Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 314 Eight-hour challenge

Andre said: "Comrade Winston continued to study things, Comrade Benedict and the comrades at the substation went to purchase machines, building materials and other things, Comrade Verac and I took the workers to repair the dormitory and canteen, and set up the facilities , and then investigate the family situation of the workers, count the number of children who need to enter the nursery, and appoint the person in charge of the nursery, worker's night school, sickness fund, and worker's shop."

   "Okay, let's go." Verak was full of enthusiasm.

   Several people looked at each other and smiled, got up and left the office together.

   They were busy until late at night before they completed their respective tasks.

  Bressi is the same as Wellland. The factory generally adopts an assembly line system that greatly improves productivity. The production of goods is broken down into several steps on the assembly line. Workers only need to understand how to operate their own processing steps on the assembly line. Now that mechanization is realized with the financial support of the Equality Association, it is foreseeable what kind of huge leap the production capacity of the Nak Weaving Factory will have.

  However, under such a strong production potential, it is the cruel background that the market in Kipu City is close to saturation.

  No matter how much the output is, there are no more channels to sell, and the supply exceeds demand, which will also cause great hidden dangers.

  Facing the sudden increase in the output of Nak Weaving Factory so many times, it is difficult for ordinary people to find suitable channels for sales in time. If you can't find it, you can't withdraw the funds. The goods can only continue to backlog, and the capital chain will be broken sooner or later. However, Winston has an equal society behind him. He directly contacted the people at the main station of Laizein, and the general station assisted in preparing to open up the sales channel to Laizein. solve.

   Benedict also took the comrades from the sub-station to transport back all the facilities and site building materials that the factory needs to build next, and the machines on the production line will be fully equipped within the next week.

  Thanks to his many connections, the price of purchasing materials has been lowered a lot, which has reduced the cost pressure and made the two goals set relatively easier.

  Villac and Andre counted the information of the workers.

  Currently, the Nak Weaving Factory removes children under the age of 16, and there are a total of 74 people who can participate in the work. There are a total of 66 children under the age of 16 in the factory and in the families of the workers.

   This number is still within their acceptable range.

  The conditions of the workers in the Nak Weaving Factory are generally very poor, and many of them have no families. Therefore, even if the number of workers is several times that of other factory workers, the number of children is basically the same, not more than other factories.

In addition to the children who work and go to the nursery for free education and semi-parenting, they also recruit some cooks, cleaners, and nursery staff, and these new recruits are basically from the workers' families. picked out.

  In the end, the number of personnel in the Nak Weaving Factory reached more than 150 people.

  Among the one hundred and fifty people, half are not engaged in work and need to be taken care of by the factory.

  Villac, Winston, and Andre felt a lot of pressure. In doing so, they are equivalent to gathering the pressure of each worker to support their families on their own shoulders.

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  May 12th

  The workers' canteen and workers' dormitory have been further repaired.

The original dirty dormitory conditions have been greatly improved. Originally, a dormitory was small in size but needed to accommodate more than ten workers in a single room. Now only four workers are allowed to live in it. The vacated space is placed with desks, which can be used by workers in their spare time. study. The extra workers were placed in the new dormitory that was opened up. The conditions of the new dormitory are slightly worse, and they need to be improved for a long period of time in the future.

  The canteen has been set up with complete tables and chairs, and the sanitation will be checked regularly. Workers can eat a sufficient amount of nutritious free food every day, instead of squatting in a corner eating poor-quality potatoes to barely satisfy their hunger as before.

  After the inspection, Andre and Veraker were very satisfied with the current progress and pointed out the direction of improvement in the future.

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  May 13th

After calculating all night, Winston discovered that the cost of educating more than 60 children under the age of 16 was higher than the cost of sending the children to school, so he and Verac and Ann After the meeting, Dere decided to cancel the educational tasks of the nursery. The factory will directly connect with the school, and the factory will pay for the children's learning costs at school. The factory's nursery only retains a certain degree of responsibility for raising and caring.

   In this way, the factory does not need to hire teachers for children of different ages, learning venues, and only needs to provide tuition and supervision.

  The benefits enjoyed by children have not changed, and the cost of factory expenditures has decreased.

In addition, considering that the wages of workers are not enough to support children to go further on the road of learning in the current environment, Verac proposed a new idea, that is, when the children reach the age of sixteen Afterwards, according to their academic performance, the factory can also provide paid and unpaid educational support, giving them more possibilities.

   This recommendation was unanimously agreed.

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  May 14th

  Workers' shops and entertainment centers were completed.

The worker's store sells goods that are of the same quality as those on the market, but at a lower price. Seeing such an affordable price, the workers reproduced the madness when the cafeteria just provided nutritious and staple food, and swept away the goods null.

  It will take a while for them to get used to it. Feeling that this is no longer rare, everyone's attitude will return to calm.

  The entertainment center is equipped with chess and cards, books, and musical instruments for workers to relax after work. A suggestion box is also open, where workers can submit their opinions anonymously, and the opinions can be implemented as soon as they are approved.

However, it was overcrowded on the first day of its opening, the chess and cards were lost in the chaos, and books and musical instruments were damaged non-maliciously. Andre urgently sent people to maintain order, and worked out the rules and regulations of the entertainment center overnight with Verac and Winston. That's when the entertainment center reopened.

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  May 15th

  The nursery school was established, and 66 registered children under the age of 16 were officially arranged to live in it. When they are in the nursery, they go to the cafeteria with the workers to enjoy three free meals, and special staff are responsible for their safety and daily life management.

   Benedict has also reached a preliminary cooperation with a nearby school, and will arrange for these children to enter the school for adaptive learning according to their different ages and educational levels.

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  May 16th

  The night school for workers has been established, and the sickness fund has been arranged in place.

  Children's education can be transferred to school agency, but workers' cannot. Veraker, Winston, and Andre went to Keating for a meeting and had many conversations, and finally decided that Veraker and Winston are currently the teachers of the workers' night school, teaching some things to the workers and helping them to read Hyphenation, sprouting the idea of ​​equality.

   After a period of time, when the club school is established and on the right track, Keating will also send special teachers to help the workers learn and master knowledge they have never mastered.

That night, Verac, Winston, Andre, Benedict, comrades from the sub-station who came to help during this period, all the workers of the Nak Weaving Factory, and the children gathered in the cafeteria to celebrate their completion a day ahead of schedule. They celebrated the comprehensive reform of the factory and celebrated that they will officially resume production tomorrow.

"Let me say a few words!" Andre, as the factory owner in name, got up and said after everyone arrived, "Presumably everyone has doubted us during this period of time, worrying that we will I will not fulfill my promise and fulfill the twenty-seven rules one by one. Six days have passed, and I don’t know how many people who want to come to our company to apply for a job shake their heads and leave after seeing the twenty-seven rules hanging on the gate. , I don’t know how much sweat we all shed, what kind of ups and downs we have experienced in our hearts, in short, what we said on the first day has been done!”

   "Good!" The workers applauded.

  The families of the workers who were arranged to work here, as well as the children who received care and education for free, also showed gratitude.

   Some of them can't find a job, or they can only go out to make a living at a young age. My life was once dark, not to mention maintaining my life, whether I could survive was a problem.

   Now everything has changed.

  Their relatives who work in the Nak weaving factory have their salaries improved, they have food and shelter, the factory takes care of them when they are sick, and the factory arranges for their children to study and educate.

  Even the elderly workers have the right to study for free every night.

  The old people, the sick, the disabled, and the children who were not considered as adults before were treated as real people by the new factory owner and the people in charge in the Nak Weaving Factory.

  They understood a truth.

  A person's body may be incomplete, but his personality and dignity must not be the same.

"We have established nurseries, night schools for workers, we have connected schools, we have provided free food and lodging within our capacity, we have opened high-quality and low-cost workers' shops, entertainment centers, and we are equipped with complete workers' subsidies and disease funds!" Andrei He waved his hand, and continued after everyone calmed down, "I don't do this to tell everyone how good we are, because we must not be good enough, and there must be room for improvement. Whether it is the system or management, we must be able to Continue to improve in the days to come. What we want everyone to see is how bad the previous factory was! Let everyone see that we could have burst out greater value under good conditions, so why should we be oppressed? Exploitation?!"

   "Mr. Andre, will the Nak weaving factory close down?" a worker asked loudly.

   "Yes, will it go bankrupt?"

   "Will I lose money doing this?"

  Six days ago, the workers were worried that Andre and the others had bad intentions, but now they are worried about whether the Nak Weaving Factory will close down.

  Trust has already laid a solid foundation through their words and deeds these six days.

"It depends on everyone." Andre pointed to one worker after another, "Do you think we are doing this to make more money? Of course, otherwise how can we promote it to more places in the future, but Is it just that? Absolutely not! It’s not that we’re exploring new ways to make money, but that we want to find a win-win possibility and give everyone here a chance to prove themselves! You’re not cheap! You’re not inferior! I I want Nak Weaving Factory to make money, I want Nak Weaving Factory to become the best weaving factory of the same scale in Kip City and even in the whole of Brescia! Because only in this way can I fight against those who oppress and exploit you and others Workers and factory owners know that you are human too! You have the right to enjoy better treatment! You can definitely unleash greater value! You, like them, have unlimited potential!"

   There was silence in the cafeteria.

  Everyone stared blankly at the impassioned Andre.

In the past, if any factory owner said such a thing, they would sneer at it, and regard it as a hypocritical means of the other party to win over and boost morale, but they didn't feel strange when Andre said such a thing, they could feel that this group of people really Some are taking their feelings into account.

"Tomorrow we will resume production to challenge the two goals we set at the beginning. In the first month, we will make ends meet, and in the second month, we will become the most profitable weaving factory of the same size in Kipu City. Everyone's daily The working hours are only eight hours, can these eight hours allow us to achieve our goals? Can we keep this salary? Can we receive six gold grams of salary every month? Can our children go to school for free? Are you sick? Can you not be afraid? Can you no longer need to be hungry? It depends on everyone!" Andre took a deep breath, "Speaking of it bigger, we will change the world in eight hours. If it succeeds, the whole world Factories all over the world will see us, factories all over the world will start imitating us one after another, and workers all over the world will be paid better because of this! Let this no longer be an exception, but common. What about failure? We will be as if we never existed We will be ridiculed by the factory owners who look at us. They will laugh at the stupidity of those who issued the new system. They will laugh at you workers who are not worthy of better conditions! Everything, just look at these eight hours."

  Eight hours.

  On average, they work half the time less than workers in other factories, but they have to produce more profits than them.

is it possible?

   No one is confident.

  But is there any choice? Also no!

  Who in this world will listen to your reasoning, everyone will only look at the final result. If you make money, you make money, if you don’t, you don’t!

There is only one way to continue to live a good life and keep this unprecedented beauty, and that is to work hard under the leadership of Andre and others, to achieve their goals, and to slap those factory owners who oppress them in the face, so that people Take a good look at how tenacious and great they should be.

   Use their success to cook up widespread and routine exploitation and oppression.

"Fight!"

   "We will succeed!"

   "Nack Looms will be the greatest factory ever!"

   Driven by each worker, everyone is united and full of fighting spirit for the next eight-hour challenge.

  (end of this chapter)