The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29


to which we drew in a number of
electricians from the mines, and we
took obligations to put up 400 lights
in the streets when our regular
work was finished. We did put up
a good many, and would have put
up all 400 if we did not have to
wait for more wire and lamps.
"At one plenum of our city Soviet
a woman deputy scolded us for not
bringing electricity into the houses
in the suburbs. I felt terribly
ashamed, and talked to the other
deputies, and our active Che
means these volunteers from among
the electorate, the workers who are
not deputies, and we went out our
selves and installed electricity in
two workers apartments on
Michaelovskaya Street and IS on
Bolsheviskaya Street"
Then, another feature of the
workers government appears. This
deputy was elected in Prokopyevsk.
But because he did good work (of
course in addition to these things
he tells of doing himself, he was
aiding through the regular meet
ings of the Soviet to direct similar
tasks at city expense) another town
asked for his services. He says:
Il had message from the city
Soviet of Anzhero- Sudzhenko to
come and inspect and advise. For
five days I and some others poked
our noses into all details there,
visited miners at home and had
long talks with housewives, scolded,
advised, brought dozens of ex-
amples from our own experience,
criticized in the plenum of their
Soviet and wrote articles to the
newspapers. 1 proved to them that
they couldn't carry out the i'm
provement of well being of a city
by administrative measures only. ]
showed them that we were making
Prokopyevsk into a model city by
involving the masses of the popu-
lation in this work, which, after all,
is their interest.
Nov we are starting a big COM
petition to end before the Seventh
Congress of Soviets (Jan. Is, 1855
for the best kept courtyard, for the
best, cleanest and most cultured
apartment in the city. Hundreds
of houses have joined in the COM
petition, but this is just the begin
ming. Well-being is a great job
and results when the whole mass
joins the movement for well-being
We active people consider ourselves
part of the social movement for
well-being'
This using of the dates of the
November Seventh celebration, or
date of the meeting of the Congress
of Soviets as a period by which
some magnificent task shall be &C
complished, is a regular thing here,
too, and shows the workers realize
the connection between their own
life and the things those events
stand for-the revolution and
: establishment of the dictatorship OF
the proletariat.
Another deputy in Prokopyev, a
woman worker, a machinist on The
hoist in a coal mine-her name is
Chaschina-is called to Moscow tc
report before meeting of the
presidium of the Central Executive
Committee of the Russian Socialist
Federated Soviet Republic. She is
famous for her daily inspec ions Of
apartments of miners and othsl
workers, to see that they have cleo.
tricity, water supplies, that tbs
courtyards are clean. etc. Chas.
china is one of the sorS of people
who are regarded by the worker.
as really carrying out the duties
imposed upon them by election tt
the Soviet
Deputies elected from a factor,
] form the deputy group of that fac,