The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-27
On the Second 5-Year Plan

hoped that such an alteration, or better said
such an improvement Of the Plan lies entirely in
the interests Of the working class and will be
adopted with full approval by it.
In regard to the economic tasks of the first
Five-Year Plan, the Party introduced such re-
visions as the creation of new metallurgical
base in the East, in the Urals and In the Kus-
netzk district. In none of the four volumes Of
the Five-Year Plan Is there any mention made
of this second metallurgical base. Can one, how
ever, now discuss the first Five-Year Plan with
out speaking of the new metallurgical base
created by us in the Ural-Kusnetzk district OF
course not The less SO the first furnace in
Magnitorsk has commenced working and new
furnaces will soon be set going IN Magnitogorsk
and in Kusnetzk. Thus here, too, we have made
an alteration in the Five-Year Plan which Is
not a bad but good alteration, to which not a
single worker in the Soviet Union will raise any
objection, but will rather be fully prepared to
support it.
The Five-Year Plan called for a certain tempo
in the cofectiWZation, but the actual result was
different. We have already long surpassed the
tempo Of collectivization and OF the development
Of the Soviet farms as envsaged in the Five
Year Plan. This too Is very substantial alter
alton Of the Five-Year Plan but not a bad but
a good alteration which considerably improved
matters The masses of the peasants, number
ing millions, not to speak of the working class,
will not raise any objection to this alteration,
which is in fact fully and entirely in accordance
with the policy Of the Party and In accordance
with Leninism
Unfortunately it cannot be said that all our
amendments to the Five-Year Plan have been
good. Here and there the contrary was the
case
We must not, for example, forget the follow
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mate for the raising of the productivity Of labor
in industry. This is very big item on the
debit side 1t is clear that we must do every
thing in order to make this good, supported by
the consolidation OF proetarian discipline the
growth OF technique and its mastery by our
cadres.
We have also not carried out the proposals
Of the Five-Year Plan in regard TO increasing
the harvest yields. Here we are still on a very
low level, considerably lower than the proposals
Of the FiveYear Plan. It Is clear that in this
sphere also we must straighten out the front, put
matters right.
We have not fulfilled the tasks in regard to
the reconstruction Of transport in particular
OF railway transport, and we feel the effects Of
this every day. 10 is obvious that also in this
sphere we must work hard and persstently in
order to improve matters more quickly and to
raise our transport to its proper level.
Our survey q the results OF the first Five-Year
Plan from the political standpoint would be In
adequate we failed to deal with the question,
under what conditions the struggle of the Party
for the carrying out OF the Five-Year Plan de-
veoped, with what criticism and with what
counter proposals the opposition groups. the
Trotzkyists and also the Right deNators, came
forward.
The lessons Of the past are of first class I'M
portance for the Party and the whole of the
working class. 1t is therefore necessary to re-
mind you of the most important stages in the