Evening star., 1935-10-20
BY JOSEPH b. PHILLIPS.

MOSCOW.-Every branch OF Soviet
heavy industry, and some categories
OF light industry. have entered the
fourth quarter of the year in state
Of great fiux and excitement as the
outcome of innovations worked out by
q young coal miner and veteran
foundryman in an automobile plant.
Already the Donbas Coal Basin, where
the seed of the new movement first
was sown, has had its program OF
production for the fourth quarter in
creased from 10000 tons daily to
100000 and increases almost as sig
niflcant appear imminent for the
automobile and tractor factories. cop
per mines, tools factories, hydro
electric plants and many other
branches of endeavor down to the
excavation work on the new Moscow
subway.
Railways also have adopted their
version of the movement, and IN the
light industries and textile mills in
dividual women weavers are tending
from so to 100 looms each, while sh2e
factories are establishing new output
records. Although Socialist compe-
tition" has been established for some
time as a means of increasing pro-
duction in the Soviet, the impact OF
the new movement appears stronger
than anything that has gone before.
Along with the new records, it has
created diSsidents. The daily reports
OF achievements in production ac-
company stories of punishment meted
out to saboteurs-punishments rang
ing from dismissal from jobs and
membership in the Communist party
to Imprisonment and exile.
Miner Makes Discovery.
The history of the movement goes
back less than a month, to the time
when a young miner, Alexei Stalk
hanov, fresh from industrial school,
discovered by recognizing the work
ing method, that he could produce
more than 100 tons of coal per shift
from each shaft in the DonbaS Mine
instead of the previous average OF
between five and six. Nikita Izotov,
the Donbas basins crack miner and
holder OF the Order of Lenin, liked
the idea and before long the "shock
workers" of the region were turning
out 80 to 40 times the average.
When IZOtOv came to Moscow foI
his regular courses. the industrial
academy gave lesson to workers on
a spur of the new subway and imme-
diately excavation was speeded up
us to 120 per cent Although Stak-
hanov still rates first among the new
group of national heroes the news
papers have created since the move
ment started. his method now has a
double name. It is known as the
''Stakhanov-Busygin" method. Busy
gin, a foundryman at the Gorky auto.
mobile plant first showed how the
method could be adapted from the
mines.
One day he gathered factory officials
and fellow workers around and gave
a demonstration which produced LAG
crankshafts in a single shift in COM
parison with the average of 675. I'M
mediately a worker named Bikov in
the factory caught on and turned out
1920 caterpillar tractor chain links in
seven hours, which is three times the
average output. These are only few
achievements which stand out among
other in practically every heavy in
dustry.
Speeds Up Program.
Among the many features the au-
thorities have praised in the move
ment, none seem to have pleased more
than the fact that some of the pro-
duction records exceed American aver
ages. Soviet industry, it is claimed,
no longer merits that 20 per cent dis
count which American engineers made
in forecasting Soviet output because
of the supposed backwardness of the
Russian workers. Although the secret