The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-25

min, VoroshiIov, Kaganovich, etc. As
these leaders appeared on the stage
an ovation greeted them. These men
and women of the soil, the "udar-
niks of the socialist fields" as they
had been heralded in the Soviet news
papers, raised the roof" in their
burst of enthusiasm for the leaders
of their government and their Party,
the party of the workers and the
peasants, the Communist Party. But
even greater was the enthusiasm,
even stormier the ovation when the
chosen udarniks themselves marched
up an incline and appeared on the
stage to take their seats besides the
outstanding and celebrated leaders.
INSPIRING SCENE
There were young men and old,
there were women who had known
the bitter lot of hopeless drudgery
before the Revolution and girls in
their teens to whom the pre-revolu-
tionary days are merely weird fam
taStic tales and all of them were
animated by common spirit and
all of them cheered to the echo as
their fellow udarniks appeared one
after another on the stage and seat
ed themselves at the rostrum besides
the renowned leaders. Here was a
picture of unity of government and
governed that had no equal anywhere
in the world.
There was more of this inspiring
display Of solidarity. A delegation
of the best udarniks of the largest
factories in Moscow came with their
banners and brought with them pre-
cious gifts, samples of their factory
output. In the collection of gifts
brought by the delegation from the
giant of electrical equipment "Elec-
trozavod," was huge searchlight:
the working class lighting up the road
to socialism for its fellow-class, the
peasantry. From the Trechgorny
Textile Plant the welcoming COM
mittee brought variety of attractive
cloth. This was a symbol of the
unity and cooperation between the
Soviet workers and the peasants. The
Farm Congress was a common af-
fair, for the progress of the farms
is bound up with the progress of in
dustry. Those who nave witnessed
the feverish activity of the workers
in the factories in connection with
the preparations for the spring SOW
ing; those who have seen the mar
velous system of Sponsorship" at
work-the workers of a given factory
acting the sponsors of given Kol-
hoz or rural district and helping the
peasants in every possible way to
make go of their farms-they will
fully appreciate the great symbolic
meaning of the ceremony of gift
bearing enacted at the opening SEES
sion of the First AIi-Union Congress
of Collective Farm Chamnions.
THE YOUTH AND
RED DEFENDERS
A reporters account of this ses-
sion would have to include the spec
tacular appearance of delegation
of the Moscow Comsomol Geague of
Communist YOUTH and the stirring
scene of the delegation Of the Red
Army units of the Moscow Garrison
marching up the aisles to the strains
OF famlllar revolutionary airs and
hating at the stage as their spokes-
man welcomed the Red farm-cham-
pions in the name of the Red Army
of Workers and Peasants.
But ceremonial and atmosphere
were merely incidental to the real
business of the Collective Farm Con-
gress. The delegates came to Mos
cow from thousands of miles away
on very important mission. What
was that mission? How did these
Koihoz "udarniks" tackle their job?
What can the farmers and workers
of other countries learn from the
deliberations of this historic Con-
gress? I shall answer these ques-
tons in subsequent articles.