The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
STATE GIVES SOVIET
WORKERS PAIDHOLIDAY
All Expenses Paid to Camps and Rest Homes
Bosses Resorts Turned Into Special
Sanitariums For Sick TOilers

one cent being taken out Of their
wages. The vacation homes are
maintained at the expense of the
mutual aid fund-money laid aside
by the factory management, and
forming regular part of every
factory budget. Workers need pay
nothing into the fund; employees and
specialists earning over certain
maximum of wages pay small fee.
The fund is under control Of the
trade union.
Mothers Freed Of Responsibility.
Shartage is typical of the work
ers' vacation resorts. Ample facili-
ties for swimming, boating and al
most every kind of game. A large
and airy dining hall, speckless
kitchen, a club. Cottages to live
in, roomy and with plenty of win
dow space.
Many of the working women Wis
iting Shartage are mothers, with
children too young to attend the
Pioneer camps. For all of that they
need not give up their places in the
rest home. Like all of the summer
homes, Shartage has children's
creche, attended by experts, where
the mother is relieved of all re-
| sponsibility for her child and gets
the chance to make the most of
her vacation. Care in the creche is
free.
A number of residents at Shar-
tage were obviously too old to be
workers in industry. They ex-
planned themselves as pensioned
workers, entitled to the same priv
ileges and advantages as other
workers, including vacations.
Such rest homes as Shartage are
for workers who, though employed
at heavier work and more in need
of rest, are in good health. For
workers in danger of becoming i'll
other care is provided.
Free Sanitarium For Sick.
The Troitsk Sanatarium for ex-
ample ocated in the Southern
Urals is a visiting place for border
line tuberculosis cases. Of its $50
patients 70 per cent are workers, 80
per cent employees. For the 40-day
treatment, which these workers I'M
dergo, they pay not one cent, and
if the worker in question has de-
pendents these are cared for in the
meantime by the mutual aid fund.
The treatment consists of the best
of food, sunshine, rest and regular
medical attention by resident staff
of physicians and nurses. Prac-
tically all of the workers recover.
If they do not, they are sent else
where for further treatment.
To a worker from America,
where the agricultural laborer is
exploited to the utmost and kicked
about from pillar to post, the pres
/ ence in these rest homes of agri-
cultural workers is particularly
striking. In order to insure to the
agricultural laborer in the Soviet
Union a regular vacation in spite
of the still irregular and seasonal
character of his work he is entitled
to his vacation after five and half
months of work instead of after
year.
This year, for the first time, the
peasant, as well as the worker, is
getting the benefit of the summer
rest homes. A private farmer, of
course, can't take vacation. 1t
is another of the innumerable adj
vantages which the peasant derives
from the entrance into collective
! farm that now, standing at the be-
! ginning of his transformation into
a worker in an organized undertake
ing, he can arrange for regular va
cations on pay and, where desir-
able, places in the vacation homes
and sanitoriums.