The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
THE RIGHT TO REST.
Annual Holiday for Manual and Brain Workers

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in the U. S. S. r.
THE laws of czarist Russia which concerned themselves
only with the interests of the employers did not do
much to protect the labor of manual and branworkers
There special legislation for fixed working hours
holidays, special factory clothes for workers. ETC. 1t
was only after the October Revolution that the working
class secured the right to rest the right to have an
annual holiday. The duration of holidays depends
number of circumstances; generally speaking it be-
tween fortnight and month, and in cases two
months and more Adolescent workers are given long
holiday than adult workers. People employed in in
dusries injurious to health and few other categores
people working in outlying districts), get longer
holiday fortnght's holiday is the general rule This
is minimum. Arrangements for longer holidays
be made III the collective labor agreement In quite
number of all the employees of an enterprise
Guiding semi-sked workers, get four-weeks holiday
Regardless of collective agreements months holiday
is given already mentioned, to all adolescent
workers. l. under IS and also to apprentices in factory
schools works and private handicraft workshops, etc
The right to rest is inaienabe conquest of the
working class in the u. S. s. R. laid down in the labor
code Article la of the code says: A persons working
for wages, after being in continuous employment not
less than 513 months entitled to fornighs holt
day year This regular holiday does not depend
the state of health of the worker 1t goes without
saying that whenever workers taken i'll injured
etc. and workers during pregnancy and confine
men they get leave of absence apart from the usual
holiday Moreover the labor laws provide for the pres
ervaton by manual and brain workers of their average
earnings during their regular holiday and also during
incapacity to work.
Speaking of "two weeks holiday" we mean IA cal
endar days which generally constitutes II working days
this being the minimum holiday But average
holidays longer The statistics of the Central Sta
tistcal Department eloquent testimony of this; in
1928, the average holiday per head 1877 working
days. In 1924 it 1873 working days and in 1926
IA working days. after that the holiday period under
went no change In of the injurious industries
holidays reach % working days and
Workers spend their regular holiday either in the
village if they have kept up connection with it, in
rest homes in of the sanatoria of health
resorts. In 192425, 145594 workers accommodate
ed in rest homes and 20,S06 insured and women
workers placed in local sanatoria In 192526 the
number of people spending their holiday in rest homes
reached 189099 and in local sanatora addition
to them, 5000 insured sick people sent for
cure to the Crimea and the Caucasus
We have not yet at disposal accurate statistics
regarding sanaorum treatment in health for
the workers in 1926-27. But to Judge by preliminary
statistics, take it that such treatment in
excess of that of last year.
DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET FARMS.
Soviet farms estates handed to state organ
izations for exploitation. Apart from the purely
nomc aim: restoration and improvement of agriculture
in the given district Soviet farms must also be model