LET US CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF WORKERS TO RENDER TECHNICAL AID TO THE SOVIET UNION

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SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL PREBS
CORRESPONDENCE, English
Edition, Vol. 9, No. 62,
November 1 1929,
p. 1338-1339.
LET US CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF
WORKERS TO RENDER TECHNICAL AID TO THE SOVIET UNION.
By Belbej (Moscow).
The historic step of the Hamburg railway men, who
have challenged the workers of the Soviet Union to an
international revolutionary contest, is the best proof
that the world proletariat regards the Soviet Union as
its revolutionary fatherland.
The workers of the Soviet Union have responded
enthusiastically to the challenge of the Hamburg prole-
tarians. To the effort of our foreign comrades to
intensify the fight against imperialism we reply with
a still greater acceleration of the pace of socialistic
construction, we reply with the slogan: "Execution of
the five-year plan in four years!"
The challenge of the Hamburg railwaymen to a contest
is only a preliminary step on the road towards attract-
ing the progressive sections of the international work-
ing class to the work of socialist construction in the
Soviet Union. The movement must now be organisationally
consolidated. The international Labour movement is faced
with a number of tasks in connection with direct participa-
tion in our socialist constructive work, with direct
rendering of aid in the industrialisation work of the
Soviet Union.
Our Party has set up the task of overtaking the
capitalist countries which are furthest advanced
technically. In order to exploit the tremendous
technical experience acquired by capitalist economy,
we are concluding dozens of agreements concerning technical
aid with a number of big capitalist industrialists and
technical organisations. The most responsible plans of
our investment work are submitted by us to these organiza-
tions for their judgement and advice.
The international Labour movement should assume the
task of organising the international technical aid of the
workers in our socialist construction.
The proletarians of Germany, France, Great Britain
and the United States have been trained in factories of
high technical organisation. They have great technical
knowledge. Among these comrades there are surely thousands
and tens of thousands of highly qualified foremen and
artisans, people who have learned exactly the organisa-
tion and the production technics of the capitalist concerns.
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Moreover, there are abroad not a few engineers and other
specialists who are interested in our fight and in our
development.
The very rich experience of production technics
possessed by the international working class must be
fully exploited for our socialist construction. It is
necessary for the purpose of an international revolutionary
contest to proceed immediately with the creation of societies
for international proletarian technical aid to the Soviet
Union.
To these societies must be attracted in large
numbers those workers who desire to protect the Soviet
Union. Branches of these societies, which are to be
organised chiefly according to branches of production,
must be built up on lines similar to those of our pro-
duction conferences. Through their mediumship our
foreign comrades will be enabled to transmit to our
socialist development their collective experience in
production.
Our newspapers every day report dozens and hundreds
of defects observed in our production. Every day we carry
on discussions concerning questions of organising new
branches of production and of rationalising old ones.
All these questions might be discussed with the greatest
profit in the sections of this society for international
technical aid to the Soviet Union.
Let us give an example: a commission of Ford's
engineers comes to the Soviet Union to study the question
of erecting an automobile factory; we have an extensive
discussion concerning the choice of a certain type of
car to be produced here. The production conferences
of our automobile factories can place all the questions
before the comrades working in the automobile factories
in Germany, France and other countries, so that their
tremendous experience may be taken into consideration
in the expenditure of the hundreds of millions for the
erection of the huge motor-car works near Nijni Novgorod.
Individual factories such as the electro-technical
factories and those of the General Electricity Company
(A. E. G.), might have such technical connections. The
Hamburg railwaymen might be able to give our workers
some useful tips as to the most rational organisation
of transport economy.
It would be good to extend the work of the Societies
for Technical Aid to the dispatch of sections of specially
chosen highly qualified foreign comrades to us for con-
sultation concerning our investment works. In addition
to the dispatch of plans by the managements of our
factories to foreign technical firms for judgment and
advice, the workers organisations must send these plans
to the Workers League for Technical Aid for their considera-
tion also. By means of their collective experience the
society in question would be of inestimable assistance
to us.
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In regard to exploitation of our patents covering
inventions there is much left to be desired on the
foreign markets. It would be very useful for our in-
ventors in the ranks of the workers to call upon the
International Workers League for Technical Aid for as-
sistance in arranging contracts to cover the exploita-
tion of their inventions. In the same manner this
society could be asked regularly, as are our production
conferences, for advice in regard to orders passed by
our factories to firms abroad. The numerous Labour
delegations which visit the Soviet Union must be got
to give practical help and to participate in our de-
velopment. This will constitute a kind of international
proletarian supervision of our technical progress.
The international revolutionary contest, which is
beginning must be exploited to the fullest extent to
attract as many foreign workers as possible to direct
participation in our constructive work.
The organisation and the development of the
activity of the societies for international technical
aid can surely be promoted by the very numerous societies
of the Friends of Soviet Russia. In the same manner it
is certain that the International Workers League for
Technical Aid will be of assistance in the choosing
of the best qualified proletarians and specialists
for despatch to the Soviet Union on short visits or,
in individual cases, for regular employment.
The International Workers League for Technical
Aid to the Soviet Union will be one of the most
prominent embodiments of the pregnant slogan of
October: the Soviet Union is the fatherland of the
toilers of the whole world:
We appeal to all comrades to let us have their
opinions of our proposal. Suggestions concerning
alterations in the plan and in regard to methods for
its practical execution should be addressed to the works'
council of the electricity work (Elektrosavod Moscow
Generalnaja 1-3).
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