The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

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thr3et Of war, the quickened tempo
of life, all demand that we work
speedily and create that which will
counterfeit the dangers around us"
This fighter Of the old generation
of Bolsheviks challenges the eager
youngsters Of the new.
Fadeev. leader Of the local branch
Of the Young Communist League,
responds. In our ranks" he says.
there is not one member who has
failed to fulfill his duties. All have
gone over the work norns set I'D
for them in the production plan
The lowest percentage we have
made is 1913 per cent and the high
est is 100 per cent. The brigade of
Komsomols working on the excava-
tor are the best workers. in the
plant. Our members have done ex-
emplary work in mastering new
knowledge and getting familiar with
the new technique"
The banner to be presented to
the Komsomols bears a quotation
from Lenin, the slogan, Learn to
build; in building, learn"
An Old BoIshevik Speaks
Koksovaret a whiskered warrior
of the old generation. presents the
banner, With ardent fervor, he eX-
claims: CAS- I rode across the va
can't steppe toward Magnitogorsk
and passed the ridge of the noun
tain, from where the smoking for
est of your furnace chimneys hove
into view spreading over the rolling
plain, I was filled with ecstasy. This
city of 100000 persons, this expanse
Of mills. factories. furnaces, have
all appeared since I was last here in
1928: when. with other Bolshevik
planners, I looked across q naked
plain sloping away to the West from
an ore-ridged mountain. I thought
Of how governments built fortresses
to secure political fortunes, and of
how we have built here an immense
industrial stronghold, ribbed by iron
mountains, surrounded by tree-less
steppe. But the work of building
is nearly over now; as patrons of
Magnitogorsk Kombinat, we must
set new tasks for you, You now face
the Job of maintaining pig iron pro-
duction in the front ranks of world
producers"
The ceremonial part of the cele-
bratien was concluded by Muesh-
kov, head of Magnitogorsk Kombi-
nat. who said:
"All the duties set us by the So
ciety of Bolshevik Veterans will be
Internationally fulfilled Although
our plan this year was larger than
in 1881. we fulfilled it 106 per cent
by April We now bend every effort
to complete the rolling mill, so that
we may turn the pig iron into rails
and other fabricated steel products.
We plan to make many products
now imported from abroad"
The ceremony of the giving of the
banner is brief The workers are
awarded for task well done. the
completion of the construction Of a
steel plant as large as the United
States Steel Corporations plants in
Gary, Ind. Those workers who have
built this giant of the Five-Year
Plan in the past four years now
face a new period in their collective
life, period in which they will
master the huge productive equip
ment which they have built,
TIME slips by at IL o'clock, new
1 day, May Day, begins with an
artistic performance A pageant is
staged portraying the history of
May Day in the growth of the work
ing class movements. 1t was Red
Day of struggle, sorrow and oppres-
sion. In pantunime the players de-
pict the arrest of workers who dis
tribute leaflets advertising May Day
celebrations. show the raids of po-
lice on May Day picnic outings of
workers held in the forests, and the
Of workers in street DEM
Such was the past, but
not all For the first May Day cele-
bration at Magnitogorsk was held