NINTH PLENUM SPEECH OF HILARY CHELCHOWSKI ON THE TASKS FACING THE STATE FARMS IN POLAND

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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NIIFPH PI iIUII SPSECH OF HILARY CHELCHOWSIQ
OII T rE T nI a FACIIIG Tf 1 STATE FARIdS III POI AND
Nowe Drogi, Vol 7
Warsaw, Oct 1953
(The following report of Hilary Chelchowski, Minister of State
Fares, was given at the Ninth Pleaum of the MC PZPR (Central Committee
of the Polish United Workers' Party), held in Warsa:r on 29-30 October
1953.
Thu report was given at the nlen_;.: as an amplification of the
featured report of Premier Boleslaw Bierut, "Task of the Party in
Struggle to Raise Standard of Living Of Workers in Current Pease of
Building Socialism." An English-lan,?uage translation of Bicrut's re-
port is ava_lable in the PAP (Polish Press Agency) release of 6 No-
vember 1953, pages 1-44.]
The theses adopted at the plenum place heavy new tasks before the party
and the state apparatus. One of the basic tasks ~ is the struggle for increased
agricultural production and marketability, and the acceleration of agricultrual
development. Since the state farms are a basic economic factor in agriculture
directly in the hands of the state, they bear a great part of the responsibility
for achieving these tasks.
At present state farms comprise about 12 percent of the total farmland,
whereas their share in commodity production is about 15 percent. It would
appear then, that state farm commodity production per hectare is about 28 per-
cent Greater than that of the rerminiar cectors of agriculture. State farms
help the producers cooperatives and the individual peasant farms by producing
selected grain ccci and raising breeding stock.
Up to now, the state farms have not achieved tt-;" pla ,, ,i a?._., __
The principal reason is weak managencnt and a lack of properly developed ad-
ministrative methods. Our greatest weakness is the daily mass
of detail which
obscures the basic problems. The :pork of the cent-?a1 office is characterized
largely by perfunctory and bureaucratic direct.?res to the field offices. The
result is lack, of supervision, lack of discipline, and lack of responsibility
for nonfulfillment of state tasks.
A defective system of wages has a 'vac;pcrin~ effect on productivity and
does not promote interest in production results.
There is lack of proper organization and discipline at all levels.
A great defect is the political and organizational weakness of the super-
visory cadres, the numerous errors in the scleet.on and distribution of
cadres, and inadequate work with them. these
The most important reason is the continued neglect of political indoctrin-
ation of the supervisory, cngineerin.g, and technical staffs, and workers, which
results in lack of respect for socialist property and work discipline.
To achieve the tasks set before the state farms by the party and the state,
the management of the state farms must change its present style and method of
work. It must carry on an incessant struggle against bureaucracy in the entire
apparatus. It must raise the level of responsibility and work discipline,
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strengthen one-man many eme:ts, and create conditions for the development of
criticism and self-criticism which will help to increase the workers' initiative
in the struggle for increased production. A plan for a new or;anizational
structure for state farms tia3-been proposed which will help improve organization,
help increase work discipline and personal. responsibility, and help strengthen
control over the achievement of the tasks.
To give-the workers and the specialists a more material interest in pro-
duction results, to improve work or?anization and increase work productivity,
and to stabilize the administrative and technical engineering staffs and crews,
the Ministry of State Farms has :rorked out a plan for a reoolution of the
presidium of the government on a new system of wages.
The main idea in this new wage system is the material interest of the
worker in his contribution to production results, and the relation of his earn-
ings to these results. This system is advantageous to the worker employed on
piece work based on norms, but not in day work. This system provides for a
bonus for plan fulfilluent and above-plan production. Administrative and tech-
nical -engine erin. staffs will receive a salary supplement for higher education
and seniority. The new system will correctly proportion the wages of workers
employed in animal and plant production and remove a number of existing defects
In the p esent waGc ,
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To lmnrcvo Uic style and method of worn with the cadres, the, ministry
will take more care In the choice and proper placement of personne. It will
also make an effort to increase thci_ political and professional level and give
them an assurance of advancement.
The ministry vill take special care- of youn;; s,ccialists just out of
school. It will aid then in !;minim; practical ;:nowledge and orcanizational
experience. It will place those who distin uioh themselves in their work in
supervisory positions.
The ministry will acs _i t the aa:daum n nbe:' of specialists are placed
immediately in produu tion snots. It has worked cut an extensive system of
training -`
n C-~,~er- and or.-the-deb trainin for st.r=rvisory staffs and. crews, to
achieve a more rapid im?rovemcr
cations t in professional and organizational qualifi-
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In winter we shall organize a mass training p;o;rs:s in agricultural fields
to raise the qualifications of wcrkers and laborers.
As one of its main tanlu , the ministry will increase the political in-
doctrination of the supervisory and engin^-erin- staffs and the wor ere to raise
their political morale, and to increase their feeling of responsibility for the
economic level of the state farms. The ministry will show more interest in
material and cultural conditions by repririn;; housing facilities and building
new quarters for permanent and seasonal workers. It will activate existing
facilities, create better and safer working conditions, and, in general, in-
crease its consideration for the welfare of the working man and his family.
Our guarantee of fulfilling _c:?eduction tanks set by the party and the
government lies in the political mobilization of the party cells in state farm;,
with the aid and under the supervision of the wojcwolztwo and powiat committees,
and in the strengthening and activation of the party apparatus for political
work at state farms. These activities' should be closely associated with the
mass political wort carried on among the workers by the trade unions and the
ZMP (Zwiazel: 1?11odclczy Polsl:icJ, Union of Palish Youth).
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among the women, the majority of whom ,are ~ pelurIT1.3 Is social rmanent workers a while politica.L work
only during the busiest seasons.
By raising the level of political worlt, we shall awaken our party organ-
izations, the management, and the crews, to difficulties and hostile activities
within the state farms. By activating all the state farm workers politically
and by making them conscious of the importance of production, we shall assure
a greater interest in the use of machinery and Soviet methods. We can thus in-
troduce new agrotechnical and zootechnical techniques, such as rational crop
rotation of field grasses, and create highly productive brigades and cells.
To assure a permanent fodder ba:;e and increased livestock productivity, we
shall accelerate exploitation of fields and meadows and set up grass belts on
the farms, increase the area sown _:d productivity of fodder crops (root crops
as well as legumes), promote rational feedinand interest in animal care, and
combat livestock loss from accidents and sterility.
To assure increased crops in all a-riculturc, the ministry will give more
care to plant breed in- stations and seed farms. F1e shall allocate more experts
and equipment to these farms; we shall improve controls and operations to in-
crease the seed assortment, to im_rove their quality, and to send them to the
producers cooperatives and individual peasant farms on schedule.
With this collective effort and with daily aid and supervision, we should
be able to achieve the tasks which the party and the government have set before
the state farms.
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