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WORKERS "GO SLOW IN

THE SATELLITE STATES

D

the

means

In

By Dennis Bardens

Czechoslovakia

response to

shows

the tail

abolish OF

but Stak- bonuzes,

bow Six

Word

THE

has

In Poland and Rumania, too, there is widespread opposition to Communist production speed- ups. In July 1951 machines and tools prepared for a team of "record setters" at a factory

were Christmas an attempt to justify them, out- at Porcha, Poland,

is ol-date statistical methods have out of commission and

the workmen arrested. In Rumania

resentment

ABHORRENT

put

General In

DETESTABLE

nt

Singapore Goes TV-Mad

From

Russell Spurr

Singapore. INGAPORE wan

British television And

once. Half a million pounds worth of orders are being offered by optimistic businessmen hoping to cash' in on the biggest craze sinco bubblegum.

The trouble began when an English TV team, fresh from a demonstration tour of Siam, set up its apparatus in Singa- pore's biggest sports stadium. A tiny ...air. conditioned studio 20. feat by 11 housed the camera. It was mounted on a railway porter's trolley. Engineers behind the glass panel ant in a stuffy box with little more than chair room. from the instruments. Repeaters all round the stadium flash- ed programmes to a gasping, cheering audience.

✰

The "talking tubes" first sprang to life with pictures of the Governor of Singapore, Mr J. F. Nicoll, opening the hibition. The watching crowds, Malays, Indiana and Chinese, leaped up in amazement.

"A miracle," cried a dancer.

"Revolutionary," sald student,

ו'J

The most censational ad- vance in entertainment Aivc

We've seen in years," declared a mil- lionaire, businessman and nows- paper owner. He drew up im- medlate plans. for a glantTV station run on commercial lines by English technicians. The cost he put at £185,000:

The

new station would beam programmes throughout wealthy Singapore island

ESPITE bribes for industrial workers who exceed the out- put target set by State,

heavy and

workers1 penalties for those who do not, "atakhanovitism" (Bhamovite propaganda has taken often caused by Impossibly long been employed, while for

Fald, a resolution of the timing tests, it has been the the form

go-slow hours of work.. term for

of strikes, Russian

Labour the workers of more than average Confederation of The working wock at

are used. for elelency

Work speeding-up of production tactics and even sabotage, In

1952 said that trade a police State, where arbitrary Auto-Praga works, Liben,

February of "shock

Increased schedules have been by

tightened unions must organise "Socialist" instance, been or secret trial, savage senten

to up

Communist) up and the amount of time al- (meaning

com- workers") is proving a ces, forced labour and execu- from 58 to 60 hours to as

and toilet re- petition on an even wider failure in the Soviet satellite tlon are the penalties for dis- complete Soviet export orders. lowed for rest

this obedience,

two duced to two percent.

scale. workers, including

recently serious the discontent must be 1,000 crowns (US$20 or £7) for Indiscipline in the mines

women, were' countries.

fined

Criticism of low output and Prace on May 27, 1952, con falling to attend This is clear from recent

small-arms Hungary, has led the tained a report of an interview

authori speeches by

in ties to introduce a system Communist with Dr Havelka, Czech Edinis and hand-grenade practice

of QICANTEIA, complained on May and No 14, 1952, that the competi- Ministers, articles in the ter of Manpower, in which ho their spare timel

prizes, pennants, badges that people

privileges to winners of com- tion results were disappointing controlled press, sentences declared

petitions supposed to be in and that Party members had workers by changing their jobs as often as imposed on

possible to

by "spontaneous get the bonus

enthu "slackened the political content courts, Communist

A and several thousand crowns grant

recent

directive of the Socialist contests. factory novito system is abhorrent issued to

committees from the accounts of re-ed to newcomers. The Central E fact, is that the Stakha~ slaan.'

standartis By Western

this the Communist to the progressive independent stated:

mixture of coercion and cajo- fugees from behind the Iron Committee of

Hence by a resolution on Octo- mindeti Czechs.

"In order to convert the work lery is detestable. The faked Curtain.

15, 1951, admitted that the failure to achieve any of the competition movement into a "enthusiasm of the workers, The proportion of indus-

expressed in stilted resolutions the coal, iron and steel tries of coal, Iron and

write letters to Comrade Rakosi printed in the State-controlled steel

solerun promise press, is intended simply refugees has risen steadily sentro, while Prague Radio on Hence, too, the sabotage, (Two containing a

May 22, 1952, claimed that a fitters disappeared after an ex- that

caused serious they will accomplish their spread the myth of the "happy during the past few months. million workers a year were plosion which

worker" under Communism. In Of those who have recently changing their jobs.

damage to No. 3 cooling tower

vur Only a few days later, despite fact, these speed-up campaigns, at Kastelec power station 17 their "spontaneous, solemn with their sweated labour, show reached Vienna from Hun-

March 1952):

promise," miners at Tatabanyna cynical disregard for the gary, industrial workers are

In Hungary A new decree were accused by Nopsava, the workers own interests.

1932, BSENTEEISM also appears dated April 22,

raised trade union organ, of falling is matched by the workers' in- trend among the Czecho- A to be rife, amounting to a piece-work "norms to an ex- down on their undertaking

ол by difference to the projects would never

Communists place be achieving only 65.4 percent of which the slovak refugees is

nation-wide very tacit,

"go-slow tent which

such heavy emphasis. marked.

plan. A Prague commentator tolerated in a free country, In the target on their first day. Of those who escaped into said on September 19, 1951, that the US Zone of Germany dur 103 million working hours had

May-October been lost in this way during the AMERICAN COLUMN FROM NEWELL ROGERS period ing the 1981, factory workers comprised first half of the year, a rise of

over the nine million hours

the by far the largest group, percentage having risen during corresponding period in this period from 20 percent to 43 percent. From January

1952, factory March again predominated

Party

their

trial workers among these duction plon had failed at set targets in the basic indus- mass. movement, workers

In the majority. A similar

ABSENTEEISM

1050. Bratislava Radio on December to 1051, said that etsenteeism been workers was a discase that had

prevalent (January, Hess

under capl- 20 percent; February 32; and talism,"

Minister, March, 44).

The Czech Prime The next highest group of M. Zapotocky, on June 6, 1952, fugitives, curiously enough, complained that nearly a sfin consisted of "frontier guarda" of the workers at the Kladno a privileged casto in the Com- munist countries,

GRIEVANCES

LL, told of many grievances; A interior housing: nepotism and corruption among. Com- munist

coal mine had failed to report and for work in March 1852, that only 55 percent worked the regular shift on Saturday

March 22.

workers

still

It also seems that show their lack of enthusiasm by turning up late. "Wo

A BANKER

A

"..

will

to

SOME PEOPLE

CALLED ROBIN HOOD

the job instantly to share In

(population two million) and take in the southern tip of Malaya. A re- laystation in Kuala Lumpur the Federation capital, would later extend coverage to almost the entire country,

The Idea has caught on.

A report that one British manu- facturer was prepared to market sets ut 225 cach has flooded dealers with inquiries.

"I'll take one in every room," wrote one wealthy merchant. "Reserve me thirty-dve." -..

Singapore has so far seen only makeshift" TV. programmes, A painted board on an casal pro- vides the tuning signal. It is removed during a quick "fade" and

one of the five announcers steps into view. He speaks English, Malay or any of three Chinesa, dialects. Another fade while the announcer moves to the side of the small stage-t make way for a song and dance act, swing band playing "Slow Boat to

China," a Balinese dancer, a Chinese opera with clashing gangs and ear-splitting chorus. j

4

*

The English technicians, stunned by tho, unfamiliar noise, watch the: proceedings with awe. "Incredible," they say. "Wouldn't that give the folks a night back home"

The Singapore

Government

Oficial; mass political have an abundance of cases of Prayed carnestly that he might the delicate task of dividing the America. And she will foot the looks on with less enthusiasm.

Stokhunovitism

ת!

unpunctuality," wrote Prace on January 25, 1952.

and

is an

the

in continues.

to

PENALTIES

❤

✪

to

TheY

A tent in the colony

They believe there

New York. Into his own office for the ap- sponsor a second tour of Chris- topher Fry's play about prison- HANDSOME banker, pointee.

Truman and his Cabinet do ers in a church. "A Sleep of William Horley, faced

not go out of office until the Prisoners." Judge Ralph Smalley to be end of January, and Lovett says sentenced as an embezzler.

he zung the largest and most She hopes to have it played in The judge's conscience had So the new man should get on every city, town, and hamlet of complicated office in America.. churches and synagogues of been sorely tried. He had

return a just and honest verdict. trials and vicious sentonces

For 80-year-old Horley was a military budget between army, deficits, if any. But she hopes At the Governor's special 20-

there will be none. In Chiengo

quest it has investigated the aginst workers; poor food, and

leader of the Church, Boy Scouts, navy, and air force. But the most deeply. This unpunctuality is easily and indeed the whole community 60 on

last season it took in 27,000 And the experts' view is: "No possibilities of starting telecasts. roated grievance is the ruthless explained. Overtime is paid for of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. DONALD LOWE called for. labour discipline and, in

rate, par at a higher

and

TV for quite a long time." the

England in the Queen Eliza- one week at a synagogue. workers try ticular, Stakhonovilism.

to

beth with supplement their

teasing question British acter Clarence Derwent They believe, for instance, carnings by coming late ugly

THE PLACE loved him. For will American airports and rum- has agreed to star. Mis Lortel that a suitable station would word, and

ways have to be enlarged or hopes for a wing of two years 19 repeated working overtime. The Govern-years he had lent money

cost double the " "estimated ad nouscam in the Communist ment is now discouraging over-ittle people in need. And the, altered if and when Britain's jet around America.

believe that com- press. In essence, it is a device time, but

unpunctuality sald prosecutor Alex Eber, had Comols arrive on them?

mercial television, an enormous- up prokluction

been his downfall. to speed

To find out, he is going to Try want Groucho Marx to baeleward countries unused

Ebor added: "He is a cross walch

Jet T the Farnborough

ly expensive business even in read Koko from Tho introduc

Robin Hood and a show in September. between Industrialisation. Ils

America, cannot. possibly Mikado" on the stage in Imita-

pay in tion

progressive

swindler." States

tion of Emlyn Williamsg-read- Some money had found its way DENT controller Tighe Woods ings from Dickens. There would awakens the fiercest resentment DOTH the Czech Promler and among skilled workers, for It

Prague - Radio

alternately into ventures from which Horley needed u police escort to get just be a plane or two for any embodies all the evils of ex- praise and abuse the workers, stood to profit. But he lived him out of the Detroit hall in Sullivan music needed by

his ploitation which trade

wife and which he tried to explain rent Groucho. unlons but their almost tearful commodestly with three children. countries have

"that things aren't going plaints

controls The prosecutor eaid he tiled to

to angry landlords. fought so hard to abolish. The right are a clear admission that cover up his losses by juggling JOHN Barrymore Junior has record this year which they RAOTORISTS are making one system can only operate, of political terrorism

not and phying the stock market. course, in a dictatorship under achieved its purpose. M. Zapo- He lost £53,000.

had his froubles trying to hate-payment of 2,750 million which the trode unions

tocky revealed on October 28

live up to the great Barrymore dollars (£982 million) in petrol merely State-controlled labour 1051, that coat production un

tradition as an actor. So he mail- taxes. organisations and all the indus der capitalism had been

BIANY PEOPLE who remem od on the.Ile de France to enter 18 trial undertakings State-owned, metric evt. per shift for each bered Horley's generosity and

The Communists offer prizes

a dancing school, Sald Barry y la carning money at last. public spirit wrote to the court more: "Aunt Ethel Barrymore miner; today it is 10 cwt.

It made $1,000,000 Hollare to Slakhanovites who exceed

asiding for clemency to be shown would shoot me if she knew I (£14,000,000) proût on advertis- the stated production "norms, Nor have cayage

penalties him.

Hadlo

ing in 1951, compared with A were dancing," A low of the more robust and prevented what Prague

But the judge remembered

loss of 9,200,000 dollars (£3,205.- fanatical workers, by methods, lack of discipline and that there ing been a big dise TALK is no longer cheap in 080) in 1960. But radio still which often increase the

cambezzling all over the

Congress, It cost taxpayers cars more than TV from cosme of accident

endanger morale." On March 8. 1052 country. and

Than 3,000,000 dollars, mercials" 61,000,000 dollars Brno healthy exceed their targets and the leader of a strike at

Sadly he saidten to 14 years. (just over £1,000,000) to print (222,000,000) in 1951. get financial rewards, Their

mair in November 1051, wag

EFENCE SECRETARY Robert the words of legislators. in the achievements which are some sentenced to 12 years' imprison-E times faked to look more im- ment. Seven others

received

*Lovell advises the winner of Congressional Record.

tribe did their rain dance, pressive than they really are heavy sentences. This strike the electian in. November to: are then used as justification was caused, as were many appoint his Defence Secretary at X-ACTRESS Lucille Lortel, an assembly of '10,000 Red In

wife of wealthy industrialist, dians in Oklahoma was soaked for raising the production Others at the time, by the once. With President' Trurian's

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Government's decision to our approval Lovett,will move a dark Louis Bohweitzer, is going to, by a downpour. »

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more

to provide constant programmes seven days. week. And they bellovo England cannot provide the necessary technicians.

The Government does not

want to discourage any business-liko plan. It knows the immense value of the TV “showroom in Asia to the British radio industry, But it does not want a miah of specu- lation andra costly failure that will ruin : TVią prospecta hero for years to come.

As the Governor, told me: "I think television is a good idea, but it is a matter for closs examination. Even comparative-

A FEW hours after in Apache Ly wealthy countries like. Aus

tralia and Now Zealand haven't yet solved all the problems. Let's not got too excited; too #oon."