The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
The SoViets on the 18th
Anniversary


cent of the peasants heIon1 -
collective farms. Socialist farm
lng has definitely taken the nnne,
hand over individual farming.
In the towns, the Soviets are
ardently combating the remains Of
capitalism and crowding out the
last bourgeois elements from their
positions.
The relative strength of the So
clallst economic section in the
revenue of the USSR in 1891 Is
0l.0 per cent while in 1928 it was
only 40 per cent. The gross ont
put of Socialist industry in 1881 is
9I.5 per cent of the total. leaving
only 20 per cent for private pro-
ducers.
The gross output of industry in
creases on the basis of the recon
st1uctlOn of industry and the stu
pendCus investments in new CON
structiOn (the total investments in
1881 amount to II billion rubles)
Whereas in 1921 the, gross indus
trial output amounted to 1925
million rubles, its output in 1927
was 12,051 million rubles, and in
1881 25,200 million rubles.
There has also been extensive
growth in the social and cultural
development in the Union, bring
ing about colossal changes in the
living conditions of the workers.
Before the war only 20 per cent of
the population of Russia was liter
ate. At present there is practical
ly no illiteracy in the country.
Compulsory universal education
has been introduced and now the
schools are being turned into poll
technicums.
Enormous changes are taking
place in the sphere of urban life
There is extensive development OF
restaurants, kitchen factories
modern bakeries, mechanical laun-
dries, club, Soviet palaces, etc.
The successful reconstruction OF
| industry and agriculture, the sue
cessful carrying out of the Five,
Year Plan in four, are the result
of the great activity and construc-
tive endeavour of the workers
collective farmers and other work
ing elements of the USSR.
One of the outstanding features
of socialist construction at the
present time is the movement Of
socialist competition and shock
brigades which organize new so-
cialist forms of labor. We have
industry and transport at the
present time 20O,OO shock bri.
gades embracing 100000 work
ers.
The strongest gravitation of ad-
vanced workers, shock brigaderS
towards the Party, is the best evi.
dence of the correctness of the
general line of the Party. In 1925
the Party had 1,220,836 members
in 1929, 493,032, in 1890 l.,
731, 588, and on July 1, 1881, the
membership was about 100000.
| We also witness a steady rise IL
the trade union membership. II
1929 the membership of the unions
was 100000. And in 1881 the
number rose to approximately Il
million.
The growing activity of the
working masses is illustrated alst
by the participation in Sovie+
elections. In 1927 only 48.4 pc
cent of the rural electorate tool
part in the elections, in 1880 tht
figure rose to 70.2 per cent; il
| the cities 58.5 per cent participat
ed in the elections in 1927 and il
1880, 80.1 per cent.
Among those elected to the So
viets, both urban and rural, at thu
present time, the majority ar,
shock brigaders.
In this summary of socialis
construction in the Soviet Uniol
fourteen years after the revolu
ton, we see the best proof of thu
correctness of the general line O.
the Party and the Soviet govern
ment and the confidence and sup
port they enjoy from the millions
of workers.
The results are particularly stu
pendous when compared with wha
is taking place in the capitals
countries. While capitalism is un
dergoing the most acute world &c
onomic crisis, with all that accom-
panies it, (the closing down o
mills and factories. bank crashes
etc. the Soviet Union is con
structing at an unprecedente'
speed, giant mills and factories.
Whereas in the capitalist coun
tries there are over 40 million un
employed, unemployment has to
tally disappeared in the USSR.
Whereas the capitalist countries
under the pressure of the sharI
crisis, are drastically curtailini
the production of farm products
? in the Soviet Union the cultivate
area is being widely extended, tn
land is becoming more fertile, an
vast grain and live stock farm
are developing.
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