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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Kathleen Norris Says: ' V Companionship Doesnt Just Happen , . Bell Syndicate. sw a in h f Shirtwaist War ms 'Weather $ S 48HS y' Jft WNU Features. Smart Ci rOSS i Jr"" jVN Bv ' v iifii.irttii. itfifTiniiittlnii.OiitiTifiTgtyrrir-' tra weeks vacation, and he can INSTALLMENT TWELVE The head of the Soviet labor movement was a very smart man of He forty-thre- e called Kuznetsov. was really keen. Hed lived in America, graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a masters degree in metallurgy, and if you tried to point out that his labor movement here wasnt really free, hed come right back at you with some American example trying to prove that ours was even less free. He outlined their set-ulike this. All Soviet unions representing workers send delegates to the Trades Congress. This meets every year or so but hasnt since the war. This corresponds to our AFL and CIO national conventions rolled into one. Its strictly labor no soldiers or farmers are in it This big Congress elects fifty-fiv- e members to something they call e the Plenum. These elect eighteen to something called the Presidium. And these eighteen elected him its secretary, which makes him head of the workers. He said at least 90 or 63 per cent of all workers belonged to trade unions. p n fifty-fiv- go to a special type of rest center equipped to care for invalids. But n members are not eligible. Usually about 6 per cent of an employees salary goes for rent in non-unio- these factory-owneapartments, he said. Young apprentices live Older in rent-fre- e dormitories. workers may live in them, too, but they pay. Skilled workers, or those who exceed their norms, are entitled to better quarters. Because their pay is more, their rent is proportionately higher. What relations do you have with American labor? we asked. he None at all with the AFL, Were very much disapsaid. pointed. Also, their representative, Mr. Watt, criticized our Russian Trade Movement at the last meeting of the International Labor OrHe ganization in Philadelphia. claimed we were not a free movement You can see that we are. I dont understand why your government would permit this criticism of our trade unions. Russia is your ally, he said. I canboinderstand why your government would permit it, and we simply dont understand the AFL. It probably isnt the workers, but only the leaders who have these distorted notions. Here we are sure that your workers really want to with ours, only the leaders wont permit it. We do have some relations with the CIO letters from Mr. Murray and several others. It is more sympathetic, and desires to and more nearly understands the true position of workers in America and workers here. We hope some day we can with the American labor movement. After all, we are working for the same cause. d t Until we reach the Urals, which e from divide the country we fly over is exactly as it was up from Teheran the same thatched villages dominated by white churches with onion domes. We crossed the Urals, which are, in this area, not mountains but low, rolling hills, wooded with birch, oak, elm, maple. but no pine. At this airport, as at all the others we are to touch, we are met by the local dignitaries and important Communists all grave, d Russians, by Communist standards. Zeeses take us across the city to the house of the plant director, where we will spend the night. We drive through teeming, unpainted slums which are worse than those of Pittsburgh although we keep in mind that Magnitogorsk is crowded because many industries have been evacuated here. We leave the slums and go up a hill which, overlooking the slums and the blast furnaces, are the spacious homes of the executives even as it is in Pittsburgh. We come into a paved residential street with gutters, sidewalks and big yards. Except for architectural differences, we might be in Forest Hills, New York, or Rochester, Minnesotas Pill Hill. Magnitogorsk was started in 1916. There are now 45,000 workers in his plant, of whom 25,000 are construction workers, for it is expanding. furnaces and six Twenty blast furnaces are operating, two of which were opened during the war. The mountain they mine contains an estimated 800,000,000 tons of ore which is 60 per cent iron, and another 85,000,000 tons which will run from 50 to 45 per cent quite a stock Eric tells me that we have pile! only about 100,000,000 tons left at Hibbing, and are using these up at a wartime rate of 27,000,000 tons a year. After lunch we drive to the big steel plant. I am riding with a correspondent Suddenly our car turns to one side as we overtake a long column marching four abreast on its way to work at the plant Marching ahead of it behind it and on both sides, are military guards carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. The second thing is that the column itself consists of ragged women in makeshift sandals, who glance furtively at our cars. The correspondent nudges me. Nick, the NKVD man, is riding in the front seat I dont know how those women got there or where they were going, so I leave them as material for some mightier talent with greater imaginative powers. Entering the blast furnace section, the director bellows two noteworthy statistics at us; the first, that on a 1,200,000,000 rouble business this year, he hopes to clear a 80,000,000 rouble profit. Secondly, that in this Inferno, they have per month only eight Injuries per 10,000 employees. The armament factory takes the prize for the most sloppily organized shop we have seen in the Soviet Union. Stockingless girls with crude sandals. lathing shells for the Red Army, stand on heaps of curled metal scrap from their machines. Russia-in-Europ- Stalin stayed in Moscow when many advanced on city. Ger- So we asked him who didnt belong. Well, he said, some apprentices are too young, and then in the reoccupied regions, it takes a little time to convince all workers they should belong." He said the dues were 1 per cent of a workers salary. There is no initiation fee, but they sell you a book costing only one rouble. Now, is this a perfectly free union movement, we asked him, or is it directed by your govern- ment? It was perfectly free, he assured us. Of course, he said, anyone they elected to their Congress must be approved by the government. He said, in 1919 a strike in one steel mill lasted two days. And in 1923 there was another little strike in western Russia. We were changing over from the old czarist money to Soviet roubles, and it took time to get it all printed and out to the workers. As soon as the situation was explained to them, they went back to work. There have been no strikes since, and in the future there wont be any because our workers understand they are all working for each other. If a worker is discontented and gets discharged for any reason, would it be difficult for him to get a job some place else? Very, very difficult, said Kuznetsov. Do you have any absenteeism?" We simply dont have It without reason. But arent workers sometimes a little late? he said. The "Occasionally, first time he is warned. The second time he may be fined. If It happens again, he is discharged. If a worker fails to damages too much material or does anything else which we consider serious, he may be arrested and tried before a judge, and if he is unable to prove his innocence, sentenced to a number of years penal labor. The rules In the factories are very strict and rigidly And tire union officials enforced. encourage the workers to testify against a man guilty of these offenses maybe they themselves bring charges against him. Joining the trade union in any plant is completely voluntary, Kuznetsov said. How do you account then, for the fact that practically everyone who is eligible joins? It is to their advantage in any country, and particularly in the Soviet Union, where the Trade Union Movement offers many benefits. Here a union member received greater sick benefits than a nonunion member. There is a housing shortage here and most factories own apartment houses which they rent to the workers. Union members receive first consideration. All workers are entitled to vacamemtion with pay, but bers cannot spend their vacations in the rest centers maintained for woikers. If a woiker is sick, the physician may recommend an ex non-unio- n red-paint- well-dresse- open-heart- h jnJCoe Occasionally they are protected s. from its sharp edges by crude duck-board- Some attempt is being made to remove the scrap. We see two girls carrying out a load of it on a Russian wheelbarrow, which is a kind of homemade litter, with one pair of wooden handles in front and one behind. It carries a modest wheelbarrow-load but requires two people. They stumble along with it through the rubbish. We watch them milling shells for the Red Army. There is no assembly belt but at one point they have devised a substitute. When one operation is finished, a shell is placed on a long, inclined rack, down which it rolls into the next room for the next operation. Only the rack Is badly made and now and then a shell falls off. Instead of adjusting the rack, a girl is stationed by it. to pick up the shells and put them back on straight. Now we go through a brick plant We watch the women laboriously moving bricks by hand after each processing operation. As we are leaving the plant, we see another column of women marching under guard. A few hours on the plane brings us to Sverdlovsk, before the revolution called Ekaterinburg because it was founded by Catherine the Great. It was here in a cellar that the d Bolsheviks shot weak-willeCzar Nicholas II, his wife and family, later changing the name of the town. Sverdlovsk Is another Soviet Pittsburgh, bustling with a million people. Sverdlovsk is the Soviet center for the manufacture of heavy machine tools. In one big shop we see a gigantic drop forge, made in Duisburg, Germany. I can well believe that there are only four like it in the world. It can apply pressure of 10,000 tons. The plant itself is the same old Soviet story we have so far seen no light, dirty, bad floors, and in this one the roof leaks. Outside there is a summer shower and we watch the water pour down from the high ceiling onto the hot steel and get soaked ourselves as we walk through. But they have mended the roof over the most important machines. Across the street from our hotel is the marble opera house. It is a little too ornate, but Russians like it that way. It seems to be the most substantial and carefully built structure In town. It is the provincial opera house, built in 1903 under the czar. At Omsk the delegation of dignitaries shakes hands with us and tells us that our bags will be left at the airport, where we will spend the night The building is excellent modem, simple and In good repair. hard-heade- d, g with a mJ,n oJ 3S "Truly, a girl of 19 may have a wonderful companionship even as his wife. But only when he can pet her, spoil her , treat her as a By KATHLEEN NORRIS of the richest life can win any of us is companionship. Never underestimate it. No matter how burdened your life is with duties, responsibilities, interruptions, distractions, financial and domestic worries, dont complain as long as you have someone with whom you can share them. ONE Certain professional and business women are enormously successful. Some of them are rich. But if life hasnt brought them companionship they have nothing worth having, and they know it They go in for nervous disorders, for bitterness, for strange extravagances. They keep reaching blindly about for the precious, the inestimable treasure that is companionship with some other human soul, and they never find It They cannot find It They have destroyed the secret of possessing it, of winning it Yes, I used the word "winning In this connection, because a part of that secret of companionship is that You it never comes ready-madhave to work for It to preserve it Thats why letters like this one from Francoline" are so pathetic in their innocence and so sad in their certainty of disappointment. Francoline Is 19; she is going to be married. This Is part of her letter: e. Mother objects to Paul. He is Just twice my age; not that 38 is old for marriage, but mother thinks its old for the man who wants to become my husband. . He has been married before, and he says he has learned consideration the hard way. He has two boys, aged 10 and 8, and he adores them, and so do I. Their mother has moved away and left them here In school. Complete Sympathy. We will not have much money and that worries mother. I tell her I am not marrying Paul for money. I am marrying because of the complete sympathy there Is between us. We laugh at the same things, we like the same shows, we leve to plan what we will do someday when we are rich. Our feeling for each other is based on something much deeper than a mere crush, and we have known each other ever since Paul was In college and I was born. .dtS-'-.vy You feel, and youve often said, V ' the letter concludes, y that companionship is the real base of a happy ' marriage. We are sure of it. I Jj s am not taking Paul away from his wife; except for her monthly alift mony check he has no correspondence with her at all. He says be never has really loved before; I "'i know I never have, and that I never W'lll again. I feel much more capable of giving advice about marriage than accepting it, but I would like Martial law was declared In Mos- to know If you dont think this may s cow and brought to city In be a successful marriage? great numbers. Francoline is 19, but she sounds It seems substantially constructed. younger. She sounds about 12. She Omsk before the war had a popuis revelling In her first rapture of lation of 320,000 and now has 514,000 young love, a time of dreams and evacuated workers, of course. delusions beautiful. Inevitable, but We inspect the Mayor of Omsk pitiful, too. It is Paul that I blame Kishemelev Kuzma. This is his sec- for this situation; Paul, who has ond year in office. Before that he two boys, and a divorced wife, and was Director of Automobile High- who la twice Francoline ege. a title since the Soways, confusing My answer is: certainly you may viet Union ha few passenger cars make a success of this marriage. and almost no highways. There Is no marriage that may not We ask him how he got elected be turned Into a success. A strong, and he answers promptly that the self controlled, sensible woman people did it and goes into detail. There were in all five candidates, each representing one of the various trade unions. Everybody in Omsk could vote, he says, and of course the ballot was secret. In the empty airport waiting room, sprawled on the benches were two khaki-clafigures. One asked me something in Russian. The other one said, Hell, Tex. hes no Russian. I said, Im an American. You I should guys American too? hope to kiss a horse we are, said Tex. I love the boys, too, , , , (TO BK CONTINUED) 4 'J v ack-ack- d HEADED FOR MISERY A woman with a powerful personality can make a success of any marriage, says Miss Norris in today's article. Such women are rare, however, she girl goes on. The who asks for advice in the letter quoted does not seem to be one of them. Francoline is madly in love with a man 33 years old. He has been married before, but is divorced. The two sons, 8 and 10 years old, are in his care. What Francoline finds in Paul is a deep companionship; a similarity of tastes and ideals. This is the first time she has ever been in love, Francoline says. Paul claims that he is feeling the tender passion for the first time, too, and that he never really loved his wife. Miss Norris cautions Francoline that she is headed for a lot of shocks and disillusionment if she enters this marriage. There just isnt the proper basis for a happy marriage here. A young woman must give up too many pleasures that are normal at her age; she must put up with too many difficulties. In this particular case, the children, the former wife, the earning power of the husband, all present problems that will probably grow worse as time advances. may marry any man she pleases and win through all the dangers Set for Tot adorable dress for 1. x j tiny daughter thats wonder;' easy to make. The perky ra sleeves are edged in soft seal! the drawstring neck makes it ; pie to launder. 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The responsibility of supporting another woman and two boys does not grew easier as the months of marriage turn themselves Into years. Francoline will have to make many sacrifices, will have to be ready for grave decisions. The shortage of money will cramp her from the first, and unless she is of a really generous nature, she will resent that constant drain on Pauls resources; one boy will need dental work, another may come home for long nursing after an illness. Paul may crush her by hinting that as he already has chilhe is none too eager to welcome more. This marriage robs her of the dancing, the house parties, the new frocks and new friendships that are natural at her age. It means that she grows mature before her time. Truly, a girl of 19 may have a wonderful companionship with a man of 38, even as his wife. But only when he can pet her, spoil her, treat her as a doll. To Francoline none of these pleasant flattering things will come. She will be at once the second wife, stepmother, housekeeper, cook and manager in the house of this much older man. If there is any spoiling done she will have to do it; if there are any concessions, she will have to make them. Lots of trying details will have to be settled before you can come to companionship with your husband, Francoline. This particular setup doesnt seem to promise much hope of their settlement. r4mcEi(nispiES 10 1VE.GC generous packages, in one handy 6 W cartoni dren Tasty Gray Bread Gray bread may become so popular the public wont want to return to white bread, says Frederick Sharer, a veteran baker. He said that when flour regulations ended after World War 1 bakers went right on making dark bread because customers had grown to like it. The baker says the use of the Truman-lua- f may Increase bread consumption so much that it offsets the grain saved by switching from pure white flour. fM. 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