Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 73

U. S. Engineers at Nizhni THE SUNDPAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 23, 19% W here the greatest efforts of the five-year plan are being made. A map : the locavion of Nizhni Novgorod in. relation to Moseow, the Soviet copival, shie other centers of the new industrial seheme. 'HE Americans have to battle: with primitive Russian methods. Galvanized iron for skylights srrives, bub there is no solder to put it in with. Vitrified sewer tile is needed. For months the engineers go along waiting for the tile, the Russians promising that it is ordered, it is coming, it will the villages, husky peasant men and wemen, witly packs on their backs. Thby live in long, ers. City, 300 families strong, and® esmp there. wmtm-nuufwmmmd oy . “But the electric fixtures arem't in yet! The piaster is: still. wet on: the walls!” oy it the worker has meved in_his- bundie and! bed; put' & lock: on. the door and his: primus in thie- kitchen, all the Amerioan engineers on AND again there are the Workers’ Commit- tess, which arve the bane of the engineers’ lives. The Ruassion direetors on these jobs, accord- ing to the Americans, must spend a fairly large peoportion of their time forfifying themsglves against the Workers' Commiftees. They gre . consiantly under the surveillance of tihe com- mittess, and under such a condition there is a tendeney to shift responsibility. “Sey that a foreman tells a worker to il in & ditch,” says Bryant. “THere is ite in- the ditoh, The foreman doesn't notiee it when he gives: bis order, but the workér does. Never- theless, he flls in the ditch, knowing that the dirt will shift later when the ice meits and the work will be spoiod “He does not teil the foreman right “then and there. - He goes to the Workers’ Committee and files & churg~ against the foreman, who is: hauled up for trisl-—and so- it goes. “Now, of ceurse, in America the worker would cali omt to the foreman, ‘Loekee heve, Bill this ditch is fulla: jce. 2 ,I' I gum il ‘a"i § a4 | E | { i live are no red here—except over the co-operative store, e Americans had nothing to do with that, windows of the five neat, suburban, r cottages there are pink silk drapes. is & tennis court and a bachelor club | ; a 3 { 4! T 11 chintzes at the , chwirs, a' baby grand, with music tossed care- lessly about, and a great silk American flag BOTOSS {efd !g! 1 The workers meved in too soon, and it’s Rard to finisk the job. A model of one of the communed apartment houses being evected by American emgineers im Nichees ¥ L sheut. dear old Stanford' (she graduated im "2%7), going to s reception st the British, K em-~ - in Nibscow, snd = lovely -Paisley shawl shie picked up tivr basmar in Nizhni. yem they teied! miwing Russian and engiheers: o first, but it just T Bavew't beem: tor Nishini since I went shop- ping for Christmes dinner—the diet here .gets se “The Austin Co. shese; over which flies the flag in the Ametftan Village, and he ssparate living quarters for the American engineers, have been the objects of some crit- jeism from the Russiams, but that happens in every foreign country where American engineers go; and is only natursli - NTTING away.from the “Village,” you stroll through ancient Monastirka, a picturesque little Russian village still untouched by_this noisy, strange, new life roaring about it. Old red roofs gleam over log houses highly a0 to the village well, gleam to keep the water pure, filling their buckets and carrving them at the ends of a birch wood pole across their shoulders. Beyond the planned city, the white city—the ; i -s’.%;! » family can choose between an apartment “with cookting space or sharing in the communsai 3 sirladAj il L'l i <K it vailued at slightly less than $4,000,000. 5 . t of the fivecyear plan. A stroet seene in the-villoge of Karpovka, near Nizhni Novgorod. . o