The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
SOCIALIST AGRICULTURE HAS DEFINITELY
CONQUERED

Most painful was the reorganiza-
tional period for the stock breeding
branch Of agriculture. Statistical data
on the number of heads Of cattle show
that during the period under report,
We had no advance, but an undated
decline as compared with pre-war
level. Obviously, the fact that the
stock breeding branches Of agriculture
we're mostly in the hands OF large
scale kuiak elements on the one hand,
and the intensified kulak agitation for
the killing off of cattle, which found
favorable soil in the years Of reorgan-
ization on the other, are reflected in
these data.
The decline in the number OF heads
Of cattle began from the very first
year OF reorganization, 1880, and con-
tinued into 1888; the decline reached
its highest dimensions during the first
three years; but in 1888, the first year
after the reorganization period has
been completed, when grain crops
made an advance, the dimensions Of
decline in the number of heads Of
cattle came down to g minimum.
In hog raising, an opposite process
already began, and in 1888 signs Of
direct advance had already been in
dicated.
This means that 1884 should and
must become a year Of turn towards
an advance in all stock breeding
Further Stain cites data on the
collectiyization during the period
under report. The percentage OF COL
lectivized households, which was 3.9
in 1922. and in 1890 had grown to 2S.6,
reached 52.7 in 1881, 61.5 in 1882 and
Gj.l9 in 1893, When 100000 peasant
households were united in 224, 500 Kol-
khozes. These figures show that the
reorganization period Of agriculture,
when the number Of Kol1hozes and
the number of their members had
grown at a stormy pace, hes already
been completed.
I'D u1t.-o- p-ooes; CT cohecJivi-
zatson represents the process of
gradual drawing in and re-education
Of remnants OF individual peasant
households by l7olkhozes.
This means that the kolkhozes
have conquered definitely and ire
vocably. (Thuade-ous prolonged APP
plause.)
Sovkozes and Eoihozes together
cultivate their own 845 per cent Of
ali cultivated area in the U.S.S.R.
This means that kolhozes and SOW
lczes together became such force
which decides the fate Of all sgricul-
ture and all its branches.
II VIC add the fact that the kol-
Ec2es in 1888 delivered to the state
more than billion pools of grain
and individual 73cclants who had full
allied The plav' Ill a 100 per cent de-
liyerad only about 132,000,000 pools,
while IN 1929-1930 individual peas
ants delivered to the state around
I0S,000,000 pools and lolhozes no
more than l20,000,000 pools, then it
becomes clear as clear could be that
kolhozes and individual peasants
have completely changed places dur
ing the period under report, kolhozes
becoming during this period the
dominating force in agriculture and
individuc leasants second force,
compelled u adbnlit and adopt itself
TO kolhoz system.
1t is necessary to recognize that
the toiling peasantry, our Soviet
peasantry, has finally and irrevo-
cably taken its place under the Red
banner of Socialism prolonged APP
plause).
Let social revolutionist, menshe-
visit and bourgeois Trotsl1yists gossip
and babble Of the peasantry being
by nature counter-revolutionary, of
its being called upon to restore capt.
talism, that it cannot be the ally Of
the working class in the cause of
building socialism, that in the U. S.
S. r. it is impossible to build So
eialism. The facts tell us that these
gentlemen SANDER both U.S.S.R. and
Soviet peasantry. The facts tell
that our Soviet peasantry has def
nitely sailed away from the shores
Of capitalism and advances in union
with the working class towards So
cialism. The facts tell that we have
already built up the foundation for
socialist society in the U.S.S.R. and
that it only remains for us to crown
i with superstructures undoubt-
cdly a work much easier than con-
struction of the foundation of social
ist society.
The strength OF kolhozes (collec-