The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-09

THE Theses of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union on
the Five Year Plan for Industry, to be pre-
scented to the 10th All Union Party Congress,
published in "Pravda" for May 90, give a
thorough. analysis of accomplishments and
shortcomings, point out the most important
tasks on which all efforts must be concen-
trated indicate new methods of utilizing the
tremendous enthusiasm of the masses, and
endorse the feminist line of the Party leader
ship for industrializing the country. Large
scale industry, and that alone" Lenin is
quoted in the Theses, sis the one and only
basis for the foundation of socialist society"
The tempo of development of industry, laid
down in the Five Year Plan, as accepted by
the 18th Party Congress, has not only been
reached, but in many branches of industry,
has been exceeded. At the very beginning in
1929, industrial production increased
by &c per cent, exceeding the quota which
24.5 per cent. In 1928-29, the first full
year, the quota was 21.4 per cent, but the
Soviet workers increased production by "a
per cent. AS result of these successes, and
in view of the tremendous enthusiasm of the
workers, the quotas for 1929-30 were raised,
from 21.5 per cent, which had been originally
intended, to 31.3 per cent.
higher than the original quotas they were lag
cling somewhat behind the new quotas and
the Central Committee took a number of
measures to broaden the mobilization of the
masses, ruthlessly disclosing and combating
the failings and defects in the economic, trade
union and Party apparatus. AS result of
these measures, a decided increase was OBJ
tanned, and while the figures not yet up
to the quota for the first half-year, the quota
for the whole year will probably be reached.
This will mean that industrial production in
the U. S. S. R. will have increased in the two
first years of the Plan by 65 per cent, as COM
pared with the original quota of Ats per cent.
More important still, products of heavy in
dustry-those branches of industry producing
means of producton-will have increased by
So per cent, as against 58,4 per cent originally
proposed.
Figures are given for the increase in diff
ferent industries: production of machinery
more than doubled in 2 years; electrical sup
plies, ETC., produced will be 27 times much
as last year; agricultural machinery-250 per
cent increase in 2 years; pig iron-667 per
cent increase quota was 81 per cent?; coal
-45S per cent increase (quota was BIG per-
cent?; oil-37.S per cent quota was 26.5 per
cent?; cement-S49 per cent quota was $50
per cent? Coal production is IS per cent
above pre-war, pig iron-31 per cent, oil-74
per cent, cement 70 per cent.
There has been, as result of the Five Year
Plan, a great increase in the numbers of the
working class-520,000 since the 18th Con-
gress. And together with this has gone a
considerable improvement of the material and
cultural situation of the working class, an in
crease in its share of the national income, and
an improved standard of living as a result of
the increased wages, the 7-hour day, the de-
crease in unemployment, and the increased
budget for social insurance lover IA billion
rubles in the current year,. The victories in
industry have strengthened the position of So
cialism in the country and have created the
basis for the turn of the millions of middle
peasantry to socialist forms of agriculture.
The successes in the field of increasing pro-
ducton, however, have not been accompanied
by the necessary increase in the quality of
the products, which (says the thesis) is still
at a low level and may become worse, unless
corrective measures are taken All economic
organs, etc., must be held to the strictest ac-
countability on the question of quality of pro-
duction, not less than quantity. All the or
CARNATIONS of the working class, the press,
socialist competition and shock brigades must
be utilized to the full in the struggle for i'm
provement of the quality of products of in
dustry. Costs of production have also not
been lowered sufficiently IA per cent as
compared with 7 per cent required by the
plan). Lowering of the cost of production is
of the greatest Importance to the whole plan,
and for this reason, special attention must be
directed towards socialist rationalization-im
proving the organization of production, rails
ing the productivity of labor, more rational
use of raw materials, fuel and equipment, and
a decrease of waste and loss in production.
The theses enumerate the specific defects in
the field of plant construction, etc.
The theses center attention on the so-called
marrow places" of Soviet industry, that is,
those branches of production which have al