本省主要报刊社和出版社,先后举行座谈会并发表启事,响应北京、上海新闻出版界的倡议,决定降低稿费标准。部分作者和报纸通讯员,热烈地支持报刊社的这个决定。这是共产主义风格的一种表现,是值得大加发扬的。稿费制度也是一种资产阶级法权残余的表现。解放以后,为了稳定作家的生活,鼓励创作,我们保留了这种制度;但是,近年以来,特别是整风反右派暴露出的不少事实说明,稿费制度流弊很多。由于稿费收入过高,使许多作家在生活上脱离了群众,同时,也滋长了不少人的个人主义,不利于知识分子的改造,更不利于逐步地消灭脑力劳动与体力劳动的差别。特别是,农村已经实 The major newspapers and publishing houses in the province held symposiums and published notices in response to the initiative of Beijing and Shanghai’s press and publication circles, and decided to lower the royalties. Some authors and newspaper correspondents enthusiastically supported the newspaper’s decision. This is a manifestation of the communist style and is worth further promotion. The royalty system is also a manifestation of the remnants of bourgeois law. After the liberation, in order to stabilize the life of writers and encourage creativity, we have retained such a system; however, many facts exposed in recent years, especially those from rectifying winds and anti-rightists, show that the draft fee system has a lot of disadvantages. Because of the excessive royalties, many writers are detached from the masses in their daily lives. At the same time, they also give rise to the individualism of many people, which is not conducive to the transformation of intellectuals. It is even more detrimental to the gradual elimination of the differences between mental and manual work. In particular, the countryside has been real