STALIN’S NEW SLOGAN

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 18 July 1935, Page 4

STALIN’S NEW SLOGAN

AVOIDS SPECTACULAR SPEECHES ► “NURTURE THE INDIVIDUAL” MOSCOW, May IS. Stalin seldom makes speeches and generally avoids being spectacular When he does speak, his statements' become slogans and turn into battlecries, constituting a text for Soviet propagandists. Exitraiordinary attention is being devoted by the entire Soviet Press to * his latest utterance, during which he ’ said: • “We must carefully nurture the in- ! dividual. ’ ’ Pleading for an attitude of solicitiudc on the part of leaders of industry i towards all workers, from the least I significant to the most important, he j urged that aid and encouragement be ■ extended to them in their efforts to i improve their work. Workers Not Pawns “People must not be treated as pawns and shifted from job to job,” ihe said. “Their capabilities must be j studied and they musit be properly fitted where they best belong.”

Acknowledging the fact that in tfi< process of industrialising the country the population was forced -to undergc hardships and deprivations, Stalin asserted thalt those difficulties have lomg been overcome, and the Soviet Union has now entered upon a new stage ■ when the citizens have begun to reap J benefits. “We now have factories, collective | farms and State farms all highly mechanised and capable of producing 1 much more than we now produce, ’ ’ •he declared, “but we are faced with I i a shortage of sufficiently experienced j people who will wring the maximum i out of our machinery. “Had we a sufficient number of peoplje capable of harnessing the machinery of our country wc would be getting four times as much production as we now get/ ’ This speech will in all likelihood result in an intensive campaign to (train Soviet workers more efficiently to operate complicated machinery, so that the promise of a marked rise in the standard of living, long held forth, may he actually realised.