The daily worker. [volume], November 28, 1925, New York Edition, Magazine Supplement, Image 11

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hi) l once again in
i was arrested for
the last time and deported to Tour
ougau, at Koureika, north of the Polar
circle. He remained there up to the
February revolution.
Active in the Duma.
The frequent deportations to which
Stalin was subjected never weakened
his revolutionary energy. During the
Intervals between arrests and deporta
tions, and while working illegally un
der the constant surveillance of the
secret police, he maintained an in
tense activity and assumed important
rarty functions.
In 1913 he organized the campaign
in St. Petersburg for the elections to
the fourth duma of the empire, sub
seqently leading the Bolshevik frac
tion in this duma.; 1912-13 saw him
one of the editors of tlfb Bolshevik
papers Isvestla and Pravda. After
the February revolution he was editor
of Pravda, The Worker and Soldier,
Worker’s Path, and The Worker.
Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries.
In 1917, Stalin became a member
of the Pan-Hussian central executive
rubles in 1924-25. Thus the increase
will be 53%.
The payment balance which will
amount to 150,000,000 rubles will go
to the accumulation of valuta funds,
and to increase the current accounts
of the State Bank in foreign banks.
The enormous growth in exports
and imports shows that great progress
has been made in the direction of the
establishment of economic relations
between the Soviet Union and foreign
states. The Soviet Union appears in
the role of an exporter and importer
on a large scale. The purchases and
sales of the Soviet Union will be a
determining factor in the economic
life of a number of countries.
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5. Productivity of Labor, Wages and
Housing.lv
rpHE social-democratic penny-a-lin
— ers have been and are still raising
a hue and cry about the process of
dispersal among the proletariat of
Soviet Russia, the exploitation of the
workers, etc. etc. Figures give the
lie to this fiction. In 1925-26 the num
ber of workers will increase by more
than a quarter of a million, over 20%
With respect to the growth of output,
the prospects are as follow*; output
will increase 10% (in 1924-25 31%),
and as it is proposed to lower prices
also 10%, the value of the workers’
output will be on the same level as in
the previous year. Just the opposite
will be the case with wages. Wages
show a great stride forward, especially
in heavy industry. For instance, wages
in the metal industry will increase
19%, in the mining industry 23%. The
growth of the real wage will be
greater still, because of lower prices
for all produce (for the metal indus
try, this growth would be equal to
32%, and for the mining 'industry to
35%). For industry as a whole the
increase of the nominal wage will be
16% (the increase takes also into con
sideration the rent increase, which
will take place in 1925-26 in view of
necessary repairs and the extension
of housing accommodation) and of the
real wage almost 20%. This will mean
a wage increase up to the prewar
level. (In 1924-25 the Increase was
83% of the prewar level). But if we
compare the ’total production and
wages and see that in 1925-26 the
wages percentage in production as a
whole will exceed the prewar level
(14.5% and 13.9%).
In bringing to a conclusion this
review of wages, it should be men
tioned that the year 1925-26 will be
particularly auspicous for the trans
port workers whose wages were lower
than those of all the other categories
of workers. In 1925-26 their wage will
increase 45%.
The above-mentioned figures show
primarily two things:
1. That the Soviet government and -
the Communist Party, who last year
carried on a campaign for increased
productivity of labor as a prerequisite
committee and commissar for nation
alities. In 1910-20 he was commissar
for workers’ and peasants’ inspection,
and from 1920 to 1923 he was a num
ber of the revolutionary military com
mittee for the republic,.
The civil war obliged him, as with
most influential members of the party,
to go to the front. Here he took part
in the campaigns against Yudenitch,
against Denikin and against the Poles.
For his military services he was dec
orated with the order of the red flag.
His Posts of Honor.
At the moment, Stalin is general
secretary of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Russia, a
member of the presidium of the Cen
tral Executive Committee of the U. S.
S. R., and a member of the presidum
of the All-Russian Central Executives
Committee.
Among his best known works are: 1
(1) The October Revolution ahd
the Question of Nationalities. (1918.)
(2) Collection of Articles. (1920.) i
(3) They National -Element in the I
for an improvement in the economic
conditions of the workers, and who
pointed out that this economic im
provement was bound to come, were
right. The promises which were made
are being realized. Wages in 1925-26
are making a stride forward although
the average output is almost the same
as before. In 1925-26 the proletariat
of the Soviet Union reaps the fruit of
its efforts in 192425. Secondly it is
a significant fact that wage increases
in the Soviet Union are coinciding
with a fierce attack on the proletariat
in the capitalist countries in the di
rection of lower wages. Russian min
ers had added to every ruble another
leal 35 copeks, railwayment—more
than 50 copeks. British miners, Ger
man textile workers and many other
categories of workers are faced with
the prospect of lower wages than in
1924, Such is the stabilization of cap
italism.
In conclusion, a few figures con
cerning housing. The housing ques
tion in the Soviet Union is very acute,
for seven years of war and the growth
of the population in large centres ex
ceed mg prewar level have created a
great disproportion in supply and de
mand with respect to housing accomo
dation. The proposed housing expen
diture for 1925-26 is 375,000,000 rubles.
Out of this sum 100,000,000 rubles are
for house repairs, 100,000,000 rubles
for the prevention of the further
dillapidation of housses and 70,000,000
rub/es for the construction of new
houses in lieu of those which have
become uninhabitable, and 105,000,000
rubies for new houses to cope with
the growth of the population.
6. Capital Expenditure.
rpHE year 1925-26 we shall witness
the complete re-establishment and
further growth of the basic capital of
our industries. (Benches, machinery,
buildings, etc.). Capital expenditure
will, of course, take place in those
branches of industry where progress
is most rapid; the metal industry, the
elec.Vo tccisiifc|(l,'' industry, etc. The
proposed expenditure will amount to
nearly billion rubles. (970,000,00), out
of which two-thirds (646,000,000) on
new works. The branches of industry
which will require the largest amounts
are the metal industry (182,000.000
rubles) the textile industry (145,000,-
000) the oil industry (116,000,000 and
electrification work (80,000,000). The
sources from which these expenses
are to ne covered are as follows: the
industries themselves can provide
466,000,000 million (i. e. almost one
half of the total amount). 233,000,000
can come from the state budget and
271,000,000 rubles will be obtained by
means of long-term credits.
7. f inancial Problems (Money Circula
tion, Credit Budget),
i rpHE accumulation of money grew
very rapidly after the introduction
of N. E. P., as this was accompanied
by a complete change of our economy.
Organization of the Party and the
State. (1923.)
(4) The Organization of the Party.
(5) The Theory and Practice of
Leninisgi. (1924.)
Socialist Paper Dies
With Socialist Party
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 27—(FP)—
The Miami Valley Socialist, long the
official weekly of the Socialist move
ment of Dayton and the surrounding
Ohio district, discontinues publica
tion for lack of support. Once the
mouthpiece of a strong party organi
zation that was much feared as a con
tender in Dayton elections, it came on
hard times after the war and its print
ing eventually fell into the control of
klan interests. The paper then con
tinued as a link in the socialist chain
papers published at Reading, Pa. Jos
eph Sharts, who defended Bishop
William Montgomery Brown in the
Cleveland heresy trial, was editor of
the paper.
But in 1925-26 the accumulation of
money will be almost double: it will
increase from 890,000,000 rubles to
1,580,000,000 rubles. Current accounts
will also be doubled. Thus in 1924-25
deposits and current accounts amount
ed on an average to 811,000,000 rubles,
and in the coming year they will
amount 1,733,000,000 rubles. Discount
and ’oan operations will also be
doubled (from 1,420,000,000 to 2,850,-
000,000 rubles)
The growth of the nadget in i 925-23
will be considerable. In commodity
rubles it will increase from 1,537,000,-
000 to 3,242,000,000 rubles, 1. e. 45%.
As compared with 1913 the budget of
1925-26 will amount to 70.6%. It is
characteristic that also in the coming
year the growth of the budget will be
greater than the growth of wholesale
production and trade.
Economy of the Soviet Union,
THUS, the figures given above are
a definite answer to the question
if Soviet economy is progressing, But
there is one more question: . Is ; this
progress in the direction of socialism
or does our economy on the contrary,
revert to capitalist methods?
It is figures again which will give
us an objective answer. At the be
ginning of 1924-25 of the ready money
in th ecountry 11.7 million rubles be
longed to the state and to private
enterprises, mainly peasant home
steads 7,500,000 rubles and to cooper
atives 500,000 rubles. This means that
62% were socialized, i. e. more than
half. In the villages this socialization
was very small, 4%, but in the towns
it reached 97%, the socialization of
means of production amounting to
99% as to the total production of the
heavy and light industries, wo witness
the following process:
Years State and Co-op. Private.
Absolute.* % Absolute. %
1923-24 5562 76.3 1,728 23.7
1924-25 7550 79.3 1,970 20.7
1925-26 9186 79.7 2,334 20.3
Thus we witness a slow but con
tinuous growth (absolute and rela
tive) of socialist element of economy.
Very characteristic is also the growth
of the concentration of industry, as
compared with the prewar period.
56% of the workers of the entire
mining and manufacturing industries
work in enterprises which employed
over 500 workers in 1911. On January
3rd, 1925 the percentage was 68.8%, i.
e. more than two-thirds. Another in- ,
teresting fact is that whilst in Amer
ica the average number of workers
for one enterprise is 151, it is 239 in
the Soviet Union. Such is the material
basis of socialism.
More satisfactory still is the great
success of collectivism in trade and
commerce. Xpe following table gives
an illustration of this:
Years. State. Co-op. Total. Priv. Trade.
1923-24 2,942 2,653 5,595 3,994 49.6
1924-25 5,475 4,753 10,228 3,650 26.6
1925-26 6,342 5,490 11,832 3,728 24.
Thus we witness in trade and com
merce not only an absolute growth of
state and cooperative trading, (which
doubled in the course of three yeans)
accompanied by a certain decrease in
private trading, but also an enormous
growth of its relative role. In 1923-24
it controlled more than half the
market, in 1925-26 its influence will
attain 76%.
The commission of non-party uni
versity economists concludes its re
port by the following statement: if we
add to everything that has been said
that with respect to steam transport
and bank credit, all the means of
communication and circulation of
money and credit notes are already
socialized in our country to the full
hundred per cent all that remains to
be done is to formulate the general
task; to maintain firmly the prewar
position and to advance steadily every
year, even if it jvere only one step
towards socialism wherever the econ
omic situation permits.
Such are the prospects of the na
tional economy of the Soviet Union.
Slow but sure progress towards social
ism. Real socialism, not socialism In
wards —a la Macdonald, Bauer and
other “socialist” soothsayers.
• The calculation is in chervonetz
rubles.