The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, < | JANUARY. 1 929 Page Three PLATFO (Today we continue publication of the platform of the Trotsky Op- position in the Soviet Union and of the reply of the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party. The Trotsky question is not merely a Soviet question, but one affecting the proletariat of the°entire world. It is important to know that plat- form the Trotsky Opposition has in the U. S. S. R., and the reasons for its overwhelming repudiation by the members and leaders of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union and of all other sections of the Comintern. The American aspects of Trot- skyism are being taken up in the general party discussion now going on.—EDITOR) * ae THE OPPOSITION ON THE CON- DITIONS OF WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG WORKERS, UNSKILLED LABORERS AND SEASONAL WORKERS. “Those who suffer most from the pressure being exercised upor the conditions of labor are always the weakest groups, namely, unskilled laborers, seasonal workers, women and young persons, “In 1926, a decided deterioration in the relation between the wages of working women and those of men was observed in almost all branches of industry. The wages of unskilled women laborers in various branches of industry, in March, 1926, repre- sented 51.8 per cent to 61.7 per cent of the wages of unskilled men la- | borers. The necessary measures for improving the conditions of labor of working women in industries eS loading, etc., are not being taken, “The average rate of wages of young persons as compared with the average wage of all adult workers proximately 2,000,000. The number }of unemployed is growing incom- |parably more rapidly than the num- | ber of employed workers. The num- is steadily declining: In 1923 it rep- jber of industrial workers unem- resented 47.1 per cent; in 1924, 45 | ployed is increasing. per cent; in 1925, 43.4 per cent; in| “The mannerin which the insur- 1926, 40.5 per cent; in 1927, 39.5 per |ance fund seryes the unemployed cent. (“A Review of the Economic | Conditions of the, Youth in 1924-25 and in 1925-26.”) In March, 1926 9.5 per cent of the total youhg per- ons employed received less than 20 roubles per month (Central Bureau of Labor Statistics). The abolition of the extra quota and the reduc- tion of the quota* is a severe blow to the youth and to working class families. Unemployment among yeung persons is rapidly increas- ing.” (Extract from the Opposition Platform.) *Every factory must take a def- inite quota of apprentices. THE FACTS. According to returns of the Peo- ple’s Commissariat for Labor, the average daily wage of a woman worker, as compared with male workers, in all industries has re- mained almost unchanged during the past two years, and in March, 1924, represented 64.5 per cent, and in March, 1926, 63.4 per cent. The inconsiderable reduction in the pro- portion is due principally to the larger influx of women workers into the textile industry. The comparative rates of wages of women workers and men in the same trades in various branches of industry is indicated in the follow- ing table: Women’s Wages as Percentage of Men’s. March March March 1924 1925 1. Cotton weavers . 95.2 92.8 95.2 2. Wollen weavers . eee 89.9 99.0 97.7 5. Flax combers .... sso 86.0 92.6 94.0 4, Printing (hand compositors)... 78.5 821. 81.9 5. Tobacco packers .........- Sales eas Rae 73.2 83.8 (‘Returns of the People’s Commissariat for Labor.) On the basis of the returns for* March, 1924, 1925 and 1926, it may be stated that the difference be- tween the daily wages of women workers and those of men in the same trades, skilled and unskilled, is still less than that indicated in the above table for all industries | taken as a whole. On the whole the wages of women workers, as com- | pared with those of men in the same trades, represent between 80 and) 90 per cent. The wages of women | weavers in the principal branches of the texitile industry range between 90 and 95 per cent of the wages of | men weavers. | The Wages of Unskilled Laborers. | In view of the inferior physical strength of the unskilled woman la- | borer and the large supply of un- skilled women labor, their wages | lag considerably behind that of men. ‘The average monthly rate of wages | of a male unskilled laborer in March, | 1926, was 44 roubles, that of the unskilled woman laborer was 29.6 or 67.1 per cent of the wages of the man. In the printing and provision | industries, in which physical strength | is not required to the extent that it | is required in the metal and mining industry, the wages of an unskilled woman worker were 83 per cent of the unskilled male worker. These facts shatter the arguments of the Opposition concerning the al- leged depreciation of the wages of women workers. The Conditions of Young Persons. The Opposition is trying to take advantage of the severe conditions of the young persons in order to at- tack the Party. But the Party it- self sees the problem and is attempt- ing to grapple with it. The Fif- teenth Party Conference passed a resolution from which we quote the following: “The problem of unemployment among the proletarian youth (young persons and adolescents, principally the children of factory workers and the lower grades of office employes) is extremely acute. This proletarian youth, not having the opportunity to study in educational institutions, or to learn a trade in the factories, are doomed to long periods of unem- ployment and compulsory idleness. In view of the fact that they remain outside of the sphere of influence of proletarian state institutions (which carry on their work principally and almost exclusively in’ the factory or office) and of their cultural and ed- ucational work, the youth one corrupt and together wi morally pt gethe | the less stable the adolescent destitutes fill the | ranks of the pugnacious ‘street gangs,’ degenerate into anti-social elements, and, in view of their prox- imity to a considerable section of the working class youth and even of stratum cf the Com- munist youth, contaminate the lat- ter with their mentality.” This very resolution, however, points out the ways by which the conditions of the working class youth can be improved. The resolution says that the following primary measures must be taken: “1. To proceed in a mos* busi- nesslike fashion to remove the desti- tute children and adolescents from the streets and to place all the chil- dren into the social maintenance schools. All the proletarian public organizations must be enlisted for this work, The trade unions must take the major part of the work up- | on themselves and enlist the widest strata of the proletarian masses in- to the work. “2. To render every assistance in placing working class children {young persons and adolescents) in factories, The trade unions and the Young Communist League must supervise the strict fulfilment of the quota for young persons, which is frequently infrmged. “3. 'for Labor, the trade unions, and thé | economic departments, must proceed ‘to organize in the industrial districts | special courses and schools in which unemployed children of workers may }acquire elementary skill, and in | this way help them to obtain em- ployment. “4, The trade unions must devise a number of measures to help to draw the unemployed proletarian youth into the cultural work they conduct (permission to join clubs, physical culture circles, day courses in clubs, etc.).” Apart from this, the Opposition distorts the facts of this problem when it declares that the average wage of young persons is declining and that the number of young per- sons employed is diminishing (“re- guction of quota”), as the following tables show: Number of Young Persons Employed in Industry. According to the returns of the Central Statistical Administration, the number of young persons em- ployed in the rated industries (en- terprises employing over 16 work- ers and utilizing power) was as fol- lows: Young Workers Percentage of employed all employed Jan, 1, 1924, + 85,078 55 Jan, 1, 1925. 90,864 5.1 Jan. 1, 1926. 133,992 5.6 Jan, 1, 1927.. 139,363 5.6 The percentage of young persons employed remains stable. These’ figures do not include the adolescents who, until recently, were included in the quota, but who will not be excluded from it and trans- ferred to the category of workers. (Order passed by the Council oe Jan. 1, 1926.. Jan, 1, 1927. The Wages of Young Persons, The table given above, showing the real wages of the factory work- ers in Leningrad indicates the abso- lute and 1elative rates of wages of young persons as compared with that of adults, The average wages of young persons of both sexes in 1926 expressed in commodity roubles were 15 roubles 20 kopecks, and in 1927, 17 roubles 81 kopecks. The People’s Commissaries of the U. S. S. R., 8-12-27.) This is confirmed by the returns of the Leningrad industry: Percentage of Young Persons Em- ployed in the Rated Industries in Leningrad Provinces (Labor Statis- tics Bureau of the Leningrad Coun- cil of Trade Unions). Males Females Together 3.8 1.5 5.3 9. es 6.0 4.0 2.3 6.3 ——-- wages of young persons were 39.3 per cent of the wages of adults in 1926 and 40.8 per cent in 1927, The Opposition and Unemployment. “The slow growth of industrial- ization is felt most painfully in the sphere cf unemployment, which has now spread to the main ranks of the industrial proletariat. The num- ber of unemployed officially regis- tered in April, 1927, was 1,478,000 (“Trud,” (“Libor”) 8-27-27); the |the latter. The average rate of ben- j efit is 11.9 roubles (i. e., about five | Dre-war roubles), The assistance rendered by the trade unions amounts on the average to to 7.0 roubles, Only 20 per cent of |the members of the trade unions re- |ceive this assistance.” (Extract |from the Opposition platform.) | The Facts. | One of the really sore spots of our social life is unemployment, and ‘on this the Opposition is gambling |most of all. It is on this sore spot that the Opposition tries to strike the Central Committee when it jargues that things are in a very |bad way and that there are no pros- pects of improvement. In the opin- ion of the Opposition the principal se of unemployment is the insuf- ently rapid growth of our ind tr What are the actual facts? Unemployment is considerable and has beer. increasing recently. Ac- calls forth the just complaints of | the Cannon By ELLA REEVE BLOOR. put out by those maudlin “militants” (2) Cannon, Abern and Shachtman, it impressed me as being so flag- rintly anti-Communist—and count revolutionary in character—it was hard to conceive that they could get even a corporal-guard to follow them} jon their march to perdition. Wolfe jhas called them “3 Generals With- out an Army”* but even without an army, these men are utterly un- |worthy of the term “general.” How- ever, as one of the older comrades in the revolutionary movement, I feel it my duty to emphasize to the younger comrades, the new recruits, in our army—how false to the re- volution and traitorous to the work- ing class, these defenders of Trot-| skyism are, Can’t Harm Soviet Union. |. Their premises—that Trotsky’s de- fense was suppressed—are absolute- ly false. The investigations, trials, Close the Ranks Against RM OF THE TROTSKY OPPOSITION IN THE the peat industry, loading and un-|real figure of unemployment is ap- ¢ *finds support in the international capitalist environment of the U.S. S.R.). “The Conference wholly and en- | | | tirely approves the wages policy of | the wages of various categories of toilers. “The Party and its Central Com- mittee, with the energetic support of the trade unions, will continue in the future to exert every effort to SOVIET UNION iCEC Asks Members. |for More Articles on the Party, which is strongly sup- ported by the trade unions. Par- ti the Conference approves You|t ion of the April Plenum of Renegades today from the textile mills. When I first read the statement ° cannot break those young comrades i. the jails of Washington or Penn- £ylvania—Matthew Schmidt, Mconey, ings, Jim McNamara, the Cen- alia boys, Porter in Leavenworth. 1 , All seem giants besides you and spurn you. Answer by Closing Ranks. No post-mortems to your “past” will save you. So much more shame to you because you knew bet- ter. It is too late to save you. But we, the Communists still marching, still fighting, pledge ourselves to rally the youth to the coming revo- lution under the banner of Soviet Russia—the leadership so successful in the past and so wonderful in its achievements today. And now just a word to our mem- bership as to our present responsi- bilities. The answer to Trotskyism is this—“We shall rally otr entire membership to prevent any breaking of the ranks.” We must not dwell on past mistakes, they have been they the Central Committee of the C.P. |S.U. which rejected the totally in- correct and harmful proposal of the Opposition concerning wages; th proposal, in the severe economic s uation prevailing at that period, and in view of the rising commodity in- dex, must inevitably haVe led to an increase in prices, to a depreciation of the chervonetz and by that, to} a further fall in real wag: The Conference equally approves the de- cision of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. and the Council of Peo- ple’s Commissaries to increa: wages on the basis of the prospects that have arisen (a good harvest, inerease in productivity of labor, ete.), as well as the general instruc- tion given to level up the wages of the lower paid categories and of those branches of industry which lag behind generally, as a first and im- portant step towards removing the glaringly abnormal differences in |the Party Discussion raise the material and cultural level of the working class definitely in| | ceived a good number of articles accordance with the economic state||on the Party discussion’ which we of the whole country, and the suc-| | are printing now and which we The Centra! Committee re- cesses achieved in building up So- cialism, while resolutely rejecting ir- responsible, demagogic politics in a matter so important for the wor! ing class and the Communist Party.” The Resolution of the August Ple- num of the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee. “8, In accordance with the instruc- tions given by the Fifteenth Party Conference concerning the system- atic raising of wages, in co-ordina tion with the general improvement of industry and in se in the pro- ductivity of labor, it is necessary to secure in the ensuing econom: AY a further increase in wages for the lower paid categories of workers, and also a further reduction in re- tail prices. Parallel with the im- provement of the material conditions of the workers employed in indus- try, further measures must be taken in 1927-28 to combat unemploy- ment. (To be continued) | will continue to print up to the | |day of the convention. At the | same time the Central Committee | sires that more articles he sent | in, particularly by comrades ac- | tive in the field, in the factories | and in mass organizations. deal- | | ing with all phases of Pariy ac- | {t Party life, Party exper jence and the controversial ques- | tions before the Party. | The Central Committee would | jespecially weicome articles ex- pressing the Opposition’s view- point, in view of the fact that to jdate the Central Committee has not revealed articles | any en- dorsing the standpoint of the Op- | position. |CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE, WORKERS (COM- MUNIST) PART Textile Workers Pay. cording to the returns of the Com- jete,, were published verbatim in the pointed out to us so many times, we! missariat for Labor, during the iseven months from 10-1-26 to |5-1-27, the number of unemployed |registered on the labor exchanges has increased from 1,070,000 to |1,428,000, i. e, an increase of 58,000. 'The Composition of the Unemployed. | But an analysis of the composi tion of the unemployed shows that this unemployed army is recruited 1926 jmainly from agriculture and not say of these puny champions of ‘from industries, from the country jand not the towns. For example, | taking the figure of 1,428,000 un- jean recite them over and over again. Let us remember our achievements. |In spite of mistakes, in spite of |treachery of former leaders, in spite |of the most bitter onslaught of or- ganized capitalism, we have reached thousands of workers and farmers during the past year. Youth Fighting Imperialism. In spite of the tremendous growth of imperialism in America, we have organized thousands of American |young men and women to work out |together plans to fight imperialist International Press Correspondence jin at least four different languages. |I read it in English. It was wide- jspread in the press of the Soviet |Union. The Soviet Communist Party is absolutely capable of taking care jof these vital problems. We can ‘safely trust them to be iconoclasts when the unity of the Soviet Union| is threatened, as it was by Trotsky and his followers—but what shall we counter-revolution in Soviet Russia when they drag their documents through the younger American ‘and the tremendous war danger. SARGENT, WORK ADMIT CHARGES Say Stopped Indictment of Fall and Burke WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Former Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, and Chairman Hubert Falls,FederalReserve Bank Report Admits Textile workers’ and textile prod- uets workers’ wages have decreased further in the Seventh Federal Re- serve Dis t, according to a re- port made by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Jan. 1, The survey was made by asking infor- mation from the manufacturers in the industry, and even their figures show a decrease of earnings of 6.8 per cent. LOCAL STRIKES IN CHEMNITZ. MILLS Reformist ‘Agreement’ Tgnored by Workers BERLIN, Jan. 10.—The refusal of the employers’ organizations in the textile industry in the Chem- Further tabulation was made of The People’s Commissariat | | employed, we find that of this num- |Party, circularizing thousands of! ber 359,924, or 25.2 per cent, have unions, and all kinds of unsympa- never worked for wages before. thetic organizations. Cannon and Moreover, 147,111, of 10.3 per cent |his troupe cannot hurt Soviet Rus- ef the total, represent seasonal sia, but they can weaken the faith workers. Unemployed industrial ,of the youth just awakening to the | workers on 5-1-27 numbered 232,000, |revolutionary progress of the class or 16.2 per cent of the total. What struggle as typified by the succcss is, particularly important: is that’the of the Russian revolution, number of industrial workers unem-| ‘Thousands of struggling miners, ployed is steadily declining. J: Jan-| weavers and workers in all indus- uary, 1925, they wege 29.1 per cent tries, are ready to march with us and in October, 1927, only 21.9 per now, because they know the Com- cent. munist leadership alone can lead This exposes the falsity of the them to victory. We can only liken Opposition’s assertion that unem- these Trotskyists to buzzards, hov- ployment “among the industrial ering over battle fields, waiting for workers is rapidly increasing,” or, \their victims to weaken and die so las the authors of the platform of that they may fatten on their heads. ‘the “15” more frankly state, “un- Helping them to die—killing them if employment among the industrial possible. workers is increasing more rapidly) We say to you “buzzards of the than among other groups of unem- class war,” you cannot hurt Soviet ployed end consequently mors rap- Russia. You cannot kill the faith idly than those flowing in from the and courage of our great army of rural districts.”. As a matter of miners now so bravely fighting face fact, the percentage of industrial to face with the enemy on their workers unemployed today is almost |battle fields—and back of the half of that of 2% years ago; ithas |trenches building their new defenses declined from 29.1 per cent to 16.2 |in blood and sacrifice. per cent. But even this relatively| You cannot, with your puling high percentage is due to the de-/ drivel, touch the brave spirits of our cision taken by the Seventh Trade |seven hundred leaders facing prison Union Congress, which made it com- The children are marching with) Work of the Republican National us in every field. Our women are Committee managing Hoover’s cam- awakened as they never were be- paign testified before the Indian | fore. Affairs Committee of the senate to- And now at our coming conven- day, in the case of the Barnett In-| jtion, let us determine to use the dian land graft. | |greatest opportunity to mobilize all| Work admitted, that while Secre- jour forces for our immediate and tary of the Interior, he asked Sar-| {tremendous tasks. To crush Trot-| gent to order Assistant Attorn skyism—to help build and strengthen Selby of Oklahoma City to stop in- the militant new miners’ union and vestigations which were leading the national textile union, to make) straight to indictments for graft, nation-wide campaigns to defend and and conspiracy of former Secretary free our class war prisoners—and of the Interior Fall, and Indian above all to build our party, to or- Commissioner Burke, as well as ganize a nucleus in every factory, others every mine in the country. We shall at our convention discuss the best | Sargent Confesses. | methods for these campaigns of or-| Sargent admitted issuing the or- ganization. If we do this, nothing|der. Both Sargent and Work plead- Jean stop us. |ed they knew little of the case, and| The desertions of the weak soldiers | tried to make the impression they |from our ranks tan be overcome only | were acting only to see that Burke | |by closing up our ranks. Shoulder| was treated fairly. Everybody at| |to shoulder, we fight the enemy. No| the investigation united forces to more waste of strength or ammuni-|keep the name of Fall, accused as | |tion in fighting each other. Together| much as Burke in the conspiracy, as we fight our deadly foe: organized| much in the background as possible. imperialism. | The Barnett case was that of an| |Indian who had a million dollars| {worth of oil lands. He was kid- napped and married by some lady, |who afterwards disposed of his| | property, half to herself and half to} (* This title to Wolfe’s article was not written by Wolfe, and attention was called to this error. EDITOR.) pulsory for unemployed casual work- ers to register at the labor ex-| 5.1 . 2 lchange, with the result that the | =u! taneously with the measures b f fabared saneraploved |taken to eradicate the fundamental PER Oe Seaver ces mployec’ causes of unemployment, i. e., over- members of trade unions miers of trade unions Ty 1.o7 (PoPulaticn of the agrarian districts, period be 1 3-1- has increased by 50 per cent, unemployment. As a matter of fact, |by the intensification of agriculture, | whereas in the corresponding period of the previous year it had increased |by 22.6 per cent. This point must \be particularly emphasized, because \the Opposition argue that the rate of our industrialization is leading to la monstrous “scrapping” of indus- trial workers. The statement of unemployment |in Leningrad was as follow Number of unemployed registered in the Leningrad labor exchanges: Number of Date Unemployed Oct. 1, 1926.... ++ 188,000 {April 1, 1927 186,000 Sept. 1, 1927.. +» 132,000 The number cf women employed on 9-1-27 was 90,000, or 68.3 per cent of the total number of unem- ployed. Trade unionists numbered 60,000, or 45.9 per cent of the total. ‘he number of unemployed in Len- ingrad has declined by 11 per cent. The large number of non-trade unionists unemployed, 54.1 per cent of the total, indicates that unem- ployment is fed principally by the influx from the rural districts. How the Party is Combatting Unemployment. According to the Opposition, the Party is doing nothing to combat |the Party is adopting serious mea- sures for dealing with the unemploy- ment already existing. In the pres- ent economie year 80,600,000 roubles have been assigned for the purpose jof assisting the unemployed. This -——/a mission. The whole thing was the paragraph dealing with wages, in| held illegal in the courts, but before lwhich it says: | that, Assistant Attorney Selby, of | | ‘The C.P.8.U. as the Party of the| iin eacra court in Oklahoma City,| |working class, which guides all the| “pho fecte sled thon Sone: | 4 | The facts showed that Secretary | fe i : - y CHU Sey proletan an ySurugele Ne i orins Taterion Pall add Tadian Com | missioner Burke had guilty knowl-| edge of the theft of oil lands. Be- fore the indictment was secured. byes : Selby’s official superiors called cif the working class to the utmost €X-|the investigation. Selby’s story to tent. Under the capitalist system, | « * Z eas ’|\the Indian lands committee became Where political power and all the | public, and precipitated the scandal. til final emancipation is achieved, | has always considered and consid-| ers now that its principal task is to improve the economic conditions of ,| isfactory agreements with the em- |sum has been distributed in the fol- |instruments of production are in the ment in them. jlowing manner: | Roubles |Social insurance fund. .. .66,000,000 |State budget . 8,100,000 lLocal budgets .......... 6,500,000 About 600,000 unemployed are re- ceiving unemployed benefits. Ten million roubles have been spent this year on public works. A consider- able number of unemployed are as- sisted by the organization of special workshops, the number of which is} steadily increasing; for example, during the 12 months from 6-1-26 to 6-1-27, the number employed in these workshops increased from £8,832 to 98,500. This year an addi- {tional 30,000 will obtain employment in these workshops and for this pur- |pose an additional sum of 6,000,000 |voubles has been appropriated, If we remember that the staffs em- ployed in these workshops change | |about twice a year, we may calcu-) late that from 250,000 to 300,000 un- employed workers are given employ- hands of the capitalist class, the Communist Party and its members must support every demand made by the workers upon the capitalist em- ployers for raising their standard of living from the point of view of a Party interested in the abolition of capitalism. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, in a State, ‘in which the toiling peasants under the guidance of the workers are build- ing up Socialism, resolutely reject- ing the guidance of the capitalists’ (extract from Lenin’s letter to the Fifth Trade Union Congress) the Communist Party, as the vanguard which carries out the dictatorship of its class and guides the work of building up Socialism, is vitally in- terested in the rate of Socialist ac- cumulation, which is at the same time the rate of building up Social- ism, and which, in its turn, deter- mines the further improvement of the material and cultural level of the proletariat. “In the interests of the whole of | the working class and with the ul- timate aim of securing the uninter- rupted improverhent of the material conditions of the proletariat, the Communist Party must strictly har- monize its wages policy with the ac- tual economic situation prevailing in Soviet industry, with the growth of productive forces and resources, and at the same time see that Socialist accumulation shall proceed at the rate necessary for the victory of ROCKEFELLER TO ‘PUNISH STEWART ‘Indiana Oil Head Aided Sinclair, John’s Rival | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., altho a | minority stockholder in the Standard | Oil Co. of Indiana, is campaigning | thru a letter sent by him to each | stockholder,-to get enough proxies to oust Col. Robert W. Stewart,| chairman of its board of directors. | Stewart admitted last year that | he got a quarter of the $3,000,000) Continental Oil Co. Liberty bonds, | which represented a profit from the fake oil sale put thru by the Con-) tinental ‘concern to establish a big! |slush fund for Sinclair, then en-| gaged in securing the Teapot Dome lease from Secretary of the Interior | Fall. The profits to Continental| were a loss to other companies, in- cluding the Standard Oil of Indiana. There are indications that the prosecution of Sinclair was a Rocke- feller campaign to eliminate a rival, and that Stewart was regarded by Rockefeller as a traitor. His resig- nation was demanded but he did not resign, Assistance to unemployed in Leningrad: 1926 1927 a) Monetary assistance | ®) Number of persons receiving assistance . 18,304 20,192 | Regular assistance paid out, rbls. ......... -955,000 1,653,000* | Assistance at festivals and holidays, rbls. 143,000 113,000* | Other assistance, rbls........+-..+-eee eee ‘ 47,000 *First nine months of 1927 (b) Labor aid 1926 1827 Number of persons employed on public work .. 17,106 25,828 Number of unemployed workshops .... i 12 14 Number of workers employed .... 4,795 5,235, Here it is necessary to make a® ee Lop) * + wages at least to the level reached “slight” correction of the figures of by the increase for the productiv- ity of labor. It is necessary to go in for a systematic increase in wages parallel with the further in- crease in the productivity of labor. It is necessary to level up the wages of various categories of workers by systematically raising the rates for the lower paid strata, under no cir- cumstances lowering the rates of the higher paid categories.” (Extract from the Opposition Platform) Whence Did the Opposition Copy Its Proposal? It copied this from the resolution of the Fifteenth Party Congress, the Opposition. According to their platform the average monetary ben- efits paid by the insurance fund to the unemployed is 11.9 roubles. The official statistics show, however, that the benefits for the first cate- gory range from 14 roubles to 24 roubles, and for the second cate- gory from 14 to 27 roubles. It is evident, therefore, that the State not only is helping the unemployed, but strives its utmost to increase this assistance as far as possible. The Opposition’s Proposal for In- creasing Wages immediate task is to raise The Socialism (now being built up) over private capital, which is fighting for its existence and development (and The Workers (Comm Nights for the enactmen hour. 5-day week. 1852 THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 TROP BAN ity Party of the 40- ETROPOLITAN SAVINGS ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits made on or before the 3rd day of the month will draw interest from the Ist day of th month, Last Quarterly Dividend paid , on all amounts from nay: YI ¢ to $7,500.00, at the rate of 2 J 0 AL i Open Mon ays (all day) until 7 P. BM. ory oc! ty Accounts Bonking by Mi We Sell A. Nol THIRD AVE. Cor 72ST nitz district, to grant the demands| ‘en industrial groups and the re- of the workers for a wage increase,|{tlt obtained again demonstrates has been met with an outbreak of What is taking place in industry, Humecbua Iecalieed saviken: namely, that the number of work- : ; coe ers in these industries had increased , These kept increasing in number and that the wages—including the despite the fact that the reactionary | added workers—shows a decrease. leaders of the unions reached unsat-| "he bank places figures at: inc crease in workers, .8, and decrease in combined wages, 1.1 per cent. ployers. Employers trade journals express the fervent hope that the new agreement will finally end t of Workers’ these strikes, Idiers’ Delegates? Its class eR 2 8 The strikes are still growing in iberty anywhere te niente Ene Russia, ‘Down number and are fast paraly ing the = mot mean wee production of hosiery, tapestries and ur bayonets, It artificial flowers in addition to means the transfer of power nother class. The his whole sit hing.” Fron crippling the manufacture of the tion te more staple products. Militant workers insist on their demand that a general strike be called to alleviate the miserable con- SaRTaTTaa ae ditions under which textile workers || Pa OBURGH Ee are now compelled to work. UNION PRINTING ; At Moderate Prices From a CARD to a NEWSPAPER memorial meeting, Madison Square Tae zPEty is strengthened by puri txelf of opportunistic Y elements."—Lenin, Lenin memorial S. & S, PRINTING co. meeting. January Square Garden, 19, in Madison | 7 Market St. Court ittsburgh, Pa. CHICAGO! CHICAGO! F. L. SCHUMAN, Ph. D. 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