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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1936.

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 1936.

has given

Russia a new word

movement

that gives

Soviet and a

every

"220 per cent. workar." She does not want money. All she asked for was a tea set from the factory. She will get it.

The cups are going to be decorated with a view of the Kola Peninsula, an apatite min- ing centre (for porcelain), the teapot will bear a portrait of Kirov, the assassinated friend local Soviet, and the trade of Stalin. Lymba's own face unions.

will gaze forth from the sugar-

worker the chance of

somewhere

Do you

by FRANK OWEN

about

know STAKHANOVISM?

It is a movement that is sweeping Russia like the great wind that blows the. dlust 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 gocs-just this: That if you work harder and quicker and better you will get more money.

STAKHANOV

Britons can thoroughly under- put brains to brawn aland that proposition. The other stretch of foil by the same Inte smug Mr. Samuel Smiles methods? No, sir! Then what? called it "Self Help," Britain, STAKHANOV! He has found however, is a capitalist country. the way! How does "Self Help" fit into the Socialist scheme of Soviet Russia?

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Then he

getting

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He was given a motor-car, bowl. horses, a bank account, his wife Makarova, “n labour heroine,” was loaded with gifts of cloth- of the Stalingrad tractor factory, ing (the latest Schiaparelli-de- however, does 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 Stakhanovite Conference dustry.

of 3,000 delegates in Moscow the other day, Orzhonidzhe, Com- Next selected "here 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. "Stakhanavism" struck 160 roubles a month and now, him smack between the eyes as carns 1,350 because she wants the best iden yet.

His

"I had never counted the parts I turned on my lathe until Stakhanovism came to

me.

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capitalism the 'speed-up' means that fewer workers are required, so though there aro butter wayen for some there is unemployment for many. But suder Socialism the workers get all the goods. buck themaclves, and as they are nowhere near sated with goods there can be no unemployment.

to buy fawn kid shoes!” He invented "improvements" in the handling of labour. No What is the difference, then, more running about after tools. between Stakhanov the Socialist They must be assembled at the and "Self Help" Samuel Smiles? start of a job. Last month The Russians any, "Under Busygin rolled up his pay check for 1,043 roubles (£43, at par). After Busygin camo Maka- Tho Great Stakhanov is vychev, machine part maker in twenty-nine, fair-haired, the Gorki Auto Plant. ahrewd-looking and married technique" was pure speed-up. Soven years ago Russia, & His father was a pensant, and Let Makavychev speak:- sixth of the land surface of the when young Stakhanov was earth, went into business as one twelve he was put to work for a gigantic State Trust. The Rus- miller, grinding corn. sians launched their First Five- went into the mines of Donbas, NO COAL STRIKE

Year-Plan to lay the foundations the South Wales of Soviet In the sad news of the passing of a mighty industrial power in Russia, and learned how to

the Soviet Union. And to the handle a pneumatic pick." a beloved monarch, public doubting wonder of the western attention has naturally been world they pulled through twelve pick, of the Soviet mines at the The output, per pneumatic somewhat diverted from con- months ahead of schedule.

time was wretchedly low, round sideration of the happy cir- They managed it largely by about six tons, though the coal the the volunteer overtime labour of is soft and the seams are thick. by cumstance created averting of

threatened the "shock brigades," ardent The British mines were averag- the atrike of coal miners at Home. Young Communists who banded ing len tons per pick, and the themselves together to speed up Germans were getting seventeen King George's death came at a production. Under their leader tons out of the Rubr. moment when both sides to the ship the factories vied in output. dispute were at variance on vital with each other in what was points, and it is not too much to called "Socialist competition."

Now Russia is in the throes of assume that the national grief

Another Five-Year-Plan, and at the death of the King was her industrial equipment is still a factor which made possible an får from complete. Is it possi agreement on the basis of the ble to drive the people on for an new proposals put forward by the owners. Indeed, the Miners'

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"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

"It is accepted by us that u76- Icas Socialism can give the work- cra a higher mutorial standard than capitalism, then it will crash. Therefore under Social- inm, which is only a stage on the road to Commutism, the workers must be urged on by receiving not according to their needs but according to their productive value to the State. Under Com- muniem they will receive accord- ing to their needs."

I was overfulAlling the norm. In the course of two hours That is the beautiful theory. fifteen minutes I had turned Many. Russian workers suspect out 452 pieces!"

that what is really happening is that the Soviet bosses are brib- So the new movement runs ing a few blacklegs to work

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One day, in August Stakhanov said to his mates, "Here, instead through Russia. Scores of thou- faster and quicken the general of taking turna with the pick, sands have gone "Stakhanov," tempo of labour, and that soon I'll use it all the time, and you hurrying in the steps of the no extra pay will be forthconi- prop the roof and load the tubs heroes, all the time." They doubled, it, the forests have caught it,

The farms have caught ing. trebled and quadrupled their oven

And with the conservative in- output. It once rose to the bitten.

the schools have been stinct of workers all over the astonishing figure of 102 tons.

world, down in Donbas, where How are Russia's women Stakhanovism was cradled, some The Soviet engineers now cal- workers taking it?

of them have started bashing There is Lymba Herfets, of those suspected bosses' darlings 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. Stakhanov did not work longer,

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We got talking, exchanging remin From reminiscences the conversation

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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."

avoiding an industrial 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 to the "next German invasion" merely rediscovered what capi stances of the nation, and because, also, of a keen desire the publishers the bitter denuncia-ed on since the industrial system will call down upon the heads of taliat mine managers have work- 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 supported the workers' claims folk of every other nation who method of work. The decision does credit to the blame newspapers nowadays for The Government and the handful of change from which 1 drifted to the personal, and I learnt.. public spirit of the miners' international complications. No

Bolshevik Party leaped to the was selecting my fare and look- many interesting things about the life leaders and to the men them- doubt auch allegations as those! selves. It has to be borne in made by French journalists yester- immense value of Stakhanov. ed sharply at the taxi-driver. of a London taxi-driver.

day, to the effect that Germany. The Soviet Press seized on the It was dark and a dirty night. mind that the owners also have, had built a powerful chain of air- astonished miner, hailed him "Who the?” during the recent discussions, ports in the Rhineland and from as a "hero of labour" through-

"Eleven months it took me to learn my London. There were times when displayed a welcome change of the North Sea to the Swiss frontier out many columns and for weeks Quartermaster in the Tiddley Tites in

"Leading Seaman Wright, air I thought I'd never pass the tests." psychology by doing everything in preparation for an attack upon on end.

"How do you learn Lendon?" I possible to secure increased re- France, tend to disturb the serenity Moscow, feasted, photographed, Nobody but a genuine sallor would months I did on my bike. After a bit

He was brought to China with you sir."

asked. 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 cyclameter on my bika Just I relaxed. This wasn't a try-on. "On a push bike, sir. Eleven 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

as a matter of interest. I found I gave an assurance that the whole probably add but a little to the

did over 0,000 miles in six months. of the

"And every so often I had to amount realised

uneasiness in France is a

and only

go to result of voluntary increases in may exist towards the French in

Scotland Yard for an examination on slightly to any antagonism which

the part of London which I had been contract prices of coal would go

Germany.

exploring. The central parts of Lon- But the to the miners.

cumulative The position effect of all these rumours of re-

don were easy, but all the side strecta was by no means without Its cent

in the outskirts-Brentford, Seven days the suggestion that

Kings, and so on. int 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

os Hitler and Goebbels with res- the consumer, there are large colonies, the apparent sympathy in pect to the need for German concerns such as railways which Germany for the Italian point of have their own economic dif-view, and now, finally, the bald ficulties and which naturally assertion that the next invasion of find doarer coal a handicap in France the struggle to make ends meet. cumulative effect, we repeat, can In preparation-the 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 artistic qualities particularly. their courage, their loyalty, and cached, and the nation has been But we know they are emotional, spared the disasters which though in times of crisis their would follow a general stoppage leaders have ever shown an ad- of the coal mines. The owners mirable and astonishing calm. We have gone as far as they have know that auch accusations as the felt justified in doing, whilst the Paris press yesterday hurled neross miners' leaders have shown an the Rhine will probably -equal readiness not to run coun- Frenchmen more than Germans.. ter to the economic interests of its facts are correct, for it has a We do not blame the newspaper if the industry and to the progress duty to perform in that event; Ita of the nation in its fight for re- presses must roar a warning to the covery. Not only is the present nation. But if these reports are dispute adjusted, but the owners without foundation, If, 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 press. application to the industry. The For the sake of the Parisian nows creation of this body should

papera, we cannot but hope that place future relations between the German dental will not be too severe a condemnation. For the better auke of peace in Europe and our future crises which might cause dontal will be

never- grave national injury.

theless.

and men

on L

Is

move

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"You know, mother, I think we should get away from each other for a while.”.

"Are you glad you're driving a taxi instead of flogging the ocean?". I asked.

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"Yes. It's good fur and one's. Dover dull. The money's not bad, either. We get one-third of what's registered on the meter, and then there 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 ten bob for the driver.

"It made a big difference to us drivers when the meters started at ninaponce instead of a tanner. The rise didn't hit the owners nearly'eg bard, for if a man's going to tako a cab ho'll take it whether It starts at ninaponce or sixpence.

"It's because tips mean moro to drivers than what they got out of the meter takings that drivers never like long fares. You see, it means 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 littlo chance of picking up a fare. I had to drive a gentleman to Morden the other niglit, and I didn't get another fare until I got back to Hyde Park Corner."

"Would you rather drive mon women?" I asked.........

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