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Said Capitalist Davies on his return to Moscow: "The most striking impression I gathered from my trip was the universal use of the profit motive throughout Soviet industry as an incentive to workmen. I visited factories where the 'Stakhanovites' were receiving twice and thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than...
...Groton, Conn., 107 of 1,900 workmen in the plant of Electric Boat Co., manufacturers of submarines for the U. S. Navy, sat down. They passed one day in pleasant converse, whiled away the evening listening to the music of banjo and guitar. Shortly after midnight the plant superintendent appeared at the door and announced: ''All you fellows are fired!" He was followed by 50 State police who arrested all the strikers under warrants for trespassing. The strikers got up with good humor, took their banjo and guitar and marched through the deserted streets to police court. There...
...Valencia, where for months the ex-Madrid Government of Premier Largo Caballero has been sitting and which Reds fear will be the next target for White guns, 1,800 workmen last week sweated to complete 46 concrete bomb-shelters designed to protect a million persons and "to make Valencia one of the safest cities in Europe...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
Item: after a cruel compromise has crushed an automobile workmen's union, a union lieutenant (Grover Burgess), fired, blacklisted and evicted from his home, is so demoralized that he takes to drinking, abusing his baby, patronizing 25? brothels...