The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
BY YERN SMITH

MOSCOW, USSR., Nov. 20. -
Three young workers, two boys and
a girl, started out yesterday from
their factory here, big bakery for
confectionery, to check up on the
construction plan in their district.
None of these three had any pre-
vious experience in this, one of the
most important duties of the active
socially minded Soviet Union
worker These three were volun-
teers, but, like many other such
groups or as they are called here,
"brigades" they held mandates from
meeting of the factory workers
which had accepted them as in
Spectors.
Part of their duty was to see
whether the Public Feeding Trust of
their district, KraSno Presnaya
Raion, one of the ten districts Or
wards of Moscow, had fulfilled GER
tain details of its construction pro-
gram, and the other side of their
task was to see if the reports OF
deputies elected to the city and
raion soviets and of their helpers
were in accordance with the facts
about this construction.
OF course, third and most i'm
portant part of their present COM
mission was to learn how to do
such inspection.
They Immediately got one of the
"sectionnaires" of their factory for
guide. A sectionnaire is volun-
teer assistant to deputy to the
soviet. In this big bakery, 1.-THE
Bolshevik Biscuit Factory" there
are thirteen delegates to city and
raion soviets, and about 200 sec
| tionnalres
Checking Deputies
Now, though this brigade had as
a part of its duty the checking up
of the activities of the soviet depu-
ties here, it went naturally first of
all to the head of the deputy group
in its own factory. All the members
of soviets elected from single fac
tory, and all their sectionnaireS
form regular organization in that
factory, they form the deputy group
of the factory, and have their
elected chairman. The chairman in
this case was motherly middle
aged woman, who addressed the in
spection brigade as Kids" and CO.
operated enthusiastically with them.
She laid out before them all in
formation in her possession, and in
conference with her (the brigade
decided to look up especially the
task assigned by the electors who
chose soviet deputies three years
before, to have big factory kitchen
and dining room for a group of
mechanical factories near by, and
to see whether machine shop for
repair of the boilers and kitchen
utensils of another older facory kit
chen and for railway workers
of the Baltic White Russian station
had been put into operation.
When they left the Office of the
deputy group of "The Bolshevik" I
went with them We boarded a
street car, went to the headquar-
tiers of the raion soviet, and in back
of its big new building, found the
Office of the public feeding trust
Ga state organization) for that par
ticular raion.
The brigade walked right into the
main Office, and asked to see the
director. He was out, and they
looked baffled and hurt. Here they
had come representing the power
Of the workers, the master of the
: country, to confer with one of the
servants of the workers, the director
of state trust. And he was outl
The directors secretary protested
: vigorously, that they hac not made
! any appointment with the director
that the comrade director was q