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"What our Party means to me’

(Weaver A. N. Smirnova's speech to 24th CPSU Congress)

Comrade Delegates,

Just like all of you, I listened
most attentively and with great
emotion to the report of the
Central Committee of our Party,
which was delivered by Leonid
Brezhnev. I listened to it and all
the time found confirmation of
my thoughts and those of my
fellow shopworkers.

For me, as one taking part for
the first time in the work of
the supreme council of the Com-
munists of the country, it was a
particular joy to realize that the
Party talks to the people in the
Leninist language of the truth,
that it sees, in a Leninist way,
the vastness of the life of the
people, of each one of us, mean-
ing my life, too.

All the speakers who preced-
ed me on this platform fervently
endorsed the tireless, transform-
ing activity of the Central Com-
mittee of the Party. I, too, am
happy to be able to express my
heartfelt opinion. The noble pro-
fession of a weaver prompts me
“to make a professional com-
parison: like an experienced
weaver, our Party, day by day,
weaves the strong cloth of a
new society, the name of which
is communism.

Own Example

We are summing up today the
results of what has been achiev-
ed since the 23rd Congress of
the CPSU. As to how much
has been accomplished in this
period by the Party and the
people can be seen everywhere,
including the example of my
native town of Privolzhsk.

It is a small community, just
like the words in a popular
song. Only 20,000 live there.
Such inhabited points are not
indicated on all geographic
maps. They are officially called
small towns, but I will not be
exaggerating by saying that
they are famed for deeds which
are just as big as those of major
industrial centres.

The whole life in Privolzhsk,

like in other towns of its kind, |

is determined by the industrial
enterprise. In the case of Priv-
olzhsk it is the Yakovlevsky flax
mill. It marked its centenary
last December, but actuaily
what remains of the old enter-
prise is its walls. The mill has
been completely modernized,
and is experiencing as it were
its second youth. New bright,
spacious buildings have sprung
up. Many production processes
are mechanized and automated.

Production standards have
risen noticeably. Daylight light-
ing fixtures, pure and cool air,
flowers, colorful stands and

recreation and reading rooms all
help to build up a buoyant and
joyous mood. To this we should
add that preventive clinics have

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been opened at the mill, mater-
nity consultation centres are
functioning, and public services
are improving, which for us,
women workers, is of particu-
larly great importance. We no
longer experience the shortage
of children’s pre-school estab-
lishments. Our young produc-
tion hands are fully provided
with well-appointed dormitories.
Heat and gas continue to be
installed in the workers‘ flats,
let alone many other convenien-
ces being given us.

We listened yesterday with
great excitement to the propo-
sals of the Party’s Central Com-
mittee, mentioned in Leonid
Brezhnev’s speech, which are
aimed at improving the living
conditions of large families and
of women engaged in produc-
tion. All this strikes immeasur-
able joy in our hearts, and in-
spires us to work still better!

-Allow me, on behalf of all the

Soviet women, to express heart-
felt gratitude to our beloved
Party for its paternal care for
the working women, for the
mothers.

In the course of the 8th five-
year plan period, our mill boost-
er the volume of production by
79% and sold an additional 29
million roubles worth of goods.
This growth was achieved with
the simultaneous reduction of
staff by nearly 1,300 people.
Labor productivity at our mill
went up by 89%, and above-plan
profit is 1,398,000 roubles.

The Party has highly apprecia-
ted the work done by the flax
industry workers. In the Lenin
centenary year, our mill was
awarded the Order of the Red
Banner of Labor for the success-
ful fulfilment of the state assign-
ments in output, for the stepped-
up rate of growth of labor pro-
ductivity, and also in connection
with our own centenary.

Grand People

The pride of the: mill are its
people. Practically every family
in Privolzhsk has someone, its
plenipotentiary, so to speak, in
our establishment. The inhabi-
tants of the town are really big
patriots of our manufacture,
which was set up with their
hands and brains. Russian flax
has won and consolidated its
prestige: goods bearing our
mill’s trademark are being gladly
bought up in 20 countries.

The traditions of the older
generation are being carried out
and enhanced by the younger
people. They make up 40% of
the personnel, which also speaks
of our mill’s youth. These young
men and women are wonderful!
They are eager for knowledge.
There are ever more girls among
our weavers and spinners having
diplomas of technicians. Our
evening textile technical school
annually graduates 60-70 ex-
perts. The latest tests of diploma
work took place on the eve of
the Congress, and I was one of
those who went through this
exam. I now have a specialized
technical education, which will
make my life and work more en-
grossing.

And I shall do everything for
my husband, a bricklayer, also
to finish successfully his educa-
tion in a correspondence civil
engineering school.

The 8th Five-Year Plan is viv-
idly marked by many things in
my life. It was not so long ago
that we worked on four looms
turning out towel cloth, where:
as our weavers have now begun
operating three times as many
looms. Back in 1966 I was one

of the first to go over from six
to eight looms, whereas two
years later, I began operating
even a dozen. All 510 weavers
in our mili are now operating
more looms than they did before.
This alone has raised labor pro-
ductivity by 21.3%.

Whereas at the beginning of
the Five-Year Plan period, my
looms turned out 49 metres of
textiles per hour, this average
shot up to 110 metres by the end
of last year, when preparations
for the 24th CPSU Congress
were in full swing. I finished my
own five-year plan assignment on
the eve of Lenin birth centen-
ary. My additional contribution
to the labor gifts fund consisted
of 12,000 metres of textile.

I link my modest accomplish-
ments directly with the work
and life of our whole team, with
its atmosphere of exactingness
and sincerity. Alongside of me
work people, about whom it is
said that they always aim at
something bigger, who in their
work constantly strive to catch
up to their dream...

The Past Is Dead

~ I am always greatly excited
when I leave home for the morn-
ing shift. Alongside of me are
friends, those whom I know and
whom I don’t know. They set off
to start the workday with dig-
nity, with a feeling of pride for
belonging to the working class.
In such moments, a different pic-
ture springs up in’ one’s mind,
that which Maxim Gorky gave
in his novel, “Mother.” You
recall the opening words of that
work, and they immediately sear
your heart. How wonderful it is
that all this belongs to the dis-
tant past, to which there is no
and will never be any return.

The Soviet worker of today is
the real master of the country,
and a creator, actively taking
part in running production, as
Leonid Brezhnev justly said in
his report. The Soviet worker is
well brought up and educated.
Labor for him is not only a
source of earning, but also a
powerful means of becoming a
part of that sacred comradeship
that is setting up the most just
social system on earth. It is great
honor being a part of the Soviet
working class.

And I wish to express the
deepest gratitude of a worker
to the Leninist Central Commit-
tee of our Party for the high
assessment of the role of the
working class which Leonid
Brezhnev gave in his report.

I understand that all I have
said here is a usual thing for

‘you and me. But still I speak

about it, because from this ros-
trum I will be heard far and
wide. That means that the ene-
mies of our country abroad will
hear it too. Let them know that
vain are their efforts to slander
Soviet reality, the Soviet way
of life and to shake our love for
the socialist motherland, for the
Leninist party.

World’s only spacewoman, Valentina Nikolayev :
shows William Kashtan samples of articles Soviet women 9
out to aid the people of Vietnam.

The feeling that you are mas-
ter of your country and of an
enterprise where every one of
us works, once again became ap-

parent in the days of the pre- -

Congress emulation drive. The
very fact that the Congress was
near and the preparations for it
left an indelible impression on
all our hopes and deeds. I know
from conversations with my
work-mates about the draft Dir-
ectives of the 24th.CPSU Con-
gress for the ninth five-year plan
that the Party Congress for them
is a height from which the road
to communism is seen still more
clearly. We reckoned what each
of us was able to do and what
reserves should be brought into
play to make a bigger contribu-
tion to the common cause. To
fulfil the target set for this year
by the Great October. Revolution
holiday’ — this is my promise.
In that case I shall be able to
produce 22,500 metres of-cloth
above plan.

I am going to fulfil the-Five-

Year Plan in four years.
Vital Interests

Dear delegates, discussing the
draft Directives, the Commun-
ists and all the workers of our
mill said that this document cor-
responded to the vital interests
of the people. It is addressed to
the people and everything in it
is for the people. To us, the tex-
tile workers, the task to: achieve
a faster growth and increase the
proportion of the industry pro-
ducing consumer goods is very
near and memorable. It is in this
direction that we sought inner
reserves and made many valu-
able suggestions. They com-
prised the basis of the plan for
the technical re-equipment of
production and the social deve-
lopment of the collective drawn
up at our enterprises. This plan
provides for a 45% increase of
the linen-fabric output and a
43% rise of labor productivity

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