The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
BY MORRIS RAckALL.
(countinued from last Saturday,

factories. "In 1924 the Komvolni
trust made 100000 rubles profit The
workers knew about it so they came
to the chairman Of the trust and COM
planned why are they not compensated
for, one girl worker said: Here, see
the pile of work we did and and what
are we getting for it," SO took out a
pencil and said, "All right, let's figure
for minute that Twill satisfy your
demand and raise you all a ruble a
day and build new houses for you and
improve your entire conditions, so
what will be the result? Instead of
making 100000 rubles' profit year,
we will lose and we will have to close
the. factories, or make material higher
so the peasants will have to pay
more for their clothing, but this way
we will buy for the 100000 rubles
new machinery and be in a position
to manufacture cloth still cheaper and
make life of Soviet Russia more com
Portable and thru that improve our
own life and our own conditions"
You know" l said to them, "that
am working as hard as you and
have no personal interest in the prof
it's, but l am a good Communist,
am a devoted worker for the Sovie'
government, have to my heart the
interests of the entire country, to me
Soviet Russia, the entire population
of the country, comes first"
Al
"You know" he said to me, "they
went away satisfied. They held a
meeting Of their wage union and a
day later they came to my office with
a red necktie and told me that they
had decided to make me an honorary
member of their weaver's union and
when they put the necktie on my neck,
/ felt as if we would gain the entire
world for the cause of Communism,
because this act proved to me that
the workers of Russia are able to build
a new world in spirit and in real ac-
complishment," and then he added,
This year we build new homes for
the workers, we are trying to improve
the conditions in the factories and we
are raising the efficiency of the in
dustry at the cost of the machine of
the method of production, not as
much on the energy and life of the
worker. We do not want Robots of
our people, we want to create an In
dustrial life in which the worker
should control its own destiny"
The Clothing Industry.
THE most interesting industrial de-
4 velopment took place in the cloth
ing industry. The industry represents
all phases of clothing as, for instance,
mems and ladies' garments, waists and
shirts, hats and caps of both men and
women and children. The Moskshevi
Moscow Clothing Organization has IL
factories with 5000 workers, with Is
divisions in the different states Of
Soviet Russia Every division has
from 10 to IL stores. They are doing
100000 rubles business a year.
This trust started with the national
izati0n of all the old factories in 1921.
AS a matter of fact. it is hard to de-
term1ne what constituted these old
factories because first, these old fac
tories were in very bad shape on
account Of the war and civil war and
they represented such picture; in one
factory was found pieces Of very valu-
able silk that was used for making
dresses for the wives Of old Russian
generals; goods for simple dresses
was not to be found. In another fac
tory, was found a great deal Of very
cheap cloth for suits and overcoats and
ladies' garments but no lining; when
the Soviet government began to organ
ize the factories, they used very ex-
pensive silk for lining for very cheap
cloth but there was no black thread 90
they had TO use white thread to make
q garment Of cheap black cloth with
very expensive silk for lining. with
this material Inside. Soviet Russia up-