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MIDNIGHT
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1953,
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
JOHN GORDON.... EYE-WITNESS IN RUSSIA, No. 7
Are the Russians forced to work?
P
EOPLE who themselves
as
develop regard ly for the Industrial
ment of Russia then beginning. ex-
These were the first motor perts warned me not
vehicles ever produced in to take the story of Russia, which is some indiea- Russia's industrial develop- tion of the fantastic speed with
the industrialisation which ment too
of
seriously. They Russia has been achieved, said if not myth it has been considerably exag-
When the war broke the plant gerated.
was Russia's main supplier of trucks.
In any case, they assured
The Germans got within me that however the Rus- miles of it. But while
came
refrigerator production
Lian.
will need for the cultivation of the more than equal truck produce mind, the development of pride In technical skill, nnet, In general, learning the art of living a full and happy Mfr.
What about the workers? Well, they work nine hours a day, with a sinner break of 45 minutes, six days a week. Sun- day is the only day of.
that
There is na tminense library, in which, under good teachers, the workers ean study history, literature, polities, the sciences, the lives and doings of all
When a hero comes down from the hills
W
-From James Leasor
George
After the fuss, the DARJEELING. THAT has happened Medal, the funds, the articles on which he draws royalties, and to Tiger Tonsing, the offers for books--is he glad. the lean and he climbed Everest? smiling Sherpa who climbed He does not answer at once, to the top of Everest with his palms smooth the arms of his chair, his first decretary Sif Edmund Hillary and dismisses the wecond and leana then came with his wife forward and says to Tensing, and family to London for a in Nepal: "You are glad?" hero's welcome? What is he
Little money doing now?
TNSING nods slowly as if he
In a blunt word—nothing. Не has given up his were not so sure as he would active work, moved in from I was young I was poor.
like to be. He speaks: "When
his little house in the back of Darjeeling to a flat above a milk bar and the booth off a Sikh who tells fortunes for tourists.
Tensing is within sight of his beloved hills, the mountains ho has climbed for so long, but he is not climbing them now. Ils life is different from the life he knew and Jovod.
wanted
to be educated, but there was little money.
"I educated myself, and as I was the learned that Everest highest
mountain I wanted to climb It. it was a personal thing between Everest and me. all over the "Mountaineers world are like brothers, united by their climbs. I climbed with with the seven patios, and with olghth we reached the top. didn't expect all the fuse and the
money" Ho stops abruptly. Far beneath us in the valley To the life of a busy new temple bells start to ring and colobrity who has two secre- somewhere a little Gurkha girl taries 16 order his complicated to practising her scales at the
piano.
affairs.
Souvenirs
When Tuning cumo down He rentinue: "Now Pandit from Everest three months ago Nehru is considering opening a a wall-meaning lama suggested school for young Indian climbers. that a local business man should act as his secretary and help him with his interpreting with
trurgers.
Now this man has an assistant. I called on the Tensing houso- hold the other day. Tensing The was out.
i
may manage that.
"I am president of the Sherpas Buddhist Association. I make speeches and appearances, receive visitors like you. It is all different."
Fine idea
MOR the fulwre, what more is
Tensing considers the question,
For whe
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¡Since I was in Moscow there Jaя bren CIN AMADKRECMEnt other peoples of the world, and The second secretary showed the dinner break of every medern language. You me into u groen-walled room Iturrians employed in the would be surprised how many hung with souvenirs of climbs Ministrica
hour re learning English just to ba white nylon rope, chipped ice stroking his Tibatan dog. His Eventually that will extend to able to read our books.
oxes, one that was used in the secretary lights another cigarette. all tudustry ns well,
final assault on the old Everest "Mr Tonsing isn't interested in There are fine lecture гордия
took 32 that But ter
with all to which outstanding workers, crossed nagy, akis, ad money," he says, and one the fort I van, that the
belleve him. come to tell thel fellow- Russians, at this moment, do not workers the
Interested, Tensing
at all. The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots) quibble in the least about the enable them to do
secrets that will water bottlos.
Mis Tensing, plump, shrewd,
Tensing their jobs
"I'd says?
like to
Hongkong Birds (Herklots] length of their working day and better
help the Sherpas, help to go Coronation Glory better: halls in which the and smiling, bustled about. werk.
They had only just moved into them educated,
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to be framed and hung, she very fine Idea," he says and looks staggering way with a fanatical themselves may learn to do eo.
explained. She brought in an at me for confirmation. determination to work, is men
The best painters 12 Russia armful to show me.
There are no other Evereats, and women never worked be-
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has much liking for gingerpo Rupert Advertures (Annual) cover the walls, so that they
He like Alexander weeping may stir in others a desire to
loungers
with no more worlds to conquer. Rupert (Magazines) OUTSIDE most remarkable emulate them.
hangers-on of the Tensing He looks at the maiden summit determination to work as hard
but that is No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard) menage walled too, smoking the of Kanchenjunga, 0s human beings can work is combined an
thin, pungent cigarettes of the only the world's third highest The Birds of Hongkong (Field Notebook Herklots) cqually fanatical
mountain, determination to become
an educated and highly technically skilled people.
With this
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One gave a shout, and, with "It was my earliest ambition Common Marino Food-Fishes of Hongkong you could wish to see. And bis, firot secretary Tensing to
to climb Everest," he repeats, a dance hall worthy of a palace. arrived, still allm and slight in almost thinking aloud, "and now
Most Interesting of all is the grey flannels and a grey shirt, it's done." * floor devoted to looking after and a sweater round his neck. Но
his shoulders and educating the children:
of He might have been coming in slightly and there are tears in 20 FTER their working day, the workers while the fathers from a game of tennis.
the eyes of the Tiger as he looks they several thousands of the and mothers are at work.
Actually he had been to see out at the ordered hills and sians planned, production in were sweeping across the great plant's workers seek technical
That floor, with its excellent his old home, the humble place faces a future with to make their workshops could never plains in the drive that
no close to putting Moscow into education in order
all where he used to live; he goes behind him. teachers, not only provides come near to that of a com- Hitler's hands, the entire plant themselves
engineers.
child there quite often. parable British concern. -machinery, workers, and That applies to women as well the fun and interest a
needs to keep it happy, includ- "I was happy there," he ex- | everything needed to ensure the us men.
plains simply. "It was a good ing a great variety of pots-but For why?
and I and my Because, they sald, fullest production---was moved
the hilla Forty percent of the plant's also, I should say, a preliminary the engineering skill of the back. 2,484 miles. to the Urais.
home." staff are women. They do all education that most children in workers in Russia was not high;
We shake hands and smile at they were merely a kind of slave That must have been the most the jobs, whether the heaviest Britain would be lucky to get.
each other. He is still the some labour.
tremendous transfer trek in or the most skilled, on equality all Industrial history. Yet in with inon, And of course are
I left this great plant feeling man I met at London Airport that in. Britain we still have a on his arrival in June, still the three months the plant was in pald the same. Strict guard
lot to learn about the
sincerity, human same grin, the same full production.
aro different: Do the workers look as aide of industrial life. And it only the eyes. When Hiller was in retreat, though this tremendous effort seems to me that we would be they look tired, worried, a littlo IF you too have heard
storles, let me tell you that long before the war ended, it they are putting into life lays wise to set about leaming R. they are boloney.
was brought back again. Since an unduly heavy burden upon 1924 it has undergone three them? I will answer thai by
Alise
Impressed me very much.
I spent several hours in the complete reconstructions to keep reporting 11 contrns! which Stalin Automobile Plant. I be it up to date. lleve I am the only foreigner who has secti the plant sines the war. At least that is what
I was told.
The plant is as big as any
It is the proud boast of top -I have often noticed that excentives and workers alike white women on repetition work that, through each of these in British workshops sing and tremendous reconstructions, work never ecased, production smile and look with interest at
visitors, the men on
similar
thing I have seen in the world. hardly flagged, and not a single work take no notice of visitors I cannot tell you the screage I worker had to be laid off. covers. But it has, I was told,
just over 37 miles of railway. Well laid out
within
boundaries.
ita
strictly guarded
IN TN face of that, I hardly think
in
and tend to look a le sullen.
I have often thought that to
Life
unhappy.
Paris Newsletter from William Roland
A
Meat Diet, Says Dr Price-Cut
to
be one of the most perilous HYSICIAN Bernard been sonding scare reports to
PH
the French things about moving belt pro-
Lafay, 48-year-old the Qual d'Orsay
Ofice. Foreign
Unanimously They are so strictly guarded
duction. Repetition work seems a charge of industrial that oven the assistant director, capacity, standa in any degroo.
say "Catastrophie moral to me to be so sou: destroying family man, who is Econo- they Comrade Ivan Karsov, who took
that men come, at times, to the mic Affairs Minister in the effect... irreparable. harm Now, I am
Government, not an engineer, stage where they must kick or Laniel me round, had to show his pass
has French prestige.... tourism cannot, therefore, to every gate guard. I should I
report burst Hence, discontent and made a good start with damaged for months if not guess from the sweeps we made technically on the plant as I saw meaningless strikes.
Operation Reduction his yours." in his car that wo covered an it in an exhaustive tour. But I
Now with the men at the treatment for France's On the Paris to Biarritz road area pretty much the size of have seen many plants of the Hyde Park.
same kind, and it seemed to me Stalin Plant it was quite the serious allment, the high a count of foreign as efficient as any I have seen. contrary, though they were Of course, there is not
*that
doing repetition work just like cost of living. acreage of buildings. There are It is well laid out and scrupu- the men at home. They seemed Its tools and happy. They smiled a lot. They wide spaces for development and lously clean. some beautiful park walks, one machinery look excellent--many looked at mo with interest, and of them exuberantly decorated of the machine tools I noticed seemed with enormous photographs of were American-made.
workers who have won the coveted Stalin Prize for special achievement.i
trade unionists will agitate to have, you sacked for it
Fantastic speed
LE buildings, from the out- side, are not eo impressive as
ILS products are certainly good, I am assured by those
whose business it is to comparo
pleased that I was interested in them.
Large library
a car of the highest Russian whereas the
tilles.
He has forced down the price of meat,
Even stranger, he has done it with the approval of the butchers.
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cars made one day recently showed there Belgian. ware only two-both Normally the daily average is 180.
Not even a blink
In Lea Halles-the Paris CHAMPION barman Fernand
Martin's idea of a pick-mo- markols housewives up cocktail-one-third tomato at Juice, one-third vodka, one-third
This car cannot be bought by maps alert, ambitious, and on the grocess and dairymen, to
да
en them with our own. And It WHAT accounts for that differ-central It is, you must know, honourable and fine thing to do masa production conveyor bolt encer I offer a suggestion. It staring incredulously
and is that our men are letting their stooks on their beds of parsley gin, Worcester sauce, salt exceptional work in Russla, moves with steady rhythm.
brains dio by devoting them with new price tickets showing pepper. He invented it for whereas in Britain your fellow
Englishman in need of revival It produces heavy trucks--cue selves, in their hours of leisure,
ten percent reduction. every five minutes I was told entirely to futilities
The word of the hour is during the strikes. liko dog
and it is The Briton
swallowed three "balso" (ŋeduction) bicycles estimate at the rate racing, football pools, -pub-
ub plastered across
meat without every of one every two minutes; and lounging,
blinking. Impressed, and iho cinema.
Martin christened his potion Russian works his shop. class the Zie-in small quan- brain in secking education, and
Now the butchers are calling "Anglais.”
follow their excoimple. excited..
But the hourotelyre have been Attached to the plant l one al strou before seem to tune to be every whit of of the top grade of administra of the most engrossing enter-wered at a fore?
I have ever seen "asson prisos tors.
In addition, the plant produces ciated with an industrial con- The story of this plant, in one a moderate number of refrigera can of this kind. It is called
Refrigerator production, the Stalin Palace. at Joast, is more re- tors.
bestun only throo MIt is a vost attrelivo bald-ONLY now the full effect of claims, brings him, in markable than that of any other was
On several dan racons strike wave bo- day during the season. engineering concern. In the years ago. A large building is ing set in a garden.
bre provided every swing to make itself feather And what he did in the world. It began production as now being erected solely for doors
and recreational wwwch disagree from Boulh wintowy he replied: recently a. 1924. fiąć drst pag- refrigeratorg when it is ready educational duct was trucks needed largentea and that will not be long ---activity that intelligent people America to Scandinavia bays vest, of course!!"
those of most modern, British
car factorios. But inside they private buyers. It is for the uso..
good and efficient.
Way
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Tourists vanish
A hard life.
Alle day long "CasapoVA"
Martin siis on the beach. at i Calvi, the · Corsican resort, admiring the sosperg and hiring out water cycles which, he 15a
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