The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
DELEGATES RETURN FROM U.SSR.
Textile Delegate Reports Sixty Per Cent Increase In
Wages In Moscow Textile Factory

Tense with enthusiasm and
bursting with eagerness to tell of
their experiences, the worker del
egates from the United States to
the 9Th world congress of !, the.
Workers International Relief in
Berlin are back from German and
the Soviet Union. They were in
terviewed at the headquarters of
the Workers International Relief
in New York.
The first to speak was Bella
Zalzburg, Paterson textile work
er. "The w. 1. R. is truly broad
mass organization in Europe. You
could see that from the makeup
of the congress. There were rep
resentatives from every section
of the German working class. The
poor farmers were represented
too"
Comrade Zalzburg spoke about
the strong womens' section and
broad youth department and laid
stress on the necessity of building
the same in this country.
1.-The congress delegated me to
go to the Soviet Union," Comrade
zalzburg said proudly. 81 must
tell you about the Rosa Luxem-
bourg Textile Factory in Moscow.
They make beautiful rayon there;
much finer than anything in this
country. Six thousand workers
are employed seven hours a day.
In this country we have to slave
ten TO twelve hours under fright
full speed-up when we aren't
walking the streets.
"The workers are very proud of
their factory. They have already
fulfilled their five year plan. The
wages have increased 900 since
1928"
The Rosa Luxembourg workers
sent greetings to the American
textile workers and a large pic
ure of Lenin woven into beautiful
jaquard silk.
Dewey Armstrong, a husky Goa
miner from Avella, Penn, was the
next to speak. "The world con
gress of the w. 1. R. was interna
tional in every sense of the word
Six hundred delegates from a;
countries attended. Greetings were
sent to Mooney and Billings ant
to the Scottsboro boys. The dele
gates were particularly interested
In the Kentucky miners. A reso
luton of solidarity was passed"
Dewey grinned with deligh
when the Soviet Union was men
toned. 1--WE visited the salt an,
coal mines in the Donbas. w
spent some time in the Karl Leb
lnecht mine. The seams run 8
metres thick-enough salt ther
to supply the whole world for
thousand years. We arrived i
the evening. The workers had
welcome meeting waiting for u
when we arrived. We were aske
to speak. They had lot of ques
tions to ask US. "Why are yo
here, comrades?" they asked. "T
see how you are building up 81
cialism," we answered. The
cheered. "May we go anywhe1
we want to, into any home and g
many homes as we like 2" we asl
ed. eyes," they said. "You ma
feel free to go wherever yo
wish and to as many homes as yc
wish" I personally visited 81
homes. Every family has thrt
rooms free with free gas, electr
light and coal. They work hal
but live comfortably.
"Then we went down into Il
mine. The men are in the min
seven hours from the time the
enter to the time they come OF
They have dinner in the min
That's free too. and they are pa
for the half hour they take o
eating it.
"The workers are given worki1
clothes free. They are laundert
free too. Tn schools, clubs, tn
aires and children's nurseries a
all free.
'The workers have had the
wages increased 500 since 193
Safety in the mines? One killed
the mines since the revolutio
And it was his own fault. He w
careless"
Dewey went on, eve were ma
w. 1. R. shock brigaders at Do
has. We pledged that the w.