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

traders, to the bankruptcy OF big trading
firms, to a congestion of commodity Cir
cu1ation in trading and to a steady de-
cline OF the purchasing power of the
working masses.
AS a result of the carrying out of the
Fiye-Year Plan in industry, agriculture
and trading we have consolidated the
principle OF socialism in all economic
spheres by driving the capitalist elements
out everywhere.
The result was that the last remnants
of the dying classes were flung out of
their last resting places: the industriaIists
and their lackeys the traders and their
assistants, the former aristocratS, priests,
kulaks kulak elements, former white
guardiSt officers, former policemen and
gendarmes, the various chauviniSt shades
of bourgeois intellectuals and the other
anti-SoViet elements. Thrown out of their
element and scattered all over the Soviet
Union these former bourgeois crept into
our undertakings, our factories, our adj
ministrative institutions, our trading or
CARNATIONS our building undertakings.
our railway and water transport systems
and into our collective and Soviet farms.
They have concealed themselves in these
places and adopted the mask of workers"
and peasants" and some Of them have
even found their way into the Commu-
mist Party.
Why did they do this? Naturally, they
entered these various organizations, etc,
with feelings OF hatred towards the So
Wet power, with feelings Of bitter hos
tllity towards the new economic and cul-
tural forms. These gentry are no longer
powerful enough to undertake an open
attack against the Soviet power They
and their class have made many such
attacks, but they have been beaten off
and scattered. All that now remains open
TO them is the treacherous underground
weapon OF sabotage and they use this
weapon wherever they find an oppor-
tunity, whereby they proceed with great
cunning.
Robbery and theft in the factories, ETC.:
robbery and theft on the railways. ON
the lines and in the depots and in the
trading undertakings; robbery and theft
IN the collective farming undertakings is
their specially. These are the chief forms
of the activity of these elements from
the former ruling classes Their class in
stinct tells them that the basis OF the
Soviet economic system is socialized
property and that this basis must be
damaged if the Soviet power is to be
shaken.
In organizing robbery and theft they
exploit the remnants OF the private prop
erty feelings and customs of the collec-
tiVized peasants, the individual peasants
OF yesterday. The consciousness of the
individual lags behind the actual material
situation. The material situation of the
collective peasants is that they are men,
bers of a collective, but their conscious
ness is still that of the individual peas
ant. The elements from the ranks of the
former exploiting classes now utilize the
old private property feelings of the coll
lective peasants in order TO organize rob-
berry and theft against socialized property
and thus damage the basis of the Soviet
system, common property.
Many Of our comrades regard such
phenomena good naturedly In the belief
that the matter is mot so important
They are making big mistake. The basis
of our order of society is socialized prop
erty, just as private property is the basis
of capitalist society In the period of the
consolidation of the capitalist order of
society private property was declared sa-
cred and inviolate and we must now de-
clare socialized property to be equally
lnyiolate in order to consolidate our new
socialist economic forms on all fields Of
production and trading. To tolerate rob-
berry and theft against socialized property
means to permit the undermining Of the
Soviet system which Is based ON socialized
property. This was the standpoint of our
Soviet government when 1t issued the law
for the protection of socialized property
a little while ago
At the moment this law is the basis of
our revolutionary legal code.
The struggle for the protection of so-
cialized property is one of the chief tasks
of the Party.
WHAT we need at the moment is a