The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
BY YERN SMITH

MOSCOW, Oct. 25.-Boris Ivan
ovich Kaizik, VINO has worked for
SO years in the high grade steel and
wire manufacturing plant here that
is now called the Hammer and
Sickle Mill' gave party last week
in his three room apartment in one
of the new houses built for work
ers of this factory. 80.
Kaizik is a udarnik, or worker
pledged to regularly fulfill his tasks,
do good work, and teach others to
do it. He invited about 20 other
workers, mostly udarniks also; he
invited his friend, the secretary of
the Communist Party Committee in
the mill; he invited some of the
members of the management of the
mill, and to amuse them he invited
some of the singers and musicians
of the Radio Committee, the center
Of program for Moscow radio sta
tons. He pointed out to them that
they could bring a microphone and
conduct their concert from the
party as well as from anywhere
else.
And the Radio Committee artists
and one of the directors of the
committee came to the party-per-
haps not just for the party, but be-
cause, in the Soviet Union, a good
udarnik is a person of note; work
is, in Socialist state, not drudgery
but a matter of honor and glory, as
Stain said, and group Of good
workers such as would attend
Kaizik's party are as much public
figures as statesmen or millionaires
in capitalist country. So when the
radio committee set up their micro
phone, they turned it on for the
whole party, not just for their own
program.
Everybody else came too, and
when they were all assembled there
and found they had all Moscow and
I don't know how much else of the
Soviet Union for an audience, they
did something that couldn't have
happened in capitalist country,
something that shows in this par
ticular sphere, as other things I'M
numbered do in other and perhaps
more vital social matters, the deep
seated and all pervading nature Of
the workers and peasants deocracy,
the social system created by the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
They turned the party into pub
lie debate over the radio on the sort
of radio programs they wanted.
Brigadier Cherpanov, leader of
the gang working the Fifth Open
Hearth Furnace of the factory, a
young man only 20 years old, but
earning 800 rubles a month, twelve
times given bonuses for extra good
work, and wearing the Red Banne:
of Labor as a further recognition
of unusual feats on the labor front,
got up and stated his case-the case
of a certain section of the popula-
ton.
Cherpanov said he wanted less
classical music and more of the old
melodies. 81 go very often to the
OPERA" he declared, "but I go to
see the costumes, the stage settings
and to hear the beautiful words. 1t
SENS to me the music they play at
Rigoletto or Carmen is only a
nuisance. Why can't they sing those
songs with just a few accordions OF
balalaikas? Then when I come homo
after a shift in the mill, and turn
on my radio to amuse myself lit
tie when I rest, what do I hear but
the same old music right from Car
men, and I can't even see the play
or the costumes. -"
But his was not the only opinion
Many opposed him, udarniks they
were, too. But they liked the class
ical music.
"It grows on you," said Skobileva
a woman udarnik from the mill
she also wore an order. you viii