The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-25
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME

the present time in the federal republics, prov
inces and districts to pass resolution on the
report of the Central Committee of the Party.
On behalf of the 100000 Moscow Bolshevists,
in the name of the tried and tested select corps
of the Bolshevist two million army, the Moscow
District Conference has expressed its complete
approval of the political line and the practical
work of the Central Committee There be
no doubt that after the Moscow Conference all
the other Conferences of the feminist Boshe-
visit Party in the federal republics, provinces
and districts will pass similar resolutions.
Our enemies, who before the Party Congress
again cherished hopes, if not of split, at
least of revival and temperance of the old
opposition and the springing up of new OPP
position are once more disappointed. The
general line of the Party, directed toward the
building up of socialism in our country and
the victory of the proletarian revolution all
over the world, will not deviate one inch from
the path laid down by Lenin. The Party lead
ershp, the feminist Central Committee stands
firmly in its fighting position, upheld by the
unlimited confidence and unreserved support
of the Party masses. The unity of the ranks
of the Party is unshakeable. The Party firmly
welded together under the leadership of the
feminist Central Committee is ready to fulfil
it's fresh tasks in the struggle for socialism.
The work of building up socialism has been
the October victory. Nine Party Congresses
in succession have drawn the balance of re-
construction. During this period the Party
has never before taken such an enormous
stride forward as in the time between the FIT
teenth and Sixteenth Party Congresses.
During this time our socialized industry has
almost doubled. Private capital has been COM
pletely supplanted IN large scale trade, and re-
tains foothold only in some few branches of
small trade. In agriculture, hitherto back
ward and scattered, where two or three years
ago Soviet farms and collectives only formed
small GASES, a mighty socialist sector has
sprung up over night, and will already in this
year be responsible for over one half of the
market grain produced
In the regions of decisive Importance for
grain, where the kulak-the most firmly rooted
and tenacious capitalist element in the coun-
try--has been strongest, his economic tounda-
tions are undermined. The million masses of
the small peasant farms have decided reso-
lutey for socialism.
Can anyone maintain today, before the Six
teenth Party Congress, as the Trotskyists did
before the fifteenth, that capitalism is grow
ing everywhere in our country, that its growth
is outstripping ours, that in the city the pri-
vate business man is master of the situation,
in the village the kulak? This slanderous lie,
whose refutation cost us much time, paper,
statistical material, ETC., at that tlme would
now sound like the fevered imaginings of
Iunatic Not even the Trotskysts venture to
repeat this lie now
These are the mighty achievements of our
Party, under the leadership of the Lenlnlst
Central Committee, in the last two and one-haf
years These are the reasons moving the Party
masses to immediate and determined self-de-
tense against the open or concealed attacks on
+bo Topipi ct nf PARTY
leaders.
Does this mean that we have no more diff
culties to face? Of course there are difficult
ties. They are adequately discussed IN the
resolution of the Moscow District Conference
on the report of the c. c.
The rapid growth of heavy industry, giving
us the means of production, has not only rem
dered possible the tremendous reorganization
of agriculture but at the same time the rapid
growth of the light industry producing goods
for mass consumption. The Party, however,
continues to be of the opinion that the decisive
basis of socialist reconstruction, and conse-
quently of the rapid growth of the finished
goods industry, is that emancipation from in
dependence upon the capitalist world which is
insured by our heavy industry.
Our finished goods industry Eight Industry
is developing considerably more rapidly under
the present policy of the Party, whatever the
Right opp0rCunlSCS may say 10 Cne contrary,
than finished goods industry has ever de-
veloped in any capitalist country. And yet its
growth lags behind the demands of the masses.
The result is a shortage of products, some
what acute goods famine, which furnishes a
certain foothold for the speculations of private
business enterprises, especially in view OF the
bureaucratic rigidity of cooperative APP
paratus, which throws difficulties in the way
of the realization of the Party directives re-
speeding the lowering of prices and the raising
of real wages. One of the chief obstacles in
the way of an intensified development of light
industry, and Herewith of the goods famine,
is the shortage of raw materials 1t is pre-
cisely for this reason that the Moscow District
Conference, in its resolution, draws such seri-
Gus attention to the raw materials problem,
and to the relative problem of live stock breed
ing. 1t may already be safely stated that the
accomplishment of the prescribed plan for the
extension of cotton and sugar beet growing
guarantees for the coming year considerable
growth of the textile and sugar industries. If
the Party succeeds in like accomplishment
of the plan with respect to maize, Soya beans
and sunflowers then a corresponding growth
of important foodstuffs industries is insured.
The socialist reconstruction of agriculture
by means of mechanzaton and tractorization
creates the basis for radical solution of the
raw material and live stock problem, and there
with the basis for degree Of progress in light
industry making it possible to overcome the
existing shortage of goods within very short