The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
CELEBRATE TENTH
anniversary OF
ARMY OF U. S. S. R.
Jubilee Demonstration
Held in Soviet Union
(Continued from Paqe one

creaSlng danger OF war, the regular
army has been reduced to a small
standing army, but has at the same
time organized itself better than ever
before and brought its war equip
ment up-to-date.
At the same time the Red Army
has become more and more model
workers army as contrasted with the
armies of the imperialist powers,
with the good conditions for its
soldiers, its educational work, it's re-
lations between Commanders" and
''men" and it's thorough knowledge
of the struggles of the workers thru
out the world and it's readiness to de-
fend rather than attack their in
terests At time when the U. ).
army is being used against the Mic
araguan people, against the workers
and peasants in China and against
the workers at home, concrete COM
parison between the two armies is IN
teresting.
Not Prison Term.
While the private in the American
army receives only $21 a month in
pay, from which the government gets
back a large chunk for laundry,
clothes, ETC., the soldier in the Red
Army has a standard of living exactly
the same as that of the Russian
worker. Receiving his full equip
ment, food and shelter, which doesn't
mean "slum" or flimsy barracks, the
Red Army soldier, besides having
conditions equal to those of the work
ers, is protected by provisions fol
his family during the period he is IL
service. Not only is he exempt from
all social taxes, but his family is as
well.
Also families of soldiers are given
first place in the waiting list when
land or timber is being divided III
among a group of peasants. IT the
soldiers family lacks horse to work
the field with during his absence, tn
local soviet is bound to provide one.
The soldier coming from a working
class family is protected to the ex-
tent that a special law prevents his
family from being moved out of then
living quarters under any circunn
stances, unless being given equally
good ones and having the necessary
moving facilities offered free OF
charge.
Votes AS Citizen.
Not only does the Red soldier have
the best of conditions, and provisions
for his family, but he participates
directly in the government while IL
service, as contrasted with the dis
f~o,ob:ca1 IT coldiarc
The elections in the Soviet Union
are carried out at meetings of work
ers and peasants in different enter
prises of a given section or ward, in
GLIDING all members of the Red Army
whose barracks are located in this
locality. At these meetings the out
going Soviet Deputies report in de-
tail on all the activities of the gov
eminent during the past period, Civ
ing the soldiers a chance to discuss
any problems of the army, as well as
the general work of the government.
Red Army a School.
Before the revolution Russia was
we'll known as one of the most j.
literate and backward countries. The
Red Army has been an active force
in changing this under the workers
rule. Instead of the soldiers in the
Red Army being afraid of punish
ment, afraid of their officers, etc,
the Red Army is for them both a
home and a school. So far is this
true, that in some cases Of complete
illiteracy, the first three months are
entirely devoted to teaching the &C.
cruit to read and write. Not only
has the Red Army made big strides
forward in wiping out illiteracy, but
they give the Red soldiers a real
political education. There are books,
Lenin corners, question boxes, and in
stead of working twelve hours a day
as the American soldier, the Req
soldier works only eight hours, and
even part of this time is taken up
with the systematic educational work
of the soldiers. Besides giving the
soldiers a Communist consciousness.
special stress is laid on such subjects
as: 1.-THE International Organization
of the Toilers," "The Bond Between
the Red Soldier and the Toiling Popu-
lation," "The Growth of the Revold.
tionary Movement in the East" and
an exhaustive study of the nature Of
the Soviet power and of world revo-
lutionary activities.
EDITORS NOTE - Tomorrow
there will be second article deal
ing further with the conditions of
the Red soldiers, and how the Red
Army is preparing to meet any at
tack by the imperialist powers.
STILL USING LINDBERGH.
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