The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09

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u. s. S. r., August 6, 1888
Dear Comrades and Workers of
U.S.A.
1 suppose l have to write once more
in the Daily Worker. When I got
home from Moscow after my monthly
rest, I found a pile of letters at home
from America, and every one Of you
wanted to know about the Soviet
Union. / cannot write to every one
at once, SO I viii answer collectively
in the Daily Worker.
I wrote to you that time about our
wage increase. Maybe some of you
did not believe me, so will give you
written proof. This proof tells the
truth about the coal digger in the
Soviet Union.
In May I worked % days at 24S
Irubles and 60 kopeks; progressive II
rubles. Total $40 rubles and So kopeks.
My plan was $50 square meters and I
cut 637 square meters.
In June I worked rs days at 678
rubles and 20 kopeks; progressive II
lrubles and SO kopeks. Total 749 rubles
and SO kopeks. My plan was $50
square meters and 1 cut $40 square
meters.
This coal diggerS' plan for May was
so tons for the month and he loaded
81 tons-168 rubles and 40 kopeks;
| progressive SO rubleS and "a kopeks.
Total 257 rubles and Ga kopeks,
The plan for June was 70 tons per
month and he gave 1870 tons, 3O3
rubles and rs kopelzs; progressive 800
trubles and 36 kopeks. Total GOA rubles
and Il kopeks.
This is not the end of our wage
Increases, and you miners say you are
getting more wage cuts, worse living
conditions, and no more pay for dead
work.
4 Real Union
Well, 1t is different here. We have
| q real union here. And what is more,
the government, which tells the man.
agement of the industry to pay the
workers for every cent of their work,
removes the superintendent or boss
Who dareS to gyp the worker out of
even one ruble.
Now you can see the difference be-
tween this government here in the
Soviet Union where the workers are
paid every cent for the work they do
1 and the government in the u. S.,
where the workers are fooled out of
the money coming to then. Our con-
ditionS here are &c. ing better and
better, while your ynditions are get
ting worse and orSe.
spent my month of rest in July
in Moscow and was 10 days at one Of
/ the Moscow Workers Rest Homes. It
sure is a pretty place. 1t is about IS
dlometers out of Moscow and in the
middle of a big pine forest. There
are more than 1000 workers and their
families there all the time.
Help Farmers Gather Crop
also want to let you know that
this year we had a very good wheat
crop-not only a good wheat crop,
but all other things are growing. The
Soviets and the collective farmers are
very happy; they are working day
and night to get their wheat in, also
many workers from the mines on
their rest day go and give one days
help to the farmer to help get the
wheat in-So you see the workers and
farmers, we are united as one.
Again I will tell you to get to-
gether in the NM.U., the only union
fighting for the best interests of the
American miners and down with the
enemy of the working class, the mis-
leaders Of the U.M.W.A. and the A.
F. of L.
The capitalist class of America,
after sucking my blood for 20 years,
chased me out of the country (Am-
erica, because I was Bolshevik and
fighting for the interests of the Am