The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-03


On one wall is box for readers to
place questions about the books they
have been reading. Above are the
answers. A large streamer reads,
Books will help us build a real COM
monwealth Of labor" Nearby a booth
carries local and national newspapers.
A small park with statue of Len
IN, adjoins this. Here there is also
a booth for a summer library. An
other large park not far away fea-
lures moving picture shows every
evening in summer. For this work
er pays $1.63 for his season ticket.
There are 8 kindergartens for the
children OF the workers of the Krasny
Textilschik, and nurseries. One we
visited is an airy, sunny one-story
building, managed by woman doc
tor. Children from 2 months to 8
years come here to play, sleep and eat
while their mothers are at work. As
the children are brought in, their
clothes are removed and placed in in
dlvidual bags, they are weighed,
looked over by the doctor and put in
fresh clothes. In room whose walls
are covered with educational charts
and posters concerning baby hygiene,
the nursing babies are visited by their
mothers who are given time off from
the factory. "The mothers are we'll
taken care Of" the doctor said.
They are released from the factory
2 months before and months after
the baby's birth, with full pay. They
are also given SIS to buy the neces-
sary things for the baby, and get an
additional $500 a month during the
nine months they nurse the baby"
(Some of the textile workers of Pas
sale give birth to their babies at the
machines.)
Another achievement of these tex
tile workers of the Krasny Textilschik
is a clinic and hospital with a staff of
28 doctors, also within "a short walk
ing distance of the factory. The di-
rector of the hospital showed us thru
the spotlessly clean wards, explain
ing that besides the medical and sur
glcal work, the staff makes special
studies of fatigue, posture, ETC., of
the workers at work, and also studies
industrial diseases. They had recent
~ made a report on the effects of
dyes In one of the textile factories
and made recommendation which
were already in operation. EVERY
two years these doctors go to one of
the large cities for 4months'course
of study. The entire staff of the
hospital-doctors, nurses, cleaning
women, cooks, etc., are union mem
bers.
All these achievements have been
organized and carried through by the
workers of this one factory, these g.
300 weavers, spinners and other
workers OF the Krasny Textilschik-
and all since 1922, through their trade
union organization, the Communist
Party nucleus and the Cooperative,
with the help of the government.
They have also organized a club
where large auditorium is the scene
of debates, plays, musical entertain
ments and frequent reports by the
factory director. The latest one had
been Naturalization in the Factory"
There are also classes in sewing, ply
steal culture, etc. This is by no means
their only cultural achievement. There
are classes to liquidate illiteracy,
evening schools, special technical
schools and political schools. One of
the most interesting of their educa-
tional activities is a months course
where 100 "activists" from the fac
tory, such as dues collectors, chair
men OF departments, etc., 20 each
month to learn how to become more
efficient union members, and to I'M
derstand the problems of their fac
tory. A beautiful estate 20 miles
from Serpuhov is where these textile
workers are getting trained. We told
group of them, 80 men and 80 wom-
en-, something Of the Passaic strike
and something of the textile strike in
New Bedford. A sturdy, barefooted
woman, with red kerchief round
her head, stood up and said: Before
the revolution conditions were very
bad for us workers. But now we can
live. Please take our greetings to our
struggling brothers and sisters in
America. Now that we are free it is
our duty to help them until they also
become FREQ"