The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

80 foster hands, may earn 700,
Hoo or even 1000 rubles. FIRE.
aUentlv. Stakhanovites earn more
than their foremen or department.
bosses who are on fixed salaries
Tho richest categories in the Sow
let Union are successful writers
and dramatists who often draw
TONS of thousands of rubleS per
month in royalties, and can af-
ford country homes, town apart
ments. automobiles, chauffeurs,
servants and good clothes. know
q writer who has all of those ad-
yantages and serves caviar and
champagne to his guests. The
next best paid classes are the
highly trained engineers and spec
iaiists. A worker may get rich
by windfall in a lottery loan, or
if he invents a device or an idea
that saves money in production
he is entitled to share in the
economies effected up to and not
exceeding 100000 rubles. -.
o. With the capitalistic profit
motive abolished, what incentives
exist to induce people to work!
A. AS Molotov said, referring
to the Stakhanovites, 1.-THE imme-
date IMPULSE to high productivity
is a simple interest in increasing
their earnings" But there arr
other incentives which also ilnpJ.
GREAT numbers of workers, such
as the feeling that they actually
own the land and all means OF
production: the desire for proml-
hence and power, which Is gwen
to exceptionally effective WORK
ers. the belief that they are en-.
gagged in erecting new form or
civilization, and the desire to
show capitalistic nations what So
cialism can achieve.
o. Has an industrial boss sys-
tenn materialized? -,
a. The tendency which UNI
doubtedly exists toward such a
development is held in check by a
UNIQUE Soviet system of criticism
of bosses by their workers with
investigation and action if the
complaints are well founded. A
boss tenure of office is highly
insecure if his department does
not produce efficiently: moreover
he may land in prison or exile:
Ofton workers reject offers of
foremanships because of their
fear of responsibility. But gen
erallv the category of manager
ships is recruited from the ranks.
Recently one Jacob Quslm, 70
year-old mechanic, who serving as
foreman in the Kaganovitch ball
bearing plant, was appointed di-
rector of the plant, which employs
$4,000 workers, and is said to be
the largest of it's kind in the
world. Peter Krivonos, a locomo-
tive engineer, who gained fame
for efficiency, was named as head
of the Slaviansk railway repair
shops which are the largest in the
Soviet union. Such promotions
are made by the directors of
whatever industry is involved:
For instance the directors OF
plants in the heavy industry are
appointed and denoted by the
commissar of heavy industry.
Q. Has any new form or arts
toracy or privileged class arisen
to replace the old aristocracy OF
wealth and birth? -.
A. The bureaucracy of public
officials is sometimes criticized as
constituting a new form of privil-
eyed class. Undoubtedly many
persons do possess uncommon
privileges, such as access to bet.
ter living quarters and the use OF
automobiles in their work, but
there is no crystalization of a
permanent privileged class. Per,
sonnet is constantly changing and
frequently bureaucrats ! n q
themselves suddenly out Of office
and in. prison or working with