The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-11
The Soviet Union Relates It's
Own Progress

that of the projected graph, but climbed more
steeply, almost at right angies-the Pyatiletka
In four years, the Pyatiletka In three years,
in some branches of industry 1t was the
Pyatietka in two and half years. This is
not an ascent, but winged flight, the curve
of banner raised aloft, the curve Of youth
and prosperity, the curve OF hardy manhood,
line of strength and growth"
The chapter headings tell their own story:
l.. Two Curves, Two Classes, Two Worlds.
q From the Old Russia Of Thatched Hovels
to the Iron and Steel Of the Soviet Union.
3. Socialism in the Fields
4 The Rulers
s. Work for AL
s. Socialism and the White Collar.
7. Equal Wages Equal Status for Women.
8. The Production of the New Man,
THE Basis Of the Psychological Economic Plan
OF Reconstruction Of the U.S.S.R."
Lenn said: Communism is Soviet Govern
ment plus Electrification for the whole coun-
try" This Is the basis for this 32-page PAM
phlet by G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, in which he
analyses the three elements that go to make up
this formula. 1t Is theoretical analysis Of the
forces making for the realization Of this for
mula The worker who buys this pamphlet
must be prepared to do some careful thinking
in order to master what the author wishes to
convey, but, when he is through with 1t, he will
have theoretical understanding Of applied phil
osophy; that is, MARKHAM philosophy applied in
practice in the development of socialist con-
struction in the Soviet Union.
''The Fight for Steel"
N. Nnkhailov, q, worker in the Hammer and
Sickle" metal works in Moscow, writes this
4O-page pamphlet on how lack Of discipline,
laziness and sabotage were overcome in his plant.
He writes in the conversational style of worker
telling the simple story Of the struggle to over
come these weaknesses in production true
flight for steel" How the workers themselves
planned to harness their own plant into the
swift moving chariot Of increasing production
demanded by the Ffve-Year Plan is the story.
THE country needs metal. It's quite clear we
can't just work any old way. Let's improve the
work in the shop by methods Of competition"
This was the strain Of the brief speeches made
in the five meetings held to discuss the ques-
ton Of socialist competition.
The rest Of the pamphlet, in fascinating nara
tive, relates how Socialist competition did finally
bring about the necessary efficiency. 1t is the
story OF a. shock brigade in the Soviet Union of
workers consciously competing with each other
TO bring production up to the level required for
the security Of their country, their workers
fatherland. 1t is not story Of monotonous
successes-it Is story Of struggle against diff
culties, the sabctagers we're at work the inertia
OF pre-revolutionary Russia was a terrible drag.
But 1t was also a story sprinkled with lively
accounts of holidays Of dancing and singing, Of
records reached and records surpassed. They
have more than completed their quota Of the
second year of the Five-Year Plan. And the
pamphlet ends with this sentence: 1.-THE third
year begins tomorrow! Forward"
All three of these pamphlets, imported from
the Soviet Union sell for ten cents
The next pamphlets to be described will be:
HOW WORKERS BECOME ENGINEERS IN
THE U.S.S.R, BY v. Druzhinin, 10 cents.
THE SOVIET PATENT Law, 10 cents.
THE NATURAL WEALTH OF THE SOVIET
UNION AND IT'S EXPLOITATION, by l. M.
Gubkin, 20 cents.
SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION AND THE
STRUGGLE FOR TECHNIQUE, by N. Bukharin,
10 cents. e..