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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
cers, big and small” and would not accept any controls.
Most of the women from the villages had come because of marriage
problems. They had been sent to the factory by the women’s
aid committee of the government. Whenever they talked of marriage,
some cried and some laughed. They often asked for help in
solving their marriage problems.
Persuading captured bandits to work was difficult.
Many of the people being punished for mistakes were company
and platoon cadres who maintained their old character, were unwilling
to work and were troublemakers.
From January to March 1941 the head of the supply department
tried hard to correct them and achieved some success.
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During this time, approximately twenty skilled workers acted as
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master-workers and taught the youths in the weaving group. First
they used the small looms (needed little strength and easy to manage).
The master-worker did all the preliminaries and told them how
to start the loom, how to connect broken threads, how to handle the
shuttle, and how to co-ordinate hand and foot. At the beginning
they only wove for two or three hours a day. After one or two months,
this group had mastered these looms and moved onto the large
wooden ones, and another group came to learn. Thus group-by-group
the teaching went on until March 1941.
The work of joining NOT the threads FOR and threading was easy to learn
and only needed patience. Once you had learned to join the threads
properly, you were all right. But it needed practice. When unpracticed,
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were not good enough for weaving.
When the work began and the young apprentices sat at the looms
or did their joining and threading, their backsides ached after a short
time, yarn easily broke, tempers rose, there was little patience and
they wasted a lot DISTRIBUTION
of thread and broke some looms. So, before March
1941 products were no good.
Apart from strengthening technical training and raising technical
skills, the chief way of dealing with this was political encouragement
and education in revolutionary labour discipline. This made
the workers consciously realize the important significance of production,
made them patient in their work and improved their enthusiasm
for production and their labour discipline.
Various methods of education were used to implement military
discipline. The head of the supply department, He Weizhong, the
head of the military training unit and the branch Party Secretary per-
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