The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13


set up in the plans. The control
tasks flowing out Of our plans will
serve as the systematic check-up on
results and will control every step in
the direction Of the concentration Of
the plan.
Here again we can take an il
lustration given us by the Bolsheyik
Party: the tremendous development
of the socialist industrialization Of
the Soviet Union (Which does not
find comparison in any country in
the history of the world Is the re-
suit of planned work. A plan Of
work, Bolsheyik determination and
continuous check-up brought the ac-
complishment of the Five-Year Plan
in four years. Was the method Of
planning new to the Bolsheviks in
1928, when the foundation of the
Plan was laid? 1t was not. 1t was
through. planned work that the Boil
shevik Party throughout all its his
tory went from victory to victory, was
able in certain periods to retreat with
small losses and coordinate its forces
for new advances, was able to smash
its enemies, consolidating the revo-
luton.
The Bolshevik Party, under the
leadership Of Lenin and later under
the leadership Of his best disciple,
Stain, at its conventions and plen-
ums reviewed the results OF past
work and laid new plans and the
control tasks for the future activities.
A Definite Goal
While deciding upon the new plans
ard tasks. the Party was at the same
time ORIGINATING the masses of tie
Soviet Union toward the same goal,
toward their specific tasks. Holding
the steering wheel firmly in its hands
in the direction Of the goal, all the
transmission belts were PUT into mo-
tion-Psrty apparatus, government
apparatus, Soviets. trade unions, CO.
operatives and other mass organiza-
tons. tire press and literature as
formidable sgitational instruments TO
move strongly forward on the road
Of tue plan, to carry it into practice
Ones on the va. the control tasks
serve to CHECK up the results step
By step. TO discover the weaknesses,
to get the necessary readjustmentr
TO take measures for overcoming ne
obstacle.
AL energies are concentrated III
the common effort. The carry ing out
Of the plan with its multiple phases
is collective undertaking. BolsheviE
Sef-crGicism is not simple critique
CT weakness. hdJ the Bolshevik analy-
tic method OF discovering weaknesses
and pointing out simultaneously the
measures for overcoming them, the
determination, the will to do it, the
method Of self correction with the
aim Of strengthening tneir conscious
ness OF the tasks to be performed.
DID We follow the Bolshevik ex-
ample OF planning, OF concentrating
our energies on the tasks flowing out
OF the plans? Are We taking the
steps necessary to raise the under
standing Of the whole Party to the
significance of the plan, to the tasks
elaborated at our conventions and
plsnums?
No Check Up
1t was not because the plans were
wrong, the objectives impossible TO
be reached. Our lnajor weakness Of
the past lay in the fact that oUr con-
ventions and pienums we're not fol-
lowed up, that the Party was not
mobilized and made conscious of the
plans, of the next tasks, that no
check-up was made, no control ex-
ercised. 1t amounted to planning for
planning's sake, not for fulfillment.
1t is enough to go over the Party