Show d They Have No Sense of Humor digging tons of oft t co coal ou lin in six I hours from a Russian coal mine and Mid s setting a pace for all oth other othi r soviet t workers rb ps n never vcr gave a t thought ought to the anomalous position in which he would place his country country- men n. n American radicals native and n red and p pink k make a great outcry against the in United St States tes industry In soviet Lt ia under government stimulus s both the F commissars and and the people gather i in vast as assemblages assemblages assemblages as- as to cheer the fastest workers the largest producers and to award them citations and trophies for their prowess in the self same speedup Russia's fast workers have become the symbols symbols sym sym- bols bois of a new industrial program the pacemakers pacemakers pace pacemakers makers of the movement Tho The idea behind it all is to make Russia commercially commer daily independent Government lead leaders ls l's eulogize eulo eulo- gize the declaring they will revolutionize revolutionize revolutionize rev rev- Russian industry greatly increase pr production u tion and improve the workmans workman's standard standard standard stand stand- ard of living The lesson of course is th that t Communist Russia ha has been persuaded that the collectivist principle works only so far Th There re must i b be in individual individual individual in in- reward to io spur individual initiative Either the Russian or or the American radical radic l is reve revealed ed as having n no sense of humor Oth Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- r- r wise this i inconsistent consistent attitude toward the speedup could not exist |