The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1931, Page 9

All the greatest achievements in the execution of the tasks of the Five-Year-Pian, being the result of the highest acitvity and working enthusiasm of the broadest work- ing masses and first of all the| , enabled us to make ous step with regard working cla a further s to the improvement of the living | the | and cultural conditions of working people. This improvement of the condi-|i ed 43.5% expressed first of all in the numer- tions. of the working people was The earners ical growth of wage earners. totai number of wage reached 15,68 | | 4 thousand people} T-hour DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 5 Year Plan Means a Rising Living Standard for. the Soviet Worker By VY. KUIBYSHEYV ————= tions of the working people finds! year to the systematic improve- its expression in the further growth in the number of worl ers | enjoying the 7-hour working day If by the beginning of the second, peasantry. year of the Five-Year-Plan 19.19} In spite of all the predictions of all the workers had the 7-hour! and -prophecies of the economists working day, by the first of Octo-| and politicians, whe are hostile t standards of the working class and ber, 1930, that is by the end of the | Sur country, in spite of the sabo- | second year of the Five- Pee -Plan, | taging of the embittered remaants | the total number of workers hav-! of the old regime, the Five-Year- ing the 7-hour working day, reach-| Plan is being executed and: shall of the total number of; be executed and not in five but in workers, thus surpassing the task|four years. The problem of the of the Five-Year-Plan by ;execution of the ¥ive-Year-Plan This secures the introduction of the | in time, that is in five years does Working day in all the | not _Present any difficulty to us 3.5% Soviet Pioneers in Cultural Drive in 1929-30 instead of 12.793 thous- and people envisaged in the Five- Year Plan fer this year, The re- sult was that by the end of the second year of the Five-Year-Plan the problem of unemployment has been absolutely solved, unemploy- ment does not exist any longer in the U.S.S.R. while the Five-Year Pian assumed that there would be 400,000 unemployed towards the end of the Five-Year-Plan. Now we face the task of rapidly train- ing the qualified labor-power, the dack of which®s so acutely felt by the rapidly industrializing country. The improvement of the condi-|4 Years,” eee eg ee _|ral towards religion and does co other enterprises in a shorter term, this has been | overcome, as may be than proposed by the Five-Year-|seen by the above data. Our task Plan. This general improvement | now iS to execute the Five-Year- of the conditions of the’ working! Plan before term, that is in four people has been followed by a fur-| years. The above data show that ther increase of wages. | increased on the average by 12.1% per worker, for two years of the Five-Year-Plan, Thus the growth j of national economy, the systemat-| have adopted nor with the quality ically growing importance ef the|of our work. Our severe self-cri- | socialized sector in the national/ticism can be accounted for by this economy, in which it already pre-|fact. Those who draw conclusions vails, fully secure in the execution | about the failure of the Five-Year of this slogan of the millions of} Plan—basing them on this self- workers: “The Five-Year-Plan in| criticism: — make themselves look and lead from 3 year to| ridiculous. Stalin. on Religion We carry on propaganda against general defense of science. | religious prejudices. } task. However, we are not quite sat- Our legislation | Party cannot be neutral towards jadhere to any religion. This is a) is one of the best means of ander- | individual. |we carried out the separation of | exploiting classes and who preach the Church from the State. Butj|submission to these classes. The |in separating the Church from the} Party cannot be neutral towards State and proclaiming religious the bearers of religious prejudices, liberty we at the same time guar-;towafds the reactionary clergy teed the right of every citizen to | who poison the minds of the toil- combat by argument, by propa- ing masses. Mave we suppressed ganda and agitation ail reli- | the re actionary clergy? Yes, ve gion. The Party cannot be neut-)have. The unfortunate thing is e | that it has not been completely li-| Z ee | quidated. Anti-religious — propa- duct anti - religious propaganda | panda is a means by which the against all and every religious | complete liquidation of the reac- prejudices because it. stands pens eee clergy must be brought science, while religious »prejudices! about. Cases occur when certain run counter to science, because allj members of the. Party hamper the religion is something opposite to|complete development of anti-! science. Cases such .as-recently| religious -propaganda. If such, jment of the living and cultural | The wages| we are already carrying out this | isfied with the rates of growth we | The} guaranteed to citizens the right to! religious prejudices because this | matter for the conscience of ay ‘mining the influence of the reac-! That is precisely whyjtionary clergy who support the! occurred in America in which Dar- winists were -persecuted.in court, -Seviet Pioneer Aati-Intervention! cannot e@ecur Lere -beeanse »the Demonstration { Party carries out a policy of the) members are expelled it is a good thing’ because there is no-room for such “Communists” in the- ranks of our Party. Facts of Mo Molotoy (Skriabin) was born on February, 1890, in the village of Kukarke, in the Viatka province, a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1906. Started his Party work in Kazan. Was arrested in 1909 in the city of Kazan and exiled for two years to ; the Vologodsk province. Being in exile carried on Party activities nt the city fo Vologodsk. After the | | exile, being in Petersburg, organized | | Bolshevik fractions in the High | chools and Universities. In the eginning of 1912 worked en the | Bolshevik paper “Star,” and: from | | the beginning of the organization of | the “Pravda,” became a member of | |the editorial staff of the “Pravda.” | Wrote under the names of W. Michailow, Riabin, A. Zwanow. | | | | | | | | He also participated in the activi- ties of the Bolshevik fraction in the | Duma. At the end of 1912, Comrade Mo- | lotovy was compelled to become il- | legal and later on was arrested and axiled from Petersburg. From the | fail of 1914 Comrade Molotoy work- in 1916 to Petersburg, where he} carried on illegal Party activities. | At the end of 1916, he was coopted | | to the Bureau of the Russian Cen- | tral Committee of the Bolsheviks. | | After the February revolution, he | became one of the leading members | of the Petersburg Executive Com- | | mittée of the Bolsheviks, a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of | the Petrograd Soviet and in its first | period, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik fraction in the Soviets | of the Workers’ and Peasants’ | | Deputies of Petrograd. In the} October days. as the representative | of the Hetersiarg Committee of the } (3 iks, he was a member of the | olutionary War Committee rt | Petersburg. In 1918, he was chair- | man of the Soviet of National Econ- | ony of Bc a Commune. In | 30ishey | rey. ; re |Party of the Soviet Union. Page Three lotov’s Life representative of the Central ! Committee and the Centra] Exec- 1919, y, and in 1915 was ar- ‘ ” and exiled to the Irkutsk Laie Committee of the Soviets in ince from where he ran away | Povolzhie. In 1920, chairman of the Novgorod Party Commitee, later ion the secretary of the Donetz Party Committee. At the All-Ukraine Party Conference held in 1920, he was elected secretary of the Cen- | tral Committee of the Ukrainian ; Communist Party. Since the 10th | Congress of the Party (1921) a } {member and secretary of the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist In 1928 and 1929, was secretary of the Mos- cow Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Since 1925, a member of the Political Cominittee. Since 1927, a member of the Presidium of the Central | Committee of the Soviets.. Author of a number of works dealing main- with the questions of Party or- ganizaiton and the Socialist re- | construction of the village. nw ly Machinery, U | and Wa Machinery has the same | athe: | |but on a much larger scale . It} supplants skilled laborers by.. un- | Skilled, men by women, adults by | children; where it is newly intro-/ duced it throws the hand-laborers | upon the streets in crowds; and | where it is perfected improved or} replaced by more powerful ma-j chines, discards them in slightly | smaller numbers. We have sketch- ed above, in hasty outlines, industrial war of capitalists with one another; and the war has this peculiarity, that its battles less by means of enlisting than of discharging its industrial recruits. The generals, or capitalists, vie | with one another as to whe can, | dispense with the greatest number jof soldiers. The economists repeatedly assure us that the laborers who are ren- dered superfluous by the machine | find new branches of employment. | They have not the hardihood di- rectly to assert that the laborers who are discharged enter upon the new branches of labor. The facts ery out too loud against such a lie as this. They only declare that, for other divisions of the laboring class, as, for instance, for the ris- ing generation of laborers who were just ready to enter upon the defunct branch of industry, nuw means of employment will open up. Of course that is a great sat- isfaction for the dismissed labor- ers. The worshipful capitalists will not find their fresh supply of exploitable fiesh and blood running short and. will let the dead. bury their dead. This is indeed a con- solation with which: the’ bourgeois comfort themselves rather than the laborers. If the whole class of wage-laborers were annihilated by { the} ; nemployment ge Cuts By KARL MARX are won! 4 |Z KARL MARX May 5, 1818—March 14, 1883 |the machines, how shocking thai would be for capital, which, with. out wage-labor, ceases to act ag capital at all. But let us suppose that those who are directly driven out of their employment by machinerw and also all those of the rising generation who were expecting employment in the same line, find some new employment. Does anye one imagine that this will be ag highly paid as that hich they have lost? Such an idea would be ir direct contradiction to all the law: of economy. We have alread: that the modern form of industr: always tends to the displacemen of the more complex and the high er kinds of employment by thos: which are more simple and suber dinate. How, then, could a crowd of la borers, who are throv.r out of on branch of: industry. by. machinery find refuge -in another without having to content themselves. .witl, a lower positien.and worse pay?