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the averting of
threatened strike of coal miners at Home. King George's death came at a moment when both sides to the dispute were at variance on vital points, and it is not too much to assume that the national grief at the death of the King was a factor which made possible an agreement on the basis of the new proposals put forward by the owners. Indeed, the Miners'
proposals 15 not wholly satisfactory, definitely
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"STAKHANOVISM"
miner
Russia a new word
movement
has given
Soviet
and
that
gives
every
"220 por cont. worker."· She does not want money. All sho asked for was a ton sot from the factory. She will get it.
The cups are going to be docorated with a view of the Kola Peninsula, an apatite min- ing contre (for porcelain), the teapot will bear a portrait of Kirov, the assassinated friend local Soviet, and the trade of Stalin. Lymba's own face uniona.
will gaze forth from the sugar-
worker the chance of getting.
somewhere
by FRANK
OWEN
Do you
know about STAKHANOVISM?
It is a movement that is sweeping Russia like the great wind that blows the dust out of the Steppe.
It fills the Soviet factories, the mills, the mines, the newspapers. Russia
has gone crazy about Stakhano- vism.
And what does it all mean? As far as the ordinary Russian goes just this: That if you work harder and quicker and
| better you will get more money.
Britons can thoroughly under-
STAKHANOV
put brains to brawn
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He was given a motor-car, bowl, horses, a bank account, his wife Makarova, "a labour heroine,” was loaded with gifts of cloth of the Stalingrad tractor factory, ing (the latest Schiaparelli-de- however, doca want the money.. signed), lingerie and perfume. It does not disturb the Soviet The technique that Stakhanov leaders, as long as Makarova. had introduced was forthwith stays "Stakhanovite." Indeed, applied throughout Soviet in- at the Stakhanovita Conference dustry.
of 3,000 delegates in Moscow the other day, Orzhonidzhe, Com- Next selected "hero of labour" missar of Heavy Industry, led was Busygin, twenty-eight, fore- her on to the platform himself. man smith in the Molotov Terrific cheers greeted the com- Automobile Plant. He used to missar, proudly introducing grease a steam hammer. Three her: "This, comrades, is THE hundred roubles a month was his Makarova who used to earn pay. "Stakhanovium" struck 150 roubles a month and now him smack between the eyes as earns 1,350 because she wants. the best idea yet.
to buy fawn kid shoes!"
He invented "Improvements”
called it "Self Help." Britain, STAKHANOV! He has found Busygin rolled up his pay check however, is a capitalist country. the way! How doos "Self Help" At into the Socialist scheme of Soviet Russia?
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"I had never counted the parts I turned on my lathe until Stakhanoviam came to
ine.
"The great morning that it began I came to work, and during the first half hour I turned ninety-seven parts- and my norm was ninety-four parts per hour. My heart beat fast with joy when I saw I was overfulfilling the norm. In the course of two hours Afteen minutes I had turned out 462 pieces!"
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"Under Ruaniana AQU capitalism the 'speed-up' means that fewer workers are required, so though there are better wayer for some there is unemployment for many. But under Socialism the workers get all the goods buck themselves, and as they are nowhere near sated with goods there can be no unemployment.
"It is accepted by us that un- less Socialîoņi can give the work- ers a higher material standard than capitalism, then it will crash. Therefore under Social- iam, which is only a stage on the road to Communiɛm, the workers must be urged on by receiving not according to their needs but according to their productive value to the State. Under Com- munism they will receiva accord- ing to their needs"
Federation, whilst viewing these NOTES OF THE DAY culate that they will stabilise There is Lymba Herfets, of those suspected bosses' darlings
stated
for
H H.M.S. TIDDLEY TITES
Navy, sir?"
We got talking, exchanging remin
From reminiscences the conversation
in the handling of labour. No What is the difference, then, more running about after tools, between Stakhanov the Socialist stand that proposition. The other stretch of toil by the same They must be assembled at the and "Self Help" Samuel Smiles?
The a job. Last month late smug Mr. Samuel Smiles methods? No, sir! Then what? start of
for 1.043 roubles (£43, at par). After Busygin came Maka- The Great Stakhanov is, vychev, machine part maker in His twenty-nine, fair-haired, the Gork Auto Plant. shrewd-looking and married. "technique" was pure speed-up. Seven years ago Russia, a His father was a peasant, and Let Makavychev speak:--- sixth of the land surface of the when young Stakhanov Was carth, went into business as one twelve he was put to work for a gigantic State Trust. The Rus- miller, grinding corn. Then he sians launched their First Five- went into the mines of Donbas, Year-Plan to lay the foundations the South Wales of Soviet of a mighty industrial power in Russia, and learned how to the Soviet Union. And to the handle a pneumatic pick. doubting wonder of the western The output, per pneumatic world they pulled through twelve pick, of the Soviet mines at the months ahead of schedule,
time was wretchedly low, round They managed it largely by about six tons, though the coal the volunteer overtime labour of is soft and the seams are thick. the "shock brigades," ardent The British mines were averag-
That is the beautiful theory. young Communists who banded ing ten tons per pick, and the themselves together to speed up Germans were gelting seventeen
Many Russian workers suspect that what is really happening is production. Under their leader tons out of the Ruhr.
that the Soviet bosses are brib- ship the factories vied in output One day in August Stakhanov
So the new movement runs ing a few blacklegs to work with each other in what was said to his mates, "Here, instead through Russin. Scores of thou- faster and quicken the general called "Socialist competition." of taking turns with the pick, sands have gone "Stakhanov," tempo of labour, and that soon
Now Russia is in the throes of. I'll use it all the time, and you hurrying in
Five-Year-Plan, and prop the roof and load the tubs heroes. The farms have caught ing.
the steps of the no extra pay will be forthcom- another her industrial equipment is still all the time." They doubled, it, the forests have caught it, far from complete. Is it possi- trebled and quadrupled their even
And with the conservative in- the schools have been stinct of workers all over the ble to drive the people on for an- output. It once rose to the bitten.
world, down in Donbas, where astonishing figure of 102 tons. How are Russia's women Stakhanovism was cradled, some
The Soviet engineers now cal- workers taking it?
of them have started bashing throughout the coalfield at the Lomonosov Porcelain Fac- into a less enthusiastic state of thirty-five tons. Socialist miner tory, Leningrad, who is now a enterprise. Richard Himber & His Orchestra. that the offer had been accepted | ALARMS IN FRANCE
Stakhanov did not work longer, owing to the desirability of
industrial avoiding an
dis- We expect the alarms sounded or even faster, than before, like A Bit Of London turbance in the present circum- by Paris newspapers with respect the old "shock-brigaders." He German invasion" merely rediscovered what capi- stances of the nation, and to the "next
will call down upon the heads" of talist mine managers have work because, also, of a keen desire to prevent loss and injury to tion of pacifists in France, if any, started that the division of the people who had so loyally and recriminations from all those labour is the most efficient "LEFT the dropped the iscences of the other side of the world. supported the workers' claims, folk of every other nation who method of work. The decision does credit to the blame newspapers nowadays
The Government and the handful of change from which 1 drifted to the personai, and I learnt public spirit of the miners' international complications. No leaders and to the men them-doubt such allegations as those Bolshevik Party leaped to the was selecting my fare and look- many interesting tinch about learnt
ed sharply at the taxi-driver, of a London taxi-driver. selves. It has to be borne in made by French journalists yester immense value of Stakhanov.
The Soviet Press seized on the It was dark and a dirty night. day, to the effect that Germany mind that the owners also have, had built a powerful chain of ale astonished miner, hailed him "Who the?" during the recent discussions, ports in the Rhineland and from as a "hero of labour" through- "Leading Seaman Wright, siz— displayed a welcome change of the North Sea to the Swiss frontier out many columns and for weeks Quartermaster in the Tiddley Tiles in psychology by doing everything In preparation for an attack upon on end. He was brought to China with you sir." possible to secure increased re-France, tend to disturb the serenity Moscow, feasted, photographed, Nobody but a genuine sailor would months I did on my bike. After a bit
I relaxed. This wasn't a try-on. venue in order to make possible of international affairs in Europe paraded before the high officials have referred to the good ship Titania I got a cyclometer my bike just. the payment of higher wages to when there is any serenity. At of industry, the Government, the by her lower-deck nickname." the men. Thus they readily the moment, however, they will gave an assurance that the whole probably add but a little to the of the amount realised
uneasiness In France and only result of voluntary increases in may exist towards the French in as slightly to any antagonism which contract prices of coal would go Germany. But the cumulative to the miners.. The position effect of all these rumours of re- was by no means without its cent days the suggestion that complications, because whilst, Germany would re-arm the Rhine- as in the case of electricity and land in violation of the Versailles gas undertakings, the extra ex- Treaty, the rumblings of such men penditure could be passed on to as Hitler and Goebbels, with rea- the consumer, there are large pect to the need for German concerns such as railways which Germany for the Italian point of colonies, the apparent sympathy in have their own economic dif-view, and now, finally, the bald ficulties and which naturally assertion that the next invasion of find dearer coal a handicap in France is in, preparation-the the struggle to make ends meet. cumulative effect, we repeat, can However, with ample evidence be serious. We have an enormous of goodwill on both sides, a admiration for the French people. compromise solution has been their courage, their loyalty, and reached, and the nation has been But we know they are emotional, their artistic qualities particularly. spared the disasters which
though in times would follow a general atoppage loaders have ever shown an ad- of crisis their of the coal mines. The owners mirable and astonishing calm. We have gone as far as they have know that such accusations as the felt justified in doing, whilst the Paris press yesterday hurled across miners' leaders have shown an the Rhine will probably move equal readiness not to run coun-
Frenchmen more than Gorrana. ter to the economic interests of We do not blame the newspaper if the industry and to the progress duty to perform in that event: Ita its facts are correct, for it has a of the nation in its fight for represses must rear a warning to the covery. Not only is the present nation. But if these reports are dispute adjusted, but the owners without foundation, Ir, In fact. have given an undertaking that they are not facts at all, it gives a national joint consultative to those who abominate. alarmist committee shall be set up for Journalism another argument for common interest and general the muzzling of the entire prese. application to the industry. The For the sake of the Parisian news. creation of this body should Papers, we cannot but hope that place future relations between the German denial will not be too owners and men
severe à condemnation, For the on a better sake of peace in Europe and cur basis, and remove the fear of own, dear akins, we pray that the future crises which might cause denial will bo convincing nover- grave national injury..
theless.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"You know, mother, I think we should get away from each other for a while.”
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"Eleven months it took me to learn my London. There were times when
thought I'd never pass the tests. "How do you learn London?" I
"On A push bike,..sir. "Eleven
asked.
as a matter of interest. I found „I did over 6,000 miles in six months.
"And every so often I had to go to Scotland Yard for an examination on the part of London which I had been exploring. The central parts of Lon- don were but all the side streets in the outskirts--Brentford, Seven Kings, and on.
He paused eloquently. "And it isn't only knowing where all the streets are. We've got to know the shortest and quickest way from one place to another. The one-way streets are difficult, too. They don't tell us about them at the garages, and they are always changing.”
"Are you gind you're driving a taxi Instead of flogging the ocean?" I asked.
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"Yes. It's good fun and one's never dull. The money's not bad, either. Wo got one-third of what's registarod on the meter, Andi then thero are tips as well. It's lucky there are, for it's a good day if one gets the meter up to thirty bob--- and that's only ton bob for the drivor.
"It made a big difference to us drivers when the meters started_at ninepence instead of a tanner. The rise didn't hit the owners nearly so hard, for if a man's going to take a cab he'll take it whether it starts at ninoponce or sixpence,
"It's because tips mean more to drivers than what they get out of the ----meter takings that drivers never liko long fares. You see, it meana ona tip where one might take three or four fares in the same time,
"Besides, long fares often take one out to places where there's a long drive back with precious little chance of picking up a fare. I had to drive. A gentleman to Morden the other night, and I didn't got another faro until I got back to Hyde Park Corner."
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"Would you rather drive mon women?" I asked,
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