The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22
Union Delegation

insufficient industrial workers deserted and fled
from the towns to the villages where food could got
again led to CONSUMPTION labor rigorous cond
uons It's results entirely unsatisfactory, finally
srd, 1922. : 80 =
The Fifth Congress Trade Unions September 1922
recommended that be paid in This change
munists could enforce very high level of discipline
ton in their ranks but they could bring conscpted
labor into line body They could stop the
party and un-pocal workers from putting money in their
pockets by hchng immense quantities Of goods and by fay
population amounted only to 100000 22Oo0OO draw
ing rations. iA-
But with the New Economic Policy wages which had
come little than the of rationed labor army became
again the subject of contract negotiation
ana OF reggaton And with currency stabza
uon wages IN nd already steadily In decline began definitely
to disappear In far they still exist their deducted
from the money rate at current open-market prices
The optimistic theory Communism that worker
would for equal living give his full energy experience
and efficiency to the public good justified by the expe
rence of the years. 191S192 given place the
plan paying living wage getting possible pro-
duction by further awards such pecewo payment special
rates for specialists and prospects of promotion This plan
applied by the Communist international those employees
who being members of the Party relied
their best without pecunary recognition proposed
extend the system to employees in State trading Coopera
tive concerns that by paying them percentage their sales
their efficiency may be raised that of the statesmen private
trade At present in retail trade the private tradesman
State and the Cooperative salesman estimated compare
in efficiency as 11S:92:S9
Wages During the Change Money PaymentsDuring the
time when the daily falling in value food raons
held large in and money wages reckoned in
under similar conditions Germany. At first industries
calculated of the rising of their prod
uc for example in terms of flour rouble "eather roube
etc. But this caused almost great inequalities and neques
the previous War Communist practice of allowing payments
to workers the they produced These methods
ment accordingly converted into general payment
goods roubles minimum budget representing the daily
needs Of worker drawn the cost of this bud
get determined eventually often four times month";
and the value of the ea goods roube calculated
cordingly. The result living wage though very
For the often, in the Don Bas
than really help industry back paying
basis
Money Payments-In May 1923, wage began to be
fixed percentage of the total minimum budget
there stable gold Tchervonetz this
too began order of the Supreme Economic Council
September 13h 1928 brought in sal
aries in gold roubes 1t however thought that all
workers at in gold rOubes would undu burden
industry and unbalance gold gold payment
therefore, brought gradually first applicable
transport workers. metal workers. chemical workers. the
Basin and the Uras With the exception of the Ura there
however in the winter of 1924 fall of the real of the
gold roube to 80 cent explained elsewhere
(See Currency which called for additional bonuses But with
the spring. this last crisis the collapse
roube and decided to give the complicated
calculation in goods roubes and quickly possible
with payments in gold roubes which had by then gained
eral confidence There however great difficulties
in carrying this out One the
This by temporary paper issues and
then by the new metal silver and copper currency.
The of working capital industry still delays
payment but these matter much that the
stabilized and do not lose their value They how