The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
MORTALITY RATE
! DECLINES in USSR
Contrast With Lack of
Protection for u. S.
Workers

Inc LABOR COmIOSSarlaU Oh Tie
Soviet Union has recently called to
account the factory inspector, Kuba-
rev, in KulebaH for failing to carry
out the existing labor protection
regulations. The manager of the
Southeast Railway, Bobrikov, and the
railway inspector, MoShkov, have been
severely reprimanded for neglecting
the necessary safety labor measures.
A manager of the factory "Crassni
Proletari" will be tried for the same
reason.
How does the capitalist government
in the United States of America deal
with those officials who close their
eyes u deliberately neglect to en-
force even the inadequate provisions
existing for the safety of the work.
ers?
Graft In the u. S.
The chief of the Bureau of Navi-
cation and Steamboat Inspection,
who is responsible for the explosion
of the Observation" in the East
River of New York is allowed to go
free while some of the workers who
escaped death when the tragical ex-
plosion occurred are Jailed. The
grating inspectors whose criminal
negligence resulted in the death of
43 workers, are good" citizens in
capitalist America!
While here, in spite of the few
and insufficient labor safety regula-
tions, coffin-ships are allowed to
float to save the funds necessary for
the substitution of obsolete ships, the
Government of the Soviet Union in
tends to spend 169000,000 rubles in
1882 to further increase the protec-
ton of the workers. In 1929 it has
spent 100000.
Labor Safety In U. s. S. II.
Already the amount expended for
labor safety in the mining industry
has increased from 100000 rubles
in 1929 to the present 100000, in
transportation from 100000 to
10000 900.
At the same time the amount al
lotted for social insurance has been
increased by 10 per cent within three
years and is 3,500,000,0O0 rubles in
1882.
Thus the factory "Serp Molot" in
Moscow sent 1900 workers to the
day rest-homes In 1928 and 5000 in
1882. The funds appropriated for
labor safety measures have been
properly applied In the first quar-
ter of 1882 the chemical factory
"Chelkov" has already spent for the
safety of labor 80 per cent of the
amount to be spent during the en-
tire year, the factory "Cherbykoy" "a
per. cent and the Dynamo 40 per
cent.
Mortality Here and In Soviet Union.
AS a result of the funds actually
spent for the protection of the work
ers and for their material and social
position, mortality declined by 30 pei
cent, as compared with 1928, and the
number of industrial accidents de-
creased in the Donetz region by II
per cent. in the building industry by
per cent and in the most important
chemical factories by 10 per cent.
In the U. S. A., the most indus
trially developed country in the
world, mortality increases, industrial
accidents reach new high levels and
suicides succeed one another with
unheardof rapidity.
Plan to Increase Soviet Labor SaIesy.
To this must be added that no So
cial insurance for the workers ex-
lists here and that the charity
handed out to them is being con-
tinuously curtailed. In New York
alone $4,000 unemployed workers
we're evicted from their homes In
1880 and 10000 in 1881. Thousands
are being thrown out in the streets
every day throughout the country.
Only in the Soviet Union the
workers receive full social protection
and insurance. Only in the socialist
country, the workers safety labor
measures are being applied success
fully.
The Soviet Government, however,
is not satisfied even with this and
realizing that some time the labor
safety regulations are not regarded
as being of tremendous economic
Hnd political significance, it deals
nercilessly with those who fail to
assure the utmost protection for the
Workers. The Soviet Government in
tends furthermore to mobiles the in
itiative of the workers themselves in
devising during the next months new
and more adequate labor safety regu-
lations.