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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1948.

"They say they want a supplementary allowance for delivering church tracts to poor sinners. fi that a bona fide reason

BRITAIN WANTS 100,000 MEN FOR THE LAND":

The New Order In Bulgaria

B

ULGÁRIA is a country

Where beginnings, were possible, be obtained on coupons in 'one year with a vigorous revolu. beginnings have been made. Cot- was about 25 yards of cotton, 15 of tionary past,

and a tage hospitals are springing up, and wool, with six pairs of socks for men Government flung up by parti- women go there to have their and 12 palm of stockings for women. san rising. It was more easily children free of charge. Last year, shoes, which cost 2,400 leva with coupons, and 10,000, without are set upon the road to. Com- for the first time, the infant more of poor quality, munism than Hungary, for tality rate, which was the worst in instance, where there was no Europe, actually decreased. Every rising to speak of, although doctor must now spend two yours the mood for years had been of his training in a village. About conservative and the rulera 123,000 landless peasants have to reactionary. It has rapidly ceived smallholdings; no one who

What is most nooded is a really good harvest. The wheat was in early last year and in some pinces standing din, by March. In the factories and social...) spheres independent of the weatherr Improvement has boen

adopted both a planned economy forms may own more than 50 acre registered miners of Porniis re-

and an economic plan, financed and no one who does not, more mainly from internal resources than about three. and giving preference of capital rather than consumption goods.

The Times cor- respondent in Bulgaria examines

the current posi- tion in one of the first countries in Eastern Europe to

since regime camo to

power. The

ceive special rations and increased pensions, and their paid holiday's have been extended from 14: to

25

days in your The private houses: of collaborators have been turned Into children's homes, of which there are now 40 in the Sofia area. Women

formerly excluded from politics, are taking an active part in them.

OLD SOCIETY

There are no foudal estates in Bulgaria, and the country. has long been formed by smallholding peasants, so that the national economy now rests upon an agrarian foundation of middle-class capitalism, cor- responding to the former

THE chief problem, as elsewhere middle-class capitalism of the

In Europe, is production. New been towns. Industry has

"norms" with progressively rising na- completely and directly

piece-rates have been introduced. By the end of last year these WEIC tionalised. The civil and diplo

found to be far too low, and were matic services and the armed

raised atill further Discontent forces have been thoroughly

flared up in the factorier. It led to a crisis between the Communiste, In Sofia alone 4,000 purged.

who preached a crusade of industrial officials were dismissed with a

efficiency and discipline, and the Social

Democrats, month and a half's salary. They

some of whom with

At the are to be found new jobs, which

sympathized

complaints. The orials never became really acute, they have no option but to ac-

because the Social Democrats were cept. Inattive owners or

weaker than their opponents. At- directors of nationalised busi-

cording to one of the chief planners. The co-operative farms so far the new wage scale means an aver- nesses have, been removed, but managers are as often as not have only 50,000 members, at the age increase of 10 per cent in real retained. The now directors highest estimate, and take-up only wages, though some have been re- ducod. High increases in pay above are allowed to dismiss former 4 per cent of the agricultural land. the norm, the Stakhanovite sys- employees other than spe- There is a typical one in the rich tem, and "Socialist competition" on land cialists, for whose removal plain near Plovriv. Half the vil- Russian lines have been introduced

to special sanction must be ob- lage belong to it. They

AND THIS IS HOW TO GET THEM

By the EARL OF PORTSMOUTH

pro-

be drawn behind the Iron Curtain

built all..

in most industries.

оп the THE

HE Minister of Agricul- third year of work

that most new workere begin ture says, save £100,000, be really useful and highly 000 in dollars by producing 20 ductive

For that they must be tained from the responsible the outhouses themselves and have Side by side, along the streets of percent more food at home. willing recruits to n permanent Minister. Industry and com- a maternity home for which the Sofia, one can see the old society In- passlig and the new stopping into There is room for a much profession. Once wedded to service merce are thus Socialist in women weave all the cloth. greater increase provided we follow on the land there need be no fear structure, while agriculture re-dividual holdings were pooled, and its place. The previous owner

one shop, now a co-operative, had a sound livestock policy; under of bad workmanship or poor out- mains capitalist. most difficult conditions we 'did as put. much four years ago. Yet every cackle now does not mean an egg

Labour for problem.

for this is mainly

Wa

I

BELIEVE the permanent labour problem is capable of solution

We need

own

of

he who was not a member and sold out, bought a villa with the. had a strip in the middle was money, and become the manager. WOODEN PLOUGHS ́ given another elsewhere. All the Next door stood a private shop. The members work in shifts, shepherds owner said that he had dimcultes in getting materials and would Other wi

what should be plaughed shops are owned by the municipall- workers

to replace prisoners of within three years and the solution THE peasant problem will con- included, and an elected committee probably soon be bought out

ties or by the State. Most of the war. For a fully productive agri-

between 50,000 and front the Communists for decides

and sown. They keep their culture we will need many

nationalised, and there is a State. more than this, even if every now man dare not risk taking on

100,000 houses at least. Farmers many years to come. They hope gardens and get regulable from hotels and restaurants have been new to solve it by co-operative pro- the co-operative; onco the State barber's. The Correspondent went produced £750 worth of food. So

to the co-operative barber's. It had entrants to farming when it duction, while retaining indivi- deliveries are satisfied, they can | far orthodox schemes have pro- meats housing them st the

many owners had joined it later. duced only a trickle of new entries expense of a skilled worker. But / dual ownership, This fundamen- all the rest on the free market boon started by employees, but I am certain, given enough good tal change has only just begun; Each receives a wage of 500 leva It belonged to all those working in houses in the countryside, the Its extension depends on the sup--a day (a good average), as well it except the cashier who had not ply of tractors and agricultural as rent for his farm There are yet made up her mind. One barber, who had had his own shop, said he

to farm work.

THE secretary of the Industrial labour will be forthcoming.

For many reasons outsido their machinery. The visible pattern two tractors and an expert to made less money than as a private

for the purpose. If we are to have made by private cow peeded

must be faced before we rely on terprise tossible for private etion of the villages in Macedonia.

ent farm force. Can · the recruits

year.

use

ECTO

!

SOCIALIST REALISM

are

Christian Fellowship has urged.

authorities cannot that instead of conscripting youth patrol local for the Forces, part at least should build enough farm workers' houses of village life remains primitive, supervise their use. Next year the owner, but expected to increase his The people ap whole village intends to join the wages. On the other hand, be now only worked half a day. Tips are be directed to compulsory work on by public enterprise. On the other even archaic.

supposed to be an Insult in the the land, housed in old Service hand, a very great contribution to pear to be tearing the future out co-operative. The yield an

must b

beof-the-ground with their bare has been higher than alsowhere, State concerns, but many people do camps and in new butments put up rural housing can and

Farm cottages are

In hands. As in the past, they partly because of proferential treaf- not mind beinir insulted in this way. conscription in peacetime. some

There scratch at their dwarf holdings, ment In 1847 the average yield form of service in constructive pairs or mall groups only. work would be most desirable, more fore, it is work for the small bullder many of them still with wooden of wheat in the co-operatives was Before the war the twice as great as on private hold- especially in such schemes as innd and the private estate staff, whose ploughis. reclamation and conservation at labour in no way competes with

cereal yield an acre was the ings.

THOUGH Communists have their home, and abroad by arrangement labour needs of public housing en-

lowest in Europe. Families

diangreements about "Socialist with the Dominions. Such work terprise.i

realism," the Soviet rebuke to Sho- a rural district multiplied at an alarming rate, On a survey lends itself to gang labour, E

YOUTH BRIGADE"

stakovitch, Prokolov, and Chafa- not long ago 1 concluded that it and 80 per cent of the popula

churian has not been imitated in However, two practical questions was easily

provide wall over one

most striking feature in Bul- Bulgaria. Artists are encouraged to conscripts as part of the perman- house per thousand acres within a was chronically out of work. Tu moving life today is the take an interest in the rebuilding Taken as an overall average Goats, which they kept in large youth brigade." The schism be of their country, in the creations of be spared from the needs of mill- it would mean that half the house numbers, nibbled away, the tween town and country is an old Socialism, and the new form of life, tary service! And assuming they needed for farm

•workers coun

thus forests and the best pastures.

story, even in Bulgaria, where and Communists, ofi dally, could provide the necessary labour, be built in a year, would it be satisfactory?

There are other advantages for Planned economy is expected every one, including all the lead against art for art's sake, Painters Mers, was born under a sheepskin in the western manner are able to in directed I do not bellevo

ito change all this.

Every Sunday groups of young run into difficulties. An opera by labour on peace-ume jobs. For this method of building, namely that much more local material can

Dimitrov's Two-Year Plan townspeople, tallers, barbers, doc. the young composer Pikov, Com- permanent work in nearly all its be used and very often part of the

at tors, mechanics, teachers, go out munist, was the subject recently of crerations agriculture demands real material is already there awaiting aims like all its fellows

mechanisation, irrigation, and into nearby villages and spend furious discussion, as is any new work of major importance. The cura and responsibility.

Without Inspired leadership, con-

development of industry to their time ploughing, repairing oficial crities attacked him, and he

nursing the

counter-attacked. scripts brought into compulsory

He agreed to sick. In the evening the brigade some minor changes, but one he re- draw off the surplus rural building, teaching, camps for any lengthy period will

population. Thirty tractor returns to the THERE is no reason why we should

town. One group, fused to make. The Minister of tend to do perfunctory work; more- over, labour: housed in large units not have a fair number of pre-

one town the doctors have Arts, was called in, pronounced in makes bad-use of working hours fabs without destroying the ameni- stations have been set up 80 as in Yugoslavia, built a railway

favour of the composer. Novelists something worth owing to dimculties of arranging ties of the countryside. It might be far, and when a new tractor In for transport to individual farms, possible to make small prefabs in arrives a whole village goes out given up their holidays to attend cols to writ

the old frontiers are being dis- Even in quite small hostels, for 30 which we might house elder couples to meet it By 1951 one-quarter the sick in villages. By such means while can be given, a poor's want `to produco'n work on whatever sub- The enthusiasm behind or 40, this is a very intractable without families. Many of these, on of the arable land is to be ir solved.

movement is not new, but Ject they fancy, provided it does not..

attack the regimo. Actors, singors, problem. Hitler's work service, camps compassionate grounds, are neces

collages which rigated. The number of goats this only attempted general gang fabour., sarily occupying

is being reduced and one day (a everywhere it has been roused by and musicians in all theatres are should house family workers.

to bigger tasks, State employees, and whatever their There are also many older cot-far-off aim) will be got rid of the Government

far larger BUT for help in rush periods, we tages which will not. attract good entirely. The non-delivery of such as forest-clearing, road-build- rank, recive a new

might use the young soldier. Workers unless they can be moder- machinery - from abroad and Ing, on an entirely voluntary basis. than their previous unpredictable It would need careful planning or nised; this again can only be done three catastrophic

Bulgaria is a poor country, where

There has been no crusade against: seasonal farming, operations It private cutazprise. ») would be both a change and an Thus, given priority for materials, Last year the agricultural pro- the level of 1939. The United N education for the soldiers, but all private building enterprise can be gramme was only 75 per cent. tions Fund for Children, which has religion, but it has coised to be the a staff in Sola, estimates that the taught in Ichools I may, however, Inffedto the permanent the first means of getting labour on fullled. According to land labour fo

fox, which

the land. With this new and recen-head of the planning commisocial rution is only equal to about be taught privately, and there is stili ditioned housing must go the provision, the three droughts caused 1.000 calories. Prices on the official Uraited freedom for the swarm of free market are high. The Govern- exotic sects that have always might be done during the man's over possible, electricity. Good leva approximately £100m., free shops in Sofia, but food cannot take a year's course in dialectical enlisted partono interest them houses, gardens and all the other

ahop the Correspondent was told materialism, and a six-year" course- as a life's extras of the countryside should and nearly 10 times the esti get be bought there. In a draper's

mated revenue for: 1948.

that the amount of cloth which can in Russian. job. It is only the second or bring good labour to the land.

droughts

amali, summer canpa in relation to with proper, encouragement and by have set the planners back the standard of living is still below

this

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