The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-19
FREE TOILERS OF
USSR PRACTICE
SELF DISCIPLINE
Labor Is a Badge Of
Honor in USSR

MOSCOW, USS.R., Nov. 18.-In
a leading editorial, dealing with the
Soviet Governments decree for slim
ulating labor discipline, the PraYda
states: "In the struggle for self
discipline the working class Of the
Soviet Union has won glorious sue
cesses. The advanced worker-en-
thusiast for socialist production--is
the central figure Of our factories
and mills. He does not know unex-
cused absences. He feels himself
strongly connected with production
and feels responsibility for the full
fillment of the production plan by
his factory. Socialist competition en-
bracing millions OF advanced shock
workers. has made labor to them a
matter Of honor, valance and hero
ISM"
Pravda Sights Achievements
The Pravda proceeds to declare
that the working class of the Soviet
Union has created the plants of Mag
nitogorsk, Kuznetz, Dnieprostroy, gil
gantic automobile, tractor, electrical
and chemical industries, carrying out
the Five-Year Plan in four years
and will build in the Second Five
Year Plan q classics Socialist So
ciety.
Many New Workers
But the composition of the working
class is not uniform, along with the
regular industrial workers in the fac
tories Of the Soviet Union, there work
young workers who never saw capt
talist factory, and who do not know
the yoke of capitalism. Also former
handicraftsmen, poor middle peasants
who Fundamentally support the So
Wet power but have not yet risen to
the level of taking interest in their
production. These workers must be
educated in the spirit of responsi-
bility for public property.
Discipline Necessary
"To think that all this can be
achieved without Bolsheyist organiza-
ton of the masses" continues the
Pravda, without firm discipline on
the job, is not to know concrete real
ity. is to leave the building of Social
ism, in a happy go lucky spirit, to
bourgeois anarchical elements. This
is precisely what Lenin warned
against when he strongly urged,
THAT the main difficulty of Social
ism consists in insuring labor dis
cipline."
Must Overcome "Absentee-ism'
Without raising labor discipline,
without overcoming wilful absentee
ism and labor turnover, We cannot
solve the colossal tasks of the Sec
ond Five-Year Plan" Pravda fur
Their gives details regarding absentee
ism in heavy industry showing last
August unexcused average absences
amounted to .78 days per worker.
Enumerating absences in the coal,
iron and steel industries and the
factories of light industry, the edi-
torial further declares, Absences eat
up tens of thousands Of tons of metal
and coal, and hundreds of millions
of roubles' worth of goods of general
consumption, of which there is a
sharp shortage in the country. FIRE.
quently the absence of this or that
worker causes wage reductions for
honest workers in kindred trade.
To Curb Loafers
ITO all this it is necessary to add
that, hitherto, loafers enjoyed food
and goods cards and factory houses.
The governmental decree and direc-
tons adopted by the Central Com
mittee and the Council OF Peoples
CommisSars, extending the functions
Of factory administration to workers
supply, put an end to these outrages.
The realization Of the decisions of the
Party and the government, raises the
struggle for labor discipline in So
cialist enterprises to new stage. Our
labor legislation will actually make
possible the realization of the So
cialist principle-to each according
to his labor.
Most Advanced Labor Legislation
I'VE have the most advanced labor
legislation in the world Soviet law
strictly limits the working day to six,
SSFS4A eAAN OA6AA1 IOuIS; dilQ IIlSuTeS
rest days to each toiler. Medical SER
vice for the workers and labor pro-
lection for women and children is
organized in this country as nowhere.
In the capitalist countries, there ex-
lists the bitterest unemployment.
Hunger and poverty RACES among
toilerS, The working class which is
the basic productive force in society,
is being destroyed by capitalism. We
have created all the conditions for
the ceaseless growth of cultural and
material standards for the working
class. With all the greater deter
mination we must fight the driftsrs
and loafers who disorganize produc-
ton.