The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-14
WORKER FINDS
CONDITIONS IN
RUSSIA BETTER
Soviets Make Rapid For
ward Strides
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT.

BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT.
Five months ago, Clara Garfinkle,
one of the most active members Of
Street Nucleus No. Is, Workers Com
munist) Party of Chicago, announced
that she was returning to Russia for a
visit after having been away for four
teen years. She was going to see her
son who was worker in one of the
machine shops of Moscow. Last Tues
day night she was back with /
nucleus again-a new comrade return
ed from new Russia!
You look ten years younger" some
one exclaimed as she came in, and all
the others agreed. Immediately Com
rade Garfnkle was asked to tell how
Russia had changed and how it's
change has brot such change in her.
ooh comrades, it's hard to put it
into words,-at least in American
words" she said. II could tell it so
much easier in Russian. But I'll tell
you as much as l can,-that is, if you
don't limit my time. Everything is
changed in Russia! 1t is like nothing
could have imagined. When / first
got off the train inside Russia, saw
such crowd of prosperous, healthy
looking people, such big figures and
high chests and gay faces, such bright
colored blouses-that l dropped by
bags in establishment and just stood
and stared- couldn't believe my
eyes.
Clothing
II found out afterwards that Rus
sian clothes scarcely ever wear out,
they are made from such good ma
terial. And there is no such thing as
Style Everyone dresses differently,
that is the style"
Food.
OF food, too, Comrade Garfnkle said
there was great variety, but she liked
the first things that she tasted so
well that she never wanted to change!
81 can't eat cabbage any more since
l am back in America" she lamented,
because the cabbage over there
tasted so much nicer. Cabbage and
parsnips and turnips, those were my
favorite vegetables in Russia and how
l miss them now, they taste so diff
ferent here. And in Moscow, we never
had storage or canned meats nor
pasteurized milk, they are always sold
fresh, and cheap, too. And we cooked
in a community kitchen"
Maternity Hospitals.
Comrade Garflnkle explained that
she is nurse by profession and so
was especially interested in the hospi-
tails. She spent six weeks as a worker
in one of the homes for the care of
expectant mothers. Working women
came here two months before the anti
cipated childbirth and remained at
least four months, receiving half
wages as well as maternal insurance
during the entire period.
Health.
Russia teaches its mothers how to
bring healthy children into the world
and how to keep them healthy" de-
clared Comrade GarnnkIe. 81 asked
those mothers questions about things
which l know as a nurse but which
the average American mother is usual
ly ignorant of and they always answer
ed me correctly. And they taught me
many new things, too"
Living Newspapers.
From kindergarten to cinema house,
Comrade Garfinkle described the i'm
proved methods of education in Rus
STA, including the production OF living
newspapers" by the factory workers.
She also told about how the govern
ment handles an unemployment situa.
ton, for instance, her son was among
10000 temporarily laid off at the ma
chime shops due to a shortage OF raw
Each Of the workers re-
ceived insurance ranging from 10, IL
to 10 roubles week; but they didn't
stay idle. Two great public works
we're in the process OF construction at
the time, canal and a crematory, and
these civic enterprises entirely abb
sorbed the surplus laborers.