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(Continued from page 1.) of young working girls who, books in hand, hurry to their weekly class, might be able to increase their work.|Where they receive instruction in The process of selection is not yet “Leninism”; it sparkles in the eyes of completed, but much of the lazy loit- | mature workers who walk to the meet- ering of olden times is gone. The sec |ing of the Factory Committee. ‘Their ond task was to draw back to the/|life is not easy. An American worker cities and to the industrial establish-|40es8 not put up with as little as they ments those tens of thousands of|receive. Some stranger who has no skilled workers who, in times of tur- moil and disorganization, had either gone to the native villages to feed on the fruit of the earth, or had drifted into some other occupation. This recall of the brains and skill of the shops could be accomplished only by increas- ing the wages of industrial labor and by making factory life attractive. The task has now been completed. The personnel of the factories has under- gone a remarkable change. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers who had manned unbefitting jobs since the war, when production of war supplies and munitions made expansion of factories imperative, have now been relegated to the work they are best capable of doing. The skilled workers are being given the most responsible Places. Technical schools are being opened everywhere to increase the ef- ficiency of labor. Better pay, which often reaches ‘pre-war proportions and which in present conditions means much more than it meant ten years ago, is a good stimulus to production. Russia is still poor, very poor, it is only in the process of the initial ac- cumulation of capital. But the skeleton of the industrial organization has been reconstructed, it stands now firmly on the Russian ground. It has ac- quired a great number of experienced managers, and the possibilities in Rus- sian natural resources and in the energy of a united working class in possession of state power, are incal- culable., Present Russia is an optimistic country. There is something which bends to gyound the head of an aver- age German even if he makes a liv- ing. There is something that straight- ens the back of the Russian worker an@ makes him look hopefully sturdy even if out of work. This “something” is the consciousness of conquered freedom, of independence, of being one’s own master, of better times coming. In no city Bast of the Rhine is there as much vitality, as much physical vigor and youthfullness as I have found in Moscow. I am told that the same is true about all other cities of the vast Union. You walk out into the suburbs of the city, you enter the streets which are thickly populated by factory workers, you visit clubs, cir- cles, theatricals, eating places, and everywhere you find crowds of vigor- ous young people, poorly but not shab- bily dressed, sober, gay, self-assured, alert, intelligent, keenly interested in the life of their plant, their branch of industry, their union, their club, their Soviet, their government and also in the international situation. No work- ers have such an understanding of and such an interest in the world sit- uation as have the Russian workers. But we are not so much interested here in the mind as in the body of the Russian proletariat. The revolition has certainly hardened those millons of men and women. They have gone thru years of half a pound of bread as] 19 §. La Salle Street daily rations, years of typhoid fever, cholera, pneumonia, Volga starvation; they have fought on numerous fronts scantily clad in the bitterest cold; they have looked death into the face so many times that they are no more afraid of anything. The younger set has grown up under the conditions of war and revolution. Hard times are natural to them. Now life turns to them its smiling face. There is food. There is heat. There is a minimum of clothing. There is education. There is work controlled by the workers themselves. There is no master. There is a whole country, a tremendous rich and beautiful country to develop and to own. There is a work to conquer, not for the individual, but for the col- lective body thru collective effort. The individual worker may not think exactly in these terms (tho he is wide awake apd he has learned to think broadly and clearly) but he feels it. It is in the air. It speaks eloquently from the song and the movements of your group of “Komsoniols” (Young Communists) who march by the fac- tory wall for their regular hike into the fields; it hovers over that bunch La a Cnr mar understanding of the revolution, would, of course, think their life miserable compared with the life of their Western brothers. Well, they know better. Russia is a country of feverish in- tellectual activity. I claim to have an eye for books. And I wish to state that I am stunned, overwhelmed by the amount and the variety of books that have been thrown on the market in the last two years and are being poured in great torrents at present. Sometimes I have the feeling that Russia is doing nothing but printing jand publishing books. There are liter- ally hundreds of bookshops in Mos- cow. There are scores of agencies serving the provinces. There are publishing houses in every important provincial center. There is hardly a thoroughfare in Moscow, but I find in it a dozen or so bookshops. “Who is reading all these books?’ I asked my of the Government Publishing Office. The reply was, “Everybody.” Most of the books are being purchased by in- dividual readers, but loads are also being acquired by libraries and insti- tutions. The ordinary book is un- bound tho well printed, and its price is somewhere between 50 cents and one dollar. There are, however, many expensive books, art books, de luxe editions of authors. There is a market for every one. “The Revolution,” said to me Comrade Losovsky, “has been FOR RENT. Furnished house for a couple or two girls for the summer. I am leaving for the country. Could spare room if desired after my return. H. Rob- bin, 2703 Potomac Ave., Armitage 7879. MAC’S BOOK STORE 27 JOHN R STREET DETROIT Full line of Sociological and Labor Literature. 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Martin’s 723 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. friend, the chief of the business sector |= a Le ee an ene IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA the big historic plow that crossed and recrossed the fertile soil of the nation and made it receptive for intellectual seeds. What we witness now is only the beginning. What we shall accom- plish in three years, is beyond imagin- ation,” The public press is keeping pace with the output of books. The press has nearly approached the pre-war daily circulation, which, deducting from the latter the black hundred pa- pers and the numerous official publica- tions which nobody ever reads, puts the press of today numerically much stronger than it ever was in Russia. Magazines of all kinds of readable- ness and for all occupations, profes- sions, sexes, and ages, also feature this era of reconstruction. All streets are alive with newspaper Kiosks which also sell popular books in prof- usion. Of the books, the literature on Lenin must be mentioned. It is no ex- aggeration to say that whole libraries has been published about Lenin, be- ginning from heavy volumes three to four hundred pages strong and down to.small pamphlets and picture books. No nation ever loved a leader the way Russia loves and reveres Lenin. Lenin in death is a greater reality to the Russian workers and peasants than he even was when he lived among them. The Russian masses love Lenin, and next to his memory they love their proletarian country. Let anybody dare put a hand on their Soviet Republic, there will be such a_ conflagration, such an outburst of fighting energy as the world has never witnessed here- tofore. This I felt yesterday when the masses demonstrated in protest against the Germans’ silly invasion of the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin. This one feels when one comes in touch with the Russian workers and Red Army men. The Soviet Republic stands firm as a rock on the love and devotion of the working masses. 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