The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 5

Soviet Budget IncomeSoars, | No Deficit, BudgetShows Soviet Income Rise 4- Fold; U.S.A. Staggers 10 Billions in Debt (Exclusive to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (By Cable).— Accompanied by loud and continu- ous applause, Comrade Joseph Stalin was elected chairman of the Constitution Commission at the Seventh Soviet Congress. The Con- stitution Commission is making amendments to the Constitution providing for greater extension of proletarian democracy in the Soviet Union. | Among the unanimously elected members of the Constitution Com- mission are chairmen of the Cen- tral Executive Committee and Council of Peoples Commissars of all the Republics of the Soviet Union, Bubnov, Litvinoy, Akulov, Krylenko, Bukharin, Stassova, Ra- ee | onstrate their comment dek, Unschlict, etc. The elections of the government organs has been completed. Com- rade Kalinin called on Grinko, Peo- ples Commissar of Finance, to pre- sent his report on the state budget. of the U.S. 5S. R. Financial Policy In an exhaustive speech, Comrade Grinko dealt in detail with the principles of Soviet financial policy and the character of the Soviet budget. The Soviet financial sys- tem, its peculiarities and its suc- cesses on the ruins of the capitalist money system, has served for many years as an object of special atten- tion of many bourgeois economists. Not understanding the basis of the plan of socialist economy, con- fused on questions of the gold back- ing of currency, they repeatedly prophesied the “downfall” of So- viet finances. The Soviet Union, Grinko pointed out, has real suc- cesses in the sphere of organization of its monetary system, and is steadily strengthening Soviet cur- rency. During four years the income of the state and local budgets of the U. 8. S. R, increased from 12.4 billion rubles to 53.7 billion rubles; that is, four and a half times. The Soviet state budget has no deficit. During the last four years, excess income of the state budegt of the U. S. S. R. over expenditures comprised 7.6 billion rubles. Which capitalist country can boast such successes? During the same four years the budget deficits in England pounds; were 24,000 million 22,504 million 10,845 million Germany, U. 8. Ay The basis of the growth of the budget resources of the proletarian state is the steady growth of the output and turnover of commodi- ties year by year, the increase of the materials for the welfare of the masses. Construction Funds The inflow of the funds of the population into socialist construc- | tion has tremendously increased. Leading Communists To Extend Soviet Laws MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (By Cable). The highest governing body in the Soviet Union, the Central Executive Committee, which had been elected ‘by the workers’ delegates at yester- day's concluding session of the All- Union Congress of Soviets, met for {ts first session in order: 1.) To elect its chairmen; 2) To elect 31 members of a commission to amend the Soviet constitution in accord- ance with the decision of the Sev- enth Congress of Soviets, and; 3.) ‘To hear the report of People’s Com- missar of Finance S. E. Grinko on the budget of the U.S.S.R. for 1935. As chairmen of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee the following were elected: M. Kalinin, G, I. Petroyski, M. Cheryakov, G. Musa- bekov, C. Hojjayev, J. Aitakoy, and A. Rakhimbayev. A. 8. Yenikidze was chosen as Secretary of the Committee. V. M. Molotoy was re- elected as Chairman of the Coun- cil of People’s Commissars; those elected as his assistants were V. Y. Chubar, Y, BE. Rudzutak, and V. J. Mezhiauk, Among those elected to the amendment commission were Jo- seph Stalin, V. M. Molotov, J. K. Kaganovitch, Maxim Litvinoff, and Karl Radek. 22,000 To Attend Chess Tournament MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (By Wireless) — Organized workers in the Red Cap- ital are displaying a tremendous in- terest in the international chess tournament which begins on Feb. 15 in Moscow, with Capablanca and other celebrated chess players par- ticipating. The organizational com- mittee has already received requests from 22,000 people for tickets. In the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, where the tournament will take place, a big exhibition has opened, illustrating the tremendous develop- ment of the chess movement in the Soviet Union. In the room adjoining the hall) where the games will take place, there will be daily lightning tour- naments for spectators. Professionals \ not engaged in the tournament on particular days will also participate in these lightning tournaments. Si- multaneously there will be competi- tion in solving problems and studies. During recesses, specialists will dem- games, giving de- sailed 4 : democracy. This shock-worker, Comrade Samsolova, has been decorated for her fine work on the collective farm, “Tractor,” a kolkhox near Cheboksari, the capital of the Chuvash Autonomous Republic. The tremendous progress made im socializing agricultare throughout the Union is the basis for the entenston of Sotiet DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Used to Build New L ife for Toilers, Grinko Says | Blast furnace No. 6 at the Rykov Metallurgical Plant in the Donetz Basin, metallurgy the Soviet Union ranks first in the world. | socialist construction, and is the backbone of all heavy industry and machine production, A SOVIET INDUSTRIAL GI ANT WorkersThrill Metallurgy is one of the vital links in the chain of 2,000 Deputies With Reports Artists Show Talents Liberated by Soviet Re- gime of Democracy MOSCOW. Feb 7 By Cc Dise cussion of reports made by Chernov Kalmanovich e) regarding in« in cattle breeding was cone dat the Soviet Congress yess tion of t prominent painte Graber, honored f of the dele- g picturesquely and ers and sct spoke recour n bel ion ingly the v erences in the conditions of life and creative work of painters under capitalist and Sn- cialist society. A great connoisseur he laughed at the hypocrite tatement of bourgeois art crite ics regarding of art “freedom apitalism, and with great genuine fervor spoke about the real freedom which the artist enjoys in the Soviet Union. The painters pre= sented the Congress with a still life painting called “Flowers,” by the old Russian painter Konchaloysky, a painting entitled “Mechanized of art, core rupted t Tn almost all fields of The number of bondholders of So- viet loans has increased from 8,000,- 000 to 46,000,000; the number of de- positors in savings banks has reached 35,000,000. Comrade Grinko dealt in detail with the role of the Soviet state loans, giving many letters of work- ers and collective farmers showing the enormous faith which the toil- ing masses have in Soviet loans. The Soviet Union has built a pow- erful financial basis for Socialist construction. The budget of the U. 8. S. R. is the budget of vic- torious construction of Soclalist | economy and culture, This is clearly seen from every figure of the budget of 1935. This | budget, adopted by the government, jand presented for confirmation of the session, amounts to 65.7 billion rubles income, compared to 49 billions in 1934. Expenditures are set at 66.2 billions. In the U. S, 8. R. there is no Place for parasitic, non-productive | expenditures in the budget. Every | ruble 4s spent for the benefit of the | toilers. |. Dealing .with the increase in ex- | penditure in the budget for various branches of national economy, con- struction and for culture, Grinko tion of increasing the expenditure for the defense of the country. Defense Budget In the 1935 budget there is pro- vided 6.5 billion rubles for the heeds devoted special place to the ques- | of defense. However, the proportion of the estimates of the Peoples Commissariat for Defense in the state budget of the U. S.S. R. is much smaller than the proportion ofwthe military expenditures in the budgets of capitalist countries. As a tireless fighter for peace, the | Soviet Union never for a moment conceals the fact that in the con- ditions of the preparation against an armed attack on the first pro- letarian state in the world, the U.| 8. 8. R. must take steps and takes them for supplying everything nec- | essary for the Red Army. The fulfillment of the enormous financial program of the Soviet Union is responsible and compli- cated work. However, undoubtedly under the leadership of the Party and the Soviet government, this program will be fulfilled and ensure steady financing for the program of the third year of the Second Five- Year Plan. Today, the budget commission re- port was discussed. MOSCOW, Feb. 9 (By Cable). —| Elected at the Seventh All-Union | Congress of Soviets, the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics opened its first session here yesterday at the Great Kremlin Palace. Before beginning this session, sep- arate meetings were held of the | | | | | | |U. 8. 8. Council of the Union, and the Coun- cil of Nationalities for the election of leading organs of the Central Executive Committee of the U. 8. 8. R, and the government of the Soviet Union, Both chambers unanimously elect- ed a presidium of the Council of the Union and Council of Nationalities, a chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the U. 8. S. R., Coun- cil of Peoples Commissars of the U. 8. S. R., Constitution Commis- sion, and chairman of the Budget Commission of the Central Execu- tive Committee of the U.S.S.R, Comrade Unshlicht was elected secretary of the Council of the Union, and Comrade Khatskevich was elected Secretary of the Coun- cil of Nationalities. Budget Report Both chambers made a decision to listen to the report of Comrade Grinko, Peoples Commissar of Fi- nance on the state budget of the U. 8. 5. R. for 1935 at a joint ses- sion. Comrade Kalinin opened the joint session of the Council of the Union and Council of Nationalities. Comrade Yenukidze stated that ac- cording tothe constitution of the R., the presidium of the Central Executive Committee is to be formed of three parts: The presidium of the Council of the Nationalities, nine persons; and an- other nine elected at a joint meet- ing of both chambers, Soviet Sailors Thrill World By Daring Rescue MOSCOW, Feb 7 (By Wireless). — Soviet sailors risked their lives in the rescue of the crew of the Nor- wegian steamer Fro, wrecked near Aalesund on the rocky Norwegian coast at dawn Monday. The Soviet steamer, Sacco, bound from Hull with a cargo for Murmansk, received S.OS. calls by radio, and despite a heavy storm set out immediately by direction of the captain of the ves- sel for the distressed vessel. During a heavy storm and blizzard, the Fro had struck a rock, developing a list. Enormous waves swept the steamer, The steamer was thrown on its side, leaving the crew to swing on ropes, sailors lowered boats, approached the Fro and rescued the crew. The rescued men received medical aid on board the Sacco and rapidly recovered, The Sacco was built in Baltic ship- yards in 1928, at the same time as a similar ship, the timber carrier Van- retti. OSLO.—AIl papers here give de- tails of the rescue of the crew of Norwegian steamer Fro by Soviet sailors. ‘The Morgenbladet publishes a long interview with the captain of the wrecked ship. At a critical mo- ment, he said, when the Norwegian making it impossible to lower boats. | At the risk of their lives, the Soviet | sailors were threatened with certain death, the Soviet timbership has- tened to the rescue, According to this captain, the Soviet sailors dis- played wonderful bravery and self-| sacrifice. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency in its report also stresses the heroism of the sailors of the Soviet steamer. | Soviet seamen performed excellent | work under conditions of darkness | and storm, says the report. | The population of Norway has| shown great interest in this event. | | Having landed the rescued men at | the nearest port, the Sacco con-| tinued its voyage to the North. Women’s Day Parley Called in Los Angeles! LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 8. |The second conference in prepara- | tion for International Women’s Day will be held here at the Cul- tural Center, 230 South Spring} Street, it was announced today. | At the first conference held on} Jan. 25, resolutions were passed {condemning the Criminal Syndical- | | ism Law, war and fascism and a resolution pledging whole-hearted support to the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. All organizations have been urged to send delegates. 19 Hurtas Ship | have served in any armed forces are Donbass,” a bust and portrait of ~|Comrade Stalin by Gerasimov, young Soviet painter. On leaving the hall, members of the artists’ delegation warmly embraced Grabar, thanking him for formulating so well in his speech the sentiments of all Soviet pictorial artists. | Director Vassiliev, one of the ators of the last masterpiece of viet film, Chapayey, spoke in be= half of the workers in Soviet cin- ematography. He told about the flourishing Soviet cinema, about the joy which its creators know in the working class atmosphere, of the exceptional attention and care given it by the Party, the govern- ment and all toilers. The Party and the Government, stated Vassiliev, decorated many of us with the highest awards on the day of qur 15th anniversary. ‘This 1° in ks a Ferry PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8 (UP).— Nineteen persons were injured when the Reading Railway ferryboat Cape May, and the tanker London Corp., collided in the Delaware River to- day. The freighter struck the ferry midships on the port side, ripping hole 20 feet long in the passenger compartment, The master of the freighter held the nose of his craft in the ferry’s side until tugs came alongside. The ferry settled in the water pledges us to a great deal We as- and rescue boats removed passen- sure the Congress of the Soviets gers, that under the leadership of the Those injured were taken to | Leninist party and Stalin, we shall create new pictures worthy of our great epoch.” The Congress replied | with stormy ovation. Then Petrov- | sky, head of the Ukrainian delega- tion presiding at the Congress gave the floor to Yenikidze for a report Cooper Hospital, Camden. Vets’ Post Makes Drive CHICAGO, IIL, Feb. 8—All ex- | servicemen in the Chicago area who on constitutional questions. “The Seventh Congress of the So- being urged to join Post. 197 of the | viets,” said Yenikidze, “will go into American League of Ex-servicemen, | the history of Soviet Power and the which meets here every Tuesday | construction of Socialism as one of night at 1133 West Washington! the most important of Congresses. Boulevard. Post 197 is now under- | This Congress will undoubtedly oc taking a membership drive and has | cupy a place in the history of the urged all ex-servicemen to attend | Soviets such as is held by the Sev- the regular meetings. +enteenth Party Congress in the his- |tory of the victories of the pro< (Continued From Page Four) | this will put the question forward of strengthening the living contact of Soviet organs with the toiling| masses, and will contribute to the vitalizing of the entire work of the Soviets, The very fact of passing from open to secret ballot vividly em- phasizes the growth of proletarian democracy in the Soviet Union, and the striving of the Soviet govern- ment to place the work of its organs under a still stronger control by workers and peasants. If among the ruling classes, the bourgeois coun- | tries are at present turning to cur- tailment of the electoral system and the rights of the broad masses are being replaced by the unlimited power of a handful of magnates of capital, the fact of passing over to secret ballot in the Soviet Union is evidence of the fact that Soviet | Power derives its strength from the growth of active participation by the masses in its entire state ad- ministration, from the strengthen- ing of mass control over the work of the entire state apparatus, from top to bottom. [Applause.] Compare the paths of development in bourgeois countries and the So- viet Union. A comparison of the development of the election system in the U. S. S. R. tells much. Dur- ing the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth cen- tury bourgeois democracy and par- liamentarism were developing. Di- rect, equal and secret ballot were the main political slogan of the bourgeois parties in the best years of their development. The con- fidence of the growing bourgeoisie, in its forces, its confidence in the ability of bourgeois power to subject the masses as if in accordance with their own will, with the will of their voters, found expression in the dem- ocratization of the election system. During the past two decades the situation has changed radically. Many have no longer their former confidence in the strength of the capitalist order. Worry for the mor- row is growing among the bourgeois masses. No one thinks any longer of widening bourgeois democratic rights, or even of preserving them. Everywhere ridicule is heaped on the universal, equal, direct, secret ballot system. Fascism, irreconcil- ably hostile even to bourgeois de- mocracy, to bourgeois parliamen- tarism, is widely coming into fash- ion, both in the policies of bourgeois administration and in the theory of the state. No confidence in the masses of the people! Such is the slogan of the ruling ciiques of the bourgeoisie and their fascist agencies. From bourgeois parliamentarism to bare- faced terrorist rule by capital over ® the toilers, under a fascist flag— Workers Extend Soviet Democracy as Socialism letarian dictatorship in the land of | the Soviets. This Congress is the most enthusiastic, most successful, most closely consolidated around the Party, and the Government, and firmly establishes the complete vic- Triumph that is the path of the development of bourgeois countries during the latest period. The Soviet Union travels along an entirely different path of de- velopment. Even during the first period, when the forces of the working class were still small, and certain restrictions in the election system were in- evitable, the Soviet order was the embodiment of the highest type of democracy, which means the draw- ing in of broad masses of the toilers to participation in state administra- tion on an unprecedented scale. While consistently carrying out the line proclaimed by the program of our Party and the Soviet Constitu- tion, we arrive at the abolition of individual restrictions in the elec- tion system, whose temporary char- acter Lenin invariably emphasized. The time has arrived when the country’s Sovieis, for the purpose of further strengthening the So- viet system, can pass over to a complete realization in our life of all that is best in universal suf- frage and an equal secret ballot— on the basis of Soviet order. [Ap- plause.] If the bourgeoisie in capi- talist countries are forced now to revile what it has itself written in its own textbooks, its own literature and social sciences, as the highest achievement of the bourgeois state, Soviet power, on the other hand, takes the best features in the devel- opment of modern states and boldly embodies them in life, in the inter- ests of the toilers and against the exploiters, in the interests of build- ing Socialism, [| Applause.] The Soviets haye been and re- main the basis of our system, But all that was best in parlia- mentarism: namely, direct, equal, secret election of representatives to the organs of state administration, coupled with universal participa- tion of all toilers, as is demanded by the Soviet Constitution, must now be completely carried out in the Soviet Union. ‘We thus secure a further devel- opment in the Soviet system, in the shape of combining directly elected local Soviets with direct election of a sort of Soviet parliament in the republics and a Soviet parlia- ment of the U.S. 5S. R. If in the camp of the bourgeoisie there no longer exists faith even in its own democracy, its own parlia- mentarism, we can understand this. The bourgeois system is already looking on its grave. On the other hand, we are certain that not only the toilers of our country but those far across the borders of the Soviet Union will correctly understand the Significance of the further democ- ratization of our election system, of the complete democracy realized by us. No matter what the class ene- mies say of the Soviet Union, the growth in the forces of the prole- tarian state, its confidence of vic- tory, are revealed both in small and large matters, both in individual state reforms and in the .changes in the election system which are now proposed. [Applause.] From the opposition between the paths of development of bourgeois countries and the Soviet, Union, our enemies as well as our friends will make each their own conclusions. We shall understand if in the country of the bourgeoisie, not only angry prophecies but also voices of admiration will be heard with re- gard to the boldness of our party, which unfolds the banner of prole- tarian democracy to its limit. We shall also understand if in the camp of our friends we see a new surge of energy and faith in the cause of Communism. [Stormy ap- plause.] With all the difference existing between the individual capitalist states, the basis of these states is the same. Bourgeois private prop- erty, which ensures the rule of cap- ital over the masses of the workers and peasants, is the basis of these states, Through the course of cap- italist development, this pronerty is being concentrated in the hands of an ever smaller number of people, in the hands of individual capital- ist monopolists. An ever greater mass of the population is doomed to a position of wage slavery, of semi-pauperism, particularly in the countryside. The contradictions in the capitalist system are sharpen- ing, and Russia’s revolutionary exit from the capitalist system in the October, 1917, days proved even then that the system is cracked, is heading towards catastrophe. The historical consciousness of the position of contemporary capi- talism is already not alien even to the acknowledged leaders of the capitalist state. It is easy, however, to guess that the leaders of bourgeois society are unable to make conclusions consis- tent in any way from their own statements, inasmuch as for the whole bourgeois camp private prop- erty in the means of production is always “sacred and inviolate.” All efforts of bourgeois governments directed towards utilizing the state machinery to protect this property, that is to protect the riches of the bourgeoisie against each and every “attempt” on the part of the toil- ers. In the meantime, the preser- vation of private property is in- separably linked with economic o sis, disaster, unemployment, pov- erty in the countryside, and an ever increasing sharpening of social contradictions. AH “reforms” of the bourgeois so full are after all reduced to one: final removal of the population from an influence on the state ap- paratus, and a complete merging together of the state with the powerful organizations of monopo- listic capital. By this process the essence of government is revealed as bourgeois dictatorship, and it loses the remnants of seeming rep- resentation of the interests of the masses. The state is utilized more and more, one might say, to the limit, as a machine for the sup- pression of every protest among the population. Thus it loses its last authority among all strata of the toilers. This basic line of development in modern bourgeois states is the main feature of the present period, no matter behind what superstruc- tures of the fascist type, the un- limited power of the capitalists hides itself. The bourgeois stoops to anything, to make the state ap- paratus an instrument to preserve capitalism with its basis of private property. It already has seen that the old methods of bourgeois de- mocracy and parliamentarism are at present unsuitable. Therefore it passes to terrorist methods of ad- ministration along its entire front. But, as Comrade Stalin pointed out at the Seventeenth Party Congress, this expresses not only the present weakness of the organizations of the working class, but also the weakness of the bourgeoisie itself, which must resort more and more to the most hateful methods of ad- ministration. In so far as the bour- geoisie passes to applying these hateful methods of administration, just. so much more it arrives at the exhausting of all its means of pro- tecting the bourgeois system. This indicates that the bourgeois class is already grasping at its last means of preservation, and cannot hold out long. We citizens of the Soviet Union live in another world. The proletarian dictatorship de- rives its strength from the alliance of workers and peasants in a new type of state. This state originated as a result of the victory of the working class over the bourgeoisie, for the purpose of the complete liquidation of the bourgeoisie and classes in general. If the bour- geoisie at present makes desperate but hopeless attempts to perpetu- ate classes, the domination of the minority over the majority, by in- troducing this anti-democratic re- organization and reform in state apparatus, Soviet power unswerv- ingly and successfully advances in the opposite direction, with the aim of liquidating all classes, all sur- vivals of capitalism in the very con- sciousness of the people. In the state of which the latest period was] hands of the working class, the state apparatus has been made to serve the construction of a classless | Socialist, society, the elimination of | every obstruction along this road. | The state as a special kind of appa- ratus was created many centuries ago; but only the workers’ and | peasants’ power transformed it from an instrument of domination of the minority over the majority into an instrument of the majority over the exploiting minority. With such an instrument as the Soviet state in its hands, and demonstrating a true revolutionary vigilance in regard to the class enemy whose hatred in the’ face of our successes knows no bounds, the working class of the U. S. S. R., together with the col- lective farm peasantry, will attain complete victory. rs Along what road the development of the Soviet state is proceeding is best seen at present, when our Party is putting forward certain changes in the Soviet constitution. This path is the developing of proletarian, Soviet democracy to the limit. The Soviet state has already served the peoples of the U.S. S. R. in many ways in their | liberation from the power of the capitalists, the landlords, the ku- laks, and in the cause of raising the material and cultural well-being of the toilers, but the Soviet state has not yet accomplished its task com- pletely. It still must help in many ways to strengthen Socialist prop- erty, to improve the life of workers and peasants, and at the necessary moment—to defend with all its forces the borders of the Soviet Union against the foreign enemy. (Stormy applause.] In the Soviet state the workers in the city, the toilers in the coun- tryside, are for the first time in history merged into one family— into one family of builders of So- cialism. In this rests the power of the Soviet system based on the de- velopment of proletarian democ- racy. This alliance of workers and peasants, under the leadership of our Party, began the performance of miracles, miracles to every one. Had not the working class of our country received powerful support for the proletarian revolution from the peasantry, no Soviet Union would be in existence now. Only this support insured for the revolt- ing proletariat victory in the Oc- tober Revolution and the trazsfor- mation of our Union into the land of Socialism. We must also not forget the lessons of peasant upris- ings of the past. Think of how many peasant uprisings were de- feated by the landlords and the bourgeoisie, how many peasants perished in the revolutionary strug- gle for their liberation from their tory of Socialism in the U.S. S. R. where, could the peasants fight duvdlopadSestint vexciaien aoe themselves free of disastrous con- | ginning in agricultural localities, ditions, until, as it happened in and ending in the capitalist of the our country, the only consistent | union republics and the U. S. 8. Re revolutionary class, the proletariat,| “Tt is the consummation of thou= took the leadership of the entire | sands of Congresses in the districts, mass of the toilers. The prole- regions, provinces of the Republics. tarian revolution in our country Everywhere these meetings and proved that only the working class, | congresses summarized the results leaning on the peasants and the of vast achievements in all fields of entire mass of the toilers, can lead the life of the proletarian state. So- with honor the uprising against the | cialism has triumphed completely, bourgeoisie and the building of a irrevocably. In accordance with new Socialist society. these social and economic changes The unconquerable force of the brought about by the conquests up principles of the Soviet state is con- | to now, it is necessary for the Sev tained in the fact that it develops |enth Congress to review the Cone the basis for an ever greater, ever stitution of the U. 5. 8. R. and to more all-embracing drawing in of ge it aay. secon vin Wat oe the masses into Soviet Socialist |15 true o! e country, e construction. The proposal of our include all that has been conquered Party regarding the further dem- in the construction of Socialism and ocratization of the Soviet election | 0 outline the perspectives for fur system is a vivid confirmation of | ‘ure development. the development of democracy in| ‘This also requires a number of our country. The very fact of put- | amendments in the Constitution. ting this question before the pres- | “If we remember the usual division ent Congress vividly testifies to the | of a Constitution into immobile and living, close link between our Party | inflexible parts,” concluded Yen- and the masses of the toilers. iki “then we can say that the The question of the Soviet con- | Soviet Constitution, the Constitu- stitution raised at the present time | tion of the dictatorship of the pro- reflects the tremendous growth of | Jetariat, is the most flexible of all Socialism in our country. At the Ser plas known By history. Bus same time the introduction of | ‘hls flexibility is not for us a ques= mage ity. | ion of ‘pure’ constitutional theory, pipet fp yk es adie tae The question of the flexibility of mie i ” e the constitution is for us the ques- ues ee state, pels Lenten tion of the possibility of fully Adaces =e ids Homage "4 ee iid- | 2S at any given moment the entire okgansation sue eee ee system of government to the tasks ing the new society is daily in-|q¢ Socialist construction. We hawa creasing. As a consequence of this. | built the foundation of Socialism, we can understand why in the broad | yarx and Engels said that in work- masses of the population of the So- | ing through the questions of ma- viet Union there is an increasing terialism and scientific Socialism, pride in their country, their father- | they rested upon the mighty shoul- land. We must foster and strengthen ders of their predecessors, upon the this sentiment of responsibility to experience of history, of the class the Socialist. fatherland, which is | struggles of many centuries. The inseparably linked with the growth | victorious building of Socialism in of a conscious attitude toward So- the U. S. S. R. rests upon the firm cialist property, both so necessary ore oes of the ee if we are to outlive all petty bour- | nations achings of Marx, Engels, geois survivals. Soviet patriotism | Lenin and Stalin, which have been it not at all a sign of national nar- lene * carp eee by 6g os row mindedness. Real Soviet pa- | Stable foundation, under the 3 triotism grows among the masses as | ¢rship of the Léninist Party, under the consciousness of the great rev- | the guidance of Stalin, on the basis olutionary power of the union of | °f the brotherhood of all peoples of workers and peasants in all nations | UF country, we build and will ab= of the U.S. 8. R., united by the |Solutely, complete, the grandine. Soviets. | pris herigg This is the consciousness of the beating which will be. &, | Driges great international significance of | P&&con for the toilers, for the op- S es 5 | pressed of all countries of the globe the successes of building Socialism, in the struggle for the victory of for the toilers of all countries. Obcamustein? [The Congress greet {Applause.] ed Yenikidze with prolonged ap- It is necessary that the present plause.] congress say its decisive word in The Congress unanimously adopt- regard to the question of necessary eq a decision approving the meas- changes in the Soviet constitution. | ures of the government of the U. 8. Then the Soviet system will reveal §, R. regarding changes in structures the tremendous magnitude of its and practice of the work of Central Possibilities for drawing the masses’ Government bodies. and introducing into our entire Socialist construc- | a number of changes in the Constie masters’ oppression, Never, no- tion. [Stormy applause.) | tution of the U, 5. 5S. Re ” AY