The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-29

of the Russian Revolution, Soviet int
gigantic victories won.
During the short period elapsed
in the Soviet Union and the starting
industry, the latter has made unusual
tremendous forward strides.
While in Capitalist World PRODUCE
tion Sinks.
While in the capitalist world pro-
duction figures are continually falling
in consequence of the depressing and
Sitting crisis which is often leading
to an almost complete stoppage of
production in various branches and
is breaking the very foundations of
capitalist economy and throwing
crowds of workers out into the
streets; in the Soviet Union indus
try is steadily worsening.
Not only have branches of industry
grown which existed before the Rev.
olution but entirely new ones, I'M
known in pre-reVolutionary times,
have arisen. No tractors were made
in Czarist Russia. In his time Lenin
spoke of 100000 tractors which would
alter the aspect of the Soviet land
The Leningrad "Krasny Putilovetz"
plant and the Kharkof Steam En-
CINE Plant made the first lot of So
Wet tractols, 538 in 1925.
Production of Tractors in USSR and
Other Countries.
These plants gradually raised their
yield to 1859 tractors in 1929. The
Stalingrad plant started to work in
1880 and the Kharkoh tractor plant
in 1881. In 1881 they yielded 29,879
tractors and in the first nine months
OF 1882 the Soviet plant produced
40,163 tractors. One hundred and fifty
thousand tractors are now working
on socialist farms of the Soviet I'm
ion and over 100000 of them are So
Wet made.
During that time a tremendous fall
in the production of tractors has been
noticeable in the capitalist world.
United States tractors production
has fallen in 1881 to 1886 as against
229,976 in 1929. German production
of tractors has fallen in 1880 to 2,9l9
as against 7,522,in 1928. In 1892, at
a time when capitalist economy is
shaken by the crisis, production of,
tractors in capitalist countries being
still lmore reduced.
Meanwhile the powerful socialist
construction continues in the Soviet
Union. A new tractor plant at Chel-
iabinsk is soon to start with a yearly
capacity of 10000 tractors of 60-horse
power each.
Socialist Soviet industry has
achieved a no less tremendous VIC
tory in the field of non-ferrous met
allurgy.
Advance of Soviet Agriculture.
In 1927 the Soviet Union had al
ready 1900 collective farms. But
the rapid raise of collective farm
construction in the Soviet Union be-
gan only in 1929, on the basis of the
tremendous advance of socialist Sow
let industry, when the necessary
technical basis could be secured in
connection with collectiyization.
In 1880 the Soviet Union had $4,000
collectives and in 1882 it had 211, 900
with 1892 farms.
BY the 18th anniversary Of the
November Revolution 211,00O coli
leetive farms will unite 15,G0O,000
former private peasant farms and
include S1,600,000 hectares of winter
and spring crops, or 68 per cent of
all planted area in the Soviet I'm
ion.
The collectivization of small and
scattered peasant farls5 in the USSR
was possible only on the basis of the
introduction of modern technology in
farming. The Soc.ili list industry of
the Soviet Union succeeded success
fully in applying the collective and
state farms wit htractors and agri-
cultural machinery.
Tractors Stations.
The Soviet machinery and tractor
stations play a tremendous part in
the development of socialist farming.
Their yearly raise shows best of all
the manner in which the Soviet rural
regions are being reconstructed along
socialist lines.
On July lst Of 1929 only one ma
ctinery and tractor station existed in
tilc MiAo4C AoOhlSb OlllOll. III IooU
they were already 159, in 1881 there
were 400; by the beginning Of 1882,
the number was 2,143. on October
first of this year it was 2,245. The
number of tractors and their power
rose yearly. In 1880, machinery and
tractors stations in the Soviet Union
had TIA tractors with $500 horse
power; in 1881 it had 59,l94 tractors
with $4,000 horsepower.
At present Soviet machinery and
tractor stations have 81,8l3 tractors
with 100000 horse power. They
we're all made in the Soviet Union.
In 1880 tractor stations cultivated
100000 hectares of peasants land.
In 1882 they cultivated 48,500,000
hectares. The tractor stations supply
SO per cent of all collective farms in
the U. S. S. r.
The raise in the tractor industry
of the Soviet Union and the develop
ment of the chemical fertilizers in
dustry offer the guarantee of further
achievements by the Party and the
Soviet government in the Socialist
reconstruction of farming in the So
Wet Union.