The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-04
VACATIONS FOR
 MOSCOW, FIRST
 IN EIGHT YEARS
Not Only High-Ups, But
 Men Who Work, Indus trial Folk, All Take Rest; :; Impossible Heretofore ::
 Responsible Workers, " Heads of Big Industries, Paid Less Than Employes.
By ANNA LOUISE STRONG,
International News Service Staff
 Correspondent.

Moscow, Sept. 4-Everybody in Moscow seems to be taking vacations. I want to visit the big locomotive fac tory autside Moscow, and I learn that it is shut down for two weeks for the workers vacations. I call on commis- sars for interviews and am told that they have flown out to Berlin by air plane for a months rest. < It would not seem so strange in America, where life has settled into the Summer vacation habit. But these are the first vacations there have been in Russia for eight years. This is the first Summer they have not had either war orLya famine on their hands. It is the first Summer when people have dared to draw breath.
 We'll ''Worn Out.''
 They are pretty well worn out, lots of them. It isn't only Lenin who goes away to the country, while all the press correspondents chase interviews about his health, and Copenhagen and Hels1ngfors send out reports that he tis murdered. It isn't only Tehitcherin who takes month off in the clean comfortable country districts of Ger many, while the wild foreign rumors say he has been discredited for his actions at Genoa and lost his job.
 Hundreds of thousands of "respon- l sible workers" in Russia have been working just as hard. They are sud- denly scattering, to the mountains of l the Caucasus, to the seashores of E'in- 1 land, to the quiet hotels of Germany. | A responsible worker is a man who takes the place in Russia held by 1 captains of industry in America | Usually he Is a communist, but not | always. He gets no more wages than other workers, often not as much as the skilled technicians under him. Bill Shatoff, head of Naptha Export and formerly head of Siberian rail- ways, told me that he paid his highest engineers five times what he got him i "Bosses'' Not Highly Paid.
 "I got 15o bucks a month and gave them 750. I would have paid any thing I had to for the kind of help we was a responsible worker" He got the fun of managing railroads and seeing country develop under his nand: That is some fun, if you have not weddings. Some of our dol lar-a-year men tried it at Washington.
 This Summer all the responsible workers get vacation. They can go all expenses paid. They need it, too
 for though the five-year pull of build
 ing a stable political government is over, the 50-year pull of building a
 ahead.
 The folk who stay in town are also
 takIhs vacation Every night the sum-
 mer theatres are damned with Npeo- A
 closed. Roof gardens are going
 boulevards and parks are crowded
 ana the Sunday trains to the coun-
 try are so full that men and girls
 sometimes ride on the couplings be tween the cars, holding on by the roof
 l went last night to a summer the
 atre" I don't know where the mon.
 ey comes from. There are dozens O, summer theatres like this, and all arc : full. e'- Not Art, Just a Show
 The performance was merely Z , snow. None of the high art tba,
 Moscow is famous for Just a New
 York or Coney Island type of com
 edy. Those folk weren't out for up
 nft. but for relaxation.
 Were these theatres running las
 summer?' asked a communist mem
 Der of our party. . IT should say not" he answered . Last summer nobody could have af | Iorded them, and nobody wantet \ them. It was too strenuous; we hat 5 the famine facing us. But this sum \ mer it's the first year of peace. N,
 war facing us and no famine, either
 Lots of work to do, but the wors H strain relaxes a little We can affor,
 to give ourselves a little rest"