The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-28
QUESTIONS SHOT
AT AMERICANS BY
RUSSIAN WORKERS
Children Too Are Eager
to Hear About Us

Russian workers and peasants are
keenly interested in the life Of the
workers in other countries, espec-
tally America. The appearance Of a
visitor from a foreign land on boat,
in railway car, at a factory or in the
village is welcomed as an opportun-
ity to learn about conditions else
where.
Below are given few of the ques-
tions asked in the course Of trip
down the Volga from Mimi Novgorod
to Stalingrad and from Rostov-on-Don.
thru the Ukraine back to Moscow.
From Workers.
What is the attitude of American
workers toward Soviet Russia?
Is the Communist Party of America
legal? How does it work?
How many political prisoners are
there in the U. S. A?
How many members in the Interna-
tionaI Red Aid and how is it organ
lied?
! Are workers permitted to hold trade
union and propaganda meetings in the
factories?
! Is the radical labor press legal or
not?
What are the hours and wages of
American workers?
Is the American labor movement az
filiated to any international labor
movement?
Is there social and health insurance
paid for by the state or the industry?
What is the attitude of American
workers toward the strike in China
| toward international questions?
What is the attitude of the Ameri-
can worker toward the press Of Soviet
Russia?
Is there a workers correspondents
movement in the U. S. A?
How is May LIST celebrated?
What is the cost of living essen
tials in the u. S. A?
Are there women in the Communist
Party?
How did the American workers take
Lenin's death?
Are there workers sport organiza-
tions?
What has been the reaction among
the workers of U. S. A. regarding the
Trumbull and Crouch case?
What is the development politically
of American women?
What is her economic condition?
How many women political prisoners?
Do American workers have from
two weeks to a months vacation with
pay as we do in Soviet Russia?
What about the Ford system of pro
duction?
Are conditions as bad in the o. S.
A. as outlined in Upton Sinclair's
books?
What is the attitude of workers
toward Russian white guard elements
in the U. S. A.?
How much unemployment in the
u. S. A?
From Peasants.
What is the condition of the Ameri-
can farmer?
Does he have to pay for land?
How much taxes does he have to
pay?
Do all American farmers have trac-
tors and machinery?
When he makes no crop does he
still have to pay taxes?
How much does Fordson tractor
. cost in the U. S. A?
Is it true that Americans are so
honest that storekeepers go away leav-
ing their premises open and any one
can go in and help himself and leave
the money on the counter?
From Pioneers. 70 to ID yrs.)
Are there Young Communist and
Pioneer organizations in the U. S. A.?
Are Young Communists allowed to
belong to trade unions?
Have they newspaper in the U.
S. A.?
Are there children's homes and
: foundlings homes in the u. S. A.?
I Why don't the boys and girls have
; their camps together there, as we do
here?
Can Young Communists and Pho
neers go to the U. S. A. to tell them
there of the benefits we enjoy in So
Wet Russia?
Will the questions asked by us and
the workers be published in papers in
the U. S. A?
: Why don't you stay in Soviet Rus
sia?
Communist March