The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-24

Farmers.
These pamphlets are three windows
looking out on the full blaze Of the
greatest achievements yet recorded in
history. They open up to the most
tremendous changes ever compressed
into Is years.
p. Valliant-Couturler writes with
fire and understanding Of the VIC
toriorIs march of the Russian masses
under the banner OF Marxism-
Leninism. Skillfully he spikes and
lies broadcast by the capitalists and
their willing hands, the Socialist
leaders.
In one Of the most interesting of
his sketches he describes 8 meeting
with some French engineers hired by
the Soviets to prospect for Oil. These
French engineers are all reserviSts
and patriots" in their own country.
Yet this is what one of them says:
The Russian workers have a pas
sion for everything that smacks Of
culture and progress. We never have
any complaints to make. The
workers don't let anybody walk all
over them. An American engineer,
who was too hasty with them, was
dismissed at once. Forced labor
Oh, that's all nonsense. One
night our auto had a breakdown way
in Chechene County. 1t was bitter
cold. The nearest village was 80
kilometers away. What happened?
One of the workers went off on foot
to look for help. The Others, SILVER
ing with cold, all gathered close
around me to keep me warm. .
1t is by no means necessary to have
known prewar Russia in order to
measure what the SOViets have done!'
This French writer, Valiant Cou-
turier, seems to have been every
where. He visits Soviet newspaper
He writes about it. tits one doc
trine: Leninism. It's one plan: The
Five Year Plan Plan. It's one staff:
The working class"
Women Equals Of Men
He is the guest Of sailors on board
a Red gunboat. lie listens to a
meeting in a Tartar village and finds
how even the old people have spat
out the poison of the old religion and
the women have shed their wells tc
become the equals of the men.
He passes through the great Grozny
oil fields end goes among the eau
casian n1ountaineers and the Gypsy
collective farmers. He talks to Greg
ory, an old horse thief, now one OF
the MOST active Of collectivists.
How eloquent are the figures that
cover his pages. Here is an oil
worker, Ivan Kuctlkin, who remem-
bers when the workers shaved Ia
hours, made six ruble5 d week, and
lived in sordid barracks, 60 workers
in room. Now Ivan earns 12S
rubles month, works seven hours
a. day, and lives in fiat Of three
rooms and bath.
In the Azerbaijan Oil Works more
than 100000 tons Of oil are being
produced. Ninety per cent Of the
works are electricified. In America
only AZ per cent are electricified
There are $4,000 workers. OF these
$4,000 study TO increase their skill
Education has been compulsory And
81 100000 rubles are being spent on
schools.
This Is Only the Beginning"
This is only the beginning, states q
former bricklayer, President Of the
Peoples ConlIrissars. On the collec-
tive farm in the Black Earth region
are collective farmers who had to &C
begging before the Revolution. Thess
farmers get 1900 pounds Of wheat
and 800 rubles. Their neighbors, 1n-
dividual farmers, are lucky to make
a hundred rubles.
"Ninetp-five per cent of the farms
in the North Caucasus are collectives
1 have seen collccJiyization with my
own eyes, cries Valiant Couturier
TYPICAL of the hundreds OF thous-
j sands Of peasant women who are
Transforming Russia into the fore
most country in the world is Dunss
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