The daily worker., 1934-04-30

shock brigades signed at the Karl
Marx factory in Leningrad, April
1929 that year, thus beginning the
whole tremendously important
"udarnik" and shock brigade sys-
tenn, playing such a role now in So
Wet industry.
May Day this year is used by
the Soviet factories for check-up
of the pledges of socialist competi-
ton during the past year. Many
plants are creating special eXhibi-
tions showing the triumphs Of the
Five Year Plans, resulting from So
cialist competition. The ball bear
ing plant in Moscow especially is
emphasizing the good results Of the
competition among older workers in
the teaching of new workers.
The Moscow, Leningrsd and
Kharkov factories, including the
Moscow Anlo plant and the Khar-
kov tractor plant, will announce a
new type of socialist competition
for the best preparation of the new
school year, opening this autumn.
The factories will repair schools,
supply fuel and also technical equip
ment for the school, work shops
and laboratories.
Another anniversary celebrated
this year shows another reason for
the successes in industry and the
building uB of the new socialist
man. This is the fifteenth ami
versary of the first "subotnik,
which began in May, 1919 by the
workers of Moscow, Kazan railway
Lenin at that time hailed this
"subotnik" as one of greater his
torical significance than any VIC
tory of Won Hindenburg or Foch
or of the English in the imperialist
war" because it shows the con-
scious and free will and initiative
of the workers in the development
Of the productivity Of labor, theil
going over to a new worker disci-
pline in the building of socialist
industry"
I personally saw recently ir
/ Slavyansk. small sized industry
town in the Ukraine, how the work
ers realize and respond to this
sentiment. A "subotnik" was called
to clean the town and prepare 9
new bathing beach, plant flowers ir
the city square and lay the founda'
ton for road to the village. Prep
arations were made for 1000 work
ers but 1000 volunteered for five
hours labor each on their free day
This day is also the Russian
easter, but the masses "subotniked'
preparing the city for May Day
instead Of going to church, although
the church is open and a handful
Of aged people entered it.
1t shows the tremendous creative
energy and determination of the
workers under the forms of the
"subotnik" and socialist competi-
tion, and illustrates the spirit this
May First especially
Another example: Eighty thou
sand factory workers, office workers
and housewives participated on one
holiday in building the Moscow
subway. The first "subotnik" which
started this huge movement fifteer
years ago involved only 200 workers
Throughout all of this, the inter-
national significance of May First
is not lost. The Moscow proletariat
in thousands welcomed the arrival
! of the Austrian harricade fighters
and in millions will cheer them or
Red Square, May Day.
Collections Of funds for the Aus
trian victims continues, not only ir
Moscow, but in small towns. From
Makeivka mining and steel rayor
plants, in the Donbas, 100000
rubles alone we're collected fol-
Vienna workers families.
This example is not isolated. II
shows the world outlook of the
Soviet worker.