The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1929, Page 5

_ wing DAILY WORKER aW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929 Imperialism! ie Page Five The 5-Year Plan of Socialist Construction in USSR a USSR HEROES ON ECONOMIC FRONT BUILDS YR, PLAN Take Part in Living Class Struggle By L. F. VINOV. Very often, munists, the Fiye-Year plan is con- sidered as follows: The authorj- ties for planned economy calcylate, on the basis of an ocean of statis- tical material, how much can be gotten out of the economic re- sources of the country, and then set upa program. Either this pro- gram is carried out, and that means the plan was good, or it is not car- ried out, in which case mistakes must have been made in setting it up. The planned economy of a pro- letarian state must under no cir- cumstances be understood so me- chanically. One must not forget for a single instant that the Five- Year Plan is really not a “plan” in the normal sense of the word, but a strategical plan of the class struggle of the ruling class, the proletariat. The carrying out of the Fiye- Year Plan is not a purely technical performance of achievements laid down “from above” but it is the liv- ing class struggle, and only the class conscious, active support of the masses can help it to victory. The production plan of a great cap- italist trust can be better carried out the less the workers of the trust think about it or what it means, just as'a bourgeois army is the more efficient the less its soldiers think about whose interests they are defending, In a proletarian state, however, exactly the opposite is true. This is not an “agitational phrase.” It can be proyen quite concretely by figures. Why do bourgeois and se- cial democratic observers find the tremendous socialist constructive plan in the Soviet Union so “utop- ian,” so impossible to realization? The reason is that they fail to grasp the difference between the social driving forces of economic life in their countries and in the Soviet Union, because their class ‘attitude prevents them from under- standing this difference. When such observers describe the economi¢e plans of the Soviet Union as utopian, they do not make any mathematical error. From the standpoint of “pure mathematics,” that which; the Soviet Union is carrying out upon the economic field is impossible, “Class” Mathematics Our advantage, however, is that we do not reckon with “pure mathe- matics,” but with the class mathe- matics of the revolutionary prole- taria. But even from the stand- point of pure mathematics, prole- tarian planned economy has a num- ber 6f advantages. which capitalist economy has not. In Tsarist Russia, for example, approximately 50,000,000 Pounds Sterling of the surplus value pro- duced by the workers was expended in luxuries for the bourgeosie. To- day this tremendous amount re- mains in production. Further, the possibilities of planned economy in a, for the most part, systematically organized economic system, permit a far more rational utilization of economic forces, etc. The class mathematics which the bourgeois theoretician is unable to understand, actually commence when the mas themselves begin to take an active part in economic development. The Five-Year Plan is a struggle with all the joys of victory, but also with all the sacri- fices which the class struggle de- mands. It is an enthusiastic strug- gle for a new proletarian life. We must, never forget this when we .read and study the figures, the re- sults, theedifficulties and the suc- cesses of the socialist constructive work. The right-wingers and the vacil- lating elements in the Soviet Union failed to take into account these “class mathematics,” or, to use @ Marxist expression, these dialetics of the proletarian revolution, They calculated and calculated and: finally shook their heads and de- clared that such a plan could not possibly be carried out. One of, the most characteristic expressions of this pessimism was the opinion that the produztion plan and the capitcl investments plan could not’ be carried out be- cause there was not sufficient building material to carry out the building plan, and so on. Here we saw the samc thing. Mathematically, perhaps, this was right, but nevertheless the indus- trial production plan as laid down by the Five-Year Plan for the éco- nomic year was carried out in full, and more than that, exceeded the estimate. The possibilities of development for the coming year are even greater than those provided for in Five-Year Plan. Let us com- re three figures. They refer to the development of industry in the economic year 1929-80, The so- called “commencing variant” of the Five-Year Plan reckoned with an increase of 10.6 per cent. The right- comrades declared even this " pienaens even among com-| Four Big Soviet Railways Start Seven Hour Day y (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—Four large railways of the Soyiet Union are in- | troducing the Seven-Hour Day this | year. The output of building ma- | terials, a shortage in which the | Bight Wing leaders dolefully pre- | dicted would difeat the Five-Year Plan, is. far greater than the esti- |mate, There were 275,000,000 rou- | | stead of the estimated amount of 180,000,000 roubles. per cent. Today, It transpires that the possibilities of the increased of production are over 31 per cent, Proletarian Masses Building Socialism. What is the chief error of the right-wingers? This error is that they underestimate the role of the emancipated proletariat in the so- cialist constructive work. The right-wing comrades forget that the proletarian masses in the Soviet Union haye overcome difficulties far more serious than the lack (which, by the way, is only rela- tive) of building materials. It was much more difficult a task to create a Red Army out of the ground, than to overcome the 10 to 15 per cent deficit in building materials. If the normal economic methods are not sufficient to solve bles of this material. produced in- | @ | Celebrating a Triumph | Blo SOVIET UNION TO OUT-STRIP ALL NATIONS 5 Year Plan Making) 1 | | | w at World | The 5 Year Plan and Revolutionary Workers By L. F. Winoy f In the Soviet Union the whole | working class and great masses of the working peasantry have already concentrated all their forces and all their revolutionary enthusiasm upon the carrying out of the Five-Year squeezing out the capitalist ele- ments from their economic positions, and great progress in the general process of socialisation. A considerable increase in the de- fensive capacities of the proletarian State. |Plan, Outéide the Soviet Union |however, the working class is still Big Strides |to a great extent unclear as to what By D. MISHUSTIN. According to the computations of | exactly the Five-Year Plan is and zompetent expert members of the | Joviet State Planning Commission, he Soviet Union is now, economic- | ally speaking, at a stage of devel- pment which the United States reason for this lack of-appreciation of the expression, world historical revolutionary struggle of the Soviet what importance it has. Perhaps the | is the fact that this is the real sense | of the Sovict Union, i is now operating i lan of Lenin. ting of workers celebrates the opening the gigantic network of electric power stations # problem, then the problem has to | be solved with “abnormal” revolu- | tionary economic. methods. Accord- | ing to all the laws of military | science, the Red. Army. ought to have suffered a defeat during the | civil war because of the superior | numbers and equipment of the/ enemy. But the Red Army was yietorious. Just as the masses were mobil- ized against the class enemies, they will now be successfully mobilized to overcome the economic difficul- ties which are being used by the| class enemy of the revolution. Not | individual experts and scholars take up the struggle against the lack of building materials and for the overcoming of the other difficulties of the constructive work, but the masess themselves, By the socialist competitive | scheme, by a series of creative ideas | (the continuous working week, etc.) | and by a real heroism in the carry-| ing out of the economic work, and | by the mobilization of all those in| whose interest socialism is being built up, the masses have once again confounded the pessimists and achieved “wonders.” And here lies the riddle of those | “class mathematics” which permit | the builders of socialism, the class | conscious masses which are fighting | for socialism and fighting for the | carrying out of the Five-Year Plan, to build up many things for which others, even the pessimists in our own ranks, have “insufficient build- | ing materials.” NEWS FLASHES. | Czech Coal Strike Strong (Wireless by Imprecorr) PRAGUE, Oct. 31.—The Bruch | coal strike is going favorably for | the workers, who are determined to continue but are hampered by the organized social fascist scabs, gov- ernment persecution and weak ele- | ments in their own organization. ; Sabre Polish Miners May Strike (Wireless By Imprecorr) KATTOVITZ, Poland, Oct. 31.— The miners’ conference here repre- senting 71 mines of three Polish coal districts has unanimously de- cided to proclaim a general mine strike on Nov. 5, unless the mine owners grant their wage demands. “8 * Assassinated by Police (Wirelese by Imprecorr) WARSAW, Oct. 31.—The worker, | named eGrman, shot at the Lodz textile mass meeting, is dead. The assassin is proved to be a police spy. The body is being buried se- eretly to, prevent a demonstration by reesntful workers. Crowds around the hospital where the worker died, were dispersed by police. . © RERLIN PLUMBERS (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 31—The striking Berlin plumbers have decided at an over-crowded meeting to call off the strike. A unanimous resolution states. that tho German Metal Workers Union; to which they are affiliated, openly aids scab service. It tells how the labor offices, the ministry of labor and the social democratic police, arrested strike pickets and strike leaders, The resolution declares that the government officials decalred bind- ing the scale of wages made by the treacherous union leaders, thereby throwing th state power against the strikeers. The plumbers say they appreciate the international solidar- ity shown their struggle by workers in the Soviet Unicn and other coun- tries, and will renew the strugglo later on a larger scale. WORKERS BEAT FASCISTS. MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 81 (UP).—The Victoria State gov- ernment was defeated today when the House of Representatives passed &@ motion of dissatisfaction with the tnment’s unemployment policy. vote was 34 to 30. Tt was understood that dissolution of Parliament would be sought to- |the munitions v | How to get By Anisee SOCHI, Black Sea—(FP)—Three or four items in today’s paper indi- cate the forces that are vitally a‘ at work in today’s Russia. The first is about the ‘red train” from Lugans I remember gansk well, a mining and steel town dewn in the Donetz basin, not very, large, with a moderate-sized leco- motive and car works, a pre-war munitions works, and another fac- toyror two. Dw 3 the civil wa: Lugansk was t ack and f: a score of tim The rks divided in division, one to hold the hills agains: the White Guards, and the other t» keep on making lis. They kept this up till both groups had to fles together northward only to reor- ganize and fight ancy. I saw Lugansk y azo, wh its was already called “Red Lu- gansk,” and its workers were dis- cpssing with Rakovski, then presi- dent of the Ukrine, the problem industry going again It was a problem agitating all Rus- sia, and very hot were the con.ments made by local workers about bu- reaucracy in Moscow and how it was ruining industry. Many of their comments were incorporated. into new policy. And now Red Lugansk is sendin: a “red special” to Moscow to take part in the twelfth anniversary of the revolution. It happened like this: They Beat the Experts’ Plan! The government experts a year ago worked out a program for the factories of Red Lugansk as they do for all factories. They told the lo- comotive works thet during the year it ought to make as many as ‘40 locomotives. It is not a very big works, as you sce, and besides, to make even one locomotive is quite a job. Similar plans were laid down zor the car works and the coal mines. These programs were as much as competent engineers The Red Train of Lugansk Lu- | | | had produced 40 extra coal cars, be- | sides the number they were ex- | pected to make. And the coal mine | they were reasonably lucky. Then the locomot: workers me’ in assembly and joined what is|also had mined in excess of their called “socialist rival pledging | program. So the locomotive and the themselves to break r And | 40 s are being festively loaded on the first of October, which was vith “extra” coal by brigades of j the end of the production year, the pYoung Communists, giving their { ~wrew~ time to the work as part of a town celebration, and the train is being decorated with wreaths and banners und sent to Moscow, to inform the | world that Red Lugan: did more than it was asked to, and is sending the extra train of cars as a present | te the nation, | What is one locomotive and 40} cars of coal in the building of a na- tion? Not very much, but it’s quite a lot for the town of Red Lugansk. And all over the country other | groups do likewise. Red Grain Pours In! In the very next column of the | paper is an acccount of the Red | Grain Offerings, accompanied by a picture showing a long procession of peasant carts, also decorated with flags. They are bringing into the railroad center the “extra grain,” grain over and sbove what they owed the government for taxes and in return for loans. I read that on Sept. 29, five villages of a certain southern region brought in 750 tons of grain, It took 1,435 peasant | carts to carry it all, and made a} mighty procession, It reminds me of the good old booster campaigns in the West. Only bere as a boom without a real estate agent or any get rich quick secnemes, In the same paper I read that the | Third Industrial Loan has already keen subscribed to the amount of | , 688,814,000 rubles. Think of that Tt was all! —over $300,000,000, drawn in lesa | A woman metal gvorker cow, Comrade Peirova, at her lathe \at the great “Amo” factory. This | working woman is one of Moscow's | a@ member of the Moscow os- 41st locomotive rolled proudly into the town of Red Luga It was an Exiza Locomotive, an upexpected ild of the works, born of the extra y cf the work ated with wreaths and bantters,/ihan a month’s time from the land | and sent forth by a great mass | meeting of delegates from all round | famished, and which even now has Red Lugansk. no class of rich investors, or even | ~~ Leaded With Extra Coal! of well paid workers as America | At the same time the car works ccounst wages. | 5-Year Plan Has International Signiticance By J. L. The decree of the 27th August concerning the introduction of the uninterrupted working week is, one may confidently say, of world his- torical importance. It represents zn alteration of the economic meth- ods taken over from the bourgeoise, it represents an improvement which | must be adopted in every country where the proletariat is victorious. With the application of the uninter- rupted working week, it will be pos- sible to increase the production of all mechanical and similar produc- tive units by a fourth and even a third. The emancipation of the prole- tariat from the yoke of capitalism, the abolition of exploitation and of anarchy, the abandonment of the traditions and prejudices of tha burgeois order will make it possible for the proletariat to offer toiling humanity a considerably higher standard of life with the same amount of effort. In consequence of its socialist systemisation of the economic leadership of the country, and the useful application of tre- mendous resources which were for- merly wasted unproductively by the Lotirgeoisie and the rich landowners, the Soviet Union has already achieved a quicker tempo of develop- ment. The growth of the feeling of social resposibility amongst the toilers and the real successes which have al- erady been obtained, now make it pessible to take a new step and in- troduce the uninterrupted working week into the factories and offices. The gradual introduction of the un- interrupted working week into all ‘ate and: other bureaus in the Sov- jet Union would in any case be the inevitable result of the uninterrupt- ed productive activity of industry. All institutions serve in one way or another industry or the persons oc- cupied in industry, and the working methods of these institutions must morrow. The defeat was due to a correspond to those prevailing fn in- | dustry... The introduction of the un- ipted weels in all factories and his becomes @ part of th Ne GA 70 ad reached about 50 years ago, Its | speedier rate of development, how- | ever, will.enable the Soviet Union | to outstrip the most advanced ountries of Europe in a matter of 5 years and the United States -hemselves in a further similar pe- viod. If we compare the level of production in the Sowet Union and that in other countries with the level in the year 1913, we shall see that Great Britain has not yet re- gained the pre-war Jevel, of which it still falls short by 10 per cent., | while Germany is at about 104 per} cent of its pre-war output in spite of a gigantic influx of foreign cap- ital. Only the United States has reached a level of about 150 per| cent of the record for 1913, The! Soviet Union, on the other hand, | which suffered far more severely as a result of the war, had already last year reached 120 per cent of its pre-war output level. In coal-mining the output figure in the United States is now about 99 per cent in comparison with pre- war times, whereas in the Soviet Union it is 119.4 per cent. In five years, it is computed, the coal out- put in the United States will be around 105 per cent of the 1913 rec- ord, while in the Soviet Union it will figure at 230 per cent, Great | Britain has now an output of 82) per cent of the pre-war quantity; | in five years, at the rate of develop- | | Five-Year Plan. proletariat bears a dry and abstract | title, , “The Five-Year Plan,” or | to give its title in full, “The Five- Year Plan for the development of the Soviet Economie System.” | Behind this matter of fact title one | of the most significant and one of the most heroic struggles of the | working class of the Soviet Union | since the seizure of power is being | carried cn. It would be no exag- geration to say that the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan has no lesser significance for the history of socialism in the Soviet Union, and thus for the development of the in- ternational’ proletarian revolution, than, say, the victory of the Red Aemies in the civil war, or the tri- umph of the Soviet proletariat over the famine and the economic decay tremendous events which were fol- lowed in their development with bated breath by the revoluti-nary proletariat all over the world, ‘At “irst glance the Five-Year Plan represents a complicated system of statistical information and calcula- tion, The plan contains showing the speed at which the Soviet economic system can and must be developed upon its various fields in the five-year period ex- ter.ding from the 1st October 1928 to the 30th September 1933. A glance at these figures immediately shows the international significance of the It is sufficient to ment recorded of late, it should have 87 per cent. | The Coal and Iron As regards the volume of its coal | ‘output, the Soviet Union now occu- pies fifth place after the United States, Great Britain, Germany,)| jand France. France is at present | raising 52 million tons per annum | and the Soviet Union 35 million | tons. According to the computa- \tion of the experts attached to the State Planning Commission, France will in five years’ time be raising 67 million tons in a year and the Soviet Union 70 million tons, so that the Soviet Union will then have ous- stripped France and occupy fourth place. In the output of pig ircn, | meanwhile, the Soviet Union will) advance from sixth to third place. | In the United States the share | of human and animal labor in pro- duction figures at 2 per cent, the share of mechanical energy at 53 per cent, and the share of caloric energy for technological purposes 45 per cent, In the Soviet Union the | corresponding figures are 50 per| cent, 23 per cent, and 27 per cent. | h. p. of mechanical energy per | worker, and in the United States | 4.3 h, p. In five years, however, | status of roughly 2 h. p., that is/ point out that the plan provides that for instance the stage of de- velcpment of the industrial produc- tive forces achieved by capitalism in many decades of slow development will be achieved threefold, in some branches of industry fourfold and even fivefold (electrification) inside | a period of five years by the eco- nomic system of the Soviet Union. | To put it more simply, development which cost capitalism whole genera- tions of time wil be carried out in | the Soviet Union in a few yedrs. Political Effect Greater Than Technical The revolutionary significance of th» Five-Year Plan, howcver, far excells the technical results of its carrying out, It is not merely a phrase when the Russian comrades term the Five-Year Plan as Lenin termed the electrification pro- | gramme of his time a “second Party | Programme.” | What will the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan bring the proletariat of the Soviet Union? First of all, an unexampled in- which 8 years ago was ruined and|In the Soviet Union there are 0.98 | crease in the productive capacity of the country, Secondly, an increase in real wages ranging from 70 to 80%. In |the Union will have got up to a|other»words a tremendous advance | in the standard of living of the /to say the number of h. p. per/workers, plus a general shortening ) prog: ¢ of the Communist In-|economie system. Such factors will ternational for all countries under a| not be ignored by the capitalists, | proletarian dictatorship. Therefore we ean reckon confidently | with a campaign of lies abroad con- j cerning the uninterrupted working geoisie to worsen the situation of | Week. It will be declared that the “their” workers and &t the same | tninterrapted working week robs time to appeal hypocritically and|the workers of their free time. At dishonestly to our example. | the same oe however, the capital- - 5 ce, ists, “in order to meet the competi- Different ae in Capitalist tion of the Soviet, Union” will, in ‘ ‘tohanbhised fact, themselves make efforts to or- We are introducing the uninter-| ganize such a robbery of the work- rupted working week into the fac-|ers’ free time. The communists of tories, but every worker will enjoy | all countries must therefore be pres just as many free days in the_yea| pared to expose their enemies ideos as previously. He will not worl: | logicelly and to resist all attempts more hours yearly than before, This tv worsen the situation of the pro- principle has been clearly laid down tetariat by a capitalist offensive un- jin the decree, All that will be| der “similar” slogans. In this con- | changed will be the distribution of | nection the question of the uninter- | the free days over the year. Abroad, | rupted working week is of special towever, the capitalists would cling | practical importance for the sections to the word “uninterrupted” and be| of the Comintern in all countries, inclined to rob the workers of all|even before the victory of the pro- jor a part of their free days by ap- | letarian revolution, and not only in ing to the example of “the Bol- | ihe Soviet Union. The Communist sheviks.” We want our machines | Parties abroad must fully inform to work uninterruptedly, whereby ‘themselves in order to be prepared wo shall employ more workers and | to enlighten the proletariat concern- guarantee to each worker the full in: this question. The uninterrupt- right of the free time previously en- | ed working week in the Soviet Union | Joyed by tim. In the Soviet Union| must be recognized by the workers | the “uninterrupted” principle is an|of all countries as that which it | instrument, for improving the gen-/| really is; the expression of the so- | eral situation of the toilers and in | cial-progre: @ superiority of the particular for reducing unemploy- | socialist system over the capitalist ment. The capitalists, however,| system and as a powerful instru- would force each worker to work ment-for the continued improvement uninterruptedly in order to employ of the standard of life of the toil- ® still smaller number of workers | ors, for ca same machines. For the} capitalists the “uninterrupted” prin- | ciple would be a means for worsen- | Se aed ing the situation of the workers, a| CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—A sum of means for increasing the industrial | $100, raised at a social of the Work reserve army, jing Women’s Study Circle here, h The introduction of the uninter- | been divided dnt) sunt Gt. $00) Zor rupted working week in a great the Daily Worker, $80 for the Com- country like the Soviet Union mus; ™unist Party Training School and inevitably attract attention in tho $20 for Nucleus 3020 which organi- capitalist countries. Apart from all |24tion, helped the Study Circle. | else, this measure means a corsider-| The Circle, roganized with three able increase In the speed of eco-/mmebers of the Communist nomic dvelopment and thus an in- | and six sympathizers, plans si We must be prepared, however, |to repel all attempts of the bour- | | worker will have been doubled. In the United States, meanwhile, | such a development, i. e. a doub- ling of the mechanical proportion in this sense, would require not 5 but 26 years. It is remarkable, moreover, that according to the five- | year-plan the yearly accretion of mechanical forces per head of the workers figures at 35 per cent, while in the United States the in- erease has of late years been no more than 10 per cent. Beating the U, S. A. Projected industrial constructions, comprising the erection of giant concerns, will greatly accelerate our progress. In the Dnieper indus- trial district the output of electric current for productional purposes, computed per head of the work- ers, will be eight times as great as the corresponding output for the whole of American industry. At the rapids of the Dnieper, water turbines of a record capacity of 55,000 kilowatts are now under con- struction. lof working hours (the seven-hour day). This includes also of course a tre- mendous improyement in the stand- ards of the lower proletarian strata. A thorough and radica! advance in the cultural level of the whole population, The first tremndous steps towards the socialist transformation of ag- riculture. Great progress in the mechanisation of agriculture and a great increase in the supply of chemical fertilisers. The increase in the productivity of the poor and middle peasant agricultural under- takings and the general raising of their ‘standard of living, and as a result, the consolidation of the workers and peasants alliance, and the consolidation of the leading role of the proletariat in this alliance. A great advance in the process of agrarian population falls to the share of means of production and 65 per cent to that personal require- ments. In the Soviet Union the re- | considerable of the country, or any of those other | figures | A tremendous internal and exter- nal strengthening of the proletarian | dictatorship. An unexampled extension of pro- |letarian democracy in consequence of the fact that the masses take the tiative more and more, as. also 1 of the carrying out.of tical decisions | the contro the economic and po (the socialist competitive scheme, the mass-agreements, the direct struggle of the masses against bu- reaucracy, etc.). What will the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan bring the interna- tional proletariat as a whole? The consolidation of the tarian dictatorship in the Union results automatically in a strengthening of the international proletariat in its class- struggle against the capitalist bour- geoisie, and in an increase in the fighting capacities of the oppressed peoples against capitalist imperial- ism. The carrying out of the Five-Year Plan will prove irrefutably that even in its present beginning or transition stage and in a backward agrarian country, Socialism contains product- ive possibilities far superior to any- lthing which the highly-developed capitalist countries have to offer. | It will prove that under the dic- |tatorship of the proletariat all eco- nomic progress is indissolubly con- nected with an advance of the stand- ards of living of the workers, where- as under present-day capitalism ec- onomic progress, even when it takes place under the wing of social dem- ocratic ministers, can only be bought lat the price of the increased ex- | ploitation of the workers. It will prove that the proletarian dictatorship for which the Commu- nist Parties in all countries are fighting, is really the path to So- cialism, whilst the path of (bour- geoisie) “democracy” urged by the social democrats leads to fascism and to an increased exploitation and oppression of the workers. The Five- Year Plan will therefore contribute to the achievement of revolutionary unity amongst the workers under |the leadership of the Communist In- ternational. The circumstance that the work- {ers of the Soviet Union who, before |the war, were the worst paid sec- |tion of the European working class, will develop into the best paid sec- tion by the end of the five-year pe- riod, is a cireumstance that will lend increased fighting energy and class- consciousness to the workers in the capitalist countries in their strug- gles for their economic aims and in the connection of these labour strug- gles with the general revolutionary aims of the working class, To sum up, the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan will result in a great alteration in the international relation of class forces between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the advantage of the former. With the progress of the work for the achievement of Socialism, not only will the confidence in the military victory of the Soviet power in the event of an armed attack of the im- perialists upon the Soviet Union in- crease, but also the confidence that, if the proletariat in the imperialist countries is prepared, such an at- tack would result in the final col- lapse of imperialism. The unexam- pled successes of the work for the the achievement of Socialism in the Soviet Union will facilitate the work of the Communist Parties to mobi- lize the masses against any im- perialist war upon the Soviet Union, jand for the transformation of any such war into a civil war for the fi- nal overthrow of the bourgeoisie. The carrying out of the Five-Year Plan by the workers in the Soviet Union will provide us with one of the strongest weapons in the strug- gle for the winning of the majority of the working class for the revolu- tionary overthrow of capitalism and for the establishment of the prole- tarian dictatorship. The popularisa- |tion of the Five-Year Plan, and not | only its popularisation, but the act- ive support of the work for its car- rying out, must therefore be carried prole- Soviet | In the productivity cf work, too, | spective proportion is 22 to 78 per |on in the closest connection with the there will be essential changes. Over against an increase in the working output in the United States between 1919 and 1925 of 59 per cent, there was in the Soviet Union an increase of 18.5 per cent in 1925-26, 14.7 per cent in 1927- 28, and 17 per cent in 1928-29. In five years there is likely to be an increase of altogether 10 per cent. The gross output of the German chemical industry stood in 1927 at a value of 2,000 million roubles, In the Soviet Union it is at present 650 million roubles, but is likely to increase in the cource of the next five years to 2,160 millions. In Germany 700,000 tons of nitro- genous fertilizers are now produced in a year; in the Soviet Union only 21,000 tons. But in 1933 the Soviet Union output will be 840,000 tons. The chemical industry of the Soviet Union will multiply by 3.5 in five years’ time. The supply of agriculture with is of production will in five ars’ time have reached the Amer- ‘an level for 1927 per unit of the cent, though in 1933 it is more likely to figure at 32.5 to 67.5 per cent. Outstrips the World. As regards the national income per head of the population, the present figure of 168.90 roubles+is to increase by 1932 to 256.50 roubles or by 56.5 per cent. In the United States the increase at the time of the business boom was 58 per cent. The annual accretion of the national income figures in America at 4.5 per cent, while in the Soviet Union it will amount to at least 12 per cent. In some pro- gressive capitalist countries the accretion is considerably smaller; in France, e. g., it is barely 0.8 per cent per annum, The realization of the five-year plan will make it possible for the Soviet Union to reach and outstrip the technically and economically most favorable years of their devel- opment, the capitalist countries have recorded an increase of production by from 7 to 10 per cent, whereas the five-year plan of the Soviet erease in the competitive capacity | activities for the bene: tgs worker: of tho Soviet Union in the world organizations later, ‘ 2 El nani idea area under cultivation. In Germany 45 per cent of the purchases of the Union provides for a growth of production by 27 per cent per an- num, t | general struggle against the danger | of imperialist war and be placed in |the forefront of our main interna- jtional tasks and in the forefront of our daily struggle. Lehigh Valley Toilers Celebrate “12th Year” at Allentown Nov. 16 ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 31.—Ter- rorism of the Bethlehem Steel Trust will not prevent hundreds of local toilers from crowding Leiderkrantz Hall, 217 N. Second St., at 7:30 p. m. Nov. 16, to.celebrate the success- ful 12th year of the Bolshevik Revo- lution. The outstanding feature of the celebration will be steps to be taken by the Communist Party to fight against attempts of the Bethlehem Steel Trust to illegalize the Party throughout the Lehigh Valley. Speakers will include Rudolph Shohan, of Philadelphia, Jane Croll, representing the Party here, and Martin Russak, of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. ‘