The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
SOVIET INVENTORS ARE
FREEING THE U.S.SR. FROM
FOREIGN IMPORTS

competition, but on the o. v,
gives above all an opportunity 10
apply it on a real broad scale, in
a genuine mass movement and TO
include the real ma jority Of tOilers
in such work, where they can de-
veIOp their abilities and discover
the talents which are an untouched
serevOir of strength in the people,
and which were crushed and OPP
pressed and suppressed in thou
sands and millions of cases under
capitalism"
And we might as well let Karl
Marx state the reason why in the
capitalist countries the application of
science and invention is being sup
pressed. Answering a statement Of
John Stuart Mill, to the effect that
lit is roubtful whether the mechan-
ical inventions so far made have rem
dered labor easier even for a single
human being, Marx answers this in
the following manner:
Neither is this the purpose of
machinery used in a capitalist
manner. In common with all other
methods of development in produc-
tivity of labor, their purpose is to
cheaper the price of commodities,
to shorten that part of the work.
ing day which the worker uses for
himself, and thus to lengthen the
other part of the day which he
gives gratuitously to the capitalist.
Machines are means for the pro-
duction of surplus value"
Under capitalism science and in~
vention is promoted only if the ap-
plication of its increases the profits
of the capitalists. When the capi-
talists can get labor power cheaper
than machinery they suppress IN
ventions and science. In the Soviet
Union the workers themselves sug~
geSt improvements and invent new
machines because through new and
more efficient machinery they light
en- their own burden and get more
Of the necessities Of life.
In the factory above mentioned
Tarmosnoy zavoda-another impor-
tant invention has been produced
which frees the Soviet Union from
the importation of tin for the pro-
duction of alloy. An engineer of this
factory has discovered ingredients
which are plentiful in the Soviet
Union, less costly than tin and at the
same time they improve the quality
of the alloy produced.
This is only one factory, and we
have spoken only of the two main
inventions. 1t is also interesting to
know that there has been hundreds
of suggestions for naturalization of
production made by the workers at
the machines and at the benches.
Outside of this factory in all other
industries we find new and in1por-
tan inventions produced every day.
For example, at the recent All-
Union Inventors Congress the repre-
sentatives of the Leningrad Institute
of Inventors reported that in that
city in 1929-30 inventors saved the
country 102 millions Of rubles, as
compared with 100 millions which
they had undertaken to save. One
hundred and fifty thousand sugges-
lions were received by the institute
coming from workers in the shops.
Representatives from other centers
reported similar achievements differ
ing only in quantity. The chief sle-
gan of the Congress was to "free the
Soviet Union from foreign import
entirely"
At the sixteenth Communist Party
Conference Comrade Stain stated
that the U.S.SR. possesses every
thing but rubber So now the workers
of the Kauchuk factory in Moscow
are presenting to the Frunze Party
Conference banner made out Of
Soviet synthetic rubber. 81
Socialism is not killing the incen-
tive of learning and inventing but it
is a stimulus to that incentive, and
the Soviet inventors are freeing the
Soviet Union from technical depend
ence on the capitalist world and fog
eign import. .,,s