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...sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became impossible to maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher pay for greater daily production was promised each worker but by last week, in plants where Stakhanovism had been regularly established, workers found that to earn as much as they did before they must now produce more goods. Plans to proclaim February as the first...
There is a difference between Stakhanovism and the speedup: The result of Stakhanovism is more goods for the workers, the result of the speed-up is more profits for the bosses...
...millions of proletarians, held the most profound interest this week for the world's makers of Revolution. Most of them have been told and have told the masses that already in Russia it is a case of "To each according to his needs." Instead Stalin, urging the Capitalist speedup, said bluntly that in Russia today it is a case of "To each not according to his needs but according to what he has produced"-the standard Capitalist definition of piece work...