The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-06
Soviet EngineerS>>From
The Bench

already graduated techniciarls sew
eral times, and nov, on Dec. 5,
1882, it has graduated its first engi-
neers.
THE factory was very strict in its
4 tests of the graduates. The
most prominent and famous pro-
feSsors were invited to examine
them. The examination papers and
work we're most strictly criticized.
Several students have to study a
little longer. But the overWhelrn-
ing majority brilliantly passed
their tests. The reports of the pro-
fessors are now before me. They
tell how the engineers in the
school factory are no worse than
the engineers graduated from the
usual universities in theoretical at
tainments, but in practical work,
in knowledge of the industry, they
are considerably superior. OF
course, these are all engineers with
what is called a narrow specially"
engineers of the American type, 10
of them are specialists on the man.
ufacture Of steam turbines, 13 on
the assembling of steam turbines,
IL on the construction of steam
turbines, IL on the construction of
steam boilers However, narrow
specialization is not a popularity
of the school-factory at the Stain
Plant but of the whole system of
technical education which has
ruled up to the present in the Soviet
Union. 1t is caused by the neces-
sity Of forming new cadreS Of engi-
neers in the shortest possible time.
1t was an unqdenchable thirst
for knowledge, together with the
realization that they were partici-
pating in socialist construction,
which created the conditions for
this successful experiment" Forty
four new engineers who have joined
the army of the engineering and
technical workers of the Soviet
Union form the best living enbodi-
ment of the words of Comrade
Stain last year: Our country has
entered the stage of its develop
ment when the working class must
create its own technical intelli-
gentSia, who are able to protect its
interests in production as the in
terests of the ruling class.
FULFILLING STAINS
six CONDITIONS"
Comrade Stain placed the for
nation of such an intelligentsia in
the fourth place among the historic
six conditions for the victory of So
cialist construction. These condi-
tons are being fulfilled. And the
most brilliant example is the gradu-
alton of A engineers by the school
factory.
The tremendous significance Of
the successful experiment consists
not only in the fact that dozens
and later hundreds Of new engi-
neerS rising from the workers have
joined the ranks of the technical
commanders in socialist industry.
The ranks of the Soviet engineer
ing and technical cadreS are being
swelled by thousands and tens of
thousands of engineers from among
the workers who graduate every
year from the numerous universe
ties of the U. S. s. r. It is an
other thing which is important.
The new Communist life can al
ready be seen in the distance from
this experiment. 1t may be that
only a few factories can yet follow
the example of the Stain plant.
1t may be that under present con-
ditions tremendous educational re-
sources are required which the So
Wet Union does not yet possess ON
mass scale. But we can already
see how the face of factory
changes in socialist society, how the
distinction between a factory and
an institute is gradually being
wiped out, the distinction between
physical and mental labor. In CAPT.
talist society this is impossible.
The workers in the capitalist coun-
tries have only one lotto work for
others. The working class are shut
out from high technical educa-
ton. 1t is the privilege of the bour-
geoisie.
The path taken by the A worker
engineers is the path along which
the whole working class of the
Soviet Union is travelling. One
takes this path earlier, another
later. 1t is the path of study and
work simultaneously.