The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

Money wages have risen 350% above pre-
war, while real wages have risen even more.
We visit one of the many model workers
towns which are being reared on the best sites
around the city. This particular one Is named
for Stenka Rain, the rebel Cossack of the
seventeenth century who led revolving peasants
against the landlords and rich merchants This
Robin Hood hero OF the southeastern natonali-
ties fought for some time with success against
the Russian Cars troops, but was finally de-
feated, taken to Moscow and beheaded on the
Cars execution block which still stands in what
Is now the Red Square.
Many of the new towns are composed OF three
and for-story apartments but the village Of
Stenka Rain is made up of neat rows of one
and two-family houses, surrounded with trees
and small flower gardens. Although 1t is De-
cember the trees green and the flowers in
bloom The houses are made Of brick with an
outer coating OF white or pastel-tinted cement.
The architecture shows an eastern influence
that is most pleasing. BY another year the last
OF the old houses will be torn down and all work
ers' families housed in modern dwellings
Our leaders invite us to go into any Of the
homes we like and speak with these people liv-
ing there. Wherever we knock we are warmly
welcomed, shown around, and our many cues
tons answered. The houses have generally two
rooms, kitchen and bath, with running water
electricity, central heating. One highly skilled
worker with musical tastes has piano banjo
and vctrola; his wife evidently takes great pride
in their new home with its modern twin beds
and other furnishings This family pays the
equivalent Of ten dollars month rent, the fac
tory paying the rest. This is the maximum in
rent. In another family we visit the man is un-
skilled, having come from the village scarcely
two years before His family is small and he has
only two small rooms with kitchenette and bath,
which he gets entirely without charge being
shock brigader. On the walls in neat patterns
he has placed the pictures OF Lenin Krupskaya,
Stain, Clara zetkin, also drawings OF May Day
and November celebrations. He is taking tech
nical courses he tells U.S. in order to better quail
ify himself and speed socialist construction
We visit one OF the four large workers clubs
rightly called Palaces OF Culture" which this
city Of five hundred thousand persons has built
In architecture, equipment and program OF ac-
tivities it compares yavorably with The best that
Moscow possesses. Our delegates hardly know
how 10 express their enthusiasm they will never
be content until the workers in their countries
also enjoy such advantages. We 90 also to the
Women's Club, established TO develop the women
who were Kept so ignorant and isolated under
the old system, and whose men, still Iaboring
under the old prejudices, tried to prevent their
freely taking part in the new Soviet life. When
we entered the classrooms where these women
were studying many Of them drew their shawls
quickly across their faces; then with shy smiles,
realizing what they had done, released them
again. One In a class of biology, another in
politics, a third for those who wish TO learn to
read and write. This club, which was started g.
decade ago by ten Communist members whose
lives we're threatened by those who saw their
Sacred" Mohammedan customs violated, now
has grown TO over three thousand.
These are only some OF the aspects OF the
new Baku and OF how the proletarian dictator
ship is enabling the peoples OF the Near East to
traverse centuries OF progress in few years
time, coming directly from primitive conditions
rot TO capitalism, but TO Socialism and Its ma
soasl Nnsrs ton Of au peoples