About Stakhanovism
Abramowitsch, Raphael
By Raphael Abramowitsch About Stakhanovism P O R many weeks -the Soviet 1 . press has been filled with maerial dealing with Sukhanovism ' led the Stakhanovites. A tremendous ballyhoo, re-...
...The result is naturally an increase in productivity, particurally where more intelligent, better equipped and more diligent workers are employed...
...KB.when he said, in the old Smith Men, "Let's look at the record," 1 em imagine farmers and smailM*uu-s over all the West and •sink saying, "I guess old Joe's K ) a t there...
...Thomas scalped the Happy Worrior tcith tonsorial skill—but u-hat did the Detroit Declaration of Principles have to do with it...
...Russian engineers, mechanics, managers and administrative employees are likewise, in the great majority, without the necessary technical education, discipline and knowledge of organization...
...The Soviet press assures us that the Stakhanovites are performing quite unprecedented miracles in production, that their output exceeds au previous figures anywhere in the capitalist world( and that the new Socialist industry of Russia is overtaking with giant strides the" effete industry of capitalist countries...
...The Stakhanovites who drive thejr immediate assistants with »icj energy drive also the entire mass of workers in a given mine ? or plant to toil beyond endaumanv This they do by raising too tWm of output...
...The newspayers, instead of following the •••nan ill...
...As already indicated, a Stakhanovite is one who not only increases output to the highest possible maximum but developes new technical methods increasing the output of his entire craft...
...Stakhanoff is not the only Russian worker now being ballyhooed for his "world records" in output...
...Housing conditions for the jOreiwhelming majority are indeHgjbably inadequate...
...Zero We other With Salmy Winds What confuses the weather man most are the hot air currents emayiating from the pre-campaign broadcasts...
...They represented something, something that is brewing in the deep South...
...But these five are enough to •jve the weather-man a good picture of meteorological con,ptiens...
...Jhfiwonderful idea to get excited fjnatt...
...The .WCmL...
...He is for i the early settlers and the const:- . tution...
...Pfctaity, sweating and careerism...
...Stakhanovism, too, has a desirable aim, bat the aim is being pursued by methods inimical to Socialism and the working cla o d e o o f t h e R a d i o 1 Five Great Statesmen Approach the Mike and Say Absolutely Nothing...
...But, as in jSSSjjIlliiig else, the Bolsheviks ap' JSJNCB this problem in a stupid, WDel manner...
...We, the opponents of the Bolshevist dictatorship, consider Stak- j hanovism but a link in the chain j of Communist policy, so destructive of true Socialism and the real interests of the workers...
...At the age of 21, he became a miner and rapidly won a reputation for skill and energy...
...Al Smith, m immaculate S l a n g dress, roused a rabble of fift thousand persons—including a Isead dozen of dnPonta—who rep|pjented "a large portion of capfishstic wealth of the country...
...Washington, D. C , bookshops report Alexis Carrel's "Man, the Unknown" as a best seller...
...His public speeches are written with the right hand and with the left he writes for home consumption...
...Even the left [JPBT Socialist press is assailing Hjpsset sweating system of the mmhcviks...
...The official Pravda is filled ' with photographs of the delegates, their speeches and biographies— hundreds and hundreds of them...
...Absolutely all...
...He •peals from them, their dividends MB top-hats, to Theodore Roosewm sad Abraham Lincoln...
...He wants to save the B*pnd Old Party from Al Smith, jgjn Raakob and the duPonts...
...sian workers to higher levels di output, to make them work harder...
...Millions of people have it right on top of their minds...
...The average Russian miner earns...
...The same holds true of machine industry...
...All this is reflected in inefficient management and direction, improper functioning of supply and equipment and frequent demoralization and interruption of work...
...The only one of the five who had a sentence to say about realitywas Senator Borah, who did meni tion an old-age pension of $60 a • month...
...Or the farmer's wife or workingman's wife...
...BEN BELSK Y. The New Soviet Speed-up System— - - v: 'tt t ^ , A Wrong Approach to a Good Goa...
...By Raphael Abramowitsch About Stakhanovism P O R many weeks -the Soviet 1 . press has been filled with maerial dealing with Sukhanovism ' led the Stakhanovites...
...There has never been any comparison in productivity between the Russian factory workers and the German, British or American...
...Socialists and trad unionists are wondering how a Socialist government or a government calling itself...
...But when it comes to national leadership, a combination of Landon's principles with Huey Long's accent can't win in any sort of field...
...But there is a smell about him that makes for unpopularity both in Park Avenue and the Methodist church at Jones Corners, Indiana...
...You can't help •JPenng a man like that, but how gWhnVt aj m>an can get to be Presi- or_ what he could do as PresPBkt, jg more than anyone can l L . A Kansas CooNdae KW^Wednesday came the two HS*nors, a fine team for a conHP...
...Like '. the "Kansas Coolidge," he is in » favor of liberty and the constitui tion and the Supreme Court and I the balanced budget...
...How can a government calling itself Socialist determine wages and conditions of work without the existence of free trade unions and consultation with these , organizations...
...An appropriate design for the Vice-President's new flag would be a pair of white socks drying on a clothes-line with the motto: "Nothing to do until tomorrow...
...A lot ordinary folks care about the distinction between recovery, and reform...
...There are also the blacksmith Bussigin, 23 years old...
...They may follow Huey Long or Dr...
...a sufficient supply of skilled labor and the necessary technical knowledge...
...They were supposed to be the most skillful, hardworking and diligent...
...It is a fight with life and death wagered on the outcome...
...1 If - our greet radio cast had ap- 1 peared on a stage before an audi- « ence Governor Talmage would 1 have stolen the show...
...In other words, the 216 looms were tended by twelve workera— VI tQ ;*$ looms per worker...
...Net So DoffynrKon Congress: The most extravagant floor show between Broadway and Hollywood Boulevard...
...Bat over the radio the East Side voice had a vaudeville twang...
...It is acute...
...He said to his Brooklyn audience that he thinks the peiple should select the presidential can- , didates, that our foreign policy ; should be "complete aloofness," j that the President and Congress should be curbed rather than the Supreme Court, that the CostiganWagner Anti-Lynching Bill is unconstitutional, that we should have , old-age pensions, that industrial , production cannot be controlled without sacrificing personal liberty, that the trusts must be opposed and the independent business ] man protected...
...Today, the proverbial "step-mother of nations" would be more fitting...
...Particularkj high are the earnings of Stakhajvovites engaged in the operation and repair of agricultural machinery in the collectives...
...Governor Talmadge may be pretty dumb but hardly speechless...
...To a certain extent this l g hi true...
...Many another •haft statesman shouted his siessage at the microphone...
...For a pair E§ ihrnti or a new suit a Russian Spur must spend a month's •Sagas...
...He was •eaking for "the great rank and jjh of the American people in which class I belong...
...He has two disadvantages...
...nidiocy of our party alignments • S not be better displayed than j j | / ™ ^ f » « that while^they^both the same angle, one of them is a i Republican and the other a Dem- r ocrat...
...The available machinery and equipment are adequate to produce a much higher output, but what is lacking is proper msjisjyl ment...
...Nothing like it has ever been known before...
...But, on the other • a d , the Soviet press forgets E s t s miserable life the great jjjosn of Russian workers lead...
...ers perceive that the StsJnasaoySa drives them on hi order to satisfy his own greed, his owe desire foe more money and prirBegee at the expense of Ms fellow worker...
...Everything very high class, high bat...
...a good deal of it is plain falsehood...
...Ninety per cent of the Russian factory" workers of today are peasant sons and daughters whose coming into the factories is of very recent date...
...Al fafessed himself to have found •preme happiness and comfort...
...But the Republicans have i described in him their great white t hope...
...tC Soviet press reports hundreds ef instances of opposition on the part, of the workers, and of physical attacks on Stakhanovites...
...He would I B w nvt the constitution from !l*haaieat than the Negroes from ipchtag...
...he had him there...
...Thus the Stakhanovite beeomeja no only an instrument for increa*ing production but a whip to dtbftt the workers into increasing eritjB For this reason the workers dislike the Stakhanovites inUeeffr and regard them as enemies...
...Joseph Robinson, Senator from Arkansas and majority leader of the Senate, speaking for the President of the United States, what do you have to say...
...A person would have to be perverse to tolerate the clumsy flagellation of the art-is-ablackjack protagonists...
...The per capita Ssspry of sugar, butter, bread pjaat and other necessities in SoHKt Russia is still below that of Jfjjew, hen, can the government Mimnd from workers receiving fill small wages and living under i*S_miserable conditions that they Smjeee their industrial productively to the levels demanded by Staklenevism...
...i d e f i H f c H S i f r i * *m ballyhoo and misrepresentation...
...Well try to do worst next time...
...The horse he backed in '28 Has kicked him where—1 hesitate...
...He proceeded to weep for the little pigs and denounce the "agents of Moscow" who sit in Washington and regiment the poor people of the United States...
...The only rubber truncheon in art that ever stirred me was a moving picture version of Upton Sinclair's "Jungle...
...They may not know any economics...
...Mere honors be/f stowed upon performance or pub5' lication in the newspapers of pictures of enthusiastic StakhenavttsO would not suffice to obtain results...
...That was squeezed out of him by the Townsendites, who are ! hot on his trail...
...furnished them, sent eat-"1eelDegrapbw reports, rich in W t s " sad other folksy turns of A Nordic to Nordics -anjifir Majority Leader Robinson is sot ae gifted a performer aft'Af Reata, but he has his points...
...There is only one theory on which you can assume that they heard with satisfaction...
...But for a lot of workers in 1936 politics is no sport...
...kea the common-sense • j * of Kansas and the other the •"•ely twang of the deep South...
...Whereas per eaftm production in s given instance wop measured by the figure 109...
...They used to be called wdamiki or "shock-troops of industry," recordbreakers...
...But the enthusiasm aroused by the publication of the startling news in the Soviet press was marred by an unexpected revelation by Lubinoff, commissar of light industry, who at one of the aforementioned conferences in Moscow innocently revealed the details of the miracle...
...Imagine a miner from Pennsylvania and a farmer from Nebraska listening patiently to the end...
...The five lead men weald fall in a row like five wooden nine-pms...
...H i was in the "gilded banquet jaH of the Mayflower Hotel...
...Pugihstically speaking—he leads with the left, but his right hook is his most menacing blow...
...Long speeches, resounding 1 resolutions and demonstrations for Stalin are the rule at these eon- : ferences...
...He honestly believes pht>tfce constitution is more imj y m t than people and, he was g*Ve -enough to say so right to g* People's faces...
...That is l all...
...Gerald Smith invoked the ghost of his Lost Leader, Huey Long...
...And so far as realization of the plight of plain i people is concerned this great libi eral is just about the most hope1 less of the lot...
...Later, the Soviet government invented the category of otlichniki,—the highest grade oi ndarniki...
...a worker of peasant origin, 29 years old...
...Past of this campaign is also the effojCt now under way pn drive the Rus...
...And suppose that these two, the producers of wealth, the wielders of power, should ask in a mighty voice: _ * "And so what...
...He says ' that to preserve our liberties, the Constitution should be left as it is, that President Roosevelt has ' been wasteful and the budget must j be balanced, that the way out of ' the depression is to restore confidence, give business men a chance 1 to operate freely—as they did in 1929—that recovery must precede reform, that soil must be conserved ' and a "sound" farm policy inaug- 1 urated, that taxes have been reduced in Kansas and they can be ; reduced in the nation, and that what we need is "good" government...
...It would make possible the setting up of HJ> labor unions, now non-existHfcBt Russia, and enter into colHflV agreements with them on ways "and means of increasing the lMNbetiv:ty of the workers, inSjmd of extracting from these JjtMHuigry, poorly paid, miserw h "toilers the highest possible jfithuurc of labor...
...Picture a farmer or workingman listening in...
...tip Stakhanovite raises it to 140...
...He says that the New 1 Deal is all wrong, that the Su- I preme Court has saved America, that he believes in states' rights, that Secretary Ickes is a so-andso, that Roosevelt is a Communist, that we should not be regimented, that seven-eighths of the federal buildings should be torn down, that the budget should be balanced and a constitutional limit should be set on the power of Congress to tax, that the terms of the Democratic platform of 1932 should be lived up to...
...Participating in ' :hese conferences are the leading 1 lights of the Soviet government 1 including Stalin and Premier Molo- 1 toff...
...He believes in t the soil, and he will do right by ' the farmers...
...Here is a little example: recently, the Soviet press reported that the noted Stakhanovite, Kasia Odinzova, performed the feat of operating 216 automatic looms...
...of well paid and " ^ H s m C d Asti-Sociol To be sure, there is a positive •IerneUt in Stakhanovism...
...They get asmuch as 2,000 and 3.000 rookies • month, receiving in addition gifts of cattle, pigs, material for ties contraction of homes, auto mobiles, pianos, etc...
...The Stakhanovites are to he fab symbol of the future Socialist Rmv sis, in which the workers win Wp gladly and enjoy a life of aatfew and plenty...
...You can imagine old-faBhioned American partisans rubbing their hands and saying: "By gum...
...U p entire plant is then compelled to attain this figure, bet the ract ef the workers de act ictclvo increased pay for this inert seed eotput...
...They wsnt to know: What wffl this man, this party, this policy do to give ns this definite thing...
...This is the purV pose of the Stakhanoff movement • • * V Stakhanovism does not aim...
...And when the Negroes •jeeat were so forgetful of their ?sbt k> the Grand Old Party as to put him on the spot all the good (Bat tould do was to be honestly g * politely heartless...
...They received higher wages and many economic and social privileges...
...But that was many years ago when I was a freshman at Socialist Sunday School...
...I don't care whether they leaned toward the receiving set in Maine or New Mexico or Mississippi...
...It is that of Alexei Stakhanoff...
...Senator Borah's plea that we go Steward by moving backward was shaost overlooked by the dramatic critics of the great air show...
...Others honored by the appellation Stakhanovite have improved machinery or ways and means of its operation in such a way as to enable a worker to run two machines instead of one...
...i was laying it on thick...
...Ab- 1 solutely all...
...He is against regimentation, taxes and the New Deal...
...his text from the Old Testa:amjt, fits right in...
...A Stakhanovite is a worker or employee of outstanding productivity in his craft or profession, one who shows his fellow workers how to increase output to the greatest possible maximum...
...In each case of higher output we have the usual elements of superiority in equipment, organization and method of work— the well-known elements of rationalization...
...Governor t Landon, "Alf Landon," is a plain f fellow...
...This is the issue...
...and produce more...
...The working man thinks of low wages, unemployment, the right to organize...
...In the old industrial countries the number of such workers is very large, and even the unskilled workers are of a much higher cultural quality than the unskilled Russjan worker who cannot read or write...
...They live Mke Bath lords while the rest ef the mesa bers of the collectives receive a few poods of wheat per month...
...Is it a Socialist meth•St^Wee-me workers to tail belefsfttis;' a\iana, Mi by means of S seeaflaf system applied with me saistiao...
...During the recent visit of the Buryat Mongolian delegation to Moscow, a milkmaid delegate greeted Stalin and told him she was the mother of seven children...
...no, These wide differences are not difficult to understand...
...merely to create a spirit of speed' and competition among the Russian workers...
...That is all...
...The issue in plain words —is the depression...
...The average helper earns 1170 to 200 roubles a month...
...There are act move thee sew er two in a hundred who are Stakhanovites...
...Apoeol to Selfishness SUkhaaovism stirs the energy and labor ef the workers by appealing to their selfish instincts...
...Absolutely all...
...It is certainly necessary :o increase out9 R %fmseiis of better organizaJBaprorement of technical defJttl »"aSd diligent work...
...Well, if you have seven more it will be still nicer," Stalin told her...
...The number usually operated by skilled workers has varied from 10 to 20...
...hence, the expression Stakhanovism...
...The names are too many to be mentioned, but Stakhanoff was the first to attract attention...
...Imagine our working man or farmer (or his wife) listening to this...
...This is certainly an increase over the previous Soviet average ef 10 to 12 looms, but it is no miracle...
...Suppose that when they have finished, the orators look pectantly to these two great, silent figures for approval...
...A tremendous ballyhoo, re- fleeted also in the Communist press ouside of Russia, has been < unleashed in connection with the r Stakhanoff movement...
...They want to get out and stay out...
...Should this quatrain of self-inflicted columnar calumny prove too mild, we hope our hellwishers will understand the natural restraint...
...Otto I Bauer, a warm friend of the Soviet ! regime, has found it necessary to j expose the negative features of Stakhanovism...
...the monthly earnings/ed a Stakhanovite miner are O ta i roubles...
...Stakhanovism, with ' mVeretafity and anti-social methesa, is me latest example...
...They work carelessly, they lack punctuality...
...The plant director points to the Stakhanovite, demanding taot the workers follow his example...
...That is all...
...In Oklahoma City they are drilling twenty-two wells under the Capitol for oil, and in Tallahassee they must be drilling for tar to supply the Florida Ku Kluxers...
...The Now Yorker talked of representing the "great task and file," hut his East Side ekdect is below the rank and file priLJns Park Avenue connections fits above H. Joe Robinson, with Ms decent grammar, his plain •eerdi...
...The farmer has his mind set on low prices and high interest, small income, a miserable life...
...Stakhanoff himself devised a new method of work by so disposing his helpers in the mine and coordinating effort as to multiply greatly the total output...
...gjespite the vast ballyhoo and mpieity campaign unleashed by mi Communist press, the negative Bjsets of Stakhanovism are well •Arttood by :he workers in msstern Europe...
...The perfect - candidate...
...The output of the Russian worker, both under czarism and bolshevisra, was always low...
...The readers of The New Leader are probably familiar by now with the name Stakhstnoff...
...After eliminating the elements of silly boasting and propaganda, the picture presented by Stakhan. ovism is very simple: it is a methi od of driving the Russian workers to increase the production of the ne» machinery and equipment in- ' traduced in Soviet Russia in the past few years...
...A European or American worker may wonder what the fuss is all about...
...He is a plain Rpfie talking to plain Nordics...
...for a ride to respectability...
...But they know what they waft...
...Such champion miners as Stakhanoff himself and others who "by their own efforts" produce 200, 300 or 600 tons of coal (ten times the normal output of the best miners in any other country), it is disclosed upon closer investigation, work with an entourage of assistants, organized and disciplined in such manner as to enhance output...
...It is quite clear that all this is pure ballyhoo and exaggeration for publicity purposes...
...Socialist can permit itself to introduce piecework and resort te methods long condemned by trade unions throughout the world as the worst forms of exploitation...
...They want food, clothes, homes, a chance at life...
...And now there are the Stakhanovites...
...The general cultural and intellectual level in Russia is much lower than in the old industrial countries, particularly as regards technical culture...
...Even the Communist Humanite ! has been compelled to print "queslions and answers" on the subject, j Shamefacedly, the Communist or?»n has had to defend the new sweating system against the criticisms of Communist workers in France...
...Think of it, 216 looms operated by one woman...
...They have essentially the 1 same theories of life, hut one is t called "the Kansas Coolidge" sad c the other reminds us of Huey Long...
...And in committee: left-handed, right-handed and highhanded...
...But aside from this ideal these is a very prosaic element involve...
...Can it be a new version of the "forgotten man" that interests our statesmen...
...According to the new Nazi textbook on physical culture . . . the perfect athlete must be a first rate hand-grenade thrower, and Karl Muench, the author of the book, must be a first rate Spanish athlete...
...In many instances they are downright ignorant and without the capacity for effective leadership...
...For this reason the' Soviet government has launched * campaign to raise the technical level of the Russian workers ("the* development of new cadres...
...And he says it in 1 such a nice, clean way that no Eastern lawyer can object...
...The ' staid Herald-Tribune -waxed lyrical < —in a Union 'League Club sort of - way—the morning after he made ] his first speech about the dear oid 1 Republican homestead...
...Gifts of gold watches, 1 gramaphones, etc are disbursed by ' Stalin to the heroes of Stakhan- < Dvism...
...Mack About Nothing Governor Alf Landon, you whitehaired - boy of the Republicans, | what is your answer...
...The band did its part by playing "We'll Hitch Old Dobbin to the Shay," which may be interpreted as powerful support for Chief Justice Hughes and a slap at Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Trained Workers Lack...
...Technical improvements and new devices, or, to use the scientific term, technical rationalization, are the normal characteristics of industry in all countries...
...Looking Them Over Al Smith, what is your answer...
...J& views are old-fashioned, gen•raely conservative, and he is a nmtleman with a high-class mind...
...Everything about his make- i up suggests the staunch and home- ' spun hero destined to save the innocent maid with the straw-colored \ hair hanging down her back...
...In some countries workers have i been known to operate as many as 25 and 30 looms...
...The papers dutifully r e p o r t e d his nerds, but in the d i s c u s s i on I* has hardly been given a be...
...Town send...
...His credentials seem to be O.K...
...Such workers were always at a minimum in Soviet Russia...
...e e . * .. The Soviet press terms tatUs workers "a dark and baefiWaaB4%a(Contiaosd an Page-mfkw^l apt...
...If the Soviet government were [ lfa*M a workers' government it Staid seek to realize the purpose jJt Stakhanovism, in itself desir9Ejft> by winning the help and cosssrstlun of the workers...
...He plumped whole-hearted- : hy in favor of liberty...
...Stakhanovism reflects the vices of the entire Bolshevist program and method of industrialization and collectivization, in which good I objectives and mixed with bad, de- sirable aims with false methods of I realization...
...Plenty to eat and the chad** to have a goad time ewnstitates now the ideal placed before the Russian workers in the Soviet press and by the high Sorts* officialdom...
...Senator Robinson, who was supposed to defend President Roosevelt, didn't even meni tion the President's fairly decent : words and intentions and attempts, i Imagine these five men, one of i whom was defending the President ' of the United States and one of whom may be that President's op' ponent in the next campaign, standing up in a row and speaking their pieces...
...And everyone wanted to be on the winning side...
...Absolutely all...
...Oliver Street Twist Vow in" possess ion" of all he uantt I He's the happy dupe of the duPonts * * * Ambidextrous is the word for Norman Thomas" broadcast last Sunday...
...That is all...
...The former governor of New York says that President Roosevelt has not carried out the terms of the Democratic p l a t f o r m , that the bosom friends of the President are Communists or Socialists and God gave us the Supreme Court—so it mustn't be touched...
...Seme 1 get as little as 120 to 150 roHeloa* A Stakhanovite earns, therefore, from 10 to 15 times aa much en the average worker...
...Even under the best technical conditions the productivity of a Russian miner was only about half of the output of a German miner in the Ruhr...
...The Jesuit has been a reduction in the number of "hands...
...Three of those battlers used fighting words...
...A bewhiskered old Southerner shouted that his pappy had "killed a sight o' Yankees" and he wished he'd have "killed some more...
...a maximum of 400 to 500 rouble* a month...
...That is the theory that politics is our major national sport...
...The f o r e c a s t is: IBoiury and hotter with vk> Upt displays ef heat-lightning.'* . -As political education to five lecture were a disappointment...
...Italy once earned the affectionate sobriquet, "the mother of nations...
...He is in favor of recovery...
...216 is a quite fantastic figure, as any experienced textile worker knows...
...The French Socialist organ Pop- . idaire, which as a rule refrains from criticizing the Soviet regime, has published an article by Dumoulin, noted trade union leader, assailing Stakhanovism...
...Why, therefore, the ballyhoo concerning Stakhanovism in Soviet Russia...
...Some propartgandists commit assault and battery and then wonder why they are so unpopular...
...That is, a Russian worker loses nearly twothirds of his time in preparatory and other tasks, whereas the American worker devotes only onethird of his working time to these secondary tasks...
...When yen hear of the many beautiful things in Soviet Russia, fine bouses, sanatoriums for workers, high wages, etc, you must keep is mind that only a very few enjoy ftem...
...Dividing the total output by the number of workers in the group, the production per man varies from 20 to 30 tons—no miracle...
...Militant" Malice This column lacks the subtle grace Of the order called Ionic: Its solemn wit is a disgrace For it borders on moronic...
...A much stronger stimulus to eethusiasm is the raising of wagee* Wage increases and other privileges are the rewards...
...The white voters of the South had pointed out to them their "Christian duty" to uphold the Constitution and the Supreme Court...
...Thomas Dixon, author of "The Clansman," raved against Negroes, denounced the anti-Iynching bill and declared for his sacred right to "sleep in the open, wear rags, and starve to death," which doesn't seem -to provide the basis of a popular platform...
...A l God's Dictator* Want Children...
...KJliST week Uncle Don, Bing TJ1 Crosby, Amos 'n' Andy, as well as Major Bowes' Amateur • B a t bad a heavy competition, da Saturday A 1 S m i t h , on ! Tuesday Joe R o b i n s o n and Senator Borah, on Wednesday the two governors, Talmadge god Landon...
...So—though he didnt t put on a good show he got all the e breaks in the publicity...
...LEFT j anMBs(B^a^6ef^SJatie^ Come.eheda tear)orHeywoodBroun, Be't just a heap of fleshy rem...
...It has Jbseaced the brutal system of peas-work, premiums and bonuses, K.system of shocking inequality HJ Wck-breaking competition, un~ • f which some small groups of 3fll»kers live well while others get j H p Ism than they got before, •stead of cultivating among the Sfeters the feeling of brotherhood •il Solidarity, the Soviet rejrime Httntes a system of competition...
...Just a l e a k and Fife Worker ". . . the British came to the end of their resources and so the peoj pie for whom WE WERE WORK• ING decided in their judgment . . ." \ George Whitney for J. P. Mor\ gan & Co...
...As rBfliiiTitil comedy they were imBjjle...
...Governor Eugene Talmage, you who try to absorb the strength of the dead Huey Long, what is your > answer...
...The number of assistants varies from four to ten...
...That's a l l - except for dialect and atmosphere...
...ik...
...the machinist Krivonos, 25 years old, etc...
...A German bricklayer lays four times as- many bricks as a Russian...
...He used the regulation OldGuard tomahawk...
...The Southern Actors s Governor Eugene Talmage would have "stopped the show" on any fi real stage...
...Hence the very low degree of production in the huge Soviet industry created in the past seven or eight years...
...The Modest Facts From his expert account it developed that Kasia Odinzova had eleven assistants of various categories...
...You say that Al Smith has thrown the old brown derby in the ash-can and gone high-hat, that he is sitting with robber barons and defending them, that most of the things Roosevelt has done Al has proposed or defended, and that when the charge I of Socialism and Communism was ' made against himself, Al proved it i to be verbal hooliganism used for ; lack of decent argument...
...Thirty-five hundred .people applauded — all but a few Negroes who sat silent in the gallery...
...A Russian mechanic in the machine industry devotes only 25 to 30 per cent of his working time to actual production, .as compared with the 60 to 65 per cent devoted by an American...
...Assault and Battery // "art is a weapon" it ought to be a concealed weapon...
...The Tampa sheriffs will supply the white feathers...
...The productivity of a Russian oil well worker in Baku was never more than 40 to 50 per cent of an American...
...Beginning with a text from the Ow Testament—like a sober Baptist preacher—did more to set him right with listeners in the West sad South than Al's talk of "Supreme happiness and comfort" and Jfttaxi trip to the board of direc'-a)nf" meeting...
...He is 1 evidently not a low-down fellow f like Abraham Lincoln...
...Imagine them at the receiving set awaiting answers from Al Smith, Joe Robinson, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Eugene Talmage...
...Senator Borah, you constitutional 1 lawyer, you eloquent orator and : famous liberal, what is your an| ewer...
...Whet da we get...
...Where does it come eat...
...Stakha- i ooflf conferences are "being held « n ail branches of Soviet industry ] tad agriculture...
...I suggested playfully that he and fb Republican friends have their pttttie confidences" among themselves, and he let out the secret that on the afternoon when the Supreme Court deprived the farmers of their checks he went to a board" of directors' meeting...
...Factory and machine work require trained, well-disciplined and t e c h n i cally equipped workers...
...He wants , ' to balance the budget...
...JRth fine dignity he presented in fter colorless terms a line of •Htfcal philosophy which the elder • Follette gave us in burning B^pems...
...It used to be that...
...From 18,000,000 to 19,000.9 } workers of the 20,000,000 em Stored in Soviet industry receive Hmverage wage of 170 to 200 roua month- A pound of bread 9ms SO kopecks, a pound of meat Sim 3 roubles and a pound of but mm 10 to 15 roubles...
...Everyone admired a game fighter, applauded a telling stroke...
...The entire development of modern technique in the past fourteen years, resulting in unprecedented technological unemployment, has for its purpose improvement of the organization of work by means of a better distribution of labor and improved machinery...
...To accommodate those who have uttered hard and harsh words about Laughter on the Left, this handy valentine (or venomtine) ia offered...
...All this was atmosphere for the speech of the Governor of a great state against a. President of the United States whom he had helped to elect...
...But he didn't get a t good press here in the North...
...But what does m# Soviet government do...
...Why the Ballyhoo...
...At the "grass roots" camp meeting in Macon, Georgia, the Rev...
...Our Major Sport I remarked that, as vaudeville, the show would rate an A-plus, but as political education it would hardly make a D-minus...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 6
