The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

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~ press has given some
prominence to reports from
the Soviet Union showing the
tremendous increase in the
living standards of the
masses.
But these reports have been
fragmentary, and even grudgingly
given. We have just received some
figures from the U. S. S. R. which
show to what extent the material
well-being of the people has been
raised.
First of all, there has been an
uninterrupted rise in commodity
turnover. Goods manufactured is
Immediately swallowed up in use.
1t does not lay on the shelves, add
ing to overproduced stocks as in
the Capitalist countries. The turn
over of what is called retail trade
increased by 27.3 per cent, in the
first nine months of 1884, as COM
pared with the same period last
year; and in the third quarter shot
up S4.3 per cent over 1888.
Thanks to collective farming, the
state was able to collect its quotas
of grain this year much more
rapidly. and with better organiza-
ton, than in all former years. This
furnished the basis for the more
rapid turnover of foodstuffs.
Enormous quantities of food are
4 concentrated in the hands of the
workers state. Besides, there are
huge quantities of industrial goods
and Injuries.
THESE products, 20 per cent in.
1 crease over last year, are being
distributed almost twice as fast as
last year.
For instance, contrast the follow
ing facts with the now disappearing
reports of starvation" in the So
Wet Union.
The Soviet Union, besides the
l
goods distributed, has an increased
reserve of 25 per cent of meat, 80
per cent of butter, and Ill per cent
of cheese. The stores of canned
goods are 1000 per cent higher
than ever before. There are mil
lions of tons of potatoes, large
quantities of eggs and other pro-
visions.
These stores of foodStuffs now at
the disposal of the workers father
land enables the development of q
more efficient distribution of goods
to the masses. Not only the closed
cooperatives are able to provide the
workers with a greater variety of
goods at lower prices but the So
called open stores" those catering
to anyone, have increased their
trade considerably.
mis- means that with the ire
mendous increase of all sorts of
goods, foods, clothing, luxury ar
ticleS, furniture, ETC.. ETC., the queS-
ton of rationing, due to backward
ness and slowness in production,
becomes less and less necessary.
The Well-being of the masses is
increased with every turn of the
wheels of industry The reserves
against drought, and war adven-
lures of the imperialists, is in
creased.
AN EXAMPLE of the growing
n speed of commodity distribution,
is shown by the fact that the open
stores sell A per cent of the total
bread supply, Is per cent of sugar.
30 per cent of the confectionery. and
% percent of the timed goods.
When more and more American
workers get their neasly starvation
rations on relief cards, in the So
Wet Union the advance of Social
iSt construction is rapidly Destroy
ing the -rationing system.
American capitalism, because of it's
highly developed industry, is forced
more and more to introduce the
card-rationing system Gin the form
of relief, while in the Soviet Union,
where it was introduced because of
the backwardness of industry and
agriculture, it is rapidly being elm
mated and will soon be eliminated
forever.
THOUGH little late. we think it
important to quote from the
Danish leading financial sheet on
the recent elections in the United
States. The Copenhagen "Finsn-
stidende" declares: 1T was unem-
Iployment which gave Roosevelt the
same powers that Hitler has. But if
he cannot master the situation, what
will have to be done2 After he has
tried all possibilities, only more
rapid ornaments will be left to him,
the excuse for which is already sup
piled by Japan. So far, most of the
steel production has already gone
into armament.
THE elections in the United States
made big step toward dictatorship,
but on different issues and in diff
ferent way than in European coun-
tries
That makes it almost unanimous.
The capitalist press in every coun-
try, whether it be fascist Italy, fas-
cist Germany, or democratic" Eng
land and Social Democratic" Den
mark, come to only one conclusion
so far as the Roosevelt regime is
concerned-it is moving rapidly
made a big step toward dictatorship,
toward an open fascist dictatorship.
hold out against the whole world
and the obvious.
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