Andre said: "Comrade Winston continues to study things. Comrade Benedick and the comrades at the sub-station went to purchase machinery, building materials and other things. Comrade Verak and I led the workers to repair the dormitories and canteens and build all the facilities."
, then investigate the family situation of the workers, count the number of children who need to enter the nursery, and determine the person in charge of the nursery, night school for workers, disease fund, and store for the workers.”
"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 that night before they completed their respective tasks.
Like Bresci and Willland, factories generally adopt 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 know how to operate the processing steps on the assembly line.
Now that mechanization is being implemented with the financial support of the Equality Association, it is foreseeable that the production capacity of the Nak Weaving Factory will make a huge leap.
But under such strong production potential, it is a cruel background that the market in Kip City is close to saturation.
No matter how much the output is, if we cannot find more channels to sell it, and supply exceeds demand, it will also cause great hidden dangers.
Faced with the sudden increase in output of Nak Weaving Factory by so many times, it would be difficult for ordinary people to find suitable channels for sales in time. If they cannot find it, they will not be able to withdraw funds. The goods will only continue to be backlogged, and the capital chain will be broken sooner or later. However, Wen Wen
With the Equality Association behind Ston, he directly contacted the people at Lezein Terminal, who assisted in preparing to open a sales channel to Lezein, so that the first problem of increasing production capacity was successfully solved.
Benedict also brought his comrades from the sub-station to transport back all the facilities and building materials that will be built next in the factory. The machines on the production line will also be fully equipped within the next week.
Thanks to his many channels, the price of purchasing materials was lowered a lot, which reduced the cost pressure and made the two goals set relatively easier.
Verak and Andre compiled the workers' information.
At present, the Nak Weaving Factory excludes children under the age of 16, and a total of 74 people can participate in the work. There are a total of 66 children under the age of 16 in the factory and children under the age of 16 in the families of workers.
This number is still within their acceptable range.
The conditions of the workers in Nak Weaving Factory are generally very poor, and there are many who have not started a family. Therefore, even if the number of workers is several times that of workers in other factories, the number of children is basically the same, no more than in other factories.
In addition to those who are working and those who want to enter the nursery for free education and semi-supported children, they have also recruited some additional chefs, cleaners, and nursery staff, and these new recruits are basically from the workers’ families.
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In the end, the number of employees in Nak Weaving Factory reached more than 150 people.
Half of these 150 people are not working and need to be taken care of by the factory.
Verak, Winston, and Andre felt a lot of pressure. What they did was equivalent to putting the pressure of every worker to support their families on themselves.
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May 12
The workers' canteen and workers' dormitories were further repaired.
The conditions of the originally dirty and messy dormitories 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 stay in it. The freed up space is equipped with desks for workers to work on in their free time.
Study. The extra workers were placed in new dormitories that were opened up. The conditions of the new dormitories were slightly worse and needed to be improved over a long period of time in the future.
The canteen has been set up, with tables and chairs complete, and hygiene will be checked regularly. Workers can eat a sufficient amount of nutritious free food every day, and they no longer have to squat in a corner and eat low-quality potatoes that can barely satisfy their hunger.
After Andre and Verak conducted the inspection, they were very satisfied with the current progress and pointed out the direction for future improvements.
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May 13th
After calculations all night, Winston found that the cost of recruiting more than 60 children under the age of 16 to educate the factory itself was higher than the cost of sending the children to school, so he and Verak arranged
After the meeting, Andre decided to cancel the educational mission of the nursery. The factory would then directly connect with the school, and the factory would pay for the children to study in school. The factory's nursery would only retain a certain degree of responsibility for raising and caring for the children.
In this way, the factory eliminates the cost of recruiting teachers for children of different ages and the cost of learning venues, and only needs to provide tuition and supervision.
The benefits enjoyed by the children have not changed, and the costs incurred by the factory have declined.
In addition, considering that workers' wages are not enough to support children to go further on the road of learning in the current environment, Verak proposed a new idea, that is, when children reach the age of sixteen
Afterwards, based on their academic performance, the factory can also provide them with paid or free educational support, giving them more possibilities.
This suggestion was unanimously agreed to.
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May 14
The workers' shop and entertainment center have been constructed.
The workers' shop sells goods that are of the same quality as those on the market, but at lower prices. When the workers see such affordable prices, they recreate the madness they went through when the cafeteria just provided enough nutritious staple food, and sweep away the goods.
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It will naturally take some time for them to get used to this. Once they feel 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. It also has a suggestion box open where workers can anonymously submit opinions, which can be implemented as soon as they are approved.
However, it was overcrowded on the first day it opened. In the chaos, chess and cards were lost, and books and musical instruments were damaged without malicious intent. Andre urgently sent people to maintain order, and worked with Verak and Winston overnight to formulate regulations for the entertainment center.
Only then did the entertainment center reopen.
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May 15th
The nursery was established, and the registered 66 children under the age of 16 were officially arranged to move in. While they were in the nursery, they went to the canteen with the workers to enjoy three free meals, and there were dedicated staff responsible for their safety and life.
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Benedict has also reached a preliminary cooperation with a nearby school, and will arrange for these children to enter the school for appropriate learning according to their different ages and education levels.
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May 16
A night school for workers has been established and disease funds have been arranged.
The children's education can be handed over to the school agent, but the workers' education cannot. Verak, Winston, and Andre went to Keating for a meeting and had many conversations, and finally decided that Verak and Winston will currently serve as workers' night schools.
The teachers taught the workers something to help them learn to read and write, and germinate the idea of equality.
After a period of time, when the school is established and on track, Keating will send specialized teachers to help the workers learn and master the knowledge they have never mastered.
That night, Verak, Winston, Andre, Benedick, as well as the comrades from the sub-station who came to help during this period, all the workers of the Nack Weaving Factory, and the children gathered in the canteen to celebrate that they had finished the work one day ahead of schedule.
We have carried out comprehensive reform of the factory and celebrated that they will officially resume production tomorrow.
"Let me say a few words!" Andre, as the nominal factory owner, stood up and said after everyone arrived, "I think everyone has had doubts about us during this time and worried about what we will do.
I will not fulfill my promise and fulfill the twenty-seven rules one by one. Six days have passed.
, I don’t know how many people who want to apply for jobs with us shook their heads and left after seeing the twenty-seven system notices hanging on the door. I don’t know how much sweat we all have spent, and what kind of ups and downs we have experienced in our hearts. In short,
Everything we said on the first day was done!"
"Okay!" The workers applauded one after another.
The families of the workers who were arranged to work here and the children who received free care and education also expressed their gratitude.
Some of them either couldn't find a job, or they had to go out to make a living at a young age. Their lives were once dark, and whether they could survive was a question, let alone maintaining a living.
Everything has changed now.
Their relatives who worked in the Nak Weaving Factory received an increase in wages, food and shelter. The factory took care of them when they were sick, and the factory arranged for their children to receive education.
Even older workers have the right to study for free every night.
The old people, the sick, the disabled, and the children, who were not treated as human beings before, were treated as living people in the Nak Weaving Factory by the new factory owner and the people in charge.
They understood a truth.
A person's body can be imperfect, but his personality and dignity cannot be the same.
"We have established nurseries, night schools for workers, we have connected schools, we have provided free food and accommodation to the best of our ability, we have opened high-quality and low-cost workers' shops, entertainment centers, and we have provided complete workers' subsidies and sickness funds!" Andrei
He waved and waited for everyone to calm down before continuing, "I'm not doing this to tell you how good we are.
, because we must not be good enough, and there must be room for improvement. Whether it is system or management, we must 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 can burst out greater value under good conditions, so why should we be oppressed and exploited?!"
"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 were up to no good. Now they are worried about whether the Nack Weaving Factory will close down.
Trust has been laid on a solid foundation through their words and deeds over these six days.
"It depends on everyone." Andre pointed at the workers present one after another, "Do you think we are doing this to make more money? Of course we are, otherwise how can we promote it to more places in the future, but
Is that just that? Absolutely not! This is not that we are exploring new ways to make money, but that we want to find the possibility of a win-win situation and give everyone here a chance to prove themselves! You are not inferior
You guys are not inferior! I want Nak Weaving Factory to make money, and I want Nak Weaving Factory to become the best weaving factory of the same scale in Kip City and even in the whole of Brexi! Because only in this way can we
Let the factory owners who oppress and exploit you and other workers know that you are human beings 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.
If any factory owner said such words in the past, they would sneer at it and regard it as a hypocritical way to win over and boost morale. But when Andre said such words, they did not feel strange. They could feel that these people really
There is consideration for their feelings.
"Tomorrow we will resume production and challenge the two goals we set at the beginning. In the first month, we will break even, and in the second month, we will become the most profitable weaving factory of the same size in Kip City. Everyone's daily expectations
The working time is only eight hours. Can these eight hours allow us to achieve our goals?
Standard? Can you keep this salary? Can you receive a salary of six gold grams every month? Can your children go to school for free? Can you not be afraid when you get sick? Can you never need to go hungry? It depends.
It belongs to everyone!" Andre took a deep breath, "More importantly, big
The family will change the world in eight hours. If we succeed, factories all over the world will see us, factories all over the world will start to imitate us one after another, and workers all over the world will have improved wages! Let this no longer be an exception, but
is common. What if it fails? We will be like from
It has never existed before and we will be ridiculed by the factory owners who are looking at us. They will laugh at the stupidity of those of us who promulgated the new system, and they will laugh at you workers who are struggling to make a difference and do not deserve better conditions.
! Everything can only be seen in these eight hours."
Eight hours.
On average, they work half the time than workers in other factories, but they have to produce greater profits than them.
Is this possible?
No one has confidence.
But is there any choice? Nor is there!
Who in this world will listen to your reasoning? Everyone will only look at the final result. If you make money, you will make money. If it doesn’t work, it won’t work!
If you want to continue living well and keep this unprecedented beauty, there is only one way, and that is to work seriously under the leadership of Andre and others, achieve your goals, slap the faces of the factory owners who oppress them, and let people
Take a good look at how strong and great they should be.
Use their success to burn common, commonplace exploitation and oppression into disrepair.
"Fight!"
"We will definitely succeed!"
"Nack Weaving Factory will become the greatest factory!"
Driven by each worker, everyone is united and full of fighting spirit for the next eight hours of challenge.