The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-07

and the North East, for the Far East and
Turkestan? All signs go to show that it will
not suffice. One of the new factors in the
development of our national economy is that
this basis already fails to suffice. 1t is new
factor that the all-round development of this
bassis must be accompanied by the simutane-
Gus opening up of second coal and metallur-
gic base in the Ural and Kusnetz district, en-
abing coal and coke to be combined with the
Ural iron. (Applause.) The building of motor
car factory at Nishninovgorod, of tractor
factory in Chelyabinsk, of a machine building
works in Sverdlowsk, of factories for combines
in Saratov arc Novosibirsk, the existence of a
growing non-iron industry (colored metals) in
Siberia and Kasakstan, demanding the organi-
zatior of network of repairing workshops md
metal works in the East; and finally the deci-
sion to erect textile factories in Novosibirsk
and in Turkestan-all this imperatively de-
mands immediate steps towards second coal
and metallurgic base in Ural.
We know that the Central Committee of our
Party has spoken in this sense in its resolu-
ton on the metal trust "Uralmet"
2 There follows the problem Of the proper
distribution of the decisively important BRAN
ches of agriculture in the Soviet Union, the
problem of the specialization of our regions for
various agricultural branches and cultures. 1t
need not be said that any real specialization is
impossible on a small peasant farming system.
Impossible for the reason that the small farm
is unstable, has not the necessary reserves be-
hind it, and is obliged to cultivate various
plants, in order to be compensated by the sue
cess of one crop for the failure of another.
1t is equally clear that unless cretain reserves
of grain are kept in the hands of the state,
the organization of specialization is impossible.
we have forward n q
farming and the state secures it's grain
serves, we can and must take up the task of
an effectual organization of the specialization
of the cultivation of different plants and of the
various branches of agriculture The point of
departure of this specialization must be the
final solution of the grain problem. | say "the
point of departure" for without solution of
the grain problem, without the organization of
a comprehensive network of elevators for the
distribution of the grain reserves in the dis
tricts engaged in livestock rearing, or in cotton,
beet, flax, and tobacco growing, it is impos-
sible to secure the breeding of livestock, the
cultivation of technical plants, or the special
ization of our territory into districts devoted to
certain cultures or branches of agriculture.
1t is our task to utilize the possibilities al
ready opened out, and to further the work of
specialization.
g. Another problem is that of the cadres
required for both industry and agriculture. The
imperfect technical training of our agricui-
tural cadres, our specialists, technicians, and
economists, is well known. A further complica-
ton is the fact that part of our specialists,
having connections with the former owners,
and receiving encouragement from abroad
have taken the lead in the commission of sa5ot-
age. And matters have been further compll-
Gated by the circumstance that large num-
Der of our communist economists have here
failed in revolutionary vigilance, and frequent