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Communism seeks the full development of the individual.

Food, clothes in USSR

to be free in 20 years

_ All meals, clothing and footwear will be free as part of the transition to Commu-
nist society in the Soviet Union within 20 years, believes Prof. Stanislav Strumilin.

thy mmunist society, writes
S leading Soviet economist
8n article in the monthly

D ‘d in history to apply the

yb “from each according

: S ability to each accord-
ing to his needs.”

on ut, he adds, material bene-

alone were never the Com-

munist ideal. Communism}

ead the full all-round devel-

*Pment of the individual.
Aigae Problem of shortening
2€ Working day is therefore of

SPecial importance and he ex-|.

Pects the Soviet Union to go

Four hours work a day, 10 Technology in a Communist

_ He was a moulder and poured hot, liquid iron.

gress workers will no longer

and 10 for study, sport and
amusement, is how the pro-
fessor envisages life in a Com-
munist society. He says that
as a result of technical pro-

simply perform manual oper-
ations. Their role will be that
of organizers, controllers and
adjusters of machines.

Automation will be the

hours for eating and sleeping | society will, in fact, be based

on a new sort of division of
labor —not between workers,
but between various kinds of
automatic machine-tools and
automatic production lines.
Further, the professor be-
lieves the new type of worker,
combining both physical and
mental labor, with the em-
phasis on the latter, is already
beginning to make his appear-
ance.

order of the day so that tran-
sition from the rigid division
of labor to combined special-

°ver to the four-hour day for

In planning economic devel-
opment during the next few
decades, attention must be paid

ties will be the rule rather than
men and even less for women. | the exception.

not only to the development
of production, but also to the

Pa

Reports that Galina Ulanova, Soviet prima ballerina, had
retired were discounted in Moscow. According to a Bolshoi
Theatre spokesman, she remains on the list of performers
and will continué to dance leading roles.

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principles of distribution, he
says. 4

Side by side with increased
wages, public services—health,
education, and the like—which
_ » }are already. to a considerable

| extent being distributed accor-
_ |ding to neéd in the’ Soviet

| Union, will grow in import-
ance. pad ur ks
As well as abolishing all
taxation, for example, it will
toward the end of the current
seven-year plan (in 1965), be-
come possible to’ abolish the
fees now charged for the main-
tenance of children at board-
ing schools. ~ Gx ;
_ The problem of ending the
housing shortage in the towns
occupies an important place in
the Soviet Union’s long-term
development plan. It is to be
solved within the next 12 years
with every family getting a

And then the hearts of men began to be uplifted more

Because a Socialist world had grown to Show the might

Prof.

separate flat, says
Strumilin. :

ce poem
for May Day

A poem for May Day? Now, how does one begin
How is one to tell in. words, mere words,
Of the pulse and beat of a million hearts therein?

Or shall my song of apple blossoms be,

Of dewy lilacs and the fragrance of a coming rose, ~
perhaps? s

And of such other tender things.

As sunny little boys again this spring,
Expound a finer, newer theory © ©
Of how and why butterflies have wings!

O yes, the first of May is all of this, and yet Ea é }
A simple mention of it, brings to me se
My father’s image. He has long since gone,

And suddenly I see his work-coat :
Hanging on the hall way door... ’
A lunch pail, scrubbed clean for next days use.

I see him coming down the street...
(O how I’d wait for him on those front steps
When I was only seven) and even now

I see that grimy, tired face, but with a smile for me,
And 1 would run to him, he’d catch me up
With hard calloused hands, yet tender to the touch.

He was home! The long, hard day had closed,
A quiet and a peace for him had come,
But my magic hour had only just begin!

I see as if before me now, the boots he wore—
“Gaiters” he called them, made so to protect his feet—

And when he’d come, my job would ’be

To help him pull. those boots from off his tired, aching
feet— é

(That was always such a fine game for me).

But then one day, that magic hour of my childhood didn’t
come—

I waited ... five o’clock, then six and seven...

I ran right up to that foundry gate!?

There he was! Among a hundred other men, yet
I could tell that dear form and face
From very far away! ;

All marched within the foundry gates—
And soon the new shift came, the number swelled
Until it was a mighty, shouting throng!

“On strike” I heard them say, ‘‘for better pay—

We work hard willingly enough, no fear of that,

But give us just reward!’’ O yes, it was a struggle. But
they won!

And soon after this, May Day had come...

A day to count all victories gained and tasks that lie
; ahead— :

O what a happy town that was.

Bands played, men marched and children too- with pups
and dolls, ,

Flags waved in the sparkling sun, wives wept from joy!

Placards for jobs and peace, carried by the proud, flamed
high! Spat Y : :

and more,
For as each first of May went by ;
The world began to see a strength in man no one had
known before. .

With which their first of-May
Has pierced History with its Light!

- @ Marion Philipovich

April 29, 1960—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5