The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
A Land of Cotton and VINEYARDS

fact there had been very few who
had worked there more than two
weeks at time; there had been
very few who could stand it longer
than that.
Another plant Fakhradoy took me
to was a large textile mill 1t was
a cotton and wooden spinning and
weaving MILL employing about A.
500 workers, against mostly Tyurk
and some Armenians and Russians.
The chairman of the mill trade
union committee who showed us
around stressed the point that forty
percent of the workers we're women,
as this was vivid indication of the
extent to which women had been
emancipated under the SovietS even
among the Moslem population of
the country. The mill itself COM
pares favorably with the most up
to-date mills anywhere in the world.
Later, had a talk with the secre-
tary of the city and district Party
organization, Comrade Tagiev, who
furnished me with additional in
formation about the city. There are
$1,000 members in the trade unions
of CANA, and the number of in
dustrial workers among them is 49,
000 In city which formerly had
practically no educational institu-
lions whatsoever, there are at
present between fourteen and fifteen
thousand children attending ele-
mentary schools, over four thousand
attending secondary technical
schools, and there is a technical
and agricultural college with 1900
students. The city has become in
dustrialized and is rapidly chang
ing its appearance. 1t is true enough
that horses, buffaloes and donkeys
are still extensively used as means
of transportation, but last year the
first trolley car line was built and
another line is now under construc-
ton.
IF course, there are still plenty of
" streets and buildings in CANA
whose state and appearance leaves
much to be desired. Although there
are no traces of antiquity, CANA is
still very far from presenting the
appearance of modern, we'll
organized city, particularly consid-
ering its size and position. But as
every other city in the Soviet Union,
CANA has not only a past and
present but also a future, and this
future is as vivid and real as the
present. For this future is based
on concrete plans which are as
much part of reality as the cob
blestone street which could be seen
from the window of the room we
were sitting in. To begin with, the
industrial construction in the city
has only been started. The plans
provide for the building of a new
textile plant with a hundred thou
sand spindles, a large iron and steel
plant, and an aluminium works.
The output, which at present
amounts to 5000 tons, will be in
creased to 10000 tons next year
The output of pyrites will reach
100000 tons in the last year of the
Second Five-Year. AS for the city
itself, the plan provides for the
building of waterworks, asphaltine
the streets, laying out new park;
and boulevards, building a houss
for the Soviet and its institutions
a theatre, schools, palace of cul-
ture, and other public buildings, be-
sides an extensive program of mod.
ern housing.
One of the features of CANA i!
the rather large number of collec.
tive farms within the city limits
Fully two thousand households arr
united in these collective farms
That afternoon we visited with
Fakhradov one of the farms.
WE found the entrance to this col
w lective farm on large stree
with low fences and Occasional
stone and wooden houses. At few
tall Tyurks sat leisurely chatting