The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
american Farm Expert Describes Life
On the Stain Collective Truck Farm
Whitewashed WOmen's
DOrmitOries Full
of Sunlight

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by one of the farmers, an excellent
likeness. Near the kitchen there is
the newspaper stand with Lenin's
old favorite in it, Pravda.
In its five years Stain collective
has trained hundreds of peasants
to live the collective life. There
are no more peasants in the neigh
borhood to involve. Many of the
peasants have graduated from the
collective into Moscow factories.
And in spite of all its handicaps,
the collective has been able to make
gross profits of 100000 rubles in
1882 and 100000 rubles in 1888.
Shining Dormitories
Everything here with us is just
temporary" says Agronomist Lazo-
voy. No apologies are necessary
Not even before we visit the dor
mitcries for the women udarniks
The living quarters of the single
men are plain and clean But the
women's dormitories shine like
glass. The long room full of sun
and white stoves is whitewashed
Lace curtains hang on every win
dow. The beds are heaped with
white linen and milk-white bed
spreads. Two pillows on each bed
that seem full Of elder down. Here
each udarnik can sleep like little
cucumber in a bottle"
One of the women is resting on
her bed. On a chair beside her
is her old mother who has come
to spend the day with her. The
old woman still lives on a small
three-acre farm. Her worn hands
in the broad kneading trough Of her
lap, the old woman listens to the
daughter. And when will she join
the collective? The old woman
looks at the strong brown face and
at the white curtains and listens.
We get a chance to speak to an
other Of the udarniks in the store
room where she is packing chunky
carrots, big full-blooded beets
onions the size of a mans fist. This
is Udarnik Vichoroff in red ker-
chief and blouse. An electric light
CLOVIS overhead. She has with her
a book describing the building OF
the Baltic White Sea Canal. Yes
the collective sent her to the canal
for two weeks for her good work
She met some of the kulaks who
we're given q chance to become
Soviet people through honest work
Treated Like Human Being
She shows us the picture of Rot
tenberg, international crook, sen.
fenced by one country to spend ter
years in solitary confinement. Rot
tenberg got into trouble with the
Soviet government few years ago
He was sent to the canal. He be-
came a shock worker. He was given
the highest honor, the Order Of
Lenin. mo other country coulc
deal with him and treat him like
human being. Only ours"
This is justifiable pride. Soviet
labor is no punishment, no means
of digging man hole and put
ting him into the pit to fight his
fellow man. 1t is the means Of
raising man and drawing him closer
to his fellow worker in farm and
factory. 1t is the means of building
up typical collective like the
Stain.
Let the English correspondent 60
back to England where 1000 blue
bloods own half the arabic land
where $4,000 farm workers lost their
jobs in 1880 and 1881 and where
farm wages are 30 shillings week
and less. Let the emigre go back
to his step-fatherland where more
than half the peasants are tenants
and where hops dropped from 5000
and 5000 francs hundred pounds
to 300 francs. Nowhere but in
Russia is the farmer being freed.
Elsewhere you work Is, 10 hours a
day, on your fours in the mud like
a blinking toad. Elsewhere you are
less than oyster shells ground up
to lime the earth before sowing. I
know, having worked on American
truck farms.
We get into the car to drive back
to Moscow. The English correspon-
dent scribbles notes, The emigre
with a helpless smile on his face
looks off at the church spire like a
watchkey. He says nothing. He
has his say in Russia no longer.
The clock of history is no longer
wound by priests and bankers.