The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-16
THE PRE-CONVENTION
DISCUSSION
By Fred Ellis

the further narrowing of the inner market of
capitalism, forcing the further repression of
production, etc. The unemployment, result
ing from the economic crisis, at the same
time intensifies the inner processes going on
within capitalism which prepared the crisis
in the first place; one of the outstanding fea-
lures demonstrating the inevitable develop
ment of deep crisis in the U. S. even before
it showed itself in any downward movement
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on mass scale of
permanent employment as result of ration
alization, speed-up To this permanent unem-
ployment has been added thu unemployment
resulting from the cyclical crisis factor
which ntensifies and hastens naturalization
and speed-up and thus further increases struc-
tural, permanent unemployment.
The so-caed temporary unemployment re-
.suting from the economic crisis becomes an
intensfying factor in the permanent crisis.
Many of the comrades from the districts will
be able to give very interesting figures to
cencretize this fact. Comrade Stachel told us
how in some towns in Michigan although pro-
duction increased to 80 per cent of what it
was last year. the increase in working forces
has been less than half as much. While in
most industries this will not be so extreme,
yet the phenomena is general Increase in
production in this period does not result in
equivalent increase in employment.
" SOCIALISM VS. CAPITALISM.
The development of the general crisis has
been very deeply and profoundly effected by
the construction of socialism in the Soviet
Union We have given great deal of atten-
ton to this in the thesis. Now, l only want
in one word to emphasize this point. 1t is
necessary to point out that something new in
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in the Soviet Union, in the large scale de-
veopments in collectivization of agriculture,
and the turn in policy of CP of SU, the change
from the policy of limitation of kulaks, to
the policy of liquidation of kulaks as a class.
This is necessary to emphasize because of the
fact that there has been some confusion on
this point, and that there have been deliberate
and studied attempts of our enemies to in
tensify this confusion. An attempt has been
made to create the impression that after this
turn in policy there is now a "new-turn" back
to the old policy. This is of course not true
There has been no "new turn" away from the
policy of liquidation of kulaks consolidation of
agriculture on a collective basis, extension of
socialism into agriculture There has been in
the carrying thru of this policy development
of certain distortion of policy, opportunist and
leftist The correction of these errors, these
distortions, that has been featured in the news
of the past few weeks is by no means
change in the line, by no means a retreat in
the development of the line 1t is rather elm
ination of one of the dangers to the carrying
through of the line. This correction of err
rors has already been made successfully We
can already see that the CPSU has dealt with
the problem effectively. We must very care
fully eliminate any tendency in our ranks to
reflect this capitalist propaganda, the propa-
ganda of the renegades that this correction of
errors has been a new turn or, as the Trot-
skyites put it, zigzag in the policy of the
CPSU.
ITO Be Continued)