UNDER THE SOVIET.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 September 1938, Page 6

UNDER THE SOVIET.

COLLECTIVE FARMING. INCENTIVES TO PRODUCTION. PAYMENT BY RESULTS. While one hears or reads a great deal of the wonderful Improvement in the ! conditions affecting the proletariat dwellers in the cities as a result of Soviet Communistic rule, very little is heard concerning conditions obtaining among the peasantry oil the collective and other farms, and who, willy-nilly, are called upon to provide food for the town dwellers.

j The State farms, which were run entirely under State management and at the State expense, appear to have suffered the common fate of enterprises where results are dependent on the “Government stroke,” hence the introduction and extension of the collective I system of farming, a sort of cornpulI sory co-operative business, in which the workers, after delivering a determined amount of produce to the State, share in the balance of the proceeds of j their crops on a basis of individual effort and work done, the Soviet leadjers soon having discovered that payment by results was the only means of getting worth-while returns in all branches of industry. As a further incentive to greater farm production another cardinal principle of Communism—abolition of private ownership—also had to be modified to the extent of allowing certain approved individuals to farm on their own account, subject to the delivery of a certain quantity of produce, and the payment of sundry dues and taxes.