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

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., Oct. 28.-
Sorokovikh, delegate to the city
Soviet of Prokopyevsk, town of
the Kuznetsk coal and iron basin
in Siberia, has made his report
Members of the Soviets, before the
elections scheduled for next month,
must show that they have eff
GENTLY carried out their trust, or
they will not even be nominated for
office again, to say nothing of
being elected. Sorokovikh is an
electrician and was assigned by the
Soviet to work in the section of the
Soviet that deals with such things
as lighting, etc. His report comes
just when the population is prepar-
ing to celebrate with joyous en-
thusiasm the Seventeenth Anniver-
sary Nov 7, of the revolution
which abolished capitalism, and
placed the government and man
agement of the system of produc-
ton in the hands of workers and
farmers.
Sorokovikh begins by telling how,
Immediately after the revolution, he
saw before him his particular path
way of service. In 1913" he says,
in old Kuznetsk. was a delegate
to the first congress of Soviets of
workers, peasants and soldiers
deputies for that region. heard a
speaker whose words fell deeply
into my heart. He said: After the
revolution we will build big, sunny
cities; there will be no nights for
them. A sea of lights will shine
for our cities which we will have
built with our own hands
Since then I have dreamed of
living and working in such a big
sunny city as Kuzbas. (Old Kuzbas
was almost wilderness.) Now,
just such cities are growing before
our eyes. One of these is Pro-
kopyevsk. When / was elected a
deputy to its city Soviet, I got at
tached to the municipality section
had been elected deputy by the
workers a. the power station and
by the workers in the mine tool
shops They had told me to fight
for a big city here, because this is
the pearl of the Kuzbas.' But
was dreaming already of such big
well managed and lighted city since
the first congress of Soviets in
Kuzbas."
Instruc ions by the electors to the
man they have just elected are the
common rule in the Soviet Union
These instructions must be fill
filled, and frequent meetings of the
electors and constant contact be-
tween electors and deputy guaran-
tee it.
The deputy continues: From the
very beginning I decided it was
necessary to give others an ex-
ample. Therefore I involved my
wife, son and daughter, the whole
family, in my wor,:-. We got others
to help. At first we worked tc
bring good conditions in one street
for an example That was Lieb-
knecht Street. I worked with the
others to lay the first sidewalk in
the city. 1 worked, too, when the
first street car line was installed.
Help Lay Sidewalk
BY this he means that he &C.
tually, physically helped, along with
volunteers, the laying of the side
walk and building of the line. II
is a deputy's job to gather groups
of volun GERS like that about him
to help carry out his tasks. and il
is his JOB to lead them in every
kind of labor, whether manual o.
merely checking up and inspecting
Sorokovikh goes on
Probably the most important iof
for members of our group was tn.
lighting of the city. I spoke about
it at plenum Gull meetings. o.
the city Soviet, and I organized .