The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Soviet Workers Letters Describe Giant Strides Industry and Culture in the USS
Woman Shock Brigader
Describes Huge Auto
Plant at Cork, U.S.S.R.

Dear Comrades in the United States:
Thank you for your letters. I have
received SC many of them that it
is not physically possible for me to
answer each one of them separately
right now. Just a few days ago I
returned from the city of Cork,
where I had been delegated to 60
by my factory organization. Such
Commands" are given to the work
ers so that they may exchange the
knowledge they have gained in the
experience Of their work.
The city Of Cork is the one-time
Nizni-Novgorod, the famous pro-
vincial city of old where the mer-
chants of East and West met to
barter and trade their wares, now
become a thriving industrial center
Of the Soviet Union. The pride Of
the city is the recently constructed
gigantic auto plant.
The enormous four-storied build
ing has large, light, flashing win
dows in the principal departments
Of the factory. Beyond them, out
in the courtyard, covered with as
phalt, have been placed a few OF
the enormous outer, separate build
ings, of the same gray color and
with the same enormous windows.
These buildings also house various
departments of the factory. An ex-
Ceptional orderliness is to be found
within the factory. Cleanliness, as
phalt floors, the machinery and
their frames polished so that they
shone, the windows lately rubbed
up, and huge ventilators.
Each worker is protected by a
safety apparatus which is found
about the frame of his machine. In
the course of the order Of the fac
tory it is required that each worker
wear a certain head-dress in order
to keep his hair from being caught
in the machinery by any chance. In
each section there is a Red Cor
ner." that is to say, a very large,
vide room, arranged with small
chess tables, chairs, armchairS, and
tables for the distribution of news
papers and magazines; there are
portieres hanging on the windows
and doors, lamps on the tables
adorned with green Iampshades. In
such rooms the workers pass the
hours after dinner and after their
work during the day is finished.
The dining room is huge hall, a
part of which is glass partitioned to
separate the kitchen from the larger
room. The floor Of the kitchen is
white tiled; huge ranges on the top
Of which are arranged large nickle
pots and containers and frying
pans; on long tables under netting
are lying the different products
safely protected. Large tubs Of con-
stantly running water serve in the
washing of dishes. The remainder
Of the room serves in the capacity
Of the dining not very large
tables with places for four people
are covered with clean table-cloths,
and on each of these there stands
vase Of flowers. Walters bring
the various dishes to the tables.
During dinner time a radio plays
in the dining-room. In no time at
al the worker has been served with
clean, apretizing meal.
IN THE near vicinity Of the factory
1 is to be found a club house and
q sport hall. Very often in the club
are to be heard lectures by doctors,
engineers. Theatrical productions
are put on, literary discussions held,
entertainments and concerts with
the very best talent which the city
can offer are given. Every day at
the club the Workers Circles study
md have their meetings: Technical
Military, Shooting, Chemical, Ar
tistic Photography, Dramatic, Lit
erary, Art, and other similar circles
Often chess and checker tourna-
ments are arranged. Every day in
the sport hall circles of workers
conduct their games and exercises
under the direction of experienced
instructors. Near at hand there is
a very good swimming pool with ev-
cry convenience. Ten minutes
walk from the factory are the work.
crs' apartment houses. A huge
building red in color The entire
building is apportioned off into
rooms or apartments according tc
the number of persons to family
And in some of the apartment
houses are to be found clubs where
the workers may spend few Of
their leisure hours. In the corridors
rooms. and kitchens an exemplary
cleanliness reigns. In the various
houses there is a sleeping hall fol
little children where, under the di-
rection of specially trained women
they pass their time in play anc
study,
The workers little city, theil
homes, left me with the same agree
able and satisfied impression that
the factory itself had.
The giant Cork Auto Plant has
been DullC near Cne tClVer Oha, OF
a site where cnce wild ducks anc
other smaller birds found lowering
about marsh lands hid among the
enthusiastically for the most part
by people who had never before ir
their lives seen machinery of any
kind. Here you will find the repre-
sentatives of the last remaining Of
rapidly disappearing nationalities
the inhabitants of Cork: Chuvashe
Cheremuis, Tartar, Mordbu, Votyak
and the Zpya. Not SO very long age
before they had joined the kolhozes
they were using ploughs and work
ing with axes and spades, sitting or
the schoolroom bench, and nov
many Of them know not only how
to run and repair machines, but &C.
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