The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22
Continued from Yesterday Daily Worker

| (COntInued from TeSteTdGy DAILY OTRerJ
Russia described
industry finance and agriculture in the Soviet Union The trade union
and industry
land by the absence full diplomatic
Schools universities
censorship
press explained
the results education astounding then hospitals
welfare sanitation birth cleanliness
regulations, prisons
achieving
and the prison SYSTEM says the report Regarding the trade unions and
labor conditions
BY the position and activities Unions the system"
AS to the Governments attitude towards problem
interesting light is thrown by the last the Congress Of
Trade Unions page 255) n the conditions
the fundamental industries the hands of the Government
public works not sound system for dealing with unempo
dustry."
Unemployment outcrop small informal Coop
erave Craft Societies arte Many of these enterprises such
the very of bakers arte broken by
the Trade Unions Others again. such those of taors and
successful and have been taken in to the national indus
trial organizations On the whole however such arels when
managed solely by the unemployed failed andony succeeded
when advised assisted by the Labor Exchanges and the
unions About cent of the unemployed have found relief
Owing financial failure the contributory system
social insurance has been difficult to keep the unemoy
ed in benefit and only Is cent to 20 cent in regular
receipt of this relief
restricting overtime but this has found encouragement from
the niOnsy overtime anyhow the The
age worked in factories divides hours
but this does not take into account the six hours
which dangerous trades restricted the five
receiving special education the time off allowed for public dut
es the four to six hours of and the hours
night shift The overtime per month worker 10th
than and Don coa fell from 1916 hours in 1922
251 in 1928, and for railway workers from SO to o.
That the causes of unemployment in Russia of differ
en character from those creating elsewhere evident from
that fact that the increase of unemployment has been
panied by increase of employment the total of
men equivalent fifth of the industrial population the
total employed workers increased by fifth between August
1st 1929 and August 1st 1924 That say the develop
men of industry would have provided employment already
all not that large proportion of the unemployed
unempoyabe under conditions and that the
men in and welfare of the
from the countryside
Insurance
One of the first acts of the Revolution
trial insurance the of the employers this was
put end to by War Communism
munsm workers drew full whether the factory worked
not The whole system indeed based the State
porting the population and getting such service could in
return Expenditure in public relief and social insurance
scale such this reached extravaganza that ruin
ing the State while the individual not receiving much
under the old system "a noble inspiration quite hopeless
the eptaph this policy by publication
Commissarat of Social Welfare (Adiiutine, 1921
The New Economic Policy restored social
usual lines arranged to suit the needs of time place.
The system at present is
Voluntary rural relief committees power
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