The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-07
An Election Meeting in a
Soviet Textile Factory

a lively jig, to the great apprecia-
ton of the audience.
All around the balcony of the
theatre ran a sign Under the
Banner of Soviets We Won the Oc-
tober Revolution - Long Live the
Soviets, Bearers of feminist Pol
icies!"
Finally the chairman rang for
order. The meeting was opened by
a representative of the elections
commission. He announced that in
these departments, 1,738 workers
had the right to vote. Every worker
here over the age of 18 votes, since
in this plant there are no capital
lists, former members of the Cars
police, or priests, or others of the
small number of disfranchised peo-
pie. There were present 1,707, most
of those absent being i'll or away
because of other grave reasons.
Therefore the abundance could be
considered practically 100 per cent.
The floor was given to Hogan,
woman member and one Of the sec
retaries of the Moscow Committee
of the Communist Party.
Here, again, the fact that the
worker runs industry, and that his
interest in government is the same
as his interest in a correct opera
ton of industry and the building
of socialism came to the front. For
Hogan spoke for two hours, not on
what would be called politics in
America, but on the achievements,
and failures in some cases, of the
city and raion soviets in carrying
out the industrial and construction
program, and on the plan for the
future. She mentioned that un-
employment "has been forgotten
it doesn't exist" She told of the
threefold increase in the payroll
since $780, She pointed to the
liquidation of ilhteracy. She CEN
sured the slow development of the
Moscow coal basin. She praised
the Trekhgornaya mill as one of
the best in the fight for quality.
1--WE want our women to be one
hundred times better dressed than
the women of capitalist countries
She showed how correct it was to
develop heavy industry first, and
then light industry Now it is light
industrys turn. and it goes forward
on sure basis of a big function
ing heavy industry, supplying it
with machinery. She showed that
one sixth of Moscow floor space was
now in new houses built while the
outgoing Soviet deputies were in
Office, but that it is not enough and
the house building program must
occupy a central place in the minds
of the incoming deputies: I'VE de-
mand that ou- living apartments
shall eventually become hundred
times more beautiful and more COM
Portable than those of capitalist
countries!"
Hogan explained the abolition OF
bread rationing, due to the successes
in industrialization and agriculture
she told of the problems of public
feeding, for 100000 Moscovites, ex-
elusive of children fed at school
now eat in factory dining room,
and similar institutions. She pledgec
a remedy fo- the shortage of thea
tres and clubs, mentioned that Mos
COW grew by one million inhabit.
ants during the last four years, anc
generally went through the whole
program of building socialism. with
occasional reference to some de.
mand that the Trekhgornaya work.
ers had made and which was eithel
fulfilled or not fulfilled. In gen.
eral they were carried out. If not
she told why.
After Hogan finished the chair.
man called for discussion, and s,
voters asked for the floor.
A girl political instructor in on,
of the departments of the mill tolc
of the great gain in political con
seriousness of the non-party workers
who debate such subjects as "Wh,
the U.S.S.R. Was Asked to Join III,
League of Nations" etc, and Civ
the general answer, Because we ar,
strong now
Ito Be Continned)