli-
cation the capitalist governments
have always negated such laws when
they existed, while thu proletarian
dictatorship in the Soviet Union is
an interchangeable guaranty for
their enforcement.
Success of Five Year Plan Defeats
Enemies.
The progress of the building of
socialism in the Soviet Union is
showing up all of the prophecies
of it's capitalist enemies for
what they are. 1t is disprov-
ing and liquidating all of
the theories and theoreticians
which intend to slow up it's progress!
and to block it's success. The facts
of its growth turn the Cassandra
calls of Trotsky into parrot like
repetitions of the stereotype capt.
talist prophesies: ut can't be DONE"
And the right wing with its lack
of confidence in the creative capa-
city of the revolution must either
confess its utter bankruptcy or must
stand convicted as conscious and
wilful opponent Of this progress.