The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-15

This factory committee is elected by the
workers of the factory. For union organization
is on the basis of the factory local. This fac
tory committee is one of the basic units in the
Textile Workers Union one of the % industrial
unions in the country. And this headquarters
for the 'locaP' union is provided by the man
agentent of the factory. The Labor Code of
the country requires this. The Labor Code of
a workers country has habit of favoring the
workers.
A primary organ of the union is, therefore,
the factory committee and its functions, briefly
stated, are:
Ito safeguard and protect the interests
of the workers in the factory.
2-To do everything possible to improve the
social and economic conditions of the workers.
$40 represent the workers in their rela-
tions to the employer employing state trust
as well as in their relations to the government
and the various public authorities.
ITO enlist members, collect dues, and do
all the other jobs performed by local union
in any country.
Keys to Power.
The factory committees or its sub-comlnit-
tees are the keys of the workers power. The
workers bring to them all complaints about
wages, housing, medical service, social insur-
ance payments, and hundreds of other matters
that come up in the daily life in the plant or
The activities of the subcommittee may be
summarized: The committee on the protection
of labor helps in the enforcement Of labor
legislation, the prevention of accidents and the
provision of health protection for workers. Such
matters as housing, operation of day nurseries,
guarding of machinery, and similar measures
under it's jurisdiction 1t supervises the
expenditures for factory laundries, communal
baths, and childrens homes, and encourages
workers cooperatives.
The educational and cultural committee cares
for every sort of work intended to raise the
cultural level of the workers, supervise tech
meal education, clubs, Libraries, physical cul-
ture the sending of members to workers high
schools, the selling of reduced rate tickets to
theatres, the organization of movies, the edit
ing of "wall newspapers" and campaigns to
do away with illiteracy.
The "wage-conflict committee" is actually
joint committee composed of an equal num-
Der from the factory committee and the man.
agement of the plant. 1t helps to settle wage
scales and to adjust disputes of all kinds re-
lating to wages 1t helps to solve questions
arising out of the enforcement of the labor
law and the collective agreements made be-
tween the union and the state textile trust
that operates the plant.
Finally, a subcommittee on production has
for its chief aim the Improvement of the tech
nique of the factory. 1t enlists the inventive
ger S of the workers and their fullest CO.
operation in carrying out the production pro-
gram set for the particular factory.
''Actvists.'
There are, besides, in this cotton
F., plant hundreds of administrators who take
part in some kind of active union work serving
on some regular or special committee, acting
as dues collector or as delegate or member OF
dop oytp anto In bo do
| of the Soviet Union from 10 to 25 per cent OF
the workers are included in the actyist class
| This is in marked contrast with unions in Mr.
| VOLTS Federation where couple business
agents" paid big salaries to run things
| while the average member does nothing but
! pay dues and obey the orders of the handful
| of bureaucrats at the top.
The factory committees in the USS.R. are
| very important not only because they are the
| foundation stones of the union structure but
| because they attract so many new workers into
active participation in the union The factory
committee is the primary organ of workers
democracy in government and an industrial
| system operated for and by workers.
Compared with these Soviet trade unions
the American unions are the real company
unions" serving as they often do, the interests
| of the private capitalists The American unions
! are sharing" in the job of producing more
| profits for the corporations. In the U.S.S.R
| the workers share in the benefits of every
| development or improvement of the socalzeo
| industries.
On the basis of these facts let the reader
/ decide whether he prefers Mr.. Wolls type OF
union that colaborates with the capitalists OF
the Soviet type of trade union that fights cap.
italism and helps in the building Of socialism
! In the first workers and farmers republic.