May First Cannery / All-Out Effort - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #6

From the Soviet Press, 1951

Image: Shift forewoman P. I. Zabrodskaya (left), deputy to the City Soviet of Working People’s Deputies, and engineer Z. I. Zinchenko check up on one of the production processes at the May First Cannery in Tiraspol, one of the biggest plants of its kind in Soviet Moldavia.

All-Out Effort:

Wherever one casts an eye, the hills and valleys are green with tea plantations—the wealth of our collective farm. The hot southern sun caresses the fine, thick, spreading bushes. This is where we are standing on Peace Watch—dedicating our labour efforts to the cause of peace.

The collective farmers work with enthusiasm. The better the crop, the better their lives, and the stronger and richer our country. Our tea-growers realize this perfectly, and this spurs them on to work for the best possible results. Last year my team got an average of over ten tons of tea leaf to the hectare as against the quota of three tons (a hectare equals 2.47 acres). Every member of the team has been awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour.

After the Second World Peace Congress, we undertook to double and treble our efforts. At present we are hoeing the plantations, fertilizing them, and carefully watching every bush to see what it needs, making all preparations for gathering the leaf. In May the first crop will go to our tea factory, and from there to the consumer.

My whole family works with me—my husband, David, who has the Order of Lenin, my daughter Fatime, who wears the For Valorous Labour Medal, and my second daughter Guliko, nineteen years old, who has been awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour. We put our whole heart into our work, because we know that it strengthens our Homeland, the- bulwark of world peace. - ASMAT JIJAVADZE, Hero of Socialist Labour, Khutsubani, Kobuleti District, Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist