The daily worker., 1925-04-25

peoples organization.
! IPEYOND were two busy class-rooms,
- where workers from the night shift
were spending their afternoons study
ing reading and writing and politics.
The director himself taught an even
ing class in the same factory school.
When the workers finish here, if they
wish for more advanced courses, they
go down to the regional center.
A CROSS the court was tall build
"A ing devoted to club purposes. We
saw upstairs the room OF the Young
Pioneers, children Of factory workers,
gay with banners and posters. Next
to it was the sewing-room of the wom-
ems club. Downstairs was a theater,
with forest scene still set. They in
vited us to come on November 7th to
the celebration for which they were
preparing.
TT was still lunch hour, so the work
rooms were empty. We went to
visit new apartment house under
construction for the factory workers,
out in the park at Sokolniki, fifteen
minutes walk away. 1T is not
model house." said the secretary Of
the union. "There are not nearly
enough bathrooms. 1t is just bit Of
emergency construction to get the
workers out Of the rain"
ENOR the macaroni plant was expand
L ing and there was no room for the
workers who were coming In from
the country for jobs. Many Of them
were camping out in an old barn. witht
carpets hung between the rafters to
shut off the quarters Of different famils
lies. The barn was warm and clean,
but it was hardly the place for winter
quarters for the women with babies
who looked up at our entrance. "You
see why we are hurrying to get the
house finished" said the secretary.
ITHEY had taken an old brick ware
house and adapted it for living
quarters. Painting and woodwork and
plastering were going up rapidly. Two
rooms per family was the allowance
in this new place. Next spring the
brick barn is to be raised to three
stories and remodeled into a dwelling
to relieve the crowding still more.
WTHEN we returned to the factory,
w its workrooms were humming.
We passed from floor to floor, follow
ing the elevators which carried the
| flour to the top of the building, the
revolving urns where it was mixed
with water. the turning tables where
fit was creased and cut into great
slabs. the giant machines whence it
came out as thin streams of maca-
roni. Then the capacious drying room
piled to the ceiling with the product
Enough to supply all of Moscow and
to export to Leningrad and Mini.
We noticed everywhere the cheerful
faces OF the women. They spoke to
US; they laughed at the jokes Of the
union secretary. Many Of them wore
red handkerchiefs over their hair.
There was no atmosphere Of strain
anywhere.
| A WOMAN whose face showed
= strong intelligence and personality
Joined us. She began in this factory
as girl Of twelve in the days of the
czar. She has worked there seventeen
years. Now she is president of the
Women's Communist Section Of the
factory. She went with us back to
the directors room, where we all had
tea together. What remember most
about that factory was the democratic
atmosphere of the directors office,
with workers coming in and out, and
with all Of us, union secretary, Com
munist secretary, head Of the women's
section, and director Of the plant, all
hov vtnQ fao oronuA &ho tokIn ko-~kAo-