The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
The Russian Workers Eat
Three Meals A Day
Daily Worker Correspondent in Soviet Union Tells of
Improving Conditions Despite Difficulties

1dGIOJNs
The Factory Committee was taken
to task for neglecting its work of
supplying the workers with suffi-
Gent food at prices within their
budget. Also for permitting the
factory kitchen to lower the quality
OF the meals and raise their prices.
The workers of the. factory had
their say and they removed the
entire Factory Committee.
When / visited the factory, the
new Committee had been function
ing only a few days, but already
there was a measurable improve
ment in conditions. Certainly the
lunch Of delicious potato soup
with double portions available for
every one), and the tasty roast
veal with barley, potatoes and
picked cucumber on the side,
tasted good to this writer who had
eaten worse lunches in some of our
better cafeterias in the United
States. The old kitchen manager
was placed on probation. If he
doesn't make good, he too will go.
l think he will make good. The
problem of cost is one he has not
yet solved. The meal described
here costs IS copeks. 1t should
cost less. With efficient MANAGE
ment, it will cost less.
At the October clothing factory,
n employing 1000 workers and
producing nearly million women's
coats a year, the average pay of
the workers is lower than at "Vo-
roshilov' but in many respects the
workers Of october" are better
supplied with foodstuffS and ar
ticleS Of daily use, because the
management and the Factory Com
mittee are more efficient in this
respect. I had lunch also at the
October" plant, 1t was approx
mately of the same kind, tasted
somewhat better and cost only rs
kopeks In addition, the workers
could set tea free of charge. APP
pies at nominal prices were avail
able at all hours, both at the "Vo-
roshilov'' and the October"
BOSS PRESS BELITTLES
ACHIEVEMENTS
There are still difficulties. but
when you put these difficulties in
their proper place in the Soviet
picture Of socialist construction, of
buoyant optimism, and that Won
derful sense Of Self-reliance and
self-confidence on the part of the
workers, and the fight of the
worker class under the leadership
Of the Soviet Government, these
difficulties look much smaller. 1t
is precisely here that the bourgeois
propagandists lie even when they
tell some OF the truth: they tear
the text out of the context; they
put the difficulties of socialist con-
struction to the foreground, and
omit or belittle the tremendous
achievements both in reconstruct
ing the country on socialist foun-
dations and reconstructing the
workers and the peasants in a
spirit Of pride in their own achieve
ments, in spirit of social respon-
sibility, of collective effort.
When you come in contact with
the Soviet workers; when you OBJ
serve their pride at being the build
erS of socialism; when you come
under the spell of the boundless
faith they have in their own future
and the future of the working class
the world oVer--then, and only
then, Go you realize the true mean
ing Of this great and glorious event
in the history Of the world, called
the october Revolution.
AN instance of this spirit:
a was conducted through the
"Voroshilov'' factory by a worker
from the bench who had Just fin
ished his shift. He was not
Party member, just a man from the
ranks. He told me OF break"
that took place at the plant: last
month they fell down on the pro-
duction. They fulfilled only 80 per
cent Of their quota. ! made an
entry in my notebook. The work.
ers noticed it, and said to me
pleadingly: please, don't write this
about our factory Wen make
good the next month, / assure you"
They'll make good rest assured,
comrades AZ