The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
SOVIET MASSES
HONOR vi.
Prepare for Second
Five-Year Plan
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The principal address was made by
Stetsky, director of the cultural and
division of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union. The speaker
dwelt at length on the results of the
Fiye-Year Plan, pointing out the
realization of feminist ideas in the
plan. The audience rose and burst
into stormy applause when the speak
er exclaimed: 1.-THE country is now
honoring the heroes of the Five Year
Plan. We should honor its foremost
hero-Comrade Stain"
A suitable musical program was
magnificently rendered on the con-
clusion of the formal session.
Yesterday the entire Soviet press
devoted editorials and articles com
memorating the ninth year of Lenins
death. Important documents of Lenin
we're published for the first time, in
GLIDING the draft thesis written in
1917, prior to the october ReYolu-
ton, in which Lenin sketChed the
arguments attacking the position of
the mensheviks who favored leaving
power in the hands of the bour-
geoisie.
Leninism-Sre Guide.
The editorial in "Pravda," central
organ of the Communist Party, ana
lyzes the events in the Soviet Union
since Lenin's death, demonstrating
by quotations from Lenin that the
Party has been conducting policy
strictly in accordance with the prin-
ciples of Leninism and that in
Lenin's writings and utterances, the
Party found sure guide to every
phase of its policy of characterization
and reconstruction of agriculture
along socialist lines.
"Izvestia," organ of the Soviet gov
eminent, likewise reviews the past
nine years, dwelling at length on the
international situation. "Izvestia"
then proceeds to point out the fail
ure of the capitalist hopes of sta
bilization, the presence of ever
sharper contradictions in the CAPT.
talist countries and the rise of the
revolutionary tide as a result of the
sharpening class contradictions.
Discussing the international posi-
ton of the Soviet Union, "Izvestia"
writes:
with respect to the US.S.R. cap
italism extends now hand in vel
vet glove, now a mailed fist. While
the statesmen of some of the neigh
boring countries show an inclination
toward peaceful relations, the states
men of other countries declare pub
licly they are ready to live in peace
only with bourgeois Russia and are
obliged to consider the U.S.S.R. as
an enemy"
Comparing the position of the So
Wet Union with that of other coun-
tries, the editorial continues:
Calmly Face Future
I'm the light of the general chaos,
in the light of the whirl Of contradic-
lions, the Soviet Union, despite the
great difficulties it is encountering,
is the only indestructible force calmly
and with certainty facing the future.
On the basis of the fulfilment of the
i've CdI lcll Vic " kO.kC.I6. llpO III
creased it's defensive capacity and is
now certain no one will catch it I'M
awares. The Soviet Union will never
misuse its power, for this power is
guided by the disciples of Lenin who
have grown up in the struggle for
peace.
"Under the leadership of Stain,
our Party and the Soviet government
not only took care of the defensive
capacity of the Soviet Union, but also
did everything possible to prove to
all countries our readiness to support
peace and has done everything to
propose to all our neighbors and the
countries connected with them mu-
tual guarantees of peace.
1.-THE war danger comes not from
the side of the Soviet Union, though
we have no doubt that if the enemy
forces war upon us, it will end in the
defeat Of the enemy"
New Grain Decree
Regarding the new grain tax de-
cree, which supplantS the present
contract system in grain collections,
"Prayda" today writes editorially:
From now on the collective farms
will know beforehand, prior to SOW
ing, how much grain they are to de-
liver lie, selD to the state. The levies
will be computed for the collective
and individual farms on the basis of
the actual winter sowing and the es-
tablished plan for the spring SOW
ing. Every collective farm, member Of
a collective and individual peasant
will be interested in fully carrying out
the established plan for the spring
sowing, because If less is Sown, it will
result in a smaller surplus after full
filling state obligations, while sowing
more grain will increase the income
of the collective and individual
farms"
Protects ColIectiyes
The editorial further emphasizes
the important provision of the de-
cree "categorically forbidding local
authorities to allow any kind of
counter-plans lie, any increase in
the levies fixed by the government
Edit. This provision protects the
collective farms in faithfully carrying
out their obligations to the state from
the errors of local organizations.
:. :. The decree therefore emphasizes
that "all surplus grain, after the full
filment of the state obligations, re-
main at the complete disposal of the
collective farms, their members and
the individual peasants.
Executive of U.S.S.R. Meets
The editorial points out the neces-
sity for Energetic work on the part
of the Party organizations to explain
and DODulariZp the ADVANTAGES Of the