The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-14
TOWARDS 18th ANNIVERSARY OF
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION!
YOUTH ON ROAD TO LIFE" IN SOVIET
UNION; TRAMPING STREETS in AMERICA
Real Opportunities the of Growing Socialism, Writes Excel
umbia Student
NO JOB HUNTING,
AS IN THE i. s.
Enthusiastic Letter Is
Sent to NY Girl Friend

WhaC d1Q the OCTOBER ReVOluuOn,
the 18th anniversary Of which will
be celebrated by the workers and
peasants of the whole world on No
vember 18th, bring to the youth Of
old RussiaP The following letter to
a New York girl answers in part
the question, which is of extreme
Importance to the youth of the
United States.
The letter is written by a young
worker student Of Columbia Univer-
sity who had been forced to vaga-
bondage and upon landing in the
Soviet Union found the road to
life" (Editor)
Your most recent letter, dear Ger
trude, was not very cheering. I well
understand what it means for q girl
to be looking for work in New York
today. Your hopes of being accepted
in a hospital are indeed flimsy. I
wish you had the wherewithal to
come to the Soviet Union. You ask
me what is the meaning of freedom
in the Soviet Union. met a number
of girls here. The contrast between
yourself and for example Mira, Nina
and Sarah should answer your
question.
You, after much sacrifice on
father and mothers part finally
graduate from high school. University
is of course, out of the question. You
attempt to enter one of the hospitals
in Montreal as a student-nurse.
Your Jewish name eliminates what
little possibility there is of you find
ing work there. You are forced to
leave home and look for work in
New York-a hopeless task. The
breadlines grow with Hoover's proph-
ecies.
Working and Studying in Soviet
Union
Mira, 20 years of age, works in the
State Bank as a bookkeeper, from
9 a. m. until $50 p. m, with half
hour interval for lunch. From $50
p. m. until eleven she studies at the
Finance Planning Institute. In ac-
cordance with the laboratory method
employed generally in our educa-
tional system, Mira recently returned
from a study visit in Leningrad. She
has travelled considerably in the
course of her laboratory work Mira
returned from Leningrad with
nasty throat. So her Trade Union
sent her out to rest in ZdanovicIi
for two weeks. She has two more
years to study after which she enters
the State Bank as financial advisor.
Mira earns two hundred roubles
month.
Nina, her friend, 20 years Of age.
works in the Turf Trust, and studies
evenings at the Turf Institute. She
will graduate from the Institute as
chemical engineer - speciality, turf
study. Turf is one of the most I'M
portant of the Soviet's power sources)
Nina earns ITO roubles month. She
as well as Mira works five days
week and rest on the sixth, which is
general among office workers. whose
day is six and a half to
seven hours.
In the Land of Opportunity"
And Sarah, 81, has been working
now three years at our plant, Voro-
shilov, as a qualified Turner, during
which time she completed her studies
at the Secondary School. She is
now entering the Pedagogical Faculty
of the White Russian University,
where she will specialize on sociology.
Oh, I could tell you about Mural,
Vera and others: studying medicine,
engineering, electrical en-
building construction. In
fact my circle of acquaintance in
cludes every field of industrial and
social activity.
1t is with equal chargin that
know Joseph to be without work after
the university for eight
years. To know that all his ae-
CURED knowledge is rejected in
society where thousands of workers
die daily of starvation. and disease;
where many more thousands are
bruised and MANNED as result Of
the maddening speed-up and ration
alization of capitalist industry And
Joseph, a graduate doctor has not
the means whereby to be of service
and earn his living.
Is it any wonder that after at
tending Columbia for a year and a
half I decided to throw over the
whole mess and turn to vagabond
age.
But here in the Soviet the thous-
ands and thousands of our students
have learned to work before gradual