The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-11
BAKU BUILDING
WORKERS SOLVE
CULTURE NEEDS
Educational Activities
Conducted on the Job
BY 5ENDERSTEV.
Worker correspondeHtl

MOSCOW, u. S. S. r. (By Mail--
This year the building season has
been conducted much more energet-
ically than last year. There has been
IAN increase in the influx of new build
ing workers from the villages, who
had taken up agricultural work dur
ing the time OF the poor development
OF industry in the industrial centers
and during the civil war. The union
is commencing to draw this mass of
ns-aomers into participation in trade
union. cultural work, and educating
them into the proletarian family.
The building workers, in general, by
the very nature Of their work are con-
sldered as part-time workers and de-
spite all desires it is impossible to at
tach them to an enterprise as can be
done with factory workers. There
fore it is considerably more difficult
to conduct ural-educational work,
among seasonal workers in view of
the scattered nature of their work,
than among the workers of factory
and workshop enterprises, who work
in groups in one place for several
years at stretch.
They Find a Way.
The Azerbaidjan Builders Union,
taking into consideration the present
position of the workers, has transfer
red all culturaleducational work from
club premises to the place where the
work is being carried on where 1t is
conducted in the open air and on plat
forms quickly put together by the
workers themselves. Performances
and cinema shows are given connect
ed with the workers productive life.
A lecture is given before each cinema
performance. The lectures are read
in the Armenian, Turcic and Russian
languages and in the Turcic study cir
cles the Turco women also take part.
On the Azebaidjan-Turc holidays.
the clubs have in some places been
overcrowded with Azerbaidjans and
t1eir wives, who, prior to the Soviet
gime wore chadrachs and did not
bpear in public places.
We may see how popular such per-
formances are becoming among work
ers from the following cases. For in
stance, workers and their families
come to the settlement Banagody from
the Baladjeri station which is three
versts distant. At cement works,
three versts away from Baku, work
ers come from the town on the days
of the performance and at the STEM
karezin settlement belonging to As
neft, near Sabunch, where 1.2OO work
ers are engaged in constructing the
workers settlement, the workers come
from Sabunch and Baku districts
which are six versts away. Here up
TO 1000 workers assemble. The ad-
ministration, observing the develop
ment of culturaleducational work
among the workers at place Of work,
has fitted up a club.
Study Circles.
Recently the organization of circles
at the place of work has increased.
The workers have formed their own
study circles so as to be able to ar
range performances more frequently.
In the days of preparation for the
study circle work the workers are so
interested in their studies that very
often they go straight from their work
to the study circles without having
had any dinner.
In all buildings under construction
wall-newspapers are issued, and dram
attic and sport circles formed; (Azneft
presented several bicycles for the
sport circle) chess circles and down
with illiteracy" societies, whose mem
bers teach the illiterates to read and
write. Lectures are given on trade
union, productive and scientific
themes in the various languages. Elk
cursions are undertaken to factories,
rest homes, and country resorts, etc.
That Is the kind Of work that is
being carried on among Che building
workers in the Azerbaidjan Soviet
!