The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-20

which about thousand people participated among
whom 40 were women. In addition three
agricultural conferences took place with 545 partt
cpants
Arranged Five Meetings.
in another section, where there are party
nuclei, 1 arranged five meetings in which 400 peo-
pie participated, half of whom were women.
Further; participated in education tour in
remote districts where I held mass meeting and
lectures the subject: Women and the Soviet
Power
This, briefly stated is my lamentabe activity
impartialIy portrayed"
What, now does the section secretary of the party
group, Comrade Kuhkowa, do besides her gather s. =
ings, lectures and meetings? ..
"Of the than thirty members of the G. P. r.
and seventy of the Y. C. L., several come daily as
If to friend and get advice; peasants and peasant
too with the most diverse concerns.
Work on the PIenum.
Besides the secretarial work must be done and
indeed, monthly reports to the government commit
tee of the party the women's section and to the
section of special application. copy of all records
goes to the district committee. and government com
mittee. Then there comes the work on the plenum
and in the district and section commissions. The
remote sections must be visited. One must prepare
for the reports in the party and non-party meetings
"And finally. must take of her farm and
a family of seven, four of whom chidren-four
future communards-to whom, under the circum
stances cannot give a desirable education
"And above all. much energy is consumed by the
labor the farm"
She often thinks of giving up the farm But aside
the necessity of nourshng family, there is
also the following consideration to be taken into
account:
q must be able to prove that l. as a peasant
woman, am able to perform something useful
my own land in agricultural respect and thereby
give the others an example
The Revolutionary Surge.
"5ut do not feel myself so much peasant as
rather revolutionary worker who lives hundreds Of
kilometers away from in the cities, in those
cities in which the surge Of the revolution has not
yet to rest.
with such emotions, 1t is hard to live in a
mote, gloomy village Of petty bourgeois and in
divduaIstie peasant province; where the revolution Isl
airy storm which could refresh ones enervated brain
does not penetrate"
That is the true great heroic deed of the Russian
That is more than accompanying
husband to Siberia on post horses to forego for
time balls and aristocratic society.
Kulikowa longs for education. At least within the
limits of the intermediary school. She would like to
live in a workers section for a time;
breathe air of the proletarian struggle But her
duty compes her to remain at her post, to hold up
right the banner Of the proletarian dictatorship in
a peasant nest.
Family, household, womens section. party, de-
mands of the rapidly changing life, and weak
woman Russian peasant who has not
attended school, bears her shoulders this
unheard of burden-rthe burden of building up the
state. of uprootng the old barbarc Asiatic
Russia.
5aptised in Factories.
1t would be impossible to understand how such
Kulikowa and Agapkina could arise in
village. If one condition forgotten both we're
baptized in st. Petersburg, both had been in fac
tories bo.h had received the proletarian polish and
tempering which cannot be sofened by the individu-
alstic property-psychology OF THE village
These veritable heroines OF the great strug-
gle for the future. How many OF these there
are-ne don't know. hut all uorhans aactona nro fnn