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

this work would demand serious saexi-
fees and that We, must plainly and openly
take these sacrifices into account IL we
wish to achieve our aim. The Party reck-
oned on performing this work with the
inner forces Of our country, without en-
shaving credits and foreign loans.
A bold task? A'hard road? But our
Party is called the feminist Party because
1t has no right to fear difficulties. More
over, the conviction Of the Party of the
feasibility of the Five-Xear Plan and its
faith in the forces of the working class
were so strong, that it found it possible
to set the task Of realizing this difficult
work not in five years, as the F1ve-Year
Plan demanded, but in four years, or more
exactly speaking, in four years and three
months if we add the special quarter.
on this basis there arose the famous
slogan: 'Five-Year Plan in four years
And what happened? The facts showed
that the Party was right. The facts show
ed that without this holiness and without
belief in the forces of the working class
the Party would not have been able to
achieve this success of which we rightly
boast.
w Plan in four years in the sphere of
industry? Have we achieved victory IN
this sphere? Yes indeed. We have not
only achieved victories, but also done more
than we ourselves expected, than even the
most sanguinary members of our Party
expected. Even our enemies cannot deny
this now. The less therefore can our
friends deny this.
We had no smelling industry as the
basis of the industrialization OF our coun-
try Now we possess one.
We had no automobile industry Now we
possess one.
We had no automobile industry now we
possess one.
We had no considerable modern chem
4cal industry. Now we possess one.
we had no real industry of any i'm
portance for the production of agricultu-
Tal machines. Now we have one.
We had no construction indus
try. Now we have one.
AS regards the production OF electrical
energy, we occupied the last place. Now
we have advanced to one of the first po-
sitions. With regard to the output of Oil
products and coal, we occupied the last
place, Now we have advanced to one of
the first positions.
We possessed only one coal and foundry
basis, the Ukraine, which we were not
able completely to utilize. We have sue
ceeded not only in extending this basis,
but have also created a new iron and
foundry basis, the East, which is the
pride of our country.
We possessed only few textile indus
trial centres in the North OF the country.
We have succeeded in short time in
establishing two new centres of the tex
tile industry: in Central Asia and Eastern
Siberia.
And we not only created these new gi-
gantic branches of industry, but we de-
Veloped them to such an extent and on
such scale that they place the European
industry right in the shade.
And ali this has resulted in the capt.
alist elements being finally .eradicated
from industry for good, and the socialist
industry becoming the sole form of in
dustry in the Soviet Union.
And all this has led to cur country
being converted from an agrarian into
an industrial country; tor the specific
weight of industrial production compared
with agricultural production increased
from 48 per cent, at the commencement
OF the Five-Year Plan in 1928, to 70 per
Of the Five-Year Plan 1892
And all this led to our succeeding. at
the conclusion of the fourth year of the
Five-Year Plan, in fulfilling e37 per cent,
OF the program of the whole of indus
trial production calculated for five years,
IN that We increased industrial produc-
ton more than threefold compared with
the pre-war level, and more than twofold
compared with 1928. AS regards the pro-
gram of output Of our heavy industry,
we fulfilled the Fiye-Year Plan up to 1903
per cent But we remained about per
cent behind the total program nf the
: Five five Year Plan This is due to the fact
that, in view Of the refusal of neighbor-
ing countries to conclude non-aggression
pacts with us, and in view of the COM
plications in the Far East, we had to
switch some of our undertakings as rapid
ly as possible on to the production of
modern weapons of defense for the DIR