The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-08

The government no longer needs to depend
upon the Kulak, but gets So per cent Of its
grain from the socialist sector. Besides, this
year, the collective and government farms have
added SO per cent to the cultivated area, the
sowing Of grain increased per cent the gen.
eral harvest was IL per cent better the govern
ment and collective farms yielded IS per cent
more than the individual farms. and the harvest
OF government farms yielded 40 per cent more
per acre than individual farms
Industry and agriculture cooperate closely and
are being more and more bound together by the
ties OF socialism. Industry and the government
give great aid to the collective farms furnish
Ing seed, fertilizer, credit machinery, tractors
and other forms Of help This year production
OF agricultural machinery reached a value of
S2o8OOo,0O0 Next year the value will be $439-
100000 This means that the Soviet Union will
exceed the annual output of American agricul-
tural machine factories. Tractor plants are
being built which will produce many more trac-
tors than the United States produces. Thus
farm work Is being done in industry. Comrade
Yakovlev, Con1missar Of Agriculture in the So
Wet Union states that already the figures from
the grain trusts and the tractor stations show
that the main part of the work required for
growing wheat is no longer performed in the
field ITSELF but in the iron works and oil in
dustry" 1t used to take the peasant $50 work.
ing hours to grow summer wheat on 21h acres
on the state farms this is now done in hours
the tractor being used for az hours. Thou
sands OF industrial workers helped the farmers
IN their sowing and harvesting
Collectivization means tremendous changes in
the standard Of living of the peasants. For
example, in a section of the North Caucasus.
the income Of middle peasant jumped over
100 per cent as result OF the first collective
harvest, from $50 to $50 rubles per year. New
creameries, vineyards orchards, mills, schools
CLUBS, dining rooms theatres, etc. are being
built on the collective farms. The work of
women is being made much easier by COM
munal kitchens, communal nurseries gardens
etc. The culture and advantages of the CITY
are being brought to the country The drudgerv
and bleak isolation which used to exist In the
country will be destroyed forever Model vii
lags are to be built on collectives in the Soviet
Union, where the farm workers will have all the
advantages that socialist society can supply.
Such plans and such advantages arise In
sharpest contrast with capitalist countries, where
the poor and middle farmers live under the heel
OF landlords, creditors, bankers, exorbtant taxes
etc. SO that they cannot afford new machinery
ana tractors, but are continually being pressed
INTO deeper misery. Here in the q. S. the rich
farmers have all the advantages, the poor and
middle farmers suffer all the hardships Here
only the rich benefit from the best machinery
and the little large scale farming which is done:
there the Kulaks are being eliminated and the
poor and middle farmers reap the big benefits
OF the great collective farms, the benefits of
new machinery and tractors. Here there is an
tagonlsm and growing gap between agriculture
ana industry, there country and city cooperate
and grow closer and closer together Here the
more the farmers produce, the worse off thew
are; there greater production brings better
homes, better food, more leisure, more books.
more cultural advantages. Peasants are becom-
ing workers. like those in the cities, with all the
advantages and privileges which it means to be
Worker in the Soviet Union.