最近,北京一些报刊和出版社开了一次座談会,大家热烈响应上海报刊出版社的降低稿酬标准的行动,决定从十月一日起,一般地降低稿酬一半左右,并向全国發出倡議。现行的稿費制度,在过去一段时間內,曾經起了一些鼓励創作的作用,这是不可否認的。但是,随着社会的进步,群众觉悟程度的提高,工农业生产的大跃进,脑力劳动与体力劳动之間鴻沟的漸趋消灭,群众文化革命的高涨……現在稿費的标准,就显出它的不合理来了。首先就是,过高的稿費,标志了脑力劳动有过高的报酬。現在,从事脑力劳动者的生活,与从 Recently, some newspapers and publishers in Beijing held a forum in which they enthusiastically responded to the Shanghai Press Press’s decision to lower the rates of remuneration. They decided to generally reduce their remuneration by about one half from October 1 and issue an initiative to the whole country. It is undeniable that the existing royalties system has played some role in encouraging creativity in the past period of time. However, with the progress of the society, the improvement in the level of the masses’ consciousness, the great leap forward in the production of industry and agriculture, the gradual elimination of the gulf between mental and physical labor, and the upsurge in the mass cultural revolution.. It’s unreasonable. The first is that too much royalties mark the over-remuneration of mental work. Now, engaged in the life of mental workers, and from