PIECEWORK IN RUSSIA
While Soviet Russia continues to preach the gospel of Bolshevism abroad, it seems (the Morning Post remarks) to be absorbing capitalism on a wholesale sca'c at home. The latest submission to the influence of the arch-enemy is the extension of the system of, piecework for labour —a system which, since its first tentative adoption, has had surprisingly satisfying results. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Herald, the Labour newspaper —apparently unwitting of the significance of its evidence —is enthusiastic about the change. Russian production, we are told, was “ up 20 per cent, last year”; and why? “Because piecework prevails,” some men have been “ earning from 5 to 40 times as much as less efficient or less energetic workers ami, therefore, “it is the solemn resolve of the Communist Party to extract more efficient work from both men and machines in 1936.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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