The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1931, Page 7

DAILY WUKKERK, NEW YORK, pees The Third Year of the 5-Year Plan and Socialist Construction in USSR —ss By HARRISON GEORGE It has set the whole world talking. And with good reason. Did not Herbert Hoover, the “great en- gineer” declare in 1927 that “Russia is an. economic vacuum”? Now look { at it! Even the American sky-pilots are establishing “five year plans” for their churches, and hardly a leading capitalist opens his mouth withou' moaning about the “lack of plan” under capitalism and proposing a five, a ten, and with Hoover—a “twenty year plan.” But they only propose. Because capitalism is inescapably unable to plan. <cioover virtually admitted it when he proposed a “twenty year plan” of NOT TRYING TO PLAN AT ALL! Anyone who wonders why capital- isis cannot plan the national econ- omy and wonders still more why the Bolsheviks can and do plan successfully, will never understand the answer unless they frasp the BIG FACT that, in the Soviet Union, they are working on a plan of BUILDING SOCIALISM! THE NEW KHARKOV The farmers in capitalist America starve amidst plenty; agriculture in the Soviet Union is socialized. | When, in America, Matthew Woll, half, A new machine in a Soviet factory REDUCES HOURS and RAISES WAGES for all! That’s where the-7-hour day comes from in the Soviet Union! That’s why un- employment is abolished! Without you understand the SO- CIALIST CHARACTER. of the Five Year Plan, you don’t understand it at all; you don’t understand why + | the same thing can’t be done in America WITHOUT A REVOLU- TION; you don’t understand why the so-called “socialist” party is really opposed to socialism, because they are opposed w & REVOLU- TION, which is the only way so- cialism can be established. Only when you understand that the FIVE YEAR PLAN is BUILD- ING SOCIALISM, building new and different relationships between the workers and the things they produce, can you possibly understand why Soviet industry is advancing at a rate that no capitalist country’s in- dustry ever did equal, while in cap- italist America industry is stagnat- and all the “plans” the cap- italists make is only to REGULATE ine. STAGNATION, to REDUCE PRO- Mr. Swope, or any other apologist of DUCTION! capitalism, talks about a “plan,” is not to “build” anvthing, least of all to build socialism. -ook over the “Chadbourne plan” to REDUCE sugar production. What | 20t any capitalisis-GET THE IN- aces them NOT through “dumping,” did Gerard Swope propose, to “build” | CREASING BENEFIT of increasing} but through SHOWING THE anything. NO! To “limit and re- Only when you understand that it ’ Soviet Union is NOT THE REASON | please examine it. You'll find that it ] is because the workers and farmers ‘for the crisis of capitalism all over in the Soviet Union OWN AND, RUN GOVERNMENT, and OWN AND RUN INDUSTRY and they— production, will you whderstand why ; strict. production”! Then remember | 518 giant NEW factories and plants, that the Soviet Five Year Plan is | Some of them bigger and more mod- ‘TO BUILD, TO INCREASE PRO- ern than anything ever built any- DUCTION! We want to emphasize where in any country are beginning this difference. 3ut WHY is this difference? And operation THIS YEAR, a year in which capitalist industry in Amer- ica is CLOSING DOWN and de- the general answer is that, under, creasing production! espitalism, production is carried through only IF the private cap- italist owners of the means of pro- duction figure they can make a profit for themselves—for a hand- ful of the rich, and the MOTIVE for production is NOT to feed, clothe and shelter the masses of people. Since many capitalists are producing clothes, let’s say, each hoping to sell them to the same people, the masses, and the masses don’t get enough wages to buy them All—although they really need them all—there is “over-production.” So the clothing capitalist come to grief and holler for “a plan.” But since all their “plans” are NOT to raise wages, but lower wages; NOT to give jobs and wages to ALL work- ers, but to give as few jobs and at as low wages as possible—and to REDUCE PRODUCTION, all their “plans” cannot work. And if they could possibly work, ‘vould force millions to go without clothes. The Soviet Five Year Plan is completely DIFFERENT! It is a SOCIALIST plan! The U. S. Bureau of ‘Labor Statistics show that be- tween June, 1929 and June, 1931, the total wages paid in American fac- tories were out 39 per cent. But in the Soviet Union, from 1927 to 1930, wages INCREASED 32.7 per cent! Workers should understand that this ‘is not only the SOCIALIST RESULT of the Soviet Five-Year Plan, but is the basic cause of its continued SUCCESS in building up industry. A new machine estab- Only when you understand that the farmers GET THE INCREASED BENEFIT of more and better crops jits products, while in 1930, under TRACTOR FACYORY OPENED ON OCTOBER Ist ) that way encouraging them to do as in the Soviet Union, can you under-' stand why 15,000,000 separate little farms have overnight combined in COLLECTIVE farming, why they NEW HOMES-FOR TEXTILE WORKERS IN IVANOVO- j per cent of what is produced in the are using tractors and ELECTRIC | PLOWS where only a few years ago they had only oxen and wooden plows, while in capitalist America mechanization of farming has stop- ped advancing after the RICH farmers have been equipped while | the MAJORITY of farmers are | LOSING OUT, becoming poorer with the load of rent, taxes and mortgages, and millions are farming | with a single-share plow and an old | mule! American capitalists try to make | American workers believe that the | Soviet Five Year Plan is a “menace” | to American workers; they talk | about “dumping.” But according to a Democrat congressman, William I. | Sirovich of New York who just re- turned from visiting the Soviet | Union, this “dumping” story is 4 He, because—and he speaks the truth on this—in 1913 under the Czar, Russia exported 3 per cent of the Soviets, it exports only 1.9 per cent of its products. So it is clear that more of its products are being | used INSIDE Russia than ever be- (ee fore; and it is also clear that 1.9 the world! | But the Five Year Pian DOES / menace the capitalists. But it men- WORKERS IN AMERICA the RE- SULTS OF SOCIALISM, and in the Russian workers did fourteen years ago, by encouraging workers to OVERTHROW CAPITALISM! Prepare for the National Hunger March to Washing- ton, Dec. 7. Fight for Un- employment ‘Insurance at the complete expense of the bosses and their govern- | ment. VOSNESENSK _ In the Soviet Union the constant improvement of living conditions lished in an American factory puts|for the workers—in capitalist America mass unemployment and wage- perhaps half the workers out of aj cuts, such as 25,000 textile workers in Lawrence, Mass,, are now striking Job and reduces yfages of the other | against. 1931 Wall Street’s By HARRY GANNES, “To tell you the truth, the am- bition of my life is to crush out Soviet Russia!” That was the statement made by President Hoo- ver to Benjamin C. Marsh of the People’s Lebby in Washington. Nor is Mr. Hoover expressing his own ambition. He speaks the upper- most desire in the minds of the leading imperialists in the United States. It is this desire to crush out the workers’ republic that is the foun- dation of the policy of American imperialism in Manchuria in the | present conflict with Japanese im- perialism. The two powers proceed to an agreement for a division of the spoils in Manchuria (the United States getting a large interest in 1,200 miles of railways) with a view to strengthening the anti-Soviet front. American imperialism, along with Japanese, follows the French policy of setting up a strong im- perialist fortress, a “cordon sani- taire’ on the Far Eastern front, equivalent to the French chain of | anti-Soviet puppet states in Europe | such as Poland, Jugoslavia, Czecho- slavia, Rumania, etc. Manchurian “Independence.” Japan, having promised to shed a little of Manchuran blood for | Wall Street’s sake, proceeds now to set up “independent” rulers in Manchuria to insure the control of this colony, to keep down Bolshe- vism within Manchuria, and, with the support of Wall Street, strengthen the war front against the Soviet Union. It is not the special situation in | Manchuria that gives the drive to Wall Street’s desire to smash the Soviet Union. Manchurian events merely bring closer the objective of the imperialist powers—an attempt fo achieve a united front against the workers’ republic to wipe out this revolutionary force through war. The capitalist papers in the larger cities in this country are very careful to sweeten or distort the war propaganda against the Soviet Union, But when the prop- aganda of the imperialists against the Soviet Union seeps down into the smaller cities, especially into the South, where the Southern slave-driving rulers feel their hatred against the Soviet Union so keenly, this propaganda becomes open and unalloyed. For example, here is a sharp call for war as expressed by “The Progress,” a daily paper of Charlottesville, Va.: “Don't let anybody fool you into thinking a war is not brew- ing against the Soviet Union. It will begin as an embargo, with 4 view of creating imsurrection in Russia, and then going in to establish peace.” Clear cut, to say the least. Though it was written months be- Socialist Competition By LENIN Only now has the possibility for wide and really mass display of enterprise; competition, and bold initiative been created. Every factory from which the capitalist has been ejected, or at least put under restraint by real workers’ control, every village from which his land was con- fiscated, is now, and only now, @ field in which the work- ing man can revéal himself, straighten his back and feel that he is a man. Now, for the first time, after centuries of working for others, of subjection to ex- ploiters, it has become possible to work for oneself, and, more- over, to do work with the aid of all the conquests of modern technique and culture. Billions spent in USSR on Social Insurance. Billions spent in capitalist America on wars. “WE DON'T WANT A SINGLE Foor OF FOREIGN TERRITORY. ‘BUT WE SHALL NOT GIVE UP: al SINGLE INCH OF OUR OWN TERRITORY EITHER, TO ANYONE.”—STALIN. Against the Soviet Union Page Three New Fortress fore the Japanese Budhist “Pope,” Count Otani, appealed to the “American people” to unite with Japan against the Soviet Union, it shows that all the imperialist pow- ers feel this is their central point of common action. There is a com- mon “brotherhood” of the exploit- ers on the cult of “The Soviet. Union must be destroyed!” “Before the Plan is Finished.” Count Otani pleaded for the blow to be struck before the Five-Year Plan is completed. He pleaded for a united front of Wall Street and Japan in Manchuria. On the eve of the 14th anniversary of the Soviet Union his pleas, through the negotiations of Japanése and Amer- ican imperialicts, are meeting with response. A new and dangerous war front is rising against the Soviet Union in Manchuria. With Laval’s visit to Hoover, the imperialists will attempt to strengthen the imperial- ist iron ring around the workers’ republic. The Five-Year Plan anil the Struggle far Peace By V. M. MOLOTOY We are conducting a consist- ent policy of peace. We shall not only not give up our struggle for peace, but shall continue it all round. Our fight for the Five-Year Plan is inseparably bound up with the struggle for peace. The facts prove the correct- ness of the Leninist policy of the Soviet Power. The correctness of the Bolshevist line finds its Vv. M. MOLOTOV Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars confirmation achievements of the Soviet Pow- in the great er, in. the successful carrying through of the Five-Year Plan. The Bolshevist line is victorious. We must, however, think not only of today but also of tomor- row. Therefore, we declare: If under peaceful conditions of So- cialist Construction we are prov- ing in practice the correctness of the Bolshevist line, also in the moment of our conflicts, when the imperialists attempt to break the peace and to prevent our So- cialist Construction by an arm- ed attack upon the Soviet Un- ion, we shall know how to prove the correctness of the Bolshevist line and our Bolshevist force.