The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-08
Building of Creches.


1927-2S $4,000 1929 $4,000
Naturally, this number cannot be considered
as sufficient. According, to the plans of the
Soviet government, there must be $50 places
in creches for every thousand women. This
tremendous task has been fulfilled at present
by more than 20 per cent At the present time
in the U.S.S.R. there are 40 places IN creches
for every thousand women workers. Childrens
cretches are coming to the help of woman not
only during the time she is working in fac
tory, but during the time she is studying or
engaged in social work.
Kindergartens
1929 100000 1928. 217,OOO
Children's Fairgrounds
1929 .203 900 1928. 100000
Chidrens Consultations
1927-2S 1859 1928. 1852
Of course, these figures are still very low
in comparison with the needs of women work
ers for children's institutions, especially if we
take into consideration the increase of the birth
rate in the U.S.S.R. However, the systematic
growth of these institutions shows the firm IN
tention of the Soviet government to abolish
the inequality of women in life. Besides the
creches which are organized by the government
large number of them are organized directly
by business institutions, cooperative societies,
groups of peasant women, etc. We have al
ready 1917 factory creches for the children OF
the workers, there are many creches connected
with large offices, large dwelling houses. An
the villages of the U.S.S.R. the children's insti
buttons look after 100000 children; in 1928
they viii look after $4,000 children. Kinder
gartens and childrens homes in the villages
looked after $4,000 children in 1929, but
in 1928 these institutions will take in 676,
900 children.
During the Five Year Plan 94340000 roubles
will be spent in the U.SS.R. on cultural con-
struction.
Liberation of Women Workers.
If we look into another important sphere of
the liberation of women workers-social feed
ing-we see that there are the same tremen-
dous achievements. On October /, 1928, the
number of dinners served every day was 72O,-
900. For the organization of public dining
rooms it was proposed to spend $50 million
roubes during the five years, and at the end
of the five years to serve 100000. However,
the tremendous achievements obtained IN So
cialist construction made it possible, during the
current 1929-30 fiscal year, to issue 50000,00O
roubles for the development of social feeding.
At the beginning of 1880 the number of dinners
served was increased to 100000 day. We
have thus been able, during the second year
of the Five Year Plan, to revise the first fig
ures of the plan and to extend them to
colossal degree. According to the changed
plan for organizing public dining rooms, 1,500,-
900 roubes will be issued during the five years,
and at the end of the Five Year Plan 100000
900 people will be served.
By the end of the five years, 1890 big fac
tory kitchens will have been built. The social
list towns which are being built in the U.S.S.R
| will have public rooms for the whole 100 per
cent of the inhabitants. Children and scholars
right through the U.S.S.R. will also be served
to 100 per cent The workers in various big
industrial regions will be served to the extent
Of 80 per cent and their families by so per
cent The workers in the towns will be served
to the extent of 20 per cent and their families
40 per cent.
During the past year, all Soviets have set
up commissions for investigating conditions of
life. The task of these commissions is to seek
out further measures for tightening the lot
of working women.
All these measures are creating a new life
for the women workers of the USS.R. They
Tighten her labor at home, and their influence
is already beginning to be felt in the matter
Of freeing her from unproductive labor and as
sisting her cultural and political growth and
making her in reality the equal of male
workers.
These colossal successes demonstrate to the
whole world what can be achieved by men and
women workers who have taken the govern
ment into their own hands,
They are guarantee that the greatest bur-
den for the women of Russia under the czarst
regime--inequality in living conditions--is rap
idly passing into the realms Of history.