The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-15
The Continuous Working
Year and Five-Day Week
By SCHLAUER.
nADT III

of working is of much political
Two fundamental qualities of the unbroken working
sponsble for these cultural results O the fact that
follow each other rapid uccession and ) that the
who resting distributed evenly day of the week
under the old the cnemas, theatres sports
grounds holiday and always filled
flowing Sundays and other holidays unable
to certain extent on week days they can now quite meehsnca
many people before while
break his neck in order to get cinema ticket the chance
enjoy reasonable recreation opportunity to real rest
EVERYTHING MORE PLEASANT
Again all equipment the of boats gymnasium
be used five times often before The workers clubs which
completely holidays and Sundays increasing their
activities vod and really able to draw the workers. all the
workers, into active cultural activities
before of literary, dramatic,
popular science and circles organized under the of these
to the good
AS another striking example we might cite the manner in which
vedy the extensive of the motor
spite the that today there less than 10000 auto
less than million chauurs
the of the next The fact will certainly be known
readers that the gigantic automobile works now being built will
to three time be turning out 10000 automobiles every
year The the fveay week Immediately raises the
ton of increasing this production times With the aid OF
planned decentralization
the the Development of Trunk
Automobes to organize nucleus of the Society in
every plant bring together all workers in the
plant teaching them how drive TnOube shares
200 workers provided he initial demand
the and coming mainly by the imported
Ford carr
the and four to five persons en go IN motor at one
joyng day undertake learn motor driving practical
basis for the of and half hours BY this means all
the parowners all the workers owning the carr will be able to
carry their drivers in every five days
plants will be possible with the of $4,000
the pleasures motoring as sport At the
will distribute hundred roub shares ION the Install
ment plan Of cOue among all the workers and " a7e the slogan
CATCHING UP ON AMERCA-OR BETTER!
At this years stage decentralization" of the country
fve-day weeeac will be the disposal of four work
s t of one car for every five pons by issuing
shares to the roues ach This will enable each
every five days respect living standard workers
catching rapidly with the living standards Of the
standards of producna the perfectly real result OF the
transfer the continuous five-day week
In like manner flying rapid evolution that almost battles
the Imagination much the principle efforts are being made
to organize the workers give their support to- and
take direct part n aviation sport hS o nS ae Ig the Wires
Association will be able to organize the broad OF
IT is true Of course that all these many
sport existed but has hitherto been I'M
possible the broadcast of the workers to take an active
part the only day they had free for that purpose
was Sunday, coming in every seven days
of still greater Importance fiveday week regards the
general training the workers With his regular
resday coming frequently the worker will be able to put
one ody systematic study Big efforts
provide the opportunities Tor such study tne SUNDAY
universities regular Soviet are to transfer to
the continuous week. Again. number schools are to
provide training all manner OF trades viii
also develop strides the necessary guidance beng pro-
vded by correspondence or by direct instruction -:
will enable to reach two aims: one raise
the people, and destroy the old
Sunday as an traditional drinking OF the worst
and its consequent ondaysh
feeling the ay after Only will be found possible entirely to
complete transfer to the eday
..a,,.,r,
THREE DAY WEEK POSSIBLE!
that the fiveday week is by
no the last naturalization of the system of labor at
plan is being discussed
whereby will possible transfer to the eeday working week
according to which will have full day off after every
two wenyfour hour interval occurring between the TWO
change whatever IN the annual
wages earned by the worker 80.
bv wav works three Shifts the correspond
shifts
which two day. the third shift taking its day OIL And
&c each worker will morning shift the first day and IN
e evening shift there will be interval Of "a hours be-
tweenh his working days
This system working will render possible to transform all IN
dsrial plants into will virtually middle high technical
the entire industrial pro
trained skilled echnicans and quaed
It must should be taken the
in the technical schools OF SOVIET
pussia is closely up with practical training.
In the majority the and specialized engineering
schools the students three four days week at the
ont of production days in the week being devoted to
the three day week each worker Will be
able to study schools while sufficient number OF restdays
disposal only the free hours OF the work
m working days. he working the second shift will be used