SOVIET WOMEN

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1944, Page 7

SOVIET WOMEN

HELP REBIRTH OF DONBAS TOWNS, (By A. Livanov, Soviet Information Bureau). I want to tell my readers about the noble initiative of the Donbas women, who have decided to give their hours .of rest and leisure for the cause of the regeneration of their native towns and villages. The women have much to do in these days of war. Many have become sole breadwinners of their families. They have to look after their children. They have to work in their vegetable gardens. Nevertheless, women of the Donbas decided to do their bit in the restoration of their towns and ’ workers’ settlements. Removing Traces of the Nazis. On the initiative of the housewives of the mining town of Gorlovka, a big movement began in Donets coal basin to bring good order to the towns and villages. Thousands of women are giving their labour to clear parks, squares, streets and yards of debris, rubbish, stone and weeds — all the traces of barbarous German rule. Tree Planting Sundays and after work .one can see hundreds of them in the streets of Stalino, Zuyevka, Mariupol, Yenakiyevo, Makeyevka, and other, towns, cleaning and beautifying their native places. In the Kalinidi district, Stalino, six city gardens and squares and more than 1,500 yards have been cleared and put in order during one Sunday. In the same district the women inhabitants decided to plant trees ■ and bushes. . . The gardens for which the mining town of Kadiyevka', is famous, occupy an area of 250 hectacres. The women put them in order during the spring. Three and a-half thousand decorative and’ fruit trees have already been planted in the streets of Kadiyevka. and one in Cazma. Two more journals are published

Thanks to the housewives, lawns have been trimmed, flower beds planted and sports grounds equipped in the city park of Starobelsk. Repair Work

From the labour of planting trees and flowers in the towns, the women are passing on to repair work. Thus the Krasnayazvezda mining village several women started helping the carpenters, and the plasterers employed in the restoration of the school and kindergarten. They also helped to repair miners’ clubs and hostels.

Thus, .of their own accord, do the women come to the assistance of their country in the great work of restoration of the towns devastated by the German invaders.