The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12

better what the tasks and achievements of their
Russian brothers are, the Kharkov workers
through their revolutionary union invited the
foreign correspondents of the British and the
American Daily Worker" to take part in the
celebration.
We arrive at the plant. Endless lines OF men,
women and children, carrying banners, singing
march to the entrance of the great Giant. Over
head two Soviet seroplaneS soar, dropping the
revolutionary poets greeting to the Kharkov
works. The rain pours down. The rich earth
Of Ukrania gives off rivers of black mud Yet
the workers, unheeding, stand pressed together,
listening eagerly to Petrovsky, chairman of the
Central Committee OF the Soviet Union end of
the Central Committee of the Ukraine, to the
Red director of the tractor works; a Moscow
worker, and others Greetings are read from
Stain who halls the Kharkoy plant in the name
of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party OF the Soviet Union as ian example of
real Bolshevik tempo" The international" is
sung, again and again.
AS I study the alert rain-splaShed faces of
the mass pressed around the stand recall work
ers in the United States also standing packed
together in the rain listening intently. The
look on their faces was far different from this.
For they were unemployed workers, grown des-
perate from hunger, coal miners striking against
Melons rule of starvation =. In capitalist-rlln
America, misery, sullen shame, growing revolt
on the face of the workers. In workers Russia,
a look of confidence, a sense of comradeship,
which is based on the truth that Stain recently
expressed-"Labor in country today is an
honor
We enter the plant to see the first tractor
assembled. The masses enthusiasm reaches a
high PITCH there is a tremendous push forward.
"Comrades-comrades! the guards warn. Order
is quickly maintained, for Soviet toilers know
how to discipline themselves.
The conveyor moves A salute by the artillery,
shouts of hurrah, singing of the 'Internationale,"
and the first tractor, driven by the best shock
brigade Marusia Tugeva, comes off the conveyor.
Every six minutes the Kharkov tractor giant
will give forth steel horse for the use of col
lective and state farms. It's yearly output of
$4,000 tractors of the International Harvester
type will match that of its brother plant at
Stalingrad. The workers socialist town growing
up near the plant already has row on row of
modern school where the youth will receive free
ped with large, free hospital nurseries where
working mothers can leave their children during
the day, moving pictures, stores theatres, and
modern Schol where the youth will receive free
hot lunches, shoes and warm clothing. The Trade
Union, to which 81 per cent of the workers
already belong, has set aside an initial sum of
twenty thousand roubles for these free lunches
in the school, "a rube is about So cents Another
fifty thousand roubles has been assigned for
cultural work. A huge community kitchen
is being built which will 100000 two course
meals day at cost of about Is cents a person.
Working seven-hour day, with every fifth day
rest day, the 10000 workers now employed at
the plant, (Which is not yet running to full
capacity) average from 200 to $50 rubes a
month. Some of the best earn as high as 600
and 700 rubles. Among the high skilled are more
than 100 foreign-b born workers-Czecls, Germans
Americans and others.
The American workers, about whom Will write
more later, are on the whole enthusiastic about
life and work here. AS one skilled filter told us
with twinkle in his eye, Il worker for Ford for
seventeen years in Detroit, but I'd never seen
what have now since I've been here What I
admire most is the way everybody likes to work
You see, we have no boss. We work all together,
like, for ourselves. That's the way it'll have to
be in the United States, too, some day-all to-
gether and no more boss"