The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-26
The S0viets Win the
Fight for Oil

nection with the outside world. Fires
broke out. Position of wells had to
be replanned. Workers fall ill, and
some become discouraged and leave,
The majority remain A wharf is
built out into the Caspian. Storms
blow up and throw their boats around
like cookie shells. They have to jump
into the sea and swim to shore. But
the work continues. Finally the last
planlling is laid and the last nail
driven in. The oil pipe line crawls out
along the wharf. Oil tankers steam
up. The rick BLACK blood" flows.
The Nefte-Chala proletariat h S
made its first contribution to the sue
cess of the Five Year Plan in oil.
Work Harder
These workers are many of them
Party members. But the reason that
Russia is conquering all her struggles
is that she has all sections of the
toiling masses and the professional
workers whirling like flywheels in her
great machines. Before the revolu-
ton engineers were paid 10000
rubles. Now they get just enough for
their needs, and comforts. Yet how
much harder do they work.
Refuses Brides
Here is picture of non-Party en-
gineer, Kapelushnikov, inventor OF
the turbine borer He goes to Amer
lea to demonstrate how his invention
works. His turbine borer beats the
rotary drill. The American capitalists
want to buy Kapelushnikov and his
invention. If the white guardists and
their socialist friends are right, here
is an opportunity for the engineer to
escape from the clutches of Bolshev-
ism. Kapeiushnikov rejects all the
gaudy offers. And then an accident
occurs and Kapelushnikov is crushed
by heavy truck which does not
have the right of way and plows into
the car he is riding in. His pelvic
bones are smashed. Six months in
the hospital. Then back to Russia
He must get back to his work
The Children Join
With the story of this heroic en-
gineer who feels SO deeply his re-
sponsibility to the Russian masses are
stories of workers from the national
minorities. Here is Ali Mardan, q
Turkish worker, g. years old. Wher
he was a mere child, he had to start
working in the Nobel oil works. II
1905 he went out on strike for &
shorter working day and higher
wages. After the revolution he is
appointed inspector of the oil work
ers. He is rewarded with the titlt
of Hero of Labor And side by side
with this grey-haired old man is this
little Misha Lobanov, nine years old
also working for the Five-Year Plar
and Socialist Society. Misha is &
Young Pioneer. And his story show,
how differently children are brought
up in the Russia of today from TIKI
way they were brought up before the
Revolution. The child is no longer {
bud in which capitalism can shove
in its cutworm SO that it will have
to rot away for capitalism's good
The child from the moment he car
understand things is helped to de.
velop into an individual who feel
that his first star is socialist mu.
tual responsibility" He too become.
fighter for the new society.
Stories like "Nefte- Chala," "One O.
the 25,000," Free Soviet Tadjikistan,
"Kolkhozniki," and THE Ferry arr
excellent pictures of what is goins
on in Russia today. They give the
intimate touch of the millions Of
Soviet workers and farmers. They
should be in the homes of all Amer.
lean workers who fight to create So.
VETS in America. They show there
IS no fortress the Bolsheviks cannot
take. They show that more import.
ant than the oil and the fields that
are conquered are the new fountain,