The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-17


lation celebrates.
The executive committee has had be-
fore it careful report by the best
economic experts in the country, de-
failing the amazing progress of the
Soviet Union industries during the
last few years.
1t has accordingly issued orders to
the Presidium of the Central Execu-
tive Committee and the Council of
Peoples Commissars various means
of taking advantage of the increased
production for the benefit of the work
ers and peasants of Russia which it
represents in administration of the
affairs of the country, the first Of
which is to make the transfer from
the present eight-hour day to one Of
seven hours, without reduction in
wages for days work.
The Central Executive Committee
in its statement explains that it is in
full agreement with the whole policy
of the Soviet government, and de-
clares: "The proletarian state pursues
the aim of raising the living condi-
tions of the working and peasant
masses, contrary to that Of all capi-
talist countries where, without excep-
tion, the working class and the peas
antry occupy the position of exploited
classes, deprived of all rights.
"The Union of Socialist Soviet Re
publics considers it to be its earnest
task to develop by all measures all
the forces of the proletariat and
to promote the unceasing growth the
prosperity of the toiling masses of
the towns and villages"
The Seven-Hour Day.
Then follows the order for the in
stitution of the seven-hour day: son
the threshold of the tenth anniver-
sary of the October told style, Nov.
7, new style) Revolution the Central
Executive Committee of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics ordains:
First To assure during the next
year the transition from eight hours
working day to seven hours working
day without reduction of wages, and
to instruct accordingly the Presidium
of the Central Executive Committee
and the Council of Peoples Commits
sars of the U. S. S. r. 10 begin not
later than one year the gradual ac-
complishment of this decision in re-
gard to industrial factories and the
workers in different branches of in
dustry in conformance with the prog
ress in new equipment and the ration
alization of factories, works, and in
dustrial enterprises, and the growth
of labor productivity.
Better Houses for Workers.
Second: To increase the compari-
son with last year by fifty million
roubles the sums allotted for con-
struction Of houses for workmen in
regions especially suffering from the
housing crisis.
Exempt Peasants from Tax.
Third: To propose improvement
Of the material conditions Of poor
peasants by exempting ten per cent
of the peasant households from pay
ment of the agricultural tax in addi-
tion to the 25 per cent of the peasant
households already released from this
tax.
Fourth: To cancel the debts Of
peasant households on loans advanced
to them by the state during the bad
harvest OF 1924-25, to cancel the ar
rears yet unpaid by poor peasants,
and arrears of the agricultural taxes
of the average peasants for the past
years. to reduce the arrears in fines
for the indigent strata Of the town
end rural population in all branches
of taxation, and to instruct the Pres
idium of the Central Executive Com
mittee, Of the U. S. S. R. to issue these
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