The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
.l58 Get Order
OF Lenin In
Soviet Union
For Work in Political
Sections Building So
ciaIism in Country

MOSCOW, May IL CBy Radio -
One hundred and fifty eight work.
ers in the political sections and
| directors of machine and tractor
stations and collective farms have
been awarded the Order of Lenir
by decision of the Central Execu-
tive Committee of the U. S. S. R
I for their self-denying work in So
cialist reconstruction in the coun-
tryside and for prominent large
/ scale political and organizational
work in raising the material and
cultural level of collective farmers.
They were also honored for their
work Of consolidation Of collective
| farms.
The news Of their decoration
comes on the eve of the report that
by May the Soviet sowing cam
paign had exceeded last year
planting by 100000 acres.
'Pravda," central organ Of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, in an editorial on the event,
writes:
Gained Great Authority
During the short time of its
work, the political sections have
gained tremendous authority, and
the love not only of the countryside
but also Of the towns They were
the direct organizers of the successes
gained during the past year in So
cialist agriculture. The political
sections were organized at moment
OF great changes in collective farm
ing. Labor discipline on the col
lective farms was then insufficiently
strong. Many collective farmers
were still soiled by kulak (rich
farmer elements.
Socialist reorganization Of agri-
culture was entering upon it's crown
ing period, and new efforts and a
new flow of Bolshevik energy was
essential.
THE new form Of organization
and the application of forces were
equally essential This form was
found by the eminent strategist of
the proletarian revolution, Stain.
ITO make the collective farmers
B o lsh evik collective, well-to-do
farmers-such was the slogan.
Our 10000 Selected
1.-THE Party sent over 10000 Sc
lected Bolsheviks into the country
side to the machine and tractor sta
lions and collective farms for di-
rect struggle in the realization Of
these problems.
With characteristic energy the
Bolsheyik members of the political
sections threw themselves into the
struggle. Rolling up thier sleeves
they started to work, making light
Of the hardest jobs And with what
brilliant results Thousands of COL
lective farmers, formerly considered
hopeleSsly backward, fulfilling nei-
ther their productive plans, nor
their obligations towards the state,
have become leading examples of
BolShevik collective farmers.
Items of thousands of families of
collective farmers have alrea d V
reached a prosperous life in the
current year The state farms have
become models of profitable Soviet
economic enterprises. The country
obtained record harvest in 1888.
Socialist competition in the coun-
tryside touched the very lowest lay
ers, and embraces absolutely all re-
CARELESS of age. That the successes
of 1888 are not only incidental, that
they are only the beginning of a
real move forward, may be seen from
the Spring sowing carried on in the
present year.
Such quality, such speed in the
sowing has never been seen in the
collective farms, nor by the coun-
tryside generally"