The daily worker., 1934-04-28
Unparalleled
Gains Shown
In Report to.
End Congress
TOilers Win Conditions
Never Before Known
In All of China

JUIKIN, Soviet China (By MaiD.
Gigantic strides in the economic
and democratic liberation of the
nearly 100000,OOO workers and
farmers of the Chinese Soviet
regions are recorded in the report
of Mao Tse-tung, on behalf of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Chinese Soviet Republic at the
Second National Soviet Congress.
The Chinese Soviet regions now
embrace one quarter of the area Of
China proper, and of this region
the greater part has now stabil-
lied Soviet Government. Sur
rounded on all sides by territory in
the hands of the enemy, fighting
on all its borders, Soviet China has
made itself gigantic island in
which the workers and toilers en-
Joy freedom and security un-
known in all Chinese history.
Within this region, 80 per cent Of
all workers are organized in power
ful trade unions, and in some dis
tricts as many as 9S per cent. The
eight-hour law is universal, with
shorted hours for younger workers,
and dangerous trades, and a COM
prehensive system of social insur-
ance.
This contrasts Strikingly with the
condition of workers IN Kuomintang
China, where the imperialists, capt.
talists, and landlords rule. Here the
workers toll is endless, sometimes
as much as 18 hours day. The
workers are practically the slaves Of
the employers, and have no legal
means of protecting their interests.
Recently, the real wages Of workers
in capitalist China have been cut
nearly so per cent, through direct
cuts and the increase in the cost
of living. To strike is criminal
act Sixty per cent of industrial
workers in Kuomintang China are
unemployed.
Soviet Wage Agreements Are
Guaranteed
In Soviet China, wages and con-
ditions of work are guaranteed
through collective agreements, and
the Soviets have a network Of in
spectorS assigned to see that the
employers live up to the agreement.
All employment is made through
the Soviets, which are democratic
cally elected by all the workers and
poor peasants, of both sexes, while
all employers of labor and other
exploiters are diSfranchised.
Where unemployment remains,
the workers receive real relief, ad-
ministered through Social Insur-
ance Bureau which is set up in all
the Soviet towns.
Through their unions and the ac-
tive help Of the Soviets, all classes
OF workers in Soviet China have
won great increases in wages since
the enactment of the Soviet Labor
Act.
Great Wage Increases
The following comparison of pre-
revolutionary and present wages
/ W. OAAS AAALAAC4AoC gains WHICH IIlG
workers have made:
Metal workers, before the revo-
luton. IS, now SIS; textile work
ers, 81, raised to S35; tobacco
workers, $3.50, raised to S36; dye
workers, So, raised to $40; oil work
ers, ss to SIS; printers, IS to s3S;
fruit workers, So to S32: boatmen.
per trip, TingchOw to Shanghan,
formerly S14. now $46.
The enthusiasm which the Soviet
regime has inspired in the workers
can be gathered from the fact that,
Tor instance, out of 70.5So trade
union members in II counties. 1e o6o
or 28 per cent, have volunteered for
the Red Army which is defending
the Soviet regime against the Kuo-
mlntang attacks, and aiding the
workers and peasants of the sur
rounding regions to overthrow their
ruling class mad join the Soviets.