The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-07

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taken place. It should be observed
that the Soviet State, in addition to
the money given the young worker
directly in the shape of wages, spends
also considerable funds on the educa-
ton of the young, on taking care of
their health, and so on.
(c) Thirdly, the industrial and
general education facilities for the
young workers lead to general rails
ing of the efficiency of labor. The
young workers have their Factory
Work-Schools in which, along with
the training in their particular occu-
pations, they are also given a gem
eral and political education. The
network Of these schools is steadily
growing, and so does the number of
young workers attending them.
(d) One of the greatest gains of
the October Revolution for the young
workers and peasants is the oppor-
tunity to study in the higher schools.
1t was only under Soviet rule that the
young workers and peasants have
been given sufficient opportunities to
gain higher education, and numerous
measures were carried out to facilitate
the admission of the young workers
and peasants to the higher schools.
(e) Among the other October gains
of the oung workers, should be men,
toned the particular care and at
tention given by the Soviet State and
the public in general to questions of
protecting the labor and health of the
young workers. Periodical medical /
examinations, additional vacations, |
free medical aid and health resort |
treatment, the sanatoria and rest |
homes, the control of the labor of |
youths in the factories, etc.,-these |
are the forms in which the Soviet |
State looks after the well-being of the |
young workers. The young workers
were deprived of all this under car
ism, as we'll as under the bourgeois
Provisional Government. The young
workers appreciate the attention de-
voted by the Soviet State and the
public to the development of physical
culture, of the physical training of
the rising generation of the prole-
tariat. Physical culture too consti-
tutes one of the October gains.
(f) In the life of the young work
ers there are still many difficulties
and shortcomings. Chief among these
difficulties of the present moment,
particularly felt by the young work
ers, is the question of unemployment
which has assumed a somewhat pro-
tracted character. This unemploy-
ment is hard to combat because the
young workers looking for employ
ment through the Labor Exchanges
consist mostly Of the unskilled. Never
theless, we are having an intense
campaign against unemployment.
Gigantic industrial enterprises are
under construction in the Soviet Union
Just now, involving the building of new
factories and workshops, as well as
the overhauling of the old ones. The
economic life of the country is steadily
growing stronger, and thereby the
conditions are created for the reduc-
ton of unemployment. Among other
measures for the relief of unempIoy-
ment should be mentioned the organi-
cation of industrial communes of the
unemployed, the opening of training
courses to raise the skill Of unem-
ployed workers, and so on.
a.
The October Revolution has brought
radical changes in the life of the
young peasants too. October has
opened wide to them the avenue to
knowledge and culture. The young
peasants constitute at present a con-
siderable proportion of the number
of students in the higher schools, in
the technical schools, and in the work
ers' faculties.
The peasant youth school, the agri-
cultural circles, the cooperative train
ing courses for peasant boys and
girls, the peasant courses of Soviet
officials, these are the Fundamental