Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23

Where the greatest efforts Of the frey
the location of NizhRi NoUgDEOd In rel
she other osnfers of the mem industrial
ganization doing a particular piece of work
They can be shifted anywhere.
Everybody is working for the government.
IN other countries they have armies for show
I'm the Soviet Union they actually PERFORM
heing called forth in every emergency Fur
theEuore civilians can be mobilized more easily
for work The men viii turn 0ut and pmt i'm
hEich or sheet metal stackss anything the state
demands and the labor unions don't Interfere
s.And NO, matter what mistakes these RUS
SLAMS make concludes Bryant they keep
pushing right al1eadi"
IF yun conlc all have been here . year $50
when We arrived IS strong" Bryant wrote In
his report OF NEhy 30 among the wazemt neldh
and forests, to- staxt building plant which
would be a. large undertaking In any nzpn'S
country under the best conditions, tn say nosaE-
ing of building q city to- house the workers. Inn
addition!
Then II Won could return, with me year
later and see tsusaEls of tons of steel crested,
miles and mfleas Of railroads i'm pimce; 10-car
passenger trains operating among different
parts OF the job Is standard loDomotfves
IL you could see the braack settlements that
look like army cantonmentg and house over l5'-
600 people with provision being made to hDaiSe
an additional IL. 900 =. :. If yom could see these
mammoth buildings-the machine assembly
plant is 800 feet long and $50 feet wide :"
THE Americans have to battle with primitive
Russian methods
Galvanized iron for skyiightsl strives, but
there IS no solder to put it In with Vitrified
sewer tile is needed. For months the engineers
no along waiting for the tile, the Russians
promising that it is ordered. it is coming. it viii
be alOng right away. The time comes when the
enainasRs have to- have that tile to % ahead
with the job. The Russians- reply "Hat we
emit get 1T. And the engineers make tile out
o. conoEete.
we can do, it." says Bryant bat IL they'd
told us al the start that there was doubt about
RAfting the tile would have been prepared.
when parts break. new ones either have to be
made on the job. We must wait for duplicates
to be ssnt from the United States. And, there
ii. the problem of the three green. operators
working successfully three shifts with such
construction equipment cranes and draglines
the problem- Of the fSe-minnte' smoking
peFaod every hour
And then there is the dictatorship, OF the
proletarfat
The Russian workers. come TO the plant from
tine villages, husky peasant men and women,
with packs on their backs Trey live In long.
rude log barracks And. impattently. they move
into tine unfinished model houses OF the work
exs City, 500 families strong and csmp there.
what though the buiIders tear their hair and
cry
'.Bnt the electric fixtures AREN'T i'm yeti The
plaster Is still wet ON: the waEisls
FOR III the worker has moved in. his bundle
end bed pat lock On the door and his pFfmlls
I'm the. Kitchen, all the American engineers on
earth can't bulge him--nor break the Soviet
law, which says that worker on > JOB. cannot
be moved from one room until you give him
another just as COED. So the workers. stay
and tiae 200 apartments remain unfinished.
A ND again there are the workers Commit
~ tess, which are the bane Of the engineers
lives.
The Russian directors on these jobs accord
ing to the Americans must spend fairly large
proportion of their time terrifying. themselves
against the Workers COMMITTEES They are
constantly under the surveillance Of the com
mftteeS, and under such condition there Is a
tendency TO shift responsibility
SAY that foreman tells q worker to iii in
y ditch" says Bryant There is ice in the
ditch The foreman doesn't notice 1t when he
gives his order, b6t the worker does Never
tlleiess. he f1lls in the ditch. knowing that the
dirt win shift later WHEN the ice mests and
the woEk will be sp1s.,d
'.He does not tes1 the foreman right then
and there. He goes to the Workers Committee
and flies a. cl1aFfe against the foreman. who
ID hauled np for trial--and 80 it goes
Now, OF csarse. in America the worker would
cali oAt 70 the foreman, TOakee- here, Bill this