The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-04
BY LucHANsKI.
Worker Corresnondent2

A FTER the civil war the Bal1u, So
"A Wet Georgias working class re-
ceived a bad heritage from the former
proprietors, Nobel, Mantashev, Leon
GOV and others. The bourgeoisie all
emigrated and are now in western
Europe and in other imperialist states.
After fires and destruction of the bour-
geois enterprises the industry was left
us in a miserable condition, the equip
ment being 95 per cent worn out and
useless, since during the last years of
the war the former owners did not re-
new them. But nevertheless despite
the condition of the heritage received,
the workers of the Bibi-Eibat district
themselves began to restore the oil
industry after the revolution.
Abroad our enemies write and shout
that without "the bourgeoisie" the pro-
letariat alone cannot restore industry.
l would like to prove by the example
Of our own Bibi-Eibat oil fields how
false this assertion is. Ga
THE workers of BibfEibat district
L have in a most determined manner
set about the work of restoring the oil
fields of this district, especially after
1921, when the civil war which had
detracted their forces came to an end.
The restoration of the Bibi-Eibat oil
fields has proceeded at an immense
rate. There has been a considerable
amount of new building at Bibi-Eibat;
for instance, the machine workshop
No. 1, named after the, october revolu.
ton. In this workshop there were
only few benches, the premises being
very small. But now it is considered
the largest shop in the whole district
1t has been. greatly enlarged and the
most important thing abolt it is that
it now has a foundry which executes
orders for castings for the whole dis
trict, whereas formerly castings were
not produced in the Bibi-Etbat district
We have also had a new oil pipe line
installed at Bibi-Eibat thru which all
the oil extracted from the district
passes and is then sent to dts destina-
ton. This did not exist, under the
bourgeoisie. Is it not an. achievement
of the proletariat to have an oil pipe
line in the district? Besides this, for
merly, /. e., under the bosses, the work
ers who lived ten or eight yersts away
from their place of work went on foot
or in wagons. Now under the proleta-
rian rule the workers go to and from
work in high-class coaches along the
narrow-gauge line which we have laid
down. This narrow-gauge railway
makes a circle thru Bibi-Eibat, i. e.,
around the entire district thru the oil
fields. Instead of. steam locomotives,
oil locomotives operate on this line.
Our workers say that where formerly
in the opinion of the bourgeoisie it was
impossible to introduce anything to
alleviate the life of the workers, now
we can do everything that is helpful
to the work as far as our strength and
resources allow. In the whole Bibi-
Eibat district and, in general thruout
the whole oil fields, the oil used to be
extracted by man power, from which
the workers very soon became dis
abled, losing their sight, while they
often suffered from rheumatism in the
legs. The workers thus suffered from
this primitive method OF extracting
oil. 1t is clear that the, ,bourgeoisie
looked after the workers health very