The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-09
RUSSIANS PLAN
JOBS FOR ALL
In new MOVE
GUARANTEE OF EMPLOYMENT
MADE IN CONNECTION WITH
NEW SOVIET CONSTITUTION
AS ADOPTED
By JOHN LLOYD

BY JOHN LLOYD
(Associated Press Foreign Staff
MOSCOW, Oct. 9.-Employ.
ment Is the obligation as well a
the right Of every able bodied and
loyal citizen, the new soviet con,
stitution holds, but solving tbs
problem of living is not yet al
ways simple.
Average income is Increasing,
prices are beng lowered very grad.
uaily. and a number of manual
iaborers are now in She ''weal.
their class But many who have
jobs still lack what the world al
large would call necessities.
Both nicE and women are to be
guaranteed employment rights ua.
der the constitution, which will b.
officially proclaimed late this
fall.
1t excludes only the so-ca,led
"enemies of the state"-counrer-
revolutionists, saboteurs and trai.
tors.
The government maintains there
is no possibility of an unemploy.
ment problem in Russia. On the
contrary, it says, there are toe
few people to fill the available
jobs.
Must Work To Eat
Work" says the new con
stitution, "is the obligation OF
every citizen capable of working
in accordance with the principle
he who does not work shall moi
eat"
Because wages have not yet
been adjusted completely tx
prices an average income of 25(
rubles a month does not GO fan
when a suit of clothes costs 300
rubles or whereabouts white breat
two rubles and more a loaf and
butter eight to 10 rubles pound
There have been answers that
Russian workmen are not accus
toned to eating white bread ant
butter. They can eat black
bread, do without butter, go light
ly on meat, wear rough clothe:
and get by on their incomes.
Expert Workers Prosper
The Stakhanoff movement il
chiefly responsible for the rising
wage level. 1t has produced 8
growing class of expert workmer
who, paid on the piece-work sys
tenn, draw double, triple and ever
quadruple the average salary
There are a number whose pay
envelopes contain sums up into
the thousands each month.
Some observers predict the
norm (required daily output be.
fore extra pay begins) will be
raised to make big incomes inn
possible, but this remains a pre-.
diction.
As a whole, observers see prog.
ress being made in the battle tc
balance incomes and costs. Rents
for one thing, are not out of pro.
portion with the average wage.
The citizens right to employ.
ment is described further in the
constitution as right ito receive
guaranteed work with payment ac-
eording to the quantity and quail
| ity of work performed"
Women Get Rights
Assurance that work will al
ways be obtainable is found, the
constitution says, in the success
full socialist organization of ma.
tional economy, the steady growth
of the productive forces of soviet
society, the absence of economic
crises and the present non-exist'
ence of unemployment.
Women, the charter adds, care
accorded equal rights with men
in all fields of economic, state
cultural. social and political life.'
Equality of treatment extends
to wages vacations, social insur-
anee and education. State protec-
ton of the interests of mothers
and children has been furthered
through establishment of a net
work of public maternity homes,
nurseries and kindergartens and
enactment of law granting wo-
men workers leave with pay in
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