The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
The Continuous Working
Year and Five-Day Week
By SCHLAUER.
PART II.


by the Council Peoples Commissars which lays it down that
working be the
number annual decreased The logical of this
categorical requirement of the law that the sevnay week which
that the worker had his day of only after six days of
will be with rrevocab All plants will work
hoday the hours reduction the of holidays and
rest days will also be done with
If the sevenday week retained the number of working hours
would be increased by % days econng eight days for
holidays fourteen days for the reduced working hours the
holidays and SATURDAYS On this connection 1t must be added
these reduced working hours the of holidays accord
paid if the worker had continued working)
originally proposed for this work by
vng corresponding increase in the annual leave This suggestion
rejected would made for difficulties running
industrial enterprises during the summer months and would
resulted factory during these months Instead
the line reducing the working week. ana S
days thus raised to 70 or p
five revolutionary holidays whereby
again got the former balance of annual working hours
The feday week must be regarded tremendous forward
ments in production 1t hardly needs proving that it is much better
in the latter few but irregular
holidays in the year.
BETTER woRK-BETTER WAGES.
The veday the physical working capacity
considerable extent Indeed it is generally known
that labor 'hg s emo Oh the preceding day the week
And actually already number of plants which have introduced
the fiveday working worker has
five to per And this has brought in its
has been found possible to
raise wages accordingly
By way of exception six-day day coming
five work. allowed the those plants Chiefly
working shifts the regular and oehaung
machinery effected without periodical oppag of the
in
week their considerable reduction az days. in
the annual number of working
Now the form of organization of factory work.
said that the number of workers employed will be increased
by Is (o course this figure could be reduced y ma
plant have their rest day each day OF the
week. - .-a-,,,u
every workshop workers will be divided into of
five who will look after not five but only Jour Maenne OF Gyne
replacing another worker who having his oday
When il comes to performing operations responsible
general grouping f % persons are employed on any
ganze worker will have to perform not one operation
but will have take his turn performing several 1t will be readily
somewhat higher piece rate viii nave
for these substitute as well as Tor those workers
their machines day. as they VIII De
in what will be relatively worse working condons compared
the others.
those plant the system of the small
aggregate In their for every fourth ggregats run n
deputy" working day another aggregate pro
case too each worker will be performing the only
difference being he will be working different ma
different of the workshop In this case the
question dividing number of workers by four disappears entirely
of employees required as technical and
machinery management will generally speaking remain IN
changed Once week department chief Will be
represented by department engineer by the
works foreman; his assistants by of the older
and more experienced workers, and vce-vera
Attention WILL to be given to the matter OF seeing
that each responsible administrative worker shall furnish
instructions the day before his off day the man
much as it will have educational effects seeing that the persons
on m chefs off day in each week. gradually accustomed
regarding the plant from broader angle while tnose among '
be steadily higher technical managerial posts inns
point special Importance in the case OF Soviet Russia where "
dustry lacks qualified technicians
continuous working week Will naturally
increase prportionatey skilled workers required this
has naturally difficulties of practical nature at the outset
of practical solution of this problem has been found
n he along these Soviet factories CLASSIFIED
into nine skilled cagores that the demand for skilled
plant met and new workers can only De
of less skill or totally unskled work
EFFECT OF THE WORKING CLASS ON THE MATERIAL
PROSPERITY.
industry the introduction OF the con-
tnuous working considerable Improvement IN the ma
e noston of the working Following the factors
volved
N Increased capacity following on the shorten
of corresponding increase IN the work
er's earnings
(2) retranng of the workers and their promotion 10
higher skilled grades.
(3) Huge in unemployment.
to the lowering OF production
costs and gradual corresponding of industrial pro-
192930 average increase IN real
provided for although that figure VIII prob
outsrpped actualy)
ITO be contnued)