RUSSIA: Hornlessness

While U. S. newsorgans were churning out reams last week about the General Motors strike, Russian newsorgans were up in arms over troubles in the famed Gorky automobile plant. No strike was afoot in Moscow, for Russians know it is useless to strike. There were no fistfights, as in the U. S. There was just deliberate dawdling.

What aroused official wailing about the Gorky plant was its dismal slowness of production. Declared the Communist newsorgan Pravda: "In general the conveyor belt is paralyzed five to six hours daily because of defective parts or...

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