The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-11
Foreign Workers USSR Pledged Tempo of Socialist
Construction Formal Opening Of Largest Power Plant
World Yesterday
NO SUCH GIANT IN
USSAYSAM
ENGINEER, WINTER
Fine Living Conditions
at Plant Shows Fruits
of Revolution
Gable BY Inprecorr.)


mination of elaborate preparations
carried out with tremendous ANNA
ton, the formal opening of the
Dnieper hydro electric power sta. ion,
the largest in the world, took place
today.
In a gallery, constructed along the
main concrete road wers exhibited
the portraits of the best &C shock
workers. In workers boarding quar-
ters, clubs and red corners, the build
ers of the Dniepetrostroi recollected
the days of heroic struggle against
nature.
Foreign Workers Hail Historic
Event.
At a meeting devoted to the open
ing of the Dnieprostroi, the foreign
workers resolved to address an open
letter to the workers Of the Soviet
Union. The letter says:
1--WE foreign workers and special
lists engaged in the building of the
Dnieper hydraulic power station
Americans, Germans, Frenchmen-
congratulate the workers of the
Soviet Union upon this tremendous
victory of socialist thought and la
Dor. We are proud Of participating
in this gigantic construction on an
equal footing with you. We know
and feel, especially on the day of
your great celebration. that we are
not foreigners but participators in
the general activity"
ION the day of the solemn start
of the Dnieper hydro-electric power
station" the letter continues, I'VE
promise to strain our whole energy
in the united struggle for more
rapid tempo in the socialist construc-
ton. We appeal to all foreign work
ers and specialists working on the
territory of the Soviet Union to do
the same
'hief Engineer Recalls Heroic
Struggle.
One of the heroes of the Dnieper
hydro-electric power station, the
chief Of the construction work, Win
ter, published an article in the
"Pravda," taking stock of the days
of heroic struggle ending with the
greatest victory, on the day of the
formal opening Of the Dnieptrostroi.
In his article Winter gives various
figures relating to the volume and
extent of power of the new hydro
electric station and mentions the
beautiful living conditions in which
the builders of the Dnieprostroi find
themselves. He says: How vivid,
how beautiful, how full of life are the
pictures of real socialist labor, Of
real enthusiasm and display of will
to vanquish! Who of us can forget
the pictures of night work in the pits
of the river when human work was
in full swing, all around machines
roared, the steel shovel excavators
ground against the granite and the
trains carrying materials whistled2
Who can forget the struggle of
months for 100000 cubic meters of
concrete when for precision of work
every worker and mechanic was
brought up to 100 per cent efficiency?
Who of us can forget the heroic ac-
tivity of thousands of people in cold
wind and frost? All this led to VIC
tory. Neither Americans who wit
messed other constructions, nor the
Germans who know disciplined ac-
tivity believed in our possibilities, yet
they saw here on the Dnieper some
thing new which they have not at
home and which could not exist I'M
der the conditions of capitalist econ
omy."
No Such Thing In america, Says
American Engineer
Another witness of this heroic con-
struction tells of tempo unknown
in the history of the world. There
is no reason for accusing this witness
of being biased. He is the chief en-
gineer OF Newport firm. Winter
whose name accidentally comedies
with that of the chief construction
engineer of Dnieprostrc<-
the assembling of the turbines at the
Dnieper Power Station. He stated:
There is no such great hydraulic
power station as the Dnieper power
station in America. No such compli-
Gated electric plant was ever con-
structed in the whole world. The
tempo of construction Of the Dniep-
lOoUlOl 10 AliuNll ChCCCdhlB VIC ICIllpO
of construction of American power
stations"
Drawing q comparison, Winter
states that $4,000 horsepower tur-
bine was erected at the New York
power station and that assembling
this turbine took over 8 months,
whereas the gigantic turbines at the
Dnieper power station Of 10000
horse power each were assembled on
the average in the course Of six
months
A turbine wheel in New York was
assembled in 10 days, while at Dniep-
rostroy this took only IL days, Winter
declares adding that in America the
aggregates after drying fail to work
properly and suffer accidents for
long time before starting exploita-
ton, while on the Dnieper the tur-
bine generators are working steadily
from the first day.
Living Conditions Better Than
In u. S.
N According to- him the housing and
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