The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04

per person amounts to Is rubles
per day, yet workers do not pay
a cent.
Old Age Pensions
They have old age pensions
which women receive at the age
of 55 and men at the age Of go.
During sickness, workers and far
mers receive free medical care.
Still their pay runs on no matter
how long their sickness lasts. Rus
sian workers have unemployment
insurance but no unemployment.
They have plenty of work to do
and everybody is busy, Minor ex-
planned.
1.-THE prisons, houses of correc-
ton they are called" he said,
have no bars. Prisoners get their
yearly vacation of Is days, and in
the prison / visited, out of 500
prisoners in 1888 only II did PCT
return from their vacations.%
/ prisoners may learn trade
to school; their pay is froA ~ ~
125 rubles per month. Twei
per cent goes for the upks
per cent is saved up for theA
they receive it when they
so per cent they are allows
spend as they wish.
Being a seaman, Minor was
par, icularly interested in farmA
but one morning they had cd
unexpectedly to a collective fam
near Charkow. Of this visit h
reports:
A Collective Farm
"In 1917 when the Bolsheviks
conquered power, the land belong
ing to the nobility and the kulaks
was divided and distribut ed among
, the peasants; also Iulaks received
their share. The Russian peasants
; worked this land as they always
. had done, in the most backward
4, manner.
= "Years later the Soviet govern
ment established collective farms
= in order 10 increase production and
induce modern methods. Many
farmers pooled their land and cat.
tie. They started working it with
machinery. Today, we found these
peasants living in nice new houses
in villages. They have electric
lights, water; the barns are white
washed, flower pos in the barr
windows.
They started NTH 200 cattle; to
dav they have 800 head. They hav
% laboratory and farm scientifical
# w. They have tractors and eom
/ bines, trucks ard automobiles
m THEW nroducticn hos increased t
m six Zines the size Of the crop the,
" produced the first wear when the
ID started collectively.
o. "First thew distributed their ir
B. come bv irving each one an eous
III share. They soon discovered the
roorv Of the older neonle thougI
80 that thev need work no lonoer s
IA. TODAY the income is divided hv til
- number of WORKING DAVIS Il too
: to produce it and everv farme
~ man or woman. gets as man
&c shares as he nut IN WORKING DAVIS
- Nl1noerors n1lestion~ we've asloe
:, hv he interaetnd aU1iencee. Get
bo Communists have srecial nriv
lepes ?" was one question. MinC
explained that Communists in Il
= Soviet Union have no speci
- privileges any other workers ca
:. - not have. "In the prison we vi
e. =. ited," he explained, Eve came
"a cross a man who had embezzl'
;ee $4,000 rubles Of government mo-
- ey. He had been in a clerical pos
" ton that gave him the opportu
itv. AS a result he was sentence
IN to eight years. We asked nj
ms whether he was Communist.
lio answered no. And we were to
lct that if he had been Communi
ak he would not be there able to T.
'ed us; he would have been shot. F
70 Communist there exists no e
lc' cuse for any crime. because
knows better and therefore wou
all receive the severest punishmel
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