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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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In Moscow, Lenin's sister edits the complaints department of Pravda, where workers air grievances against bosses, leading to official investigations that enhance morale and efficiency in the Soviet system.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 10.-Lenin's sister is a newspaper editor with a job unlike that of any other person engaged in newspaper work. She is the editor of the "complaints department" of Pravda, the Communist party's official publication.
Anybody with a grievance is invited to air it in the complaints department of Pravda, and many and strange are the articles which appear there. The Soviet officials keep a sharp watch on these columns and make investigations of the complaints.
Most of the criticisms concern the bosses in the factories. The Bolsheviks count the privilege of complaint concerning their bosses as one of the finest new liberties won by the workers in the 1917 uprising.
"Comrade Berkovetz,'' runs a typical complaint, "is never to be found at her work as manager of the Moscow sub-department for protection of mothers and babies. She is always in conference or at meetings or busy in her studio whenever one wants to see her. Comrade Berkovetz is lazy."
Comrade Berkovetz will hear from this complaint. The proper officials will investigate it.
"The manager of the Moscow zoo,'' runs another, "released the demobilized soldiers who joined his staff for the summer extra work and kept many who are not unionists for the desirable winter work. He took their jobs away from demobilized soldiers and from unionists."
The manager will have to explain to his superiors why he did this thing, if the complaint is found to be true. Perhaps he had a good reason. But at any rate, there will be an investigation.
The unique department has been imitated in other papers, under the heading, "The Control of a Million Eyes."
Its effect in keeping up morale and efficiency is reported to be great.
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Moscow
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Jan. 10
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official investigations of complaints lead to accountability for managers and reported improvements in morale and efficiency.
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Lenin's sister edits the complaints department of Pravda, inviting grievances against bosses, especially in factories, as a liberty from the 1917 uprising. Examples include complaints against Comrade Berkovetz for laziness and the Moscow zoo manager for favoring non-unionists over demobilized soldiers. Soviet officials investigate these, and the department is imitated in other papers under 'The Control of a Million Eyes.'