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


Copyright Congress
increased by 40 per cent They in proportion Ga per
cent about but about conditions Of work. and they
settled in proportion &c per wholly and of II
cent partly in favor of the workers
(c) Labor ExchangesThe return to free contract
the Sections for Distribution of Labor
into Employment Exchanges of the usual type And in 1922
the unions got the of the Exchanges reorgned
Joint Committees representing the Commsarlat OF Labor
Unions the economic authorities The Chair
OF the Joint Committee appointed by the local Labor
Department and there three members representing recc
lively the Provincial Economic Council Agricultural Depart
meu and Transport Department and three nominees OF the
Provincial ntcrTradc Union Council The decisions of the
ect appeal When unemployment in industry
reaches certain figure special technical sections arc set up
ing with their union often succeed in ousng the Employment
Exchange
support registered those seeking change of
employment be Skillet workers must give proof of their
consulted when assigned
to job and only at times of acute unemployment is he given
his c must report for registration
monthly entails removal from the register
loss relief RELOCATION the bottom Of the list Theo
change the beginning the right of the employer to
reject the worker offered him was recognized s
The Exchanges proved however incapable dealing
Will; tbe rand ncrease Of that followed the de-
mobilization of labor By 1922 unemployment serious and
its average duration two BY 1923 this
tended to eight registers half
filled applicants work which they not qualified
who had registered for the sake of getting the benefits belong
ing to workers failed to placed The
practice grew of direct subject to formal rat
fcaon by the also rise to many abuses
Illegal exchanges also srang up By the spring OF 1923 there
making engagements through the
Exchange voluntary the regulations of August 18TH
1929 engagement recognized and need only be regis
Meantime the work of the Exchanges is still dsorga
lied by the difficulty OF econcing the right IN principle OF
employed work with the right in practice OF the EN-
poyer to refuse it.
Unemployment
Unemployment began in Of 1922, with the de-
mobilization overgrown oicadom of War Communism
grew with the dismissal from the industrial payroll OF
whole population what practically State pensioners 10
added the victims of the axe In educational
other economies these representing in 1922 nearly ~ per
of the total As these unemployed were Tor the most part
non-proetaran their plight did not at first cause undue dis
quiet and elsewhere these unortunates seem by now 10
somehow absorbed But their numbers went 10 SVEN
registers of the Employment Exchanges from which in the
following year repeated efforts made TO get
of them unempoyables Some success in TINS probaDy
partly figures of unempoy
ment of brain workers the increase III o u
skilled workers partly be accounted for by their return 10
safely Even so only "a per cent OF the workers III
the have been reempoyed yet the
being unemployed having returned to the land
The total unemployment figures for "a towns and 2l'
December 1929 o42OoO and on April 1st
1924, 100000.
The percentage o. Trade Unonists unemployed rose from
Sc per October 1st 1928 to III cent OH January
1924a seasonal increase as high as "A per cent
among This partly for by the middle
especially having Hooded the teaching profession
to obtain rations under War Communism partly ny
education The proportion Of Trade Unions IS Al per cent;
also the proportion of the total taken by the unc-
ployed OF Moscow and Leningrad.
percentage total unemployment taken by women is
very hgno less than 40 cent The percentage OF women
employed to the total has fallen from over nan IN
creasng prostitution special steps being taken to restore
women to employment
Unemployment Remedies
The way of dealing with the evils uc mponcnt very
The of program Of public works Tin
Guiding general eecticaon) hanpcred III the same way by
100000 roubes and 100000 workerdays employment were
given. a
Public works relief unemployment put in hand
enterprises very large scale and had
very effect About cent TO cent of the
lloycd were thus relieved
ITO be continued in next issue.}