NINTH PLENUM SPEECH OF STANISLAW PILAWKA ON YOUTHS' TASKS IN POLISH AGRICULTURE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 396
• Publication Date: April 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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NINTH PLEi7U!d SPEECH OF STANISLAW PILAWKq
ON YOUTHS' TASKS
IN POLISH AGRICULTURE
Wsrsnw, Oct 1953
(The following report of Stanislaw Pilawka, Chairman of the ZO
ZMP (Zarzad Glewny Zwiazku fdlodziezy polskie,j, Main Administration
of the Union of Poli_;h youth), was given at the Ninth Plenun of the
KC PZPR (Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party),
held in Wnrsnw on 29-30 October 1953?
The report wus given st the plenum ns an amplification of the
featured report of Premier Boleslau Bierut, "Task of Party in
Struggle to Raise Standard of Living of 'rlorkers in Current Phase
of Building Socialism." An English-language translation of Bierut~s
report is svailahte ?n the p~ (relish Pr?ss Agency) release of
~ November l.y53, pages 1_!al~, ]
The report given by Comrade Bierut has eloquently outlined the campaign
being waged for building the foundations of socialism in ou?? country and
raising the living standards of the working masses, as specified in the plan.
The task of the Z6Q~ (Zwiazek Mlodziezy Polskie~, Union of Polish Youth)
is to give maximum assistance to our party in bringing to the masses, sad
particularly to the youth, the deep implications of the tasks contained in
the theses sad the.report given by Comrade Bierut. In the villaGes, we have
about 3,200,000 youths of ZMp rtge? Itosrever, among these youths, and particularly
among those on the individual peasant farms, there is evidence of some
indifference toward matters concerning agricultural production, of s lack of
initiative, and of a disbelief in the possibility of developing their capa-
bilities and productive forces in agriculture and in making social progress.
For this reason, the AMP must expand further in its mesa-political and
popular-scientific activity by mobilizing the rural youth for maximum active
participation in agricultural production. This is a great sad difficult task.
Youth is self-sacrificing and easily aroused, but limited mobilization and
inadequate ideologicr.l Indoctrination characterizes our work in the villages.
We reach the mn,iority of youth in the villages only occasionally, generally
during a campaign. The percentage of rural youth organized in the ZbIP is
too small. L1?IY groans Grist in only half the total number of villages.
This is the p;?incip?t1 reasar :'or cur we.3knes : in the villrige ; i;nd for
the poor pariacipstiun of the youth :in agricultural production. During the
last 3 months, we have made certain special efforts. We have accepted almost
30;000 rural youths into the ?1?~; however, we have not ressched the trtrning
point in the expansion of ear organization in the villages.
Our work among the producern cooperatives does not loot, much beti:er.
According to our data, ~-f +.he F6,000 ~;;uth ~aerhing in the pro3ucers cooperatives
only 5,000 belong to tl:_ ?hiP? There arc c:aly !E,O?0 [it~P groups) in h,g07
cooper?atives? There are n~? SLT groups in the remaining 4,000 cooperatives.
The ~ituatio^ is s little het ter in the state farms, where we '.tx?;e ;,390 'L6IP
Kroups. Ik,re th~:n hell o^ the youths corking on the state farms 'relcag to
i.Le 7,1?iP. :Jithout o. cou::idetaL'le expansion of 'LD;P or,,-anizations in the
villages we cannot u;sir,i. thr_ party in mobilizing the large maso of rural
thetnext'+'femurstn`4cpsndt t,hc ~'?P crgunizations in the villages can.^,iderably during
present anu where !:hrs?. ::. ~ no basiclpatgty orgenizationale no ZI?P groups nt
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In order to fulfill thew tts};s ii.? i' ecessary for our aci;ivists operating
in the villages to obtain at least a h.~~ic,:.
Our xo~ewodzttro and potaiat alministrati.nc,ri1112ogut"f agricultural .,^,cience.
of xork in their youth :rprg, In this the' 1 p P arize scientific methods'
agronomists, zootechnici~ns r.., Y .r 11 utilize the existing stn?fs of
x111 likexise utilize ,~. ' d ether agr cultural service ?dcrkers. They
r??:anced stulents o the sennndary apr5cultttr?.i ac't~nis
and higher agricultural ;cito~ lr ? i7e will or nize for
education courses in ,,,,_?io,1`4;1_ 6a youth correspondence and self-
xill organize groups of yrn~ngti;iclrurinistco[mic~urino~cy), ::ito :rllVwor~lonxe
experimental 1ar.~i plots, t~,m,~rs c? these ~ ?
xith scientific re^r.-;rrh 1~?rni,,tories attl e~perPmeatellinstitutcatoftagriculture.
A broad, dflily program of e~:olaining the economic tasks in the villages
and their signi.ica.rce t;c o,rr n?atic?:al economy, and the extensive popularization
of agricultural science, shc;uld :reuse enthusiasm amonC the youth for work
in agriculture and pride ir. the re;nlts obtained. It sa11, at the same time,
show the youth on the it+dividual ^arxt that
advanced r.,,?ra cf ?,__._ ' the prnrtt!^_er_ ^ospcrctive is au
of using modern agricultural r-_~ ?" t'') Provide him with the opportunity
qualifications (?) ~ '~hinery and of obtaining high vocational
' - ?!'`'-i.de a cultural l.ifc in the villages, and (3) provide
greater opportunitier. i -~? :ic:?~.10 ~A
p.. _nt among the rural ycutit.
The ZP~ sheuLl yr;~_:nize,varicus c~ uses to increase agricultural krotrledge;
analyze the earnin;; o.' the individual boys and girls at the meetings; and
recommend individu