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per cent in the past two years.
Generally speaking the wages of the workers are paid on time.
Because of the superintendence of the Soviet, very few employers
delay their wage payments to workers. Some stubborn capitalists
did try to do so, but were brought under control by the Labour Court.
Concerning the legal working hour, the 8-hour system has been
introduced to all Soviet cities and towns in the past two years, and
in the villages there are but rare cases in which employees work
more than eight hours a day. Employees between the age of 16 and
18 have shorter hours than do adults.
FROM MARX
TO MAO
PROTECTION FOR WOMEN AND INFANTS
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Equal work, equal pay, rest before and after confinement, prohibition
of infant workers below fourteen years and so on, are in general
practice.
As to apprentices, the apprenticeship period is shortened, treatment
improved and feudal oppression abolished. The living conditions
of apprentices have been made considerably better. The wages
of apprentices are increased. For instance, in Kiangsi apprentices
receive an allowance in the amount of from fifteen to thirty-six dol-
lars annually.
NOT FOR
COMMERCIAL
Sanitary conditions and food supplies for the workers in general,
and for the employees of the state enterprises in particular, have
been greatly improved. In the cities, the workers’ food is rated at
least six dollars a month. In the villages, the farming employees
eat the same food as served to their employers.
The Soviet workers are organized in their strong class trade union
DISTRIBUTION
which is the pillar of the Soviet power, burg for the workers them-
selves and school in which the broad working masses learn communism.
With its interests protected by the Soviets, the membership
of the trade union is ever on the increase. According to the statistics
of the All China Trade Union Federation, the trade union
membership in Central Soviet District, together with its neighbouring
Soviet zones, amount to 229,000. The distribution is as follows: Central
Soviet District 110,000 persons; Hsiang-Kan (Hunan-Kiangsi)
23,000 ; Hsiang-O-Kan (Hunan-Hupeh-Kiangsi) 40,000; Min-Che-Kan
(Fukien-Chekiang-Kiangsi) 25,000; Min-Kan (Fukien-Kiangsi ) 6,000;
North Fukien, 5,000. According to statistics compiled by the Central
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