The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-05
By BNsek

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Special re:-During the win
ter of 1880 many workers were laid
up with the grip. The social in
surance Office made a special in
vestigation and measures we're
taken TO check the number of grip
cases. The insurance Office is al
ways on the alert for any danger
signals, Special movies were ,
shown in the factory, illustrating
how workers can prevent the grip,
the need for sanitary conditions,
and also suggestions on how to
spend rest days i'll order to fully
recuperate from work.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who are
" sick are taken care of by the
insurance fund in the following
categories: If a worker has been
in the factory for two years, he
receives full wages. If he is a
shock worker and has been in the
factory one year, he also receives
full wages. Those workers who
have been in the factory one year
or less or who are not members
of the trade union, receive so per
cent of their wages.
old AGE.-Filatov, an old worker
" of the Stain (Anio) Auto Plant,
told us the following:
IF / am sick, get wages for
four months, then / get a pen
sion. If a worker is totally dis
abIed, he gets 100 per cent wages;
if not, he is given some lighter
work. Some workers who receive
pensions also get wages for the
work they do. The two together
often amount to more than the
original wages"
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE
FACTORY. Each department in
the factory has its first aid sta
ton. 1t gives aid to all light cases
of sickness, and first aid to severe
accidents. Severe accidents are first
rhessed there and then sent to the
special hospital. All department
are equipped with first aid kits,
but the workers come to the sta
tons instead of using the kits. In
case the accident is severe, a nurse
is sent to the place where the acct
dent occurred to give aid on the
spot. When it is necessary, this
station is ready to take care OF
from 200 to $50 cases in "a hours,
this including all minor injuries.
In connection with medical aid
and accident and sickness preven-
ton, the factory has new plans
for 1928. A new hospital is in
the process of being built, which
will be used by several factories to
accommodate 1000 workers.
VACATIONS.-Vacations are so Or
ganized that every worker has
the opportunity to take a good rest
or cure every two years. Those
workers working steadily for two
years or over have vacation every
year for one month. Here again
the women workers are taken Spe-
cial care of. Last year / went on
vacation" one woman who has
three children told lis, and my
children were with me. They were
put into special house and taken
care of. I had nothing to do for
them, had no trouble and they did
not disturb my rest" A total of
LOO children were sent to the
country for two months by the So
cial insurance fund.
With such conditions it is no
wonder that the Soviet masses par
ticipate 50 eagerly in the Five Year
Plan and are SO ready to defend
their government.
Hear what one woman from the
Stain plant has to say:
''TelI them, the workers of the
rest of the world, that we under
stand their struggles against cap
italism. Tell them we know that
1t Is harder for us here because
the rest of the workers did not
make the revolution yet. This
is our government. We workers
have gotten together and fought
for it, and if the bourgeoisie Of
the world try to take anything
back from us, tell them also that
even If l am 81 years old and my
eyes are bad, l will be among the
first to take up arms to defend
the Soviet government. Not only
I, all the workers will do it, and
we will fight to the last drop of
our blood !"