EDITORIAL STRESSES NEED FOR ALLIANCE OF CZECHOSLOVAK WORKERS AND FARMERS

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• Publication Date: March 16, 1954
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EDITORIAL STRESSES NEED F'Oit ALLIAKCd
OF CZECHOSLOVAK WORKERS AND FAiMEJS
Rude Pravo
Plague, 19 Oct 1953
A continuous increase in the prosperity of the working people is the
prime objective of the party and the government. One of the main bases for
a higher standard of living is increased agricultural production. The greater
the production of agricultural products, the greater will be the consumption
of food and other products. For this reason, all farm workers turn their at-
tention and efforts toward increasing the yields and the productivity of ani-
mals, which in turn is demanded by the increased consumption of these products.
The government is also adopting a series of provisions to ensure higher prc.
ductivity of work in agriculture, which if systematically followed will re-
sult in more food for the tables of the people, and more raw materials both
for light industry and for the food industry.
The farmer cannot singlehandedly increase agricultural yields and
animal productivity. It is necessary that the working class and industry as-
sist him with higher production of agricultural machines, synthetic fertili-
zers, building material, and similar products.
Industry's aid is an inseparable component of a permanent increase in
agricultural production. For example, the industrial worker's share in improve-
ment of agricultural production increases in proportion to the increased aid
of the MTS to the agriculturists. Thus, under the leadership of the working
class, the alliance between the workers and the middle and small farmers will
be strengthened. Without such an alliance it would bu impossible to solve the
problems connected with the building of socialism, or to establish the people's
democratic order and free the workers from exploitation.
In Czechoslovakia, as elsewhere, the alliance was forged in the stubborn
fight against the exploiters even during the days of the pre-Munich republic.
The party tenaciously led the fight for the rights of the small and middle far-
mers against the despotism of the land owners, the share holders, and the manu-
facturers. When the farmers were shot at, as in 19j1 at Kosuty in Slovakia,
the working class stood firmly by the side of these inhumanely exploited far-
mers, whereas the farmers in turn supported the striking miners, as in the
strike at Most.
The alliance between the laborers and farmers in their joint battle against
domestic exploiters was strengthened and tempered during the days of the Fascist
occupation. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army, the
alliance became the basis for the National Front of the workers, both urban and
rural. Through the joint strength of the laborers and the farmers, the counter-
revolutionary Putsch of the reactionary forces was broken in February 1948.
The joint efforts of workers and farmers are devoted toward the common
goal of unceasingly satisfying the material and cultural needs of society.
Thousands of middle and small farmers, led by the working class and firmly
leaning on its assistance, began to organize and put in practice f.eJ
agricultural production processes as the prerequisite for continual increases
in agricultural production and a higher living standard for Czechoslovak far-
mers.
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In the past, the Czechoslovak working class has given the small and mioule
farmers its best and unselfish assistance, and continues to do so at the pre-
sent. The government is again increasing investments for agriculture. This
has been made possible by the foundation built for Czechoslovak industrial pro-
duction, a foundation which is the basis for an independent, self-sufficient,
and defensible people's democratic republic.
It cannot be overlooked that the development of agricultural production does
not measure up to the growth of industrial production. The disparity between in-
dustry and agriculture has deepened rather than lessened, and not until now, un-
der socialistic management, has this difference been reconciled. Agriculture is
being systematically raised to the same level as industry. In its directives,
the government provides for removal of this harmful disparity.
,One of the main tasks is the continueu development of the mechanization of
agriculture. This year agriculture will receive 600 KD-35 caterpillar tractors,
50 combines, manure spreaders, cul-civators, t,-actor-drawn machinery, and other
aquipmext. Plans call for the production of additional machinery in the coming
year, as well as deliveries of heavy machines from the USSR. This will further
mechanize agricultural work and will show better results for work _xpended by
the farmers. The government plans to increase allotments for investment in agri-
rultural construction. The increase will amount to 350 million crowns in 1953.
In addition, credit of another one billion crowns will be extended by the state
to the JZD (Jednotne Zemedelske Druzstvo, Unified Agricultural Cooperatives).
New cow barns, hog sheds, and poultry houses will spring up in the villages,
permitting an increase in animal production. Other evidence of further aid to
the farmers appears in the provisions for increases in the purchase price of
grain from the 1953 harvest, the increase in prices of slaughter animals and
milk, the reduction in prices of cleaned seed and seedlings, bonuses in the pur-
chase price of pigs, etc.
The preponderant majority of cooperatives show clearly that production by
the JZD is more economical, and the resultant products are of better quality as
compared to production by the individual farmer. It is necessary, however, to
remember that more than 50 percent of all agriculture remains in the hands of
individual farmers, which makes it evident that if the level of production on
these individually operated farms were increased, the entire supply program could
benefit. For this reason, it is necessary to help individual furs operators in-
crease"their per-hectare yields and assist them in increasing the productivity
of" their animals.
Such a policy requires the inseparable e__iance of the working class with
the working farmer.
This must be understood by kraj and okres functionaries. The farmer who
is a JZD member has been given different treatment from that accorded to the
small or middle independent farmer. Such preferential treatment was by no means
as isolated incident. All independent farmers were lumped into one category,
whether they were kulaks, criminals, and saboteurs, or whether they were small,
honest, and dependable agriculturists.
The case of Josef Uher will illustrate this point. Uher is a farmex in
Pabenice, Kutna Horna Okres, who operates a farm of 1 hectares. The ONV (O;tresni
Narodni Vybor, Okres National Committee) in Kutna Hora recently unjustly confis-
cated his entire litter of pigs, only because farmers in the vicinity i.uu demanded
his pigs, which were well-cared for.
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A great many of our i'unctionaries will have to have t..eir uttitu?.~., ,ari-
ied for them. Lenin an,. Stalin in their wcriu; ur,ctusiLLiy th L c_suiLe
the fact that in goon years the middle farmer exponcs bin oo,:r, tl n c .ro ::ay,
occasionally employ day labor, he nonetheless rerlains the ally of the 01 O , be-
cause he is also a worker, and as such has also been exploiLen by the viii
rich and other agrarian capitalists.
Hence, the tenuency to separate the small as se11 a; :n1- It ferrxas into a
class separate from the working class is absolutely unfai:? au:' i:,:rmiu,. L-, Lae
building of seciaiice. It is evident that even the mi-idle 1'~cr:er, .,Ito ,:_z:; rust
as yet grasped the aceantages of the JZD methods of f::z7ring, is never:t.;:,:: an
ally of the worker. In a letter addressed to the J7.D, Comra Gott _ i -: ,;,, Ly
said that the attitude of the vorkers should be one of "i'rierisitip, pati L ?;;_
planation, anc persistent recruit:rent, but not enr.:ity, ;enuriciaLiccn, ,e
Tire small and midale farmer ii at necessarily the ercuy 01 sacta.ia. c '?ly ,e-
cause he has not as yet found his way to farming in the JZD. Tie t'! is
state~,cnt is in the iuct that thousands of small anti middle
their delivery quotas well gnu on time. In Vajglov Otec in Rye:,rr,: io: iastu:.r , '
private fa.nner?s i'ul.:.filled their delivery quotas ai (rain by fin's peacect, in
Sovinec 103 percent, etc.
The reas:n that these fara:ers have not yet enterer the Jab is ,u!te eaten
due to the bad example set by some cooperatives, and more often by the i:n.iuet u
tions of the JZD funetionarie::, national committees, ,:uu party
insteac of oeisuadii:g them, :cs:,t Inc :nistute of orderint, them rou::d.
by comparison, there are ;:pine e,eaplary !'Lnctinnsrie:; such
chairmen of the 1?1lV (,,iotni Nurodni Vybor, Local national ComntIttec) In 1e!ioy,
Nachos. Okre, , tho, by ais persistent persuasion and pubii,.izing of L'u, c. -dpi .:,,-
tive s successes, ini'iaenced six uddi tional farmers to join the JZD. In a ;ii:i-
Car case in Jesenib nod Oorou, nine independent farmers joined the .bc ._r lids
years harvest.
According to Lenin gnu Stalin, that the road to socialism is one - con-
stantly increasing class struggle, and this teaching is reiterated by Cuur_:.,;c
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its agricultural products to the city. The allici:ce must be _trer.Cthened con-
tinually. If this is done, success will be greater .r:c the trorkus of Comrade
Gottwald, spoken at the conference of agricultural crrr-Fissions in February 1918,
will become a reality: "Worker for the farmer, the i:rmer for the worker; wher-
ever the world moves this strength will show."
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