Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

i pelleQ 10 members Oh Tic Ayr III .
ian Party. Opposition newspapers
ceased publication several weeks
ago, partly as result OF mechanical
STATS refusal to work with the edi-
torial stats.
Under the governments program
every Bulgarian Is expected to work,
young and old. When one Is done
with his own task, he is expected to
volunteer to help on another Job.
This emphasis on work has
been translated into constitutional
phrases such as: Labor Is honor
and He who does not work must
not eat" In those sections of the
new constitution already written by
the ruling parties.
Strong Women's Union
| In the vanguard Of those who
work hard are the members of the
big mass organizations: The trade
unions, the organization Of demo-
cratic youth, the Bulgarian peas
antry and the National Women's
Union.
The women.s union is headed by
Mrs. Tsola Dragoicheva, who is
secretary general of the Central
Committee of the Fatherland Front,
a member of Parliament, and one OF
the principal Communist leaders in
the Balkans.
The union has 100000 members,
and its 3,465 sections extend the
organizations tentacles to every part
of the country and to all phases OF
women'S activities. 1t works in close
collaboration with the labor unions
and the youth group.
| It's annual report for 1916 showed
that it had organized 42,749 organ
Rational meetings, 63,519 general
meetings, 1928 public meetings,
30,19s reports and lectures, 8,108
evening parties, 1923 theater perform
ances, 3S,252 sewing circles (sedi-
ankas) and supported 1000 summer
homes caring for A, 200 children and
1877 nurseries sheltering 1888
children.
The General Trade Union (ORPS)
is nonpartisan, but not divorced
from politics. OF the nations 100000
workers engaged in production bull
garia's population is 7,000,00O at
least $4,000 are members of 80 trade
unions belonging to ORPS. ORPS
is a member of the World Federation
OF Trade Unions and supported the
WFTU's campaigns for Spanish
workers, the Greek trade union
and for admission of WITH to the
United Nations family.
The Democratic Youth Organiza-
ton, with membership numbering
more than million, is the real
vanguard of the Fatherland Front
government and one of the main
hackers of the two-year plan.
Volunteers Keep Busy
1t has more than 10000 volun-
teers, called brigadiers, working on
rail, dam, road, pass. wire and other
construction. It's main job at pres
ent Is construction of the 40-mile-
long Sofia Volujak rail line through
mountainous terrain.
Three tunnels already have been
pushed through the mountains by
$4,000 boys and girls. When COM
pleted, the line will form an i'm
portant link for Balkan trade with
the Near East and South Africa.
Basic objectives of the two-year
plan are:
/. To restore agriculture and in
dustry to the 1889 level, and surpass
it in some branches.
2. To create a solid basis of power
production by speeding up the coun-
try's identification and developing
coal production.
3. To raise the material and cul-
tural standard of living.
4. To lay the basis of a trans
formation of the national economy
by fostering the public sector, state,
municipal and cooperative.
These detectives are to be real
lied by speeding up the mechanical
ton of agriculture, by Matchmaking
industry, increasing coal production,
setting up new cooperative farms
and machine tractor stations and by
constructing new industrial enter
prises, power plants, large dams,
railroad lines and highways.
The Udarniks
One of the principal work de-
velopments in postwar Bulgaria is
the rise of the brigadiers, the volun-
teer workers. The brigadiers are
made up of technicians, specialists,
craftsmen, men of free professions
and others who devote part of their
leisure time to the common good.
Many women participate.
Another movement for speeding
work has grown up in the 'Udarnik"
movement. Udarnik means the
same as Stakhanov in Russia.
(Alexei G. Stakhanov was
Soviet coal miner who in 1885
developed 8 method of speeding
up his work, method adapted
for other Soviet workers later)
In Bulgaria it means overreaching
the production norms. Under the
Udarnik system a norm Is ofncially
set and workers compete to see who
will surpass it and by how much.
The man who does so becomes a
Udarnik, or literally, a man who
shocks or hits.
Both the trade union and the gov
eminent devote special care to the
Udarniks. They are insured 20 to
Is days rest, they get higher food
rations and added facilities for adj