The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933 Page Five SOVIET WORKERS WRITE TO AMERICA OF NEW, HAPPY LIFE Be ES eee Sa “We Are Not Wage Slaves,” Shipyard Man Writes in Letter Workers Get 2-4 Weeks Vacation With Full Pay; Government Provides Free Tuition and Books for Evening Classes Odessa, U. 8. 8S. R. Comrade Workers of the Sun Shipyard, Chester, Pa, Pear Comrades: ! yard, we, the foreign workers and 5) ,/ard, Odessa, will describe some of “he achievements of the Russian *roletariat. We notice daily the im-!' srovements in the living conditions | xt the workers of the Soviet Tnion. dn the eve of the Si hh Anni- versary of the October Revolution, al- ow us to describe to you our achieve- nents and the way our shipyard is un: Half our accomplished work, to be nore exact, 45 per cent, is new, while 35 per cent consists of repair work. We build ships up to 1,500 tons, and amploy about 4,500 to 5,000 workers. The works is managed by an ad- ninistration at whose head is a plain 2x-machinist. The chief engineer is 4 worker's son, who completed and Hoes his study during the Revo- ution, Our factory (Trades Council) com- mittee, composed of selected workers of all trades, has the right and duty to control and supervise all the ac- tions of the administration, as well as to execute all decisions taken by the workers at the production meet- ings. The watchful eye of the factory is the Party Committee, which looks after the political progress, as weil as the achievements and developments of the factory. Administration, fac- tory and party committees form the so-called Factory Triangle. In our shipyard as well as in al) factories of the Soviet Union there is a dining hall which supplies daily each worker with two hot meals. Our food comes from a coilective farm, consisting of about 509 ecres, which is controlled and planted by our own workers, At the farm we have a pigsty and we also raise rabbits hy jthe thousands. At harvest time many of c 's join willingly and enth lly the workers of | the farm, help the provision of # the food for our f: y a Red Cor- op. There, | Wishing to enter in communication with you workers of the Sun Ship- specialists of the Andree Marty Ship- “Soviet Government Has Never Deceived Us,” Peasant Says |Farm Woman Tells of Benefits of Collective Farm Dear Comrades! I am no longer @ young woman. For all the years of my wretched life |Z am only now in the Kolhoz be- sinning to feel like a human being. When I was only a child, I was given in marriage to a miserable drunkard. All that I was able to earn on the {side working in the fields my hus. band used up in drink, If I was able to get enough pennies together to buy @ chicken, my hushand would sell the chicken, and drink up the small {sum he had received for it. One time he went away to the city and ever came back again, | With a baby in my arms, and no |help, my life was a hard one. And {then, when my daughter grew up |and_ went off to the city to earn her living, things became even worse | for me, for t I took no joy what- soever in 1; Things dragged on in this way until 1931, . . . until a kolhoz was or- |canized in our village of Stenkino. |i wrote out a declaration that I |wished to join the Kolhoz, I was accepted. And I began to work in | the children’s nursery. Real Life Began From that time forward my real ‘fe began. I felt a new strength. I grew younger. I workad for a while in the kolhoz nursery, and then ° | CELEBRATING SIXTEEN YEARS OF SOVIET RUL | The Red Square in Moscow as Millions of Soviet Workers and Peasants Celebrated the Victorious pletion of the First Five-Year Plan and the 16th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Stalin On Results of “Glad to Get Letters First Five-Year Plan (From Comrade Stalin’s Report of destroting the old. he results of the on the First Five-Year Plan). @) he resuits of the Five-Year Plan have refuted the assertions of the bourgeois and social-democrat’s leading men that the Five-Year Plan was fantastic, delirium and an un- attainable dream. The results of the Five-Year Plan have shown that the Five-Year Plan has already been car- ried out. (2) The results of the Five-Year Plan have smashed the well-known | bourgeois “symbol of faith” that the | working class is incapable of building | anything new, that it is capable only | supplies in the market place. And when I go to the city to visit my grandchildren I can buy them all nice presents. What more could I ask out of life now? All I wish is to live as long as possible. In the period before I had joined the kolhoz many whisnerers, Kulaks, said to me: “Eh, Fiokla, don’t join the kolhoz! . . . Such a move will bourgeois eco! incapable of standing the test of the/ difficulties connected with economic development. The results of the Five- j Year Plan have shown that it is the, capitalist system of economy that is; Five-Year Plan show that the work- ing class is as well able to build some- thing new as to destroy the old. (3) The results of the Five-Year fromClassBrothers” Moscow, Sept. 25, 1933, Dear Comrades: I and all the other workers of Mur- mansky Port are very glad when we receive letters from our foreign class brothers, Thece letters are usually published iy our wall newsnor to make it possible for all the workers to read Plan have smashed the social demo-/ them, cratic thesis that it 1s impossible to build up socialism in a single country taken by itself. The results of the; Five-Year Plan have shown that it is quite possible to build socialist so- | ciety in a single country, because the foundations of such a so- e already been laid in teh (4) The results of the Five-Year Plan have refuted the asseftions of sts to the effect that the cap system of econo- | my is the best of all systems, that any other system is unstable, and We have here no unemployment now. Our economy grows stronger every year. New Sources of Food You know that in the pre-revolu- tionary time there was in the north districts a wild tundra, marshes and the bare ro so up to the October Rev 5 But now we have destroyed the myth that it is impossible to develop the agriculture of high north. Such giant farms as “Ir ty” con- firm the words of our great leader- comrade Stalin—that “there are no difficulties which the Bolsheviks ; Would not overcome.” In spite of the predictions of our enemies in the capitalist countries and bourgeois scientists about the in- evitable failure of our experiment we have now the material evidences of our victories: It is the cucumbers, the turnips, the salad, the tomatoes, the potatoes, the peas, etc. Steel Plant Angry at American Papers Distortions of His Opinions By an American Worker Who Has | Worked in the Soviet Union STEUBENVILLE, O.—I was in the Soviet Union 11 months in Magnito- gorsk, where I had been working for the Soviet Government. In 1929 Magnitorgorsk was nothing | but grass growing. Today there is a] population of 300,000. The buildi: are four-tories high where the w | ers live, and there are also theatres | and circuses where the workers spend their leisure time, The steel mill occupies 15 square kilome There have been built} many ‘erent factories after the big mill constructed. As I under- | Stood, there will be locomotive plants, | sir plants, a coke plant and an auto- | mobile plant. I was questioned when I was in the Soviet Union by meny Soviet workers, “Do you think the Soviets will catch up in 15 years with Amer- ica?” I said, “Yes,” and it will, be- cause anybody can see how rapidly construction is going on in these 16) years. About Housine Shortage I have been questioned about the shortage of houses. It’s easy to see, as T mentioned a while ago, that Magnitorgorsk has a population of 300,000, We must ask, how can they have four or five-rooms for the fam- ily? They cannot at present, but they are erec a building so that every worker will be supplied as many Tooms as he needs, ‘The veriod of 11 months I had been there they had three blast furnacecs, two onen-hearth furnaces, blooming mill, electric plant, coke plant, ship- ping mill, ore mine and a great dam which supplies water for the mill and the workers. I was questioned about what kind of protection do the workers have in the Soviet Union. First of all, the workers do not worry who is going to pay the bill in time of sickness, hospital and other medical attention. While the worker is sick his pavroll is coming just the same, but he has to work when he is physically fit. Also, every year @ worker gets a vaca- tion for a month with his expenses paid, I was very sorry that I came U.S. Worker HIGH WAGES FOR SOVIET 'LaudsUSSR WORKERS IN MACHINE SHOP Vorkers Not Afra id of Difficulties; Get Best of Everything; Good Homes for Families; Accident Insurance | Dear Comrades: Moscow, September 25, 1933. You are interested in life in the U. §. 8S, R., concerning which you read a great many untruths in the capitalist press; for this reason I would like to carry on a con to acquaint you with ours, In this letter I want to tell you something of how the younger work- ing people, and the older workers irolled in the higher courses, study. I am 21 years of age. I work in act cutting instruments, inin (Frazer), and in the I study at the Moscow Ma- ding Workers’ Institute, nducted in connection ne factory, v factory was opened the May in the year 1932, but fore this we were already experi- d in technical production and a eni fulfilling our program. For the first six months, from January to June, we had a plan to enforce production to the amount of 5,000,000 rubles, and in the second instance during the months of Oc- tober, November and Decembér to bring our production up to the stand- ard previously set in the first six | months, to the sum of 5,500,000 rubles. For the entire year of 1933 we have set ourselves the task of meeting a plan of production to the amount of 15,000,000 rubles. And in 1934 we shall have a pro- gram calling for production to the amount of 34,000,000 rubles, We are at present preparing ourselves to meet and fulfill our plan for the year 1984, I work in the Thermal Section on the plan-distributing bureau, as a technician. I earn 350 rubles @ month. Our section, the Thermal Section, ~~ Leader of World — Proletariat correspondence with acquainted with your life and¢—————— you, in order to be- , has been organized in the very latest { word in modern technique. It is the pride of our factory, and is known | as one of the most important | tions. All the work of prodt | the factory must pass th: | hands, and the quality of the | as a whole depends largel excellence of the work st mn. Last year we were far behind our program and we held up the work of the entire fa ‘y. But our - | ers and tech taff gave theit | word before a conference of all the | workers to make up their back work, | and to fulfill the program, and ta | lower the percentage of rejected, spoiled produce. After a period of concentrated ef- | fort we made up our back work and | began to fulfill the program, striving all the while to reduce to the lowest | possible percentage the rejected, | spoiled produce | Win Red Banner The first of ection was recognized as th factory, and we were presented with the Red Banner of the factory, given to the section producing the best work, and passed around from one section to the otner. | We work seven hours in the day. Our factory restaurant is founa on the factory territory. The workers in the restaurant produce good meals. We usually finish our dinner in 25 or 30 minutes, and then we have @ half an hour in fl or do whatever w terval allowed us for dinner is one hour, Evening Classes After the end cf the wor! |@ large number of the wo: | pare to attend evening c! commence at six o'clock. The two | hours interval from four o'clock, the end of the working day, to the time of the beginning of the first class the worker is able to return home rest a little, and collect his books jand reach the building in which the | classes meet by six o’clo All these | segetables are cultivated now beyond | siudy, or asked that I might work cut on the| spell misfortune for you!” Fee ee Sey he ber ictee edie Mtoe Beet il The workers in our fac divided in brig- ‘Those bricades that excel in tion are called Shock Brigades, produc ntices and workers we chools, where our Red ech them how to im- ique of shipbuil % is int ed and works ment and improvement Special We are not wage work are in the capitalist countrie: workers taking part in the a istration of the factory; workers being responsible and deciding factors for our welfare. Every worker is entitled each year te a four weeks vacation, A Classless Society The First Five-Year Plan we fin- ished successfully in our shipyard, and we expect and will finish the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan according to our own counterplan. At the end of the Second Five-Year Plan we will have the classless so- ciety, which means elimination as a class of those elements which are remnants of the capitalist system. ‘We, the foreign and Russian work- ers of A. Marty, are highly interesteZ in the work and living conditions that you lead in the capitalist coun- tries and we wish and hope that you inform us about your struggles. In our next letter we will describe to you the history of the development of our shipyard. We send you our proletarian greetings and assure you of our solidarity. WORKERS OF ANDREE MARTY SHIPYARD, ODESSA. Soviet Sailors Greet U.S. Seamen; Tell of High Pay, Good Food | The Crew of the Ship “Sokrat” An- swers the Letter of Comrade King Moscow. Dear Comrade King: We have received your letter and have read it before the general meet- ing of our crew. Out of your letter we see how the American seamen are living now. We were indignant when we read about the treatment of sea- men by the shipowners and about their tricks to excite hostility among the crew. A sailor receives on our ship 115 roubles a month, Beside this he re- ceives 45 roubles for meals. A fire- man gets as much as a sailor. A . mechanic receives 135 roubles and 45 roubles for meals. ©n all the news ships there are . separate cabins for the crew, one cabin for two seamen. The most difficult time is already over, as Comrade Stalin said. Each ship has an exact plan to fill, and according as its plan is accom- * plished the ship is rewarded with a premium. There is on each of our ships a Red Corner, where we can read several newspapers and magazines. Besides this, there is a radio on our ship. In the name of the general meeting of the crew of the tanker “Sokrat.” —Saraev. } q USSR. Moscow, Maxim Gorky St., 3 “Vod- ‘Transport. ny better living conditions. | |of rye, 32 kilograms of wheat, 90 | kilograms of oats, 22 kilograms of (peas, 13 kilograms of Black Casha, | 500 kilograms of potatoes, 142 kilo- grams of eabbage, 50 kilozrams of cucumbers, 35 kilograms of carrots, and besides all this money as well. And at the end of the year I shall receive still more. My own garden gives me a good many vegetables, What can I do with so much? I can sell my extra Government has never deceived us peasants, and today I believe stil! more strongly that our government is Jooking out for our individual in- terests, that there be no poor among us, and that there be work for all, and that our lives be full and plenti- ful ones. —Fiokla_ Barishnikova, A Shock Brigade Worker. Kolhoz, “Paris Commune.” * Ryanskovo Region, 1 he History of the Bul By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD “The Soviet form of government is firmly established. Perhaps the most striking fact in Russia today is the general support which is giv- en the government by the people. +++ The Soviet form of government seems to have become to the Rus- sian people the symbol of their revolution. . * above wes written fourteen years ago by William C, Bullit, re- cently appointed first American Am- bassador to the Soviet Government. At that time Mr, Bullitt was a young man of 26, an ardent supporter of Woodrow Wilson’s “ideals” and a bril- liant member of the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. He was chosen by Wilson, with | the approval of Lloyd George, to pro- ceed to Soviet Russia to find a basis for peace between the Soviet Govern- ment and the various counter-revolu- tionary groups fighting it. ‘The Bullitt Mission to Russia came in for a good deal of publicity in 1919, when the Committee on Foreign Re- lations of the United States Senate, in its fight against the ratification of the Versailles Peace Treaty, called upon Mr, Bullitt to testify on his ac- tivities in connecon with the peace negotiations. The published record of that testimony affords at once a view of Bullitt’s own attitude toward the Soviet Government and of the machi- nations of the Allied statesmen and the hipocrasy of Woodrow Wilson in the question of peace with Soviet Russia, The Allied intervention against the Bolshevist Revolution began in the grave danger of mutiny among the intervention troops. Mr. Bullitt laid before the Senate committee the se- cret “Secretaries’ Notes” of a conver- sation among the Allied representa- tives on the question of Russia, which contained the following: “President Wilson asked to be Permitted to urge one aspect of the case. As M. Sonnino had implied, they were all repelled by Bolshe- vism, and for thet reason they had placed armed men in opposition to summer of 1918, but the capitalist governments were not altogether happy about their bloody adventure. It did not seem to further their main purpose of overthrowing the Soviet Government, Furthermore, there was them. One of the things that was clear in the Russian situation was | was for ‘‘self-determination of na- How the Allies and the United States Tried By Military Intervention to Over- throw the Soviet Union that by opposing Bolshevism with arms, they were in realily sc:ving | the cause of Bolshevism. The Allies | were making it possible for the Bol- | sheviks to argue that imperialistic | and capitalistic governments were endeavouring to exploit the coun- try and to give the land back to the landlords, and so bring about a re- action.” * 8 6 Statement by Wilson that “they were all repelled by Bolshevism, and for that reason they had placed armed men in opposition to them,” was made on Jan. 21, 1919, after re- heated public assurances of the Presi- dent, about his “friendship” and “good will” toward the new regime in Rus- sia, With his high-sounding phrases Wilson had hoped to win the confi- dence of the Russian masses and estrange them from the revolution- ary government. Having failed in this, Wilson embarked on the inter- vention adventure. But intervention was proving a failure and was fraught with danger for the interven- tionists themselves, so Wilson and his partners were willing to consider an- other way of crushing the Bolshevist Government, the way of peace. It must be stated here that al- though Mr. Bullitt was for immediate peace with the Soviet Government and urged the withdrawal of the in- tervention troops, the lifting of the blockade and the recognition of the revolutionary regime in Russia, he, too, hoped that in this way Bolshe- vism could be fought more effective- ly. In his report on his visit to Soviet Russia, he advances the following argument in support of his proposals: “If the blockade is lifted and sup- plies begin to be delivered regu- larly to Soviet Russia, a more pow- erfal hold over the Russian people (by the Allies) will be established, +». Furthermore, the parties which will be able to begin to fight against them.” ‘This should clear Mr. Bullitt of the “oharge” of being a “Communist sym- pathizer.” He was merely a realist in appraising the condition of Soviet Russia and the perils of intervon- tion. Not being a sympathizer of the revolutionary regime, he, neverthe- less, believed it to the advantage of the capitalist countries to recognize that regime. In a general way, he system of economy that has no fear of crises and is able to overcome dif- ficulties that capitalism cannot solve —is the Soviet system of economy. (5) Finally, the results of the Five- Year Plan have shown that the Party is invincible IF it knows its goal and how to lead to it, and if it is not grasses. és Can Now Grow Cereals The experiments have proved that beyond the polar circle can also be cultivated cereals such as barley, rye, oats, etc, With the proletarian greetings, (There follow six signatures) USS.R. Moscow, Maxim Gorky St., 3 “Vod- afraid of difficulties. ny Transport.” Soviet Union. misrepresent my opinion. thing of my will power to behave my- self. I noticed that someone quoted me in the Sun-Te'srrenh as saving dif- ferent things. It is a wrong interpre- tation. It is very bad to internret something which is not so of the This is my answer to those who Sincerely, Walter Drozich. JOSEPH STALIN tions” and he naively supposed that Wilson meant what he preached. It may be suggested, in fairness to Mr. Bullitt, that he advanced the ergu- ment of peace as a means of releas- | ing the counter-revolutionary forces in Russia somewhat against his ter judgment, just by way of “si to the capitalist diplomats his id of immediate peace with and recogni- tion of the Soviet Government. Two main considerations prompted the imperialist statesmen to enter- tain the suggestion of terminating their intervention and making peace with the Soviet Government, One was the enormity of the task of military occupation of Russia, the other was the danger of mutiny among the in- tervention troops and of revolt among the working masses in their home countries. We quote from the above- mentioned “Secretaries’ Notes”: “Now Canada had decided to withdraw her troops, because the Canadian soldiers would not agree to stay and fight against the Rus- sians. Similar trouble had also oc- curred amongst the other Allied Workers’ D elegation to USSR Groups of worker delegates from all over the world coming to visit the Soviet Union to take part in the 16th anniversary celebrations, These workers saw the tremendous victorles of the First Five-Year Plan, and the steady advance in the living conditions of the Soviet masses. Note Vern Smith, Daily Worker correspondent, on extreme left of the picture, ; troops. And he (Lloyd George) fel | certain that, if the British tried | | to eond any more troops there, | there would be mutiny.” | Mr Bullitt ¢dded in his testimony before the Senate Committee that * in the latter part of that which I did not read to the there was expressed | | report, committee, very forcibly the opinion of Mr. | Lloyd George, that the populations | | at home would not stand it (fur- ther intervention). Therefore they desired to follow up further the line of making peace.” We will not go into a discussion of the peace proposals brought back by | Bullitt and rejected by the imperial- ist diplomats without the formality of official action. It is worthwhile, how- ever, to quote from Bullitt’s report on Soviet Russia. As a trained newspa- per man the had been on the staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger) Bullitt. tried to do some honest re- porting and present his employers (the State Department) with a true account of conditions as he found them in Russia, Thus he writes: ee litt Commission and the Soviet Union « After Military Methods Failed, Wilson Hypo- | critically Resorted to Professions of Friendship Toward the U.S.S.R. “Russia today is In a condition of acute economic distress. The block- ade by land and sea is the cause of this distress. . . . In consequence, every man, other hand... the distribution of food is well controlled ... the ter- ror has ceased, » Executions are extremely rare. Good order has been estab'ished, The streets are safe. . . . Prostitution has disap- peared from sight. ... The achieve- ments of the Department of Educa- tion under Lunacharsky have been very great.” Mr. Bullitt writes on the great prestige of Lenin and deprecates that of Trotsky. He states in his report: “In Russia one never hears Lenin and Trotsky spoken of in the same breath as is usual in the western world. Lenin is regarded as in a class by hime"f. Trotsky is but one of the lower order of mortals, “When I called on Lenin at the Kremlin, I had to wait a few min- utes until a delegation of peasants left his room. They had heard in their village that Comrade Lenin was hungry. And they had come hundreds of miles carrying 800 poods of bread as the gift of the village to Lenin. Just before them was another delegation of peasants to whom the report had come that Comrade Lenin was working in an unheated room. They came bearing @ stove and enough firewood to heat it for three months. Lenin is the only leader who receives such gifts. And he turns them into the common fund.” {0 BETTER proof of Bullitt’s real- { istic apgraisal of the situation 1s needed than the first paragraph the “Conclusions” in his report: “No government save a socialist government can be set up in Rus- sla today except by foreign bayo- nets, and any government so set up will fall the moment such support is withdrawn.” ‘This is, indeed, prophecy come true. Bullitt’s proposal was shelved by the Allies and his report was sup- pressed at the insistence of President Wilson, Asked by Senator Harding “why the Soviet proposal was not given favorable consideration,” Bul- litt replied: “The principal reason was entire- ly different, The fact was that Just woman and child in | Moscow and Petrograd is suffer- | ing from slow starvation .,.on the | of |: conception of the Soviet regime. This | at this moment, when this proposal eration, Kolchak le advance. There | was a revolt of peasants in a dis- triet of Russia which entirely eut off supplies from the Bolshevik army operating against Kolchak. Kolchak made a 100-mile advance, and immediately the entire press of Paris was roaring and screaming on the subject, announcing that Kolchak would be in Moscow with- in two weeks; and therefore every- one in Paris, including, I regret to say, members of the American com- mission, bezan to grow very luke- warm about peace in Russia, be- | cause they thought Kolchak would | arrive in Moscow and wipe out the Soviet Government.” ive 'RANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT was a member of the Wilson Adminis- tra and shared his chief's hopes that “Kolchak would arrive in Moscow and wipe out the Soviet Gov- ernment.” Fourteen years later he is compelled to seek normal relations | with the Soviet Government in the} hope of finding a new market for the | prostrate industries of the country. | The difference in these two attitudes toward the Soviet Government is a) measure both of the increased eco- | nomic power and prestige of the So- viet Union and of the prostration of American capitalism, The chief executive of American capitalism was finally forced to yield to reality and establish official rela- tions with the Soviet Union. The appointment of William ©. Bullitt as first American Ambassador to the Soviet Union is quite signifi- cant. Mr. Bullitt is unencumbered by | anti-Soviet prejudice, having had} | from the very beginning a realistic | lessen the danger of his “gumming up the works” for the Roosevelt ad- ministration, As to the Soviet Gov- ernment, it will welcome in Bullitt not a “Soviet sympathizer,” but a representative of American capital- | 18! who understands the realities of the Soviet Union and thy boundless devotion of the masses to the Soviet | Government and to the cause of 80- | cialism and peace, Capitalist Wash- ington needs @ man of the Bullitt type in Moscow, and Bolshevist Mos- cow would rather deal with a man like Bullitt than with a misinformed and misinforming representative of capitalist Washington, hi rt 4 ‘ in the near future, Yes, my our= < this number 1,271 art ngs at which | “elds with a brigade group. ‘ become obsolete and must give way |tne polar circle. Besides this we have |‘ 5 Sag ah 4,000; from th gs and troubles are| For my work, only to the first of | , 1 did not believe, and then I saw) to another, higher, Soviet soclalist| already proved the possibility of cul-| % pease Pape moe A, Wee teen, bak studying: es ninated. September, I received 341 kilograms | OW wel ad done. The Soviet | «stem of economy, that the only| tivation in the districts of fodder er nature si (1) On the W Faculty (1) In differe At four o’cloe’ houses, I gather my books to; and at six o’cleck I am again at the Institute. 1,500 At One thousa* study at the dents are tak important wor Moscow. Techn ute red peonle Where I semester there from our facto f return home in the even cuss our impre our studies, The evening cla and so forth. s at the Insti- jucted for the at the factory, conducted in such a to give the worker a theoretical un+ derstanding of his particular spe clalty, so that he may up his stud» fes in the clastrcom with the prac: tical work he is doing every day al | the factory. The Institute keeps track of thr interests of the workers and tht amount of work t! are doing, an¢ according to the progress they make in the schoolroom they are promoted in their work in the factory to posi- fons of more importance and mort responsibility. 5 Days Extra Holiday For the faithful carrying out a our studies at the end of each sem. ester we are allowed a holiday a five days with full pav, bestdes being given yearly in our turns a vacatiog of from two to four weeks with ful pay. We do not pay for our courses o study. The government mests al the expenses. We are given booki at the Institute; each person re: ceives five books which he may makt use of during the course of a month Through the assistance that the gov: ernment gives us we are quite fret to work and to study. Our most important problem is t reassure our government in its fait) in us, to prove the Party's belief ia us reasonable, and to make of our selves good specialists in our par ticular fields, After five years we will be engi neers, not only with a theoretica | rounding, but with practical knowh edee as well, ‘We have many such Institute! which yearly turn out thousands o specialists that are more and mon to be found out in the world taking vart in the work of building Social ism, Comrades, when next I write | shall go into more detail concerning our life here in the U. S.S, R, Ant until then T wish for you all man: ner of success, and the opvortunit; to think as freelv as we, and to builé as we are building. Write me of your life JELEZNOFF. U. 8. 8. R., Moscow, District 24, Koracharovo Field, Factory Kalinin (Frazer). For: Jeleznoff.