The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28


ing Of the new undertakings, Of the new
technique represents much greater diff
culties than the utilization OF the old or
renovated factories and works, whose
technique we already master 1t demands
more time in order to increase the quail
fication of the workers, engineers and
technicians, in order that they shall ac-
quire the new skill and deXterity for the
complete utilization Of modern technique.
After all this is it not clear that even
if we wished, we could not realize the
policy Of accelerated tempo in the period
Of the second Five-Year Plan, especially
in the first, second and third year of the
second Five-Year. Plan? I believe, there
fore that we shall have to fix less rapid
increase of tempo of industrial production
for the second Five-Year Plan. In the
period Of the first Five-Year Plan the an
nual inc ease Of industrial production
amounted on an average to % per cent,
I believe that for the second Five-Year
Plan an average annual increase of 1914
per cent will have to be fixed For the
capitalist countries such an increase in
the rate Of growth of industrial produe-
ton constitutes an unattainable ideal.
And not only such a rate of growth Of
industrial production, but an annual
dNCIdSC VI y pCI NC11O Is OH tu1dObol1tlelO1C
ideal for them at present. But after all
they are capitalist countries. The case is
different with the Soviet Union, with the
Soviet economic system. With our eco
nomic system we have every possibility
of attaining such tempo, and we must
realize an annual increase of 1914 per
cent as minimum
In the period of the first Five-Year
Plan we succeeded in organizing the
enthusiasm, and we achieved decisive sue
cesses. That is very good But now this
does not suffice. We must now complete
this work and fight with enthusiasm for
the mastery of the new enterprises, of
modern technique, to increase the produe-
tiyity of labor and to achieve consider
able reduction of prime costs. That is
now the chief matter, the chief thing for
only upon this basis can we achieve let
us say, In the second half of the Five
Year Plan a new fresh impetus both in
regard to construction and the growth Of
industrial production.
Finally, few words on the tempo it.
self and on the annual percentage in
crease of production. What is one per
cent increase of production and what is
actually behind every per cent increase?
Let us take, for example, the year 1925,
the reconstruction period. The annual
increase Of production amounted at that
time to 66 per cent. The gross produc-
ton of industry amounted in value to
7700 million rubles. 66 per cent increase
at that time represented in absolute fig
ures over 5000 million Thus every per
cent increase at that time was equal to
43 million rubles. Let us now take the
year 1923. In this year the increase
amounted to 20 per cent, j. e. it was
scarcely more than a third of the per-
centage increase of 1925. The gross out
put of industry amounted at that time
to $500 million rubles The total in
crease for the year amounted in absolute
figures TO 1880 million That means,
therefore, that every per cent increase at
that time represented 100 million rllbles-
nearly three times the amount in the
year 1926 when we had an increase of
Sc per cent. Finally in the year 1881.
We had an increase of % per cent j. e.,
a third of the increase of 1925. The total
production of industry amounted to 30
500 million rubleS The total increase in
absolute figures amounted to 5000 mil
lion. This means that every per cent
increase figured at more than $50 million
rubles, l. E., six times as much as with
the 66 per cent increase in the year 1925.
and twice as much as with the 26 per
cent increase in the year 1923
WHAT does all this mean2 1t, means
W that in examining the pace of growth
Of production one must not tonfine one
self to a general survey of percentages of
growth. One must also know what is
behind every per cent increase and what
is the total sum Of the annual increase
OF production. Let us take, for example,
16 per cent increase for the year 1893,
j. e., a fourth of the increase of the year
1926 That does not mean however that
the increase of production this year will
likewise be four times smaller. In alb
solute figures, the increase of production
in 1925 amounted to more than 5000 mil
lion, and every per cent increase repre-
sented 43 million rubles There is no
reason to doubt that the increase Of pro-
duction in 1888, with norm of Is per
cent will amount to not less than 5000