The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 5

ty Daily, IN TWO SECTIONS (SECTION TWO) Central DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 The XI. Plenum of the - Theses and Decisions - At the beginning of April the 11th Plenum of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International met in Moscow. heard: The Plenum 1. Comrade Manuilsky’s report on the tasks of the sections of the Communist International in connection with the aggravation of the eco- nomic crisis and the growth of the prerequisites of revolutionary crises in a number ef countries, and the co-reports of Comrades Thalmann, Lensky and Chemodanow on the situation and tasks of the CP's of Cer- many and Poland and of the YCI respectively. 9 Comrade Cachin’s report on the danger of military iatérven- tion against the U.S.S.R. The Plenum accepted inte the CI, as an independent section, the Communist Party of Indo-China which has existed several Years as a On the Tasks of the Sections of the Communist component part of the Communist Party into an independent party in Febr of France and v 1930; the Con of Cyprus which has been in existence several yoars, and the Communist Party of Iceland founded in November, 1930. The decisi e XI Plenum regarding these new sections has to be con VIE World Congress of the Communist International The Plenum elected a Presidium of 30 members and 12 candidates and confirmed the financial report cf the ECCT. All the decisions were adopted unanimously by the Plenum. The theses, resolutions and decisions of the Xi Plenum of the ECCT will be published, POLIT-SECRETARIAT OF THE ECCI. International in Connection With the Deepening Economic Crisis and Growth of the Prerequisites - of Revolutionary Crises in a Number of Countries : Theses of the KI Plenum of the E.C.C.1. on the Report of Com. Manuilsky and the Co-Reports of Comrades Thalman, Lensky and Chemodanov on the Conditions and Yasks of the Comumnist Parties of Ger- many, Poland and the Young Commumnist International Respectively — I, THE CRISIS OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.—THE GROWING UPSURGE OF < Bigs -IN THE SOVIET UNION. : SOCIALISM - The greatest world economic crisis in history that developed in the past year on the basis of the ‘generai crisis of capitalism and which affected all capitalist coun- tries and all the principal branches of production, and the gigantic growth of Socialist construction in the USSR have revealed with un- paralleled acuteness the antagon- ism between the system that is building up socialism and the dec- aying capitalism. The antagonisms between the capitalist and the so- cialist systems have never developed with such force, and the advant- ages of the Socialist system over the capitalist system have never been revealed so strikingly as they. ‘are now. The bankruptcy of the capitalist system of production based upon the exploitation, slavery and subjection to market competi- tion, and the superiority of the planned system of Socialist economy based on the socialization of the means of production, on the aboli- tion of exploitation and on the systematic improvement of the ‘material and-cultural level of the ‘toilers have now become clearly This growing contrast between the two systems, which is the kernel “of contemporary international re- dations, affects the further develop- iment of the contradictions within the imperialist world which have become particularly intensified as ‘a result of the crisis. Deprived of: the opportunity of exploiting and imperdalistically enslaving the peoples of the. U.S.S.R. by the October Revolution and finding themselves direetivy menaced: by, ihe Socialistic industrialization of the USSR. which is creating the con- ditions for the economic develop- ment of the land of the Projetarian Dictatorship independently of the technique of the capitalist coun- tries, the imperialists are with in- creasing fury hurling themselves into the struggle against each other for markets, which are becoming more and more restricted as a con- Sequence of the crisis and the grow- ing impoverishment of the masses. The efforts being made by the im- perialists to extricate themselves from the crisis at the expense of the toilers, at the expense of their competitors, at the expense of the colonies and of the USSR., are lead- ing to an unrestrained policy of Protection and Dumping, to the in- tensification of the imperialist struggle for world hegemony and for the redistribution of the colo- nies, to increased preparation for imperialist wars and for military intervention in the USSR. The year that has passed since the last Enlarged Presidium of the ECCI (Feb. 1930) has been a year of historical change: it revealed the growing crisis and the impending doom of the system and the victorious rise of socialist con- struction, Capitalist stabilization is coming to an end. In the USSR., the lay- img of the foundation of socialist economy is being completed. - | 1, In the capitalist countries {he development of the industrial crisis finds expressiony a) in the unin- terrupte] restriction of produciion: b) in the sharp diminution in con- Stamption . in the: home: market! as- & Consequence of the impoverish- ment of the masses: c) in the enormous trade, In the USSR., where there is not only no crisis but rapid develop- ment, the increase in production is proceeding at a rate. unparalleied in capitalist ‘countries. ‘The Five- Year Plan of Industrial construc- tion is not only being fulfilled. but exceeded, In the basic: industries the Five-Year Plan is being cartied out in three years and in a, number of important industries (oil in- dustry, engineering and others), the Five-Year Plan has been fulfilled already in two and a half years. Capital investments - in industry, transport and electrification are in- creasing rapidly (60 per cent in 1930; 80 per cent in 1931). On the basis of Socialist’ Competition and the application of the latest modern technique the productivity of labor is steadily increasing, the consump- tion of: the masses is Steadily in- creasing, the consistent policy of fixed prices pursued by the pro- letarian Pd aoe the Circulation of co y between industry and agriculture, guarantees the systematic increase in ‘real wages and in the inoomes of the peasant farms. — 2. Im the capitaiist countries the economic crisis, inter-woven with the’ agrarian crisis, to an enormous degree accelerates the | pauperiza- tion ‘of millions*of the peasantry who are ruined by the drop in prices of agricultural produce and are overburdened with high taxes, foiced labor, rent, - and. usurous debts. Tle! process of dégrnilation reduction im foreign of small and middie farms has be- come strikingly marked. In order to overcome the agrarian crisis the bourgeois governments’ are taking measures to reduce the acreage un- der cultivation for the staple food products and agricultural raw mate- rials, The incteasing mechaniza- tion of agriculture in a number of capitalist countries, affecting main- ly the capitalist farms; serves still more to accelerate the impoverish- ment of the broad toiling masses of the peasantry, In the USSR., the rapid develop- ment of agriculture: (the increase in the cultivated area the increase in yield) is due tothe decisive turn of the poor and middle peasants, under the leadership of the work- ing class, towards. collective farm- ing. The Five-Year Plan for col- lectivization has been carried out in two years. As a result of the Socialistic transformation of the countryside (collective farms and Soviet farms), the material and cul- tural level of the toiling peasants has been considerably improved; the Five-Year Plan of commodity grain production is being more than fulfilled in two years; agriculture is being placed on & machine and tractor basis and from year to year the capital invested in agriculture by the proletarian government is increasing. On the basis of mass | collectivization the liquidation of | the kulaks as a class is taking place and the decisive masses of the mid- die peasants, organized in collective farms, are becoming transformed into a firm bulwark of the prole- tarian dictatorship. ~ Se |) By) Has the capitalist icomntrits: the 4 bourgedisie is attacking the work. ing class and the masses of ‘the toilers and is striving by measures of economic plunder to transier ta the shoulders of the toilers all the consequences of the crisis dismissals and unemployment, wage cuts, increased taxés on the work- ing class, on the rural toilers and urban poor, increased tariffs, «arti ficially preventing the drop iz prices, cutting dewn social i ance, et¢.). This capitalist o - sive dooms the proletariat to the misfortune of cruel mass poverty Unemployment unparalleled in his- tory affecting nearly 35,000,000 in- dustrial workers (in addition to the millions of unemployed agricuitural proletarians, particularly in the colonies .and semi-colonies net in- cluded in these statistics), who flood the labor market, are utilized by the capitalists for the purpose of Steadily forcing down the wages of the employed workers. This cap- italist offensive is not only directed against the working class, but also against other broad strata of toilers in town and country whose vital interests compel them to establish. ® united front with the proletariat against predatory monopolist capt- tal. Mortality, prostitution, and suicide among the toilers are in- creasing. Particularly severe is the capitalist offensive in the colonies (mass - where the working class has to bear ‘thé’ double yoke of the imperialist -and of the native bourgeoisie, and is subjected to the most barbarous exploitation. In the midst of the crisis the slavish character of wage laber in capitalist enterprises be- comes Wore) strikingly; revealed than ‘“