The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

trio power generation during the five years.
This will bring the production of electric power
in the Soviet Union to not less than 25 billion
kiowatt hours in 1888. The Soviet Union will
then be third in line of electric power pro-
ducing countries, the United States being first
and Germany second.
The Five-Year Plan provides for the doubl-
ing of the oil production. But this goal was
reached within two and one-haf years.
In the tractor production the Five-Year Plan
provided for $500 Soviet-made tractors in
1880. The total amount of tractors in use in
the U.S.S.R. was to be increased to 10000
tractors in 1888 In fact, however, the Soviet
tractor production amounted to 13,4O0 in 1880
and the total number in use in 1888 will reach
100000. At this moment the Soviet Union
has already 100000 tractors. operating. Can
ada has only $4,000 operating, Germany only
10000.
Similar aims were set by the Five-Year Plan
for all industries and in all branches of pro-
duction. Similarly, too, the real achievements
IN all industries and in all branches of produc-
ton outstripped the quotas of the Five Year
Plan. The accomplishment of the Five-Year
Plan in four years will therefore be reality.
The most important achievements of the
F1Ve-4ear Plan however, are not these in
creases in industrial output and erection of
new industries. Capitalism too developed in
dustry although never with such rapidity. But
capitalism always paid for its achievements
with the sweat and the blood and the lives of
the workers. It's intensified exploitation drives
the workers to premature old age It's indus
trial development worsens absolutely, but in
every case relatively, the standard of living of
the workers. 1t increases and multiples the
wealth and riches of the few capitalists, while
it pushes down into the class of propertyless
proletarians ever larger masses.
On the other hand the immediate and plan
ned result of industrial construction of the So
Wet Union is the rapid and systematic i'm
provement of the living standards of the Rus
sian masses. The standards inherited by the
Revolution from czarism were at an unbeIiev-
ably low level. During 1881 over one billion
dollars are being spent by the Soviets for So
cial insurance. Capitalist America does not
spend one cent. For the erection of workers
dwellings, almost billion and half dollars
have been appropriated by the Soviets for the
Five-Year Plan. The Five-Year Plan provides
for a so per cent increase of the income of
the workers. This increase is exemplified in
the constantly climbing wages and reflects it.
self also in the fact of meat consumption per
head of the population which is constantly on
the increase in the Soviet Union. In the United
States it is on the decrease. The Hoover re-
port on Recent Economic Changes" claims
that this decrease comes from the adoption of
a more scientific diet on the part of the work.
ers. Any miner or steel worker could have told
the eminent engineer Hoover that if the work
er ate less meat now than he did some years
ago, it is not because of a more scientific diet,
but because he cannot buy as much meat any
more as he used to.
Egg consumption in the Soviet Union has
almost doubled since the Inauguration of the
Five-Year Plan, all the reports of starvation
in Russia by the inventive capitalist news liars
Notwithstanding. The much advertised short
age of necessities in the Soviet Union is re-
Election of the rapid growth of the standards
of living. Industrial development cannot keep
pace with this growth. Therefore it cannot
satisfy completely the growing needs of the
market. In this respect the Soviet Union econ
omy again distinguishes itself from capitalist
economy. The productive capacity of capital
ism grows faster than its markets. The in
ternal market OF the Soviet Union grows faster
than it's productive capacity. This phenomena
is fact Of socialist development. Profit was
the incentive of rapid capitalist development
in America. The needs and the well-being of
the masses is the basis Of the Five-Year Plan
development of the productive forces in the
Soviet Union. Every new factory opened un-
der the Five-Year Plan increases the produc-
tive capacity of the Soviet Union and conse-
quently increase the share of the Soviet work
er. The increase of the share of the Soviet
worker in turn increases his capacity to con-
sumo and consequently creates additional de-
mands upon production.
Every step forward in the Five-Year Plan
liquidates remnants Of capitalism and insures
the Soviet worker against the recurrence Of
unemployment and against the possible down
ward revision of it's constantly improving liv-
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