The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

How the Russian workers trans
formed company town into
Soviet Community. Remarkable
achievements in industry, educa-
ton, housing, health and child
care in the village of Gluhovo,
where textile baron was once the
absolute ruler.)
BY NATHANIEL BUCHWALD
Daily Worker Correspondent
HER voice suddenly grew hard and
III her kindly smiling grey eyes took
on steely sheen. She began her
story of Arseny Ivanovich Morozoy
former khozyain (boss, owner, ruler
of Gluhovoy-her personal story.
She was a child of ten when the
whipping incident occurred. 1t was
on Sunday, and Arseny Ivanovich
Morozov was returning home from
church in his carriage. For some rea-
son she failed to bow to the khOzyain,
and Morozov was quick to notice it,
He halted his horses and called to
the child to come over. She obeyed.
With his whip he struck her twice
across her shoulders and legs, and in
a calm voice he told her that he was
teaching her respest for her betters.
When she came home crying, her
mother, upon hearing the story
thrashed her again for having
aroused the displeasure of the kho-
zyain. Her father was gri1nly silent,
but when he left the house he NUT
tered something about bitch and
one Of her offspring riding in q
carriage.
HOMRADE KOTIKOVA is now q
v member of the Culture and Edu-
cation Section of the Fabcom CFac-
tory Committee) of one of the plants
Of tha Textile Combinat works of
Gluhowo. She has no outward marks
Of her office and does not even carry
a brief-case. Her peasant garb, in
Guiding shawl draped over her
head and tucked away under her
coarse winter jacket, contrasts
strangely with her vocabulary Of an
educated PERSONA vocabulary in
Guiding such words as "prophylactic, y
naturalization" and "disproportion u
At times she 1apses into her peasant
ways and addresses the comrade from
America in the familiar thou,
which is, indeed, thrilling to the
comrade from America.
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MOROZOV'S RULE
There are monuments Of the Moro
zoV rule in Gluhovo-the ugly bar
racks Of red brick, three churches
Of which two have been put DO bet
ter use, a garden where the khosyain
used to spend his leisure and where
workers children are now free tc
frolic, a club house built for Moro
zoy's white-collar TRUSTEES and now
used TO better advantage by the pro-
| letarian youth OF Gluhovo, a Schoo,
where workers children were once
taught respect for their betters" ano
arc now instructed i'm The funda-
mentals of socialism in theory ano
/ practice.
I Comrade Kotlkoya animates these
monuments with her stories and ex-
plantations. The Morozov rule was g
subtle one and Arseny Ivanovicf
himself was q strange mixture oi
modern capitalist and fashioned
religious bigot and tyrant. He be.
longed to a dissenting sect OF the or
Understandable church, and he sur.
rounded himself with fellow dissent
ers. He had gorgeous church built
for his sect, and it was part of ti1e
duty of his workers to sing in the
choir.
A spy SYSTEM
Members of Morozoy's sect received
preference both on the white collar
staff and in the ranks of the workers
But it was not only matter Of re.
ligion, for Morozov's co-religionist:
were also his stool-pigeons. 1t was
they who helped spread ajaong the
workers the myth OF the kind and
generous and god-fearing khozyain
it was they, too, who reported to the
khozyain every instance of heresy
and grumbling on the part of the
workers.
The Morozov TRUSTEES were planted
in the barracks. were strategically
distributed in the shops of the plant
They were crude. home grown YET
effective spying outfit, run and di-
rected by the khozyain himself. The
work of these stool-pigeons was not
obvious to the mass Of workers, and
only the advanced among them had
suspicious Of ts,e existence Of the