The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
by Burck

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+ served by the particular restaurant
they inspected. The director of the
dining room would be constantly
inspected to see what progress he
made in carrying out the promises
he gave the special brigade. The
soviet itself would know whether
the delegates in the factories served
by the restaurant inspected had
done their duty, had caught the de-
fects the special brigade found.
The brigade went on then to the
railroad workers cafe and found
the repair shop well equipped and
in operation. Then they went home,
their social duty done for the day
1t had taken about three hours, of
labor contributed to their own edu-
cation and to the workers COM
, monwealth.
When you remember that this was
just one example of what is going on
everywhere, that literally hundreds
of thousands Of young and old work.
ers are being drawn into this kind
of work, you can see how intimately
and directly the working class con-
trolls all of it's state institutions.
Control More Detailed
The control is even more detailed
than the experience of this brigade
would indicate. The control carried
out by the sectionnaire and by COM
mitteeS of the trade union, by
parents committees in schools,
nurseries and kindergardens, is
much more thorough. In the store
of the Workers Supply Department
of the bakery I saw how almost
every day, for three or four hours
day, a deputy or his sectionnaire
Ca group of half a dozen taking
turns stands on guard, watching
everything. A book is kept at the
store, in which each inspector writes
the time he arrived, when he left,
and makes his observations on good
and bad points of the conduct of the
store while he was present.
This book is mainly for the con-
venience of the director of the
store, to enable him to improve the
service and supply. The section
naire also reports to the delegate
group, and the trade union inspec-
tor reports to the trade union COM
mittee in the factory owning the
store. If things go wrong they are
brought before the management,
before the soviet, and to higher
bodies until the evil is remedied.
The other thing that even the ex-
perience of this brigade shows is
the complete cooperation of all con-
cerned. The head of the delegates
group and Sectionnaire help in
checking up on the work of section
naires and deputies who will be
judged in the elections now going
on by the findings of many sucn
inspections. The Office of the trust
supplies all possible assistance to
the investigating brigade. At the
point of inspection, in this case, in
the factory kitchen, the workers
operating it rally around the in
Spectors, open locked doors for them,
show them what defects they might
have otherwise overlooked.
1t is evident that the rank of file
of Soviet Union workers as well as
their leaders realise that there must
be no secrets, that all failures must
come out into the open, that it is
to the advantage of the whole mass
of workers that all labor together
for improvement.
1t is in this spirit that Soviet in
dustry goes ahead, overcoming it's
shortcomings, correcting its mis-
takes, remedying the faults due to
inexperience, and gaining experience
thereby to avoid such faults in the
future. A social mechanism has
been devised which really permits
of control of society from the bot
tom, by the masses of workers.