The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
1900 Men In Harvest.

days.
1900 Mon In Harvest.
I'm the period after sowing we
ploughed 28,500 hetaces for our
selves and 1900 for the local peas
ants, in readiness for fall sowing,
Then came the harvest days. We
mist take the grain from $1,000
hectares. We bagn July II, and fin
ished the first days of August. There
worked in the fields 1000 men,
with 400 tractors, rs combines, so
threshers and other machinery in
proportion. We cut grain, threshed
at once and carted out to grain ele-
vators which loaded it at once on
cars"
This was the first use of COM
hines in any amount of Soviet soil.
They justified themselves fully, gave
cleaner grain and caused less trou-
BILE than the reapers and threshers.
After the harvest we continued
ploughing for winter wheat and then
for the spring sowing. We seeded
35,430 hectares to winter wheat and
ploughed $4,000 hectares for spring
seeding. -" Thus next years sown
area will almost double this years
world record,
Cheaper Than In America.
Fifteen months have passed since
the day of the Gigants' organiza-
ton. Its work was carried forward
in the midst of a storm of attacking
rumors. "The tractors won't come;
the seed won't come; they won't
plough it; they won't sow it. And
at last "They can't harvest it."
When at last tire harvest was in, the
whispers changed to "the crop has
cost them to 10 roubles pood"
These were all lies inspired by the
class enemies in the rural districts,
and spread about by the doubling
and weak elements.
The actual cost of grain, produced
under all these difficulties, was So
so kopeks pood. us cents a
bushel). In this it must be remem-
bered that land values play no part,
since land is state-owned and there
fore free in the Soviet Union. The
land speculations which have raised
the cost of farms in the United
States of America will seriously
handicap that nation in competing
with Russia in the worlds grain
markets, as soon as the experience
of the Soviet giant farms becomes
standardized.
"The cause of the success" says
manager Yourkin, "lies in the COR
rect policy of the Communist Party,
and its attentive leadership. The
workers, office staff and special
lists, united in their trade union,
showed the ability to build this great
socialist husbandry. Labor disci-
pine, enthusiasm, and consciousness
of our aim, were constantly present,
Socialist rivalries between groups
played basic part in our speed.
Still Growing.
eve have still many tasks ahead.
First to sow more than 100000 hec-
tares the coming year. Then to raise
the quality of our work, improve
the care of machines, the oiling and
repairing of each small trouble. All
of us, tractorists, bookkeepers,
chauffeurs, brigade leaders, must
learn, and learn and learn, as Lenin
said, in order to improve our organ
ization. And during the, next year
we must strengthen our aid to the
surrounding peasants, helping them
to organize collective farms and
giving them machine help and also
expert knowledge" :.
Such is the task of the large
Soviet farms, Of which the Giant is
only one, the largest.
Build Modern Town.
While this rapid production went
ahead on the Gigant, other gangs
Of workers were busy preparing the
coming model town for the Gigant's
workers. Cottages infinitely better
than the typical Russian village
offers, went up around central club
building and cinema. Electric light
and a water system was also rapidly
installed for the working staff of
the Gigant when they should return
from their work in the tractor bri-
gades.
Never again will the Giant employ
such a disproportionate number of
seasonal workers; better mechanical
ton is reducing this number, and
making possible cadre of year
round farm workers, many of whom
say, in the words Of a young farm
hand in the 10th brigade, writing in
the farm newspaper: 81 promise
lever to leave the Soviet farm in
all my life, and to carry out all Or
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