The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-03
SOVIET WORKERS REPLY
TO The INQUIRIES FROM
UNITED STATES TOILERS

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Russian workers in reply to inqur.
les from their comrades in the Unit
ed States who are interested in
learning how things are going in the
Soviet Union. The writer's are on
the job, in the factories, mines or
on the farms. They are all taking
a conscious part in building up the
economy of their own country. How
ever hard their task is they are con-
! fident of success and hopeful that
| the day is not far distant when the
workers of every country will join
with them in making this world a
heaven for the toiIers.
Dear Comrade Rank:
! l will try to clear up the questions
you do not understand. Firstly you
ask whether we have piece work. Yes,
piece work does exist and at the pres
ent time we cannot get on without it.
You evidently misunderstood me.
I wrote the British comrades an ar
ticle concerning the economic cues
ton and the life of the Russian work
ers in the metal industry. also wrote
about direct piece work. And you
speak of some kind of additional pay
to my wages.
Further, there are many things l
get besides my wages; one pair of
sapogs Oeather top boots), and
working coat and even trousers for a
year. also get IL pounds of soap
month and towel which is, changed
once week.
Under czarism we used to come
out of the factories looking like so
many devils The iron founders could
pride themselves specially about this.
You ask whether the workers are
entitled to free tools supplied by the
enterprise. Yes, they are. And if
work with my own tools get IL
roubles a year for them. A moulder
probably gets much more for his tools
than founder. You ask in what
form we receive wages. We get them
twice month. We get the money in
dividually in a little envelope with
out leaving our places. This is a new
innovation which is very convenient.
We have no deductions from our
wages. l earn from 100 to $50 roubles
a month, from which l make payments
to the trade union, and one or two
other organizations, which altogether
takes up about roubles. We pay
our dues here on a percentage basis:
the less one receives, the less he pays
for membership dues, for rent, and
municipal services. Nothing more is
taken into account and the workers
pay equally for such things as bread.
boots, clothes, for instance.
There is one question I would like
o ask you. How much do you earn
md what are your expenses. And. how
is the insurance of workers arranged.
With Communist greetings to you,
Ivan Ivanov.
Address: Moscow, Gavrikova Ulitsa,
Lesnoriadsky pereulok, No. 6, XIV. 6.
From a Peasant Woman.
Dear Comrades:
We send our warm greetings from
the masses of village correspondents
from the most distant corners.
Now, comrades of foreign lands, we
are all equal; now we have no longer
any bloody hangmen-we are rid of
them. When we attend general meet
ings, farm laborers, shepherds, middle
peasants or poor peasants are all
equal with us; there is place for all
and all equally listen to us and equal
ly put our words into action.
At every one of our meetings we
sympathize with you in your state of
suppression. We know how difficult it
Is to live under the bourgeois yoke.
Dear comrades, get stronger. Rid your
self of the bourgeois oppression.
Before the Soviet regime we also
lived under the oppression of the
bloody land-owning vampires. They
oppressed me and dulled my mind,
not allowing me to gain knowledge.
When I tried to learn the German or
French languages they taught me
such nonsense that had to leave off
learning. Now under the Soviet sys-
tenn we are able to learn whatever
we are capable Of.
l am a woman farm worker and
work for the president of the Peas.
ant Mutual Aid committee in our ru-
raj district; in the autumn I am go
ing to take part in higher educational
courses.
Well, dear comrades such are our
great achievements during the last
eight or nine years. Under czarism
could not even think of going to
higher courses.
Claudia Rikhomirova.