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of wages in a privately owned factory), and 20-30 yuan at the least.
This increased the workers’ enthusiasm to produce. Some workers
did not take their noon rest and did not stop work at the end of the
working day but kept an working. After some persuasion and education,
we overcame this excessive enthusiasm.
We persisted in the soldier-worker system. The factory workers
also grew vegetables and raised pigs for their food.
In the winter of 1942 we stopped work for one month to make
padded clothing.
In 1941 after all expenses, the factory made a profit of 3,900,000
yuan. In the first ten months of 1942, the profit was 8 million yuan.
The value of the factory site, looms, yarn and raw cotton is 5 mil-
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lion yuan (yarn and cotton 1 million yuan). We intend to invest sev-
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eral million more to maintain reproduction.
In sum the lessons of experience in running industry are as follows:
(i) The profit earned by the soldier-workers working in textiles,
that is the Daguang Hill led by the brigade supply department, is
the largest of all the profits earned by the various industrial enterprises.
In 1941 the total number of employees was 250 and in 1942 it
were 225. After all expenses its profit in 1941 was 3,900,000 yuan,
equivalent to the price of 4,000 tan of millet at the year-end price
(300 jin per tan).
Profit by October 1942 NOT was 8 million FORyuan,
again equivalent to
4,000 tan of millet at current prices in Suide. The average net profit
per worker was roughly 18 tan.
In the light of COMMERCIAL
two years’ experience and the present circumstances,
we shall invest 25,000 yuan per head for the 225 employees
of the factory during 1943, not counting buildings and tools, making
a total of 5,625,000 yuan. The cloth required for uniforms will be
bought from the DISTRIBUTION
factory. In this way production for 1943 will earn a
net profit per man of 20 tan of millet (because of inflation, it is best
to take millet as the standard).
Each regiment has a cloth-weaving factory which can produce
enough cloth for a hundred men.
In addition, apart from undertakings purely for producing equipment
and clothing for the troops such as shoemaking, cloths-making
and leather-tanning, the brigade also has roughly 200 blacksmiths
and carpenters. In the light of the past two to three years’ experience
and the prospects for the continued development of the Border
Region economy, these craftsmen could make an annual profit