The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10
eoh Delivered the Sixth A-Russian Union Congress

Of the answers which we must give
to their expressions Of discomfort. 1t
is the only chance Of giving the pea
SAINT goods at a reasonable price, and
il is the only chance Of raising the
workers wages.
1t is time to put an end to the sit
uation when we had "the union be-
tween the workers and the peasants"
only on placards. This union should
be effected in practice, concretely.
This union cannot be only cultural
union, as we thought for some time,
but it must be cultural and econo-
mic union, because the question Of
economy, OF prices, is the fundamen-
tai one.
The Life and Sufferings of Bolt.
The campaign for higher productiv-
ity of labor is at its hight, already
some positive aspects of this cam
paign are noticeable, but there are also
some negative aspects. Among the
negative aspects is the rigmarole and
noise about labor productivity. The
workers quite properly nicknamed
this pathology. There was lot of
noise and buzzing without business
like advice and things we're represent
ed in such a way as If the whole BUSH
ness depends upon the workers alone.
This is untrue. the productivity of la
Dor depends only partially upon the
workers. One little document,
81 81 he
non-party conference shows also an
other aspect. A certain non-party
worker reported on productivity of la
Dor as follows: 1 will write you-he
saba history of the life and suffer
ings of one bolt.
bolt IL or 2 inches long, its price
is only Ia kopecks. In order. to re-
ceive the production foreman must
write: At Roller No. so and so, please
have a new bolt fixed, then you must
so to the engineer to have this signed,
will send you to the repair shop. The
order has been received, and you
must now write out a request The
request is written In three copies and
must be signed by the production fore
man. who is not always ON the spot,
as the plant is two versts in circum-
ference. must be found. for he is a
busy man and has other sections I'M
der him, and In order to find him you
must walk about the plant Finally
you find him, and he signs the paper.
You must then go to the engineer
and then to the storehouse, at the
storehouse you find that there are no
such bolts. but that there are 3-inch
bolts. You take the bolt, cut it short
and fix it in it's place. Sometime it
happens this way: You come to the
storehouse; you don't find what you
want, and you go to the main ware
house, the rubbish heap near Ekat-
erinin's Park. You'll dig in there un-
til you find something. This is hap
pening at Leningrad in the Triangle
factory, which cannot be classed as
among the worst" Is it the workers
fault if he cannot raise his produc-
tivity under such conditions? OF
course not. This is only one example
and their number could be greatly
multiplied.
The Administration and the Unions
Should Be Equally Interested and
Responsible for Productivity
of Labor.
Productivity Of labor cannot be
created merely by personal intensity.
Here so per cent depends upon the
state, the management upon all of
us. But the other so per cent de-
Ponds upon the workers. This should
be plainly told the workers that the
other so per cent depends upon them.
Some time ago you and we demand
ed together the eight-hour day from
the bourgeoisie, the car and company.
Now we have a workers government,
and all of us ask you for an eight-hour
day, a real honest, sober eight-hour
DIV Whfrh do mot xrot -.