The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
How Soviet Workers Learn to Control
Industry and Run Their Government

busy man and his business fire.
quently took him out of his Office.
It was true. This young and in
experienced brigade had neglected
the particular detail of calling up
the director and making sure he
would be there. So they made the
best of it. They asked the secretary
for the list of projects ordered by
the soviet, and got it. Sure enough,
the deputies had carried out the
mandate of the electors, to the ex-
tent that the soviet had ordered
the construction of this particular
new restaurant, and machine shop
for the other restaurant.
The trust had a paper with long
list of such orders down one column,
and in parallel column state
ment of the progress Of work on
each. According to this, the new
restaurant and the shop were built
and in operation.
PalatiaI Restaurant
Back to the street car went the
brigade, and out to the new res
taurant we travelled. 1t was a
palatial affair, huge structure
built of concrete, its sides nearly
half glass-enormous many paned
windows. Around it were the
beginnings of gardens. Vast halls
we're its cloak rooms, with rows and
rows of numb red hangers, with
colored tile floors, with barber shops
and wash rooms-a almost club.
The brigade skirrnished around
for the director of the restaurant.
They didn't find him. Big meetings
were going on, nobody knew just
where he was among them. So,
finally they simply dived into one
of the dining rooms, room for
building workers who were finishing
the building, though it was already
partly in operation while the upper
stories were being completed.
In this dining room they took
note of the fact that there were
lines waiting at the buffet where
diners bought their deserts. Also
the colored pillars were smudged
with black from the coats of build
ing workers who evidently were not
properly patronizing the cloak
rooms.
The brigade summoned the man
ager of this dining room and pointed
out his shortcomings His defense
was that with the building only
partly completed, the whole dining
room staff inexperienced and in
complete, he was doing the best he
could. They didn't accept the ex-
cuses, though they took notice OF
them.
Then a member of the crew OF
pantrymen walked up, in his white
uniform, and lead the brigade over
to a. locked room. He unlocked il
and showed how the defective plas-
tering had forced them to disconti-
nue. using it until repaired. The
brigade took note of all this, and
made other inquiries.
| On the wa. out, they commented
and consulted with the sectionnaire
Most of the defects were, to be sure
those of newness, inexpe.ience or
the part of the dining room staff
The sectionnaire was sure the defec-
tive plastering was already reported
by the sectionnaires of the factories
served by the dining room. But all
this must also be reported by the
special brigade. The director had
pledged this brigade to improve the
buffet service, to bring order into
the cloak room for building work
ers. The other dining rooms were
functioning all right.
The Brigade Reports
This brigade would report i'm
mediately the next day to the public
feeding section of the raion soviet
then to the delegates group of then
! own factory, and would notify the