The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

during Tsarisn, had to sell on the
market the greatest part of agri-
cultural produce in order to pay
the ceaseleSsly rising taxes, have
at the present time the possibility
to consume a large part of their
produce, and therefore are send
ing it to the market in a lesser de-
gree. Obviously this has an effect
on the supply of the towns.
The breeding and dairy
Soviet farms, which are organized
on a large scale by the govern
ment, are not yet able to cope with
the needs of the town population.
The reason is that, as compared
with the grain problem which was
solved in the first years OF collec-
Invitation, the meat problem needs
a much longer period for it's solu-
ton. All this the Soviet worker
fully understands. There is no
complaint about this sort of short
age, for the average Russian
worker knows that it is Just a
question of putting up with tenn
porary difficulties and discomforts
in order to build up his country.
FAULTY DISTRIBUTION
But there are other difficulties
that are both avoidable and sur
mountable. Much of the food
shortage, wherever it becomes seri-
GUS, is due to faulty management
and faulty distribution of available
supplies. The fact is that the food
situation varies from region to
region, from city to city, and in the
same region or city-from factory
to factory. In addition to the
rationS of basic foodStuffs( bread.
sugar, potatoes, etc.,, supplied by
the government, each factory, each
economic unit of production, or
ganlzes its own supply and dis
tribution apparatus to provide the
workers with additional foodstuffs
and goods. The government has
set aside certain state farms TO
supply the needs Of specified fac
tories or Of other organizations.
1t is largely up to the factory
management to organize its own
supply of additional and available
foodstuffs and their distribution at
cost to the workers.
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IT is precisely on such q mission
L that the worker from large in
dustrial plant in Leningrad came
to MinSk. He was assigned a GER
tain territory in which he could
buy up quantities of food and make
bargains with the local kOlhOzes
collective FARMS, or, for that
matter, with individual peasants.
Part of his task consists in help
ing the collective farms and the
individual peasants to obtain man
utactured goods Of everyday use.
For, in the matter of manufactured
goods, there is also the double diff
ticulty Of insufficient supply Cof
certain items of general use), and
faulty distribution of available sup
plies-the latter perhaps being the
more serious and more vexing part
OF the situation.
The peasants want goods in ex-
change for their food, and it is part
of the job of this energetic young
Russian worker from Leningrad to
make such goods available to the
peasants, The task, is complicated
and calls for much initiative and a
clear understanding of the many
FACTORS that enter into the prob
lem. But this particular represen-
tative of this particular plant in
Leningrad had managed to solve
The problem. all the workers Of his
factory arc assured q years supply
OF potatoes at nominal firm
prices, a supply Of butter at fairly
reasonable commercial prices, a
supply of meat for the workers
families, in addition to the meat
lunches the workers get at the fac
tory at low prices, an additional
supply Of bread over and above the
quite sufficient rations of a pound
and half to two pounds a day
per worker Every cheaply).
In Minsk proper / had occasion
to visit two fair-sized factories and
inquire into the food situation OF
each Of them. The "Voroshilov''
plant machine bulding) had had
its troubles about food supplies,
and there was quite a row made
sY the leading werkerS and the