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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
worked for two or three hours a day and made four or five feet of
cloth. Alter two or three weeks they worked for seven or eight hours
a day and could weave 10 to 40 feet. After April they could do 40 to
50 feet, and by May, 60 to 70. After June they had all become skilled
workers and the best could weave 120 to 130 feet a day. During this
time the quality of cloth continuously improved.
We can say that after June 1941 the factory was consolidated and
began to develop, having overcome all kinds of difficulties.
(3) Establishing the soldier-worker system
The factory expanded and needed to be regularized. It was very
inconvenient for the administrators from the military training unit.
And so under the supply department we set up a factory head and a
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commissar to provide leadership, and drew-up a draft outline for
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the administration of the factory.
Under the leadership of the head and commissar, the administration
was divided into four sections: labour, operations, accounts and
general work. These sections divided the tasks and worked together,
each with its own responsibility. We stipulated a variety of regulations
for meetings, minutes, reports, inspection, livelihood, pay (according
to technical skill with the top rate of 10 yuan) and for rewards
and punishment. We settled the times for work, study, rest
and relaxation. We fixed the scope for democratic life and all kinds
of principles for the workshops, NOT dormitories, FORcanteen,
days off, leaving
the premises and so forth.
By October 1941 everything was properly set up.
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we felt that the wooden looms were not as good
as the iron ones. The cloth the latter produced was of good quality
and needed less work. We planned gradually to replace the wooden
looms with iron ones. Between January and October 1942 we built
iron looms ourselves. DISTRIBUTION
However, as one had to be strong and skilful
to weave with these looms and there were not enough workers like
that, we could not convert entirely to iron looms and we did not
build any more. The total was forty-five iron looms and sixty-two
wooden looms. Apart from this, we bought thirteen wooden looms
for weaving woollen blankets and woollen goods from the Longwan
Factory (in spring 1942) and built thirteen wooden looms ourselves.
This gave a total of 133 looms. On average we produced about 1,000
bolts of wide cloth, 500 woollen towels and 100 blankets per month.
After May 1942 the pay system was changed into a piecework
system giving .70-.80 yuan per month at the most (roughly one-tenth
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