The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-19

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION!
AND FOOD SUPPLY IN The
SOVIET UNION REGISTERS new GAINS
of Central Party Point Out
Gains Are insufficient; for Impro we'd Distribution
NO ONE HUNGRY
in SOVIET UNION
While Millions Starve
In Capitalist U. S.

At the plenary session of the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, which took
place in Moscow from the 18th Of
September to the End of october in
elusive. three important resolutions
were adopted on Soviet trading &C
tivity, food supply and heavy indus
try.
These resolutions are constructively
self critical and lay bare the weak
nesses as we'll as register the victories
of the workers and peasants in the
Soviet Union in developing trading
activity, increasing the food supply
and extending heavy industry.
A necessarily brief outline of these
resolutions will enable the workers Of
this country to form cellar and real
istic picture of the situation exist
ing today in the Soviet Union, at a
time when the capitalist press, whist
ling in the darkness" of the deepest
economic crisis, reports that food
riots" and other similar disturb
ances" are taking place in the social
list fatherland.
Retail Trading Shop Increase
The resolution of Soviet trading
activity first of all places on record
that the Peoples Commissariat for
supplies, acting on the decisions of
the Central Committee, opened TOO
State shops in 1882, 1900 of which are
in towns and the others in the rural
districts.
At the same time 5000 retail stands
were opehed, increasing the total Of
retail undertakings by 81 per cent
in the first seven months of 1882.
At the end Of July, 1882, 26,300 shops
and 5000 retail stands were thus in
operation from one corner of the So
Wet Union to the other.
The "Centrosoyus" cooperative
centraD opened 1900 stores in 1882
and 22,500 retail stands. This means
that the retail enterprises of the Co
operative Central increased in the
current year by 20 per cent to a
total of 167,7oO stores and 49,700
stands.
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The wholesale understandings also
increased. Between the first of May
and the first of September for in
standce there were 635 wholesale
trading enterprises opened in several
points of the remoter regions of the
Soviet Union-East and West Siberia
Central Asia and Kasakastan.
The resolution however, goes on to
criticize the system of distribution of
the wholesale enterprises, the con-
sumers' cooperative societies and the
trading companies and points out
that these are still working too me-
chanically, although on the other
hand measures have been successful
ly adopted enabling the retailers of
Moscow, Leningrad and other towns
to be supplied directly from factories
with articles Of daily consumption.
The purely mechanical system of
distribution, the resolution states,
leads to Accommodations of necessary
articles in one place and lack Of them
in another. The resolution contains
therefore measures for the overcom-
ing of these disproportions and for
further developing the Soviet trad
ing enterprises.
Soviet trading activity, the resolu-
ton Of the Central Committee de-
clares, with the collective and indi-
vidual peasant farms, does not mean,
as the right opportunists and kulaks
would like to interpret it, that the
nep-men (tradesmen under the New
Economic Policy-Nep) and the spec
uNGprs are permitted to resume their
activities. On the contrary, it sig
nifies "the elimination of the private
trader, of the middleman and spec
ulator who seek to enrich themselves
at the expense Of collective trading"
Production of Articles of Daily
Consumption Gains
The resolution of the production Of
articles of daily consumption begins
by enumerating the measures taken
by the Central Committee for the
extention of this production.
Although these measures were IN
carried out, the produc-
ton of articles Of daily consumption
the resolution points out-increased
in the first six months of 1882 by
26.5 per cent as compared with the
same period last year.
The resolution then enumerates the
various faults and in order to remove
them 1t commissions the Peoples
Commissariat for Labor and Defense
to lay special emphasis in these ar
ticlss when drawing the economic
plans OF production. II also estab-
fishes that the attention of the whole
Party today is turned to the produc-
ton of articles Of daily consumption
and proposes that the Party should |
continue to support with increased
energy the economic organizations in
further developing this production.
Smelling Industry Goes Ahead
The resolution of the Plenum of |
the Central Committee on the smelt-
ing industry records that while the |
10Th Party Congress was obliged to |
admit that the smelling industry was
tagging behind, since then this in
dustry accomplished a great forward |
stride.
A new coke industry has been es-
tablished on the basis Of up to date
technique. Seventeen new coke plants
nave been set working, with an out
put Of seven million tons. Six other
,oke plans with capacity of IL mil
ion tons are about to be opened. In
he undertakings in the Southern
part of the country the blast furnaces
1ave been renewed and the capacity
If many Of them has been increased.
In summarizing since the 10th Par
y Congress eight blast furnaces have