Neuvostoliitto ja USA ryöstivät Saksan sodan jälkeen täysin härskisti, ja kanta-asukkaista piittaamatta. Kun CCCP:n ryöstökommando saapui eräälle suurelle tehtaalle, kyseli CCCP-majuri tehtaan työoloista, ja hämmästyi suuresti:
"..After we had discussed our business with the Soviet control officers and the Telefunken directorate's representatives, Colonel Bykov turned to me with an unexpected request: "Couldn't you arrange for us to go over the works? So that we can get to know the labor processes and organization?"
The technical director was quite willing to take us round. We went right through the production departments, from beginning to end of the process. In a great hall where electrodes were being wound and assembled for wireless valves several hundred women and girls were sitting at tables. The director explained the details, but Colonel Bykov did not listen to him. The colonel had fallen a little way behind, and was unobtrusively surveying the hall.
His eyes passed slowly over the huge windows, over the high walls, the ceiling, and rested for a moment on the glass partitions that separated one sector from another. As a high ministerial official and head of one of the main departments in the Ministry for Shipbuilding he was well acquainted with working conditions in the Soviet Union, and it was obvious that he was quietly comparing them with conditions in this German works.
As we were leaving the hall Captain Fedorov drew me back. "Gregory Petrovich," he said, "how do you like this seat?" He perched himself on one of the seats, all of the same pattern, used by the women workers. It was fitted with a padded backrest, and its height was adjustable.
"What do you find interesting about that seat, Victor Stepanovich?" I asked him.
"To start with, it's comfortable. For a worker it's absolutely luxurious. But quite apart from that, did you notice the seats they had in the factory office?”
"No, I didn't."
"They're exactly the same," he said with a faint smile. "Directors and workers, they all sit on the same seats. And they're really comfortable, too."
As we went on, the technical director began to complain of the difficulties they met with in regard to labor power; workers tended to come and go as they liked, and this had a detrimental effect on output. "It takes four weeks to train a new worker," he said. "But many of them don't stay longer than a fortnight. And absenteeism is very common."
"But haven't you any means of stopping it?" the colonel asked in astonishment.
The director shrugged his shoulders. "A worker can be away three days without good reason," he explained. "If he's away any longer he must obtain a doctor's certificate."
"Then how do you stop slacking and shifting from one works to another?" the colonel asked.
"If the worker comes within the categories I have just referred to we have no powers of dismissal. On the other hand, if he wishes to throw up his job we can't make him work," the director replied.
"I'm not thinking of dismissal, I'm thinking of the necessity to make a man work," the colonel persisted. The director stared at him blankly. "I beg your pardon?" he said. The colonel repeated his remark.
"We have no legal means of compelling a worker to work. We can only dismiss a worker who violates the labor code," the German answered.
There was an awkward pause. The worst punishment a German worker could suffer was dismissal. In the Soviet Union dismissal was frequently a worker's one, unachievable, dream. A Soviet director can deal with a worker entirely as he wishes. He can put a man on a poor and badly paid Job, and he can, or rather must, hand a man over to the law for arriving late, even if it were only a few minutes. But the worker has no right whatever to change his place of work without the director's agreement.
Arbitrary absenteeism is liable to lead to imprisonment. We Soviet officers were used to such discipline, and so we could not understand the German director's impotence. And he for his part was highly astonished at what he evidently regarded as our absurd questions. Two worlds: two systems.
"You were speaking of the labor code, just now," the colonel went on. "What labor legislation governing relations between employer and employee is in force today? Laws dating from the Hitler regime?"...
... I was used to this kind of mute dialogue; it was the normal reaction of Soviet people to things that made them think, but which could not be discussed..."
http://g-klimov.info/klimov-pp-e/ETM11.htm
"..After we had discussed our business with the Soviet control officers and the Telefunken directorate's representatives, Colonel Bykov turned to me with an unexpected request: "Couldn't you arrange for us to go over the works? So that we can get to know the labor processes and organization?"
The technical director was quite willing to take us round. We went right through the production departments, from beginning to end of the process. In a great hall where electrodes were being wound and assembled for wireless valves several hundred women and girls were sitting at tables. The director explained the details, but Colonel Bykov did not listen to him. The colonel had fallen a little way behind, and was unobtrusively surveying the hall.
His eyes passed slowly over the huge windows, over the high walls, the ceiling, and rested for a moment on the glass partitions that separated one sector from another. As a high ministerial official and head of one of the main departments in the Ministry for Shipbuilding he was well acquainted with working conditions in the Soviet Union, and it was obvious that he was quietly comparing them with conditions in this German works.
As we were leaving the hall Captain Fedorov drew me back. "Gregory Petrovich," he said, "how do you like this seat?" He perched himself on one of the seats, all of the same pattern, used by the women workers. It was fitted with a padded backrest, and its height was adjustable.
"What do you find interesting about that seat, Victor Stepanovich?" I asked him.
"To start with, it's comfortable. For a worker it's absolutely luxurious. But quite apart from that, did you notice the seats they had in the factory office?”
"No, I didn't."
"They're exactly the same," he said with a faint smile. "Directors and workers, they all sit on the same seats. And they're really comfortable, too."
As we went on, the technical director began to complain of the difficulties they met with in regard to labor power; workers tended to come and go as they liked, and this had a detrimental effect on output. "It takes four weeks to train a new worker," he said. "But many of them don't stay longer than a fortnight. And absenteeism is very common."
"But haven't you any means of stopping it?" the colonel asked in astonishment.
The director shrugged his shoulders. "A worker can be away three days without good reason," he explained. "If he's away any longer he must obtain a doctor's certificate."
"Then how do you stop slacking and shifting from one works to another?" the colonel asked.
"If the worker comes within the categories I have just referred to we have no powers of dismissal. On the other hand, if he wishes to throw up his job we can't make him work," the director replied.
"I'm not thinking of dismissal, I'm thinking of the necessity to make a man work," the colonel persisted. The director stared at him blankly. "I beg your pardon?" he said. The colonel repeated his remark.
"We have no legal means of compelling a worker to work. We can only dismiss a worker who violates the labor code," the German answered.
There was an awkward pause. The worst punishment a German worker could suffer was dismissal. In the Soviet Union dismissal was frequently a worker's one, unachievable, dream. A Soviet director can deal with a worker entirely as he wishes. He can put a man on a poor and badly paid Job, and he can, or rather must, hand a man over to the law for arriving late, even if it were only a few minutes. But the worker has no right whatever to change his place of work without the director's agreement.
Arbitrary absenteeism is liable to lead to imprisonment. We Soviet officers were used to such discipline, and so we could not understand the German director's impotence. And he for his part was highly astonished at what he evidently regarded as our absurd questions. Two worlds: two systems.
"You were speaking of the labor code, just now," the colonel went on. "What labor legislation governing relations between employer and employee is in force today? Laws dating from the Hitler regime?"...
... I was used to this kind of mute dialogue; it was the normal reaction of Soviet people to things that made them think, but which could not be discussed..."
http://g-klimov.info/klimov-pp-e/ETM11.htm
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