The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-14
Abolition of the Bread Card
In the U.S.S.R. and Its Meaning

Resolution of the Plenum of
the Central Committee of the
c. P. S. U. on the Report of v. M.
MOlotov. Adopted Nov. 26, 1884,
I. AS result of the rapid growth
of cities and new industrial dis
tricts in connection with the
enormous scale of the industrializa-
ton of the U. S. S. R. and in con-
nection with the steady rise in the
well-being of the broad masses of
the workers and peasants, there has
been a great increase in the de-
mand for bread and other food
products. This demand began to
rise with particular rapidity after
the beginning of the first Five
Year Plan, At the same time the
vigorous development of the sowing
of crops for industry to supply the
needs of our manufacturers with
our own Soviet agricultural raw
material caused a considerable in
crease to take place in the amount
of grain which had to be delivered
to the peasant population of dis
tricts, principally engaged in the
production of such industrial raw
material. Moreover, at that time
there were not many collective
farms and state farms, and agri-
culture in our country, particularly
the production of grain, was at a
very low level. The small indi-
vidual peasant farms which at that
time were the prevailing form, and
their backward technical equipment
and poor crops were unable to sup
ply the growing demands of the
towns, the industrial districts and
the districts engaged in the cultiva-
ton of industrial crops. In view Of
this system of rationing of sup
plies (the card SYSTEM was intro
duced.
W. The introduction of the card
system for bread and other food
products was not only necessary.
but during the last few years it has
been an important condition for
improving supplies for the workers.
The card system of supply during
this period was particularly neces-
sary because, despite the fact that
much higher prices prevailed on
the free market and the elements
of speculation existed in this field,
the supply of bread to the workers
was carried out at fixed state
prices. 1t was only as the result
of this system that the state was
able, despite its limited resources, to
provide supplies in full for the
towns and industrial districts and
give preferential supplies to the
most important centers and to the
shock workers in the factories, while
at the same time providing for the
supply of grain at fixed state prices
to the peasants bringing in argicul-
.tural raw material, such as cotton,
flax, hemp, tobacco, etc, with the
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industrial crops and increasing the
amount of raw material delivered
to industry.
III. BY now, when big mechan-
lied methods of agriculture have
taken the place of the small scat
tered individual farms, when the
collective farms and state farms
have assumed a dominant place in
agriculture and when we have al
ready achieved high measure OF
organizational and economic con-
solidation of these farms, the situa-
ton has fundamentally changed
This is shown not only by the sue
cess OF the grain delivery campaign
this year but particularly the sue
cess of the government purchases
of grain at enhanced prices. The
state has now at its disposal an
adequate amount of grain which
will fully and undoubtedly provide
for the supply of food for the popu-
lation without the need OF a care
system, by means Of the universe
and widespread development Of the
] sale Of bread. IN such q aeuattox