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WHAT I SAW IN RUSSIA-4

"I wont to about, half-a-dozen different flats"

HE train

rocked frightfully and wr bumped here and there unt it was Im- possible to sleep. When I went to wash myself in the morning it was to find that we had arrived at Gorki (for merly Nizhui-Novgorod), having taken approximately fourteen hours to travel the 200-odd miles from Moscow.

We sped in a motor through the streets Trom Dis old wooden tation, which some distance from the city itall, travelling vit. the Stalin district on our way to the w motor works. The huuses bewe were uniformly wretched, all being wooden

Apparently never repaired.

and

The streets were bumpy, muddy and unared tor. We ran along a long concrete road to the Molotov factory in Gork!, The Arst thing that struck me about the factory was its leely planned garden ap- proach.

Although this was not at its best because the roads were simply a mass of slush and mud, R showed comprehensiveness in design and

Intention.

WE were met at the door by two techni clans, both of whom were Russlans, who had been in America, and who were able to explain thinga an we went along The factory was built on land which was formerly practically a swamp, and there were at one ime 45,000 building workers ch- Fraged on it.

Here, like everywhere else, there were signs of hurry and rush In the building. The space between the many buildings was wide, but, there was evidence of early en- croachment, as they were extend- ing several of the factories. There were approximately 25,000 workers

here, engaged

mostly young Drople, many of them peasants. who, the administration thought. i would be easier to teach than the folder people.

The output was, at present, 200 Fears day, but of these only 170 were actually assembled, the re- maining 80 going by river steamer to Moscow to be assembled there.

I MADE various inqui- Aries regarding wages,

and was told that workers on the engine block line. who were specially good workers, zarned 350 roubles a month, while .ool-makers received frorn 400 to 700 roubles according to ability,

Apparently the staff were in ibree sections: (1) productive workers; (2) administrative and

echnical: and (3) clerks, All. hese had their own wages scales and categories.

One specially well-qualified tool- 'maker was earning 1,000 roubles at the age of thirty-three, and was employed on very exacting work. Others near him received from 400 to 450 roubles. An Austrian refugee, who took part in the fighting against the Dollfuss die- tatorship in February, 1934, with whom I spoke, received 350 roubles. We visited the crèche, although we could not see it actually th operation because it was being re- decorated.

THEY had, accommo- dation for 600 children' here, whereas accord-

ing to my calculations they should have about 2,000 places, if every worker's child was to be accommo- dated on the population basis which I have mentioned earlier. The total in children's institutions was 2,000 in kindergartens, etc., and 7,500 were provided for in schools,

We visited the Socialist city afterwards and found it excep- tionally well-planned, with good wide streets, which some day, I hope, will be concreted.

At present they are a mass "of"

slush and I could not help won- dering whether they will ever be anything different.

I noticed here the same thing as In Moscow. These people rush to put up buildings, but never seem to finish them. They never seem to have time. Everywhere there were signs of this.

"We have no time to do so. We inst get the houses up for the people. We can't leave them out on the fields or in tents so long, Which is it better to do? Build the houses and get the people In, or to finish the streets?" 0 remon- strated our guide.

"YOU have found time to plant trees along this route," I said, "surely you could,have found time to build the concrete roads, or to finish the gravel pavements? As it 18, here are people going about in .mud and dirt quite unnecessarily."

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I did not like to think we were going to visit apartments with our boots simply ankle deep in mud.

We did so, however, and I went to about half a dozen different! flats. They were laid out with three living-rooms, a bathroom, a separate w... a couple of cup- boards, as well as a kitchen.

In the kitehen there was a stove bented by wood fuel, but there was no gas or electrle cooking what- Nor ever, in any of these places As far as I could judge was there the slightest provision for it in the the 51 future. The people use kerosene stoves in the summer.

In one apartment there was a family of four people living in two rooms. In the first room there was one bed. and in the second room there were two beds. Rent paid was 70 roubles and the occu- pier, a technician, was receiving 700 roubles a mouth.

which THE kitchen they shared with their neighbour in the next Coom was very poor and dirty, Only a small metal sink was avall- able, but there was hot and cold water provided, as there was to the bath. There was no floor covering in, this apartment, nor, In fact, in any of those we saw.

A further family of Ave were living in two rooms, the earrings here being 200 roubles, 120 roubles There was no being paid for rent. bed in the living-room, but two in an adjoining room, and there was The husband also a maid here. was a departmental head of some kind.

We moved away to where there was a family of four living in two raenis, ono bed in the living-room and two beds in the next room.

I said. that so far we had only met well-paid people with com- paratively good accommodation, much above the average. I must see some of the others.

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THEY invited me to pick out n flat at random, and I went and stories

knocked

a door. No. 13. This was unlucky, I told them. Sure enough, we found three families with were There room apiece, three beds in one room, two in

a third room another, whilst in there was a couch and a single bed.

Then I went to seo the American village, so called because it was built mainly for the American specialists who came over in the early days of the factory opern- tion.

They were mostly small houses, something like those in England, with perhaps half a dozen under one roof. Some of them were very badly built and were being re- paired, although they had only been up three years.

In one, that of the technician who took us round; we spent a little time. His wife would no show herself because our visit was "unexpected. This familly-ot-Ave

Homes of the

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People

Sir Walter Citrine

had three rooms, a whole flat, The husband received 1,200 roubles and pata 150 rouble: for rent,

ex-

Here again there was no floor

husband covering at the plaled that Rersian people don't like it.

Then we saw the schools, part of which had been bant, during the Inst year, and found them very nice, well-destund, and the chit- dren clean and Intelligent looking.

Thoy had no shower baths as yet, but these would be filled later. They had a medical staff of 509 people here, working in conjune- The tion with the factory and social uraner and health ar- rangements, 100 members of which were fully qualified medical men.

Now, candidly, what did I think of the works? First it zerted to me that it was like Fords at Rouge In many respects it was River.

and from the cultural better

esthelle point of view, but it seemed far from being as effelent. I had the impression that there were too many prople working crowded together, and, secondly, the materia seemed in some cases to be piled up next to benches, gly- ing them a confused appearance,

I asked the technical director out this, and he said that i

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didn't pay them to transmit these materials by, conveyer, and that 1 was quite right in saying that j there was confusion. They had a system of minute accounting and their unit costs in rome respects. compared favourably with Fords., Ford, however, turned mist flu- sands of cars a day, whereas they its output only turned out 260, was more than twenty times EN much as theirs. They were going to extend until they prodnerd 1,000 cars a day and he did not think that this would very materiatly in- erease the personmel,

WE spent the evening visiting the old y. which we found micha nicer and more pleasant in t

the Stalin Aspect than

near the station.

gunel

new fron

We had to cross a bridge over the wide ver Volna. and I was charming to look down from the high banks upon the bright lights of the shippine We returned from Gorki at night.

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