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

can it be regarded as a serious hindrance to
the mighty development of the collective farm
ing movement. A movement as sound as the
collective farming movement undoubtedly will
attain its goal in the end, in spite of the var-
Gus obstacles and difficulties.
1t is our task to prepare our forces and to
make everything ready for the further advance
ment of the collective farming movement.
8. The problem of the close rapprOchement
of the apparatus to the districts and villages
There can be no doubt that we should not have
mastered the stupendous task of recognizing
agriculture and in developing the collective
farming movement had we not adopted the
system of division into rayons. The enlarge
ment of the departments and their conversion
into districts, the abolition of the guberniaa
and their conversion into smaller units, and
finally the divisioning of districts as direct
bases of the Central Commttee-this is the
general picture of the rayon system. The aim
of the rayon system is to bring the Party,
Soviet and economic-co-operative apparatus
into closer touch with the district and the
village in order to create the possibility of
solving in good time the acute questions of
agriculture, it's improvement and reconstruc-
ton.
repeat that the rayon system has been able
to bring great benefit to our reconstruction
work
But has everything been done to ensure real
and actual contact between the apparatus and
the village? No, everything has not yet been
done. At the present moment the center of
gravity of the collective farming movement has
been transferred to the district organizations
Here all the threads of this movement and of
all other economic activities in the village,
whether from the co-operatives, the Soviets,
the credit and supplies services, run together.
Have the district organizations enough helpers
to enable them to carry out all this mutifari-
Gus work? What is to be done? What steps
can be taken to make good this lack and
to supply the district organization, in every
sphere of our activities, with the necessary
number of collaborators? For this purpose at
least two things are necessary: Firstly the
abolition of the subdivisions (applause), which
form a usless dividing barrier between depart
ment and district, enabling the workers thus
released at the cost of the sub divisions to re-
lnforce the collaborators in the district organ
lzatlons. Secondly the immediate contact of
district organization and the department (de-
partment committee, central committee of the
federal republic). This means the completion
of the rayon organization, the rapprochement
of the apparatus to the districts and villages
The suggestion of the abolition of the SUBJ
divisions has been met with applause here
Certainly the subdivisions must be liuuidated
But it would be mistake to assume that this
necessity justifies us in abusing the sub-divi-
sions, as some comrades have done in the col
umns of the Pravda. 1t must not be forgotten
that these divisions have performed much work
and played a great historical role in their
time. (Applause,) l of the opinion that it
would be an error to abolish them too hastily.
The Central Committee has adopted decision
upon the question. But this does not mean
that this decision is to be put into force at
once. This abolition will obviously have to be
preceded by the necessary preparatory work
(To Be Continued)