The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
A Representative of the Workers
Reports on Progress in U. S. S. r
by Burck

tory, and draw around themselves
volunteers, the active" which in
large factories has a tremendous,
detailed and organized activity.
In the Kauchuk (rubber) factory
in Moscow. for example, the deputy
group and volunteers are divided
into eleven sections, which super
wise, inspect, check up and organize
volunteer help for: co-operatives,
dining room, bread factory, kin
dergarten, nursery and schools
patronized by workers of the fac
tory. The deputy group has also
a brigade of assistants to watch for
violations of labor laws, etc.
When two members of the sec
ton on the bread factory first went
there, they found a shortage Of
workers and lack of building ma
terial. The bread factory was then
under construction. The deputy
group organized six "subotniks" or
half days of volunteer mass work
by the Kauchuk workers on the
bread factory construction. One Of
the Kauchuk deputies went person.
ally to Voronezh and found supplies
of building material which could be
and were sent to the bread factory
Job, so that it was finished on time.
Two deputies investigated the hog
farm owned by the factory to sup
ply meat to the stores run by the
factory for its workers. They adj
vised the immunization of the pigs
against cholera, and saw that their
order was carried out.
Deputies and their volunteer as
sistants investigated the vegetable
stores, secured building material
and had them enlarged.
They investigated a store which
sold bread, and where the workers
complained they had to stand in
line and wait. They found that the
man in charge of the bread counter
got a friend of his, an inexperi-
enced man, to take his place some
times, and they stopped this sub
stitution of incapable for capable
service.
They investigated the kindergar-
zen, and found the paint worn off
utensils used there, and had them
repainted.
I Look After Everything
AS the workers say, "Our depu-
ties look after everything from the
subway to utensils in the kinder
garten." Lots of investigation, but
not in vain, for the bread factory
is functioning, the vegetables have
been increased, the pigs are grow
ing, and painting has been done in
the kindergarten.
Soviets are relatively large. An
American city council might have
40 or so members for a city OF
100000 inhabitants. Moscow, which
is that size, has in its city Soviet
$500 members, and in addition has
ten "rayon," or ward Soviets with
up to seven or eight hundred men,
bers each.
49,
the Soviets. Each deputy is at
tached to such sections, works IN
such deputy groups as described
above. He works, he leads, he car
ries out the instructions of those
who elected him. He does this
while con inuing to work in the fac
tory; he does it in his spare time
| OF the whole membership of Mos
COW city Soviet, only "a are released
from their factory work and placed
on the payroll of the Soviet.
Twenty-one members of Moscow
Soviet have been recalled. by meet
ings of the workers who elected
them. In each case the recall wa
for not carrying out the instruction.
given them. for negligence of thell
duties to lead such work as men
toned above, for slothfulness or in
capability. The Soviet worker run
his government.