The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Trade Unions
USSR Given
Vital 7 a SKIS
Vast Growth in Soviets
Economy Brings New
Work to Unions
Especial to the Daily Worker,

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ton of Soviet trade unions,
"Pravda," central organ of the Com
munist Party, has stated that the
gigantic growth of all branches Of
national economy in the U.SS.R,
has set the trade unions exception.
ally responsible tasks.
In an article devoted to the re.
cent decisions of the Fourth Plenurn
Of the All-Union Trade Unions,
Pravda says:
New gigantic industrial enter.
prises have grown up, and old fac
tories and works have been recoirs
Structed. The U.S.SR. has beconA
a country foremost in technique. 4
country foremost in Socialist agri4
culture. Millions of young working-
men and working women have been
surging into industry and Socialist
farming.
I'm the course of three years.
from 1880 to 1888, the number of
workers and Office employees in
creased seven and half million.
In ferrous metallurgy, 1924 percent
Of the total are young workers,
ranging in ages from IS to %; in
transport and machine building, the
percentage is 306; in the electro
technical industry, 1874, and so
forth.
THE number of women engaged
in all branches of national ECONOMY
has increased since 1928 by 5000, 900.
These figures suffice to point to the
tremendous tasks set before the
trade unions of the U.S.S.R. They
have had to organize and educate
millions of working men and women
who for the first time entered
industry without knowing capitalist
hard labor.
ut is through the trade unions
that millions of working men and
women learn consciously to par
ticipate in Socialist construction
and to master the high culture of
advanced technique. Millions of
shock workers of Socialist labor
show examples of industrial en-
thusiasm and devotion to the cause
of the workingclass."
Dwelling further on the factors
which caused the organization
of the trade unions, "Pavda" re-
marks that experience in the di-
vision of the trade unions into
smaller units, which took place in
1881, gave positive results.
Since then the trade unions have
grown, uniting the vast majority of
al workers and office employees az
percent of all workers and office
employees are not yet members of
the trade unions). To this fact must
be added that the trade unions are
scattered over the tremendous ter
ritory of the U.S.S.R. swelled the
extremely variegated cultural and
everyday life, with different condi-
lions in different districts.
Emphasizing that the basic re-
organization of the trade unions
will make it possible for each trade
union organization to pay more at
tention to serving the cultural and
everyday life of all groups of
workers and to the improvement of
the work organs, social insurance,
labor inspection, etc., "Pravda"
says:
"The Soviet trade unions have
unbounded prospects. In conditions
OF the victorious dictatorship of the
proletariat the trade unions. led
by the Party of Lenin and Stain,
organize the activities, the initiative
and the militant power of scores of
millions of toilers around the task
OF Socialist construction.
The successes of the trade unions
in the U.S,S.R. are strikingly in con-
traSt with the diSlocation and de-
generation of the trade unions in
capitalist countries. Labor lieu
tenants of the capitalists, as Lenin
called the leaders of the reformist
trade union movement, do their ut
most to weaken the militant power
OF the working class and facilitate
the offensive of the bourgeoisie
agalng the working class.
They assisted in every way the
advent of the Fascists to power. the
destruction of the workingclass or
CARNATIONS which were created in
the course of many decades by
palnstaking efforts of several gen.
erations.
On the advent of Hitler in Ger
many and the destruction of the
workers organizations, the British
trade union leaders, led by the re-
formist trade union official, Citrin.
hypocritically exclaimed: I rely
upon God that we shall never be
placed in such a situation. >"
The rrostituted leaders of the re-
formlst trade unions are prepared
for any baseness just to preserve
the goodwill of the cruelest Fas-
cism hangmen OFF the workingclass.
The endless, abominable treach-
cry OF the Leiparts, Citrins, and
all the bankrupt reformist lackeys
OF the bouNgeoisie is Significant!
The trade union movement in
the U.S.S.R. by its whole history Of
progress stands as towering his
torlcal example. The Soviet trade
unions are an example for millions
OF revolutionary proletarians who
are throwing off the chains of re-
fcrmisn. The successes of the
Soviet trade unions inspire all hon
est, all revolutionary elements of
the world proletariat, to struggle
for the proletarian revolution.
1.-THE bolshevist reconstruction OF
the trade unions will strengthen
tenfold the forces of the most DOW
erful the foremost revolutionary do