The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13

ranks of the technical intelligenzia, but the
supply is still not in accordance with the gigan-
tic growth Of Soviet industry and Of industrial
ICED agriculture during the course Of the first
two and half years Of the Five Year Plan
Conrads Stain pointed out that there could
be no technical inteligenza of the working class
purely from the technical high schools but that
intensified efforts must be made in the fac
tories themselves to train and qualify new
cadres of practical technicians engineers, fore
men, ETC., whereby he stressed the fact that the
working class like all other ruling classes could
not get along without its own technical intelli-
genzia. Particular attention he declared, must
be paid to taking the best and most capable ele-
ments from amongst the ranks OF the non-Party
workers. Comrade Stain declared: ION the
contrary such workers Caon-Party workers.
must receive special attention; they must be
placed in leading positions and be convinced
thereby that our Party is well able to appreciate
talented workers Some comrades think that
we should appoint only Party members to re-
SponSible positions. AS a result of this belief
they place hindrances in the way Of talented
and capable non-Party workers. and very often
appoint Party members to leading positions who
are less capable and have less initiative There
is no doubt that such a policy, if it may be
termed policy at ALL is stupid and reac-
tionary"
1t is characteristic that the capitalist and So
cial democratic press makes no mention at all
OF this very important part OF Comrade Stains
speech.
In this connection Conrade Stain then dealt
with the relations of the working class to the
old bourgeois technical intelligence, and pointed
est that since tile great sabotage trials and
since the collapse Of the hopes Of this section
for the overthrow of the Soviet power or for q
speedy intervention, a very noticeable change
had taken place in its ranks in favor Of the
Soviet power This new situation demanded
changed policy towards the old bourgeois tech
meal intelligenzia, whereby 1t should not be for
gotten that the Soviet power had always pur-
sued a policy Of cooperation with this section
despite the open sabotage OF certain of its most
prominent representatives. The fact that Com
rade Stain declares that this latter policy must
now be carried out still more decidedly in view
Of the change in the ranks Of the old bour-
geois technical intelligenzia, has absolutely
nothing to do with the demagogic contentious of
the bourgeois and social democratic press TO
the effect that Stain now admits that there
never was any sabotage in the Soviet Union"
etc. What did Conrade Stain actually say on
the subject Of sabotage?
He declared: "Of course, this does not mean
that there are no longer any sabotagers in the
Soviet Union. There are still sabotagers at
work, and there will be sabotagers so long as
the classes continue to exist, so long as the So
Wet Union exists In capitalist environment
However, it does mean that an important Sec
ton OF the old technical intelligenzia which
formerly sympathized with the sabotagers now
no longer does So but is making wheel to-
wards the Soviet power"
1t is clear that increased cooperation be-
tween the working class and the old technical
intellgenza on the basis of the theological
change in the ranks of this intelligenzia, is abb
soutey in accordance with the interests Of the
socialist constructive work.
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