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April 2000
An
early version of the Working Time Directive:
"Many of us consider that the shock worker is one who works
day and night in the shop or factory, who does not crawl out
of the shop, and who does not live for other interests except
those of production. It seems to me that it would be more correct
to consider a shock worker as someone who works at the factory
exactly seven hours, since Soviet power does not permit anyone
to work more, who regularly goes to the cinema, visits others,
engages in sport and at the same time fulfills all production
tasks. Our Soviet shock worker must live in a cultured manner
and take advantage of all the good things of life that Soviet
power offers him".
-- Director of a Urals machine-tool enterprise,
September, 1934
[Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism
and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR,
1935-41, Cambridge University Press, 1988, p.
225.]
Steve
Pugh
Comrade Pugh's support for both paper and cyber
Turtles has been unflinching and vigorous. Not
content with repeatedly winning our irregular
competitions and having supplied the Turtle with
one of its very first online articles, Steve has
recently outdone himself in providing an elegant
and entirely practical French Republican Calendar
Generator for the Turtle's Front Page, modifying
his Star Trek Stardate converter with scientific
precision and revolutionary commitment. It is
characteristic of Comrade Pugh's attention to
detail that the Turtle's Calendar first went
online on Maximilien de Robespierre's 242nd
birthday! For these contributions, and in
anticipation of further shock-work, the Editors
of the Turtle are delighted to proclaim Comrade
Steve Pugh Stakhanovite of the Month for April
2000!
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