The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

to the industrial and agrartan advances under the
first Five-Year Plan and the first year OF the Second
Five-Year Plan) meant direct improvement in the
conditions Of the workers.
Every year. since the Inauguration Of the FiveYear
Plan, there has been steady improvement in the
dtons of the people in the Soviet Union.
An index OF the improvement in food supplies is
given by the grain loadings for 1882 and 1888. In
1882 $500 to 1000 of grain loaded daily dur
ing the harvest. In 1888 the figure had jumped from
5000 to 5000 daily with days reaching high
as 10000.
But that is only one g-uge OF the improvement Of
the living conditions of the in the Soviet Union.
From the first Of January to the latter part OF
August 3S6538 animals distributed to collective
peasants for the breeding OF huge herds of animals for
food
Besides the general improvement In the national food
supply each factory strives to improve the quality and
variety Of food for its workers At the Amo auto and
tractor factory, which example of what is
happening in thousands Of other places livestock farm
of II 900 acres was allotted truck garden with over
600 put into service for the factory workers
with 5000 hot house beds In addition to this So huge
apartment houses which accommodate about $500
workers and engineers has Just been completed, and
four more buildings nearly completion.
For 1888, under the Second F1ve-Year Plan, wages
rising, and are scheduled to rise per cent
1892.
COMPARE this to the figures Of the National Industrial
Y Council in the United States which show a per
cent cut in real in the United States for 1888
While in the Soviet Union every basis exists for a
rapid increase the standard of living Of the masses
in the United States every factor is working for
lowering of living standards of the tong population.
Physically and cultrraly the conditions of life of
those living in the land Of the victorious proletarian
revolution are improving. They have complete social
insurance state medical facilities opportunities for the
highest educational advances Ihteracy has been prac
ticaly wiped out in the country which under czarism
an example of the darkest mass illiteracy.
AS against the vllanous murder of nearly 300 work
ers in RoOSeves forced labor camps, and the injury to
10000 and the forced detention OF normal workers
whose only crime is thot they cannot find work. let
listen to the testimony of Soviet treatment Of GRIM
inas and degeneraes delegate Of the British indie
pendent Labor Party of the Labor Party that visited
Moscow in September of this year. after viewing the in
stitution at Lybertsy, declared
Here we saw criminals and waits, seeming
degenerates being turned into good honest workers
by Of humane treatment education and
the realization that the people had faith in their
power of reformation
1.-THE workers conditions are beyond reproach,
and the special chdrens quarters excellent.
Such place is impossible elsewhere In the
world, and will remain so until the proIetarian
revolution Is achieved in other countries"
Such change in living conditions which the work
and peasants in the Soviet Union have achieved in
contrast to their conditions under czarism and the
certainty of rapid improvement of their conditions
far beyond the conditions Of the workers in the
advanced" capitalist countries achieved only
by the prolearan revolution and the transformation
of society into Socialist order