The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

ings, I'm used to it, but here :"
ooh. go on" the others urged we're all plain
working women, like yourself"
Flushed with effort, she began: MY father
was a oor-keeper, my mother a laundress I
never went to school At twelve began to work.
and since sixteen I've been in this same factory.
After the revolution, I got to learn to read and
write. My brigade has raised our produc-
ttvity many times and made suggestions. That's
ALL" Quickly she took her seat, smiling shyly
around her. BY questioning her, we found that
several of her suggestions could well be counted
as inventions. For example, her last suggestion
gave an economy Of 5000 roubles.
At the close she added: "The new life in the
factory has helped me personally. -. Formerly
had trouble with my husband : worried
lot. Then, I became active, and forgot my
troubles. Now it's good to live, and work"
-<s Young At Sixty.
There were many others, such as Cognrade
Andurin, 6o-year-old enthusiast of a railroad
repairing shop near Moscow, who could have
had pension, but preferred to stay on the job.
I'm hale and hearty as the youngest of YOU"
and she shook her grey head at us, around which
was wound red scarf. For this energetic little
to the Party. Her son being Party man and
her grandson q ComSomol, why should she lag
behind? .-s-.-,
When asked care you a shock brigader?" "Of
course" she replied. To-day it's not possible
not to be!'' Her department entered into COM
petition with another and succeeded in lowering
the cost Of production per cent, increasing out
put by 10 per cent and making a record OF no
absentees from work Many times she has won
prizes by her suggestions "Once the factory
gave me a Lenin bust" she told us, another
time a kersone stove and lately a new suit of
clothes that cost So roubles."
The VIII Of Twenty-Six Girls
Conrade Fedorova, a bright-eyed girl from
the Lepse metal factory, related in a brisque
lively manner the story Of the &c young Com
rnunist girls who organized four years ago the
first brigade in the factory. Some of the older
workers scoffed "What're you kids up to? Just
a bunch of girls" But the twenty-six kept on,
determined to prove that working collectively
brought better results than working singly. For
their numerous successes in reducing waste i'm
proving methods of work. fulfilling their
program as well as for their social work, the
ere brigade was awarded the Order of Lenin
"since we got the order" Federova said, eve
have TO i've up to it-every one"
The girls worked in the winding section of the
transformer department.
Some of the young brigade members have now
been sent to regional courses and two to the
university to study
1--WE have our own wall paper" one of Fedo-
rova's companions added, and we go to movies
collectively, and pool our earnings and do every
thing in common It's lots of fun. Oh, yes,
we've gotten prizes many times. hundred
roubles last June to each girl, another time, a
sports outfit apiece. And we've our own author
-Levena She's written book about our ex-
periences called The Will OF the Twenty-six'
Now she's on her second book, about what our
brigade saw on the trip to- Europe"