The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-20
Continued from Yesterday Daily Worker
REPORT ON LABOR CONDITIONS
PART l
CHAPTER |
Trade Unions
Labor Conditions

Trade Unions
vetst Republics must begin by pointing
are the ruling class For unless the reader bears
this in mind throughout he will msed by
labor conditions that at first sight very
with Really everything is quite different: because in
Russia regulation Of the workers rights that thew
have themselves welbeing Elsewhere
we have restriction of the workers rights put upon by
the wealthy Such regulations in agree
ment between the workers and their expert
managers 10 whom they have entrusted their institutions and
their industries their factories their Elsewhere
such regulations the result
ne interests OF wealthy ruling class and the
sauls of working class that
No who grasps thsand reports will it hoped
make paw ever be misled by the lies he read almost
daily that the worker in Russia lives life
with even less liberty than with The Russian workers
ruling They enjoy the rights of ruling
class They beginning responsibilities They
village school visited by of the delegates the children
learning to write in coPybooks in which over God the
Elsewhere in Europe the industrial revolution in the
of century had taken the from the old of
upper class the landed gentry given from
the middle cassthe who have made This has
been for mixed blessing ruling caste had its
training and traditions it's public responsibility
personal relations with its dependents The ruling
class has none OF these things The Boshe who denounces the
Bourouy vulgar and vicious pebean make least
good the Bourgeois who Bolshie
vie and violent proetaran But In Russia this process Of
transfer OF from the to the middle class only
economic power their hold by Glass;
whose economic their hold capital and credit
of 1917 that transferred straight the workers What
going on-has been going since Iceland will
the lives the working compromises
the Boshevist ideal of society pub
lie work and the Bourgeois ideal of society based private
wealth.
These compromises the very different cond-
tons and characters of the Russian would they
But there much to be learnt from them will
mind all the timethat the Union of Soviet Republics
the United Kingdom-that Russians
Soviet institution is in origin object quite
English institution translated
All this must be remembered for example when speak
Russian Trade Union
Trade Unions
(a) Pre-War PerodThe course of the Russian Revol1-
ton be well seen in the light of its effect Russian
Trade Unionsm Russian Trade Unonism be
fused with the Russian medieval guilds and craft which
trial Trade Unonism when the Revolution broke
the first fighting stage of its development
in Russia such protection against armed revolution it
has been elsewhere This because the industrial
of late growth shut from share ruling
the country and condemned to the possible cond
tons of life Russian Trade Unionsm which began with
y would in time have educated the people politically
waited them economically But it shut down by Tsarsm
and remained illegal until 1906 though at times it
and exploited Tsarsm in the Gapon and
Zubato Associations In 1906 after the first rebellion Trade
membership reached 100000 But the unions then
again suppressed and driven underground where they fin
ally under the control of revolutionaries
(b) Revoutionary-The Revolution, when 1t broke out,
the unions revolutionary force But union
from the first divided to the class The
skilled the higher it's social the
class For example, the printers
aganshc metal workers for In the railways the clerks
peaceabe the others warke. The ant-war unionss
of the Revolution fought within the ranks Of
the unions The Third Trades Union Conference
June 1910 based membership Of 10000 showed
against class But after the Bolshevist RevoI
First Trades Union Congress January 191S) with
members out for War Communism. Thereaf
nonism became throughout the reign of War
The first thing the unions had behalf the Com