The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Soviet Textile Workers Discuss
Problems At An Election Meeting

And then, I'VE need newspapers
like bread" Everybody wants a
paper every day, and there aren't
enough to go around. Hogan has
mentioned that though newspaper
circulation was now 100000 daily,
eating up all the available supply
of print paper, more millions of
copies were demanded and the
building Of new paper mills would
have to be pushed. Nogradova
thought it was being pushed much
too slowly.
Another woman weaver praised
the improvement in the dining
rooms, where almost all the work
ers eat at least one meal day,
at reduced prices, as in all other
factories. But still, things could be
more improved. The country de-
mands the best material in the
world from our LOOMS she said,
land we have the right to demand
/ the best meals in the world" She
also raised the question of public
dining rooms in all apartment
houses, in addition to the dining
rooms at the mill
A woman dyer spoke, telling how
her department entered Socialist
competition against waste, and
made a saving Of 100000 rubles.
I'VE are electing the best udarniks
to the soyiets," she said. They will
have to work lot. We still have
dirt and confusion enough. But we
pledge that with the help of the
Party and the soviet deputies we
will overcome them by the time OF
the meeting of the Seventh Con-
gress Of Soviets' And then she
added, I'm sorry that Kirov won't
! be able to see it,
Kirov Honored
Several of the speakers had men.
toned Kirov, whose assassination
b. the class enemy ten days before
had shocked every worker in the
Soviet Union. The meeting hao
opened with the whole crowd stand
ing in honor of Kirov. After the
discussion closed, motion was
read, pledging to carry out the line
OF the Communist Party for which
Kirov stood, and demanding strict
punishment of those who plotted his
assassination or any other terrorist
act against the Soviet Government
1t carried with a roar, unanimously
After the discussion stopped
greetings were sent to Stain, Ka
linin, Molotov, Kaganovich, ant
others. A worker from the Firs
State Ball Bearing Factory in Mos
COW greeted the Trekhgornay,
workers, "a message from one fight
ing factory to another-elect YOU
best to the Soviets."
There followed the reading o
part of the instructions to the nev
deputies, which they must carr,
out or be recalled. In the prelimi
nary meetings at which these in.
structions were drawn up, ther,
were $500 separate suggestion
from the workers of Trekngorka
many of them duplicated, of course
The meetings had accepted as par
of she categoric orders to the new
deputies, Sc of these. The Others
are referred to the deputies or tt
the unions, or the mill manage
ment, to help guide their work
They fell into four main genera
groups. The first group was OF
improvement of the textile industry
The second group was for imme
date local improvements, sucl
things as car service, substitution
of metal tubs for wooden in tn
laundry rooms in apartment
houses, etc. The third group wa
to bring pressure on the admin
iStration to improve certain thing
in the way of living conditions, fo
example more clerks in the Workers
Supply Department stores (ORs
stores so as to expedite trade there
The fourth was generally political
demands fo-' better protection OF til
country, more watchfulness of Uh,
class enemy, etc.
The instructions had been mucl
debated in previous meetings. an,
a general unanimity of opinion ar
rived at. At the election meetinl
they we're adopted without dis
senting vote.
At this point somebody in tn