Unforgettable Past

In 1982, Wu Hesong (former right three) was accompanied by Hao Jianxiu, the Secretary of the CPC Central Committee (the former right two), to inspect in Qinghai.

Since the founding of new China, under the correct leadership of the party, several generations of textile workers have worked hard for decades. They have not only solved the clothing problem of the whole nation, but also made China a well deserved world textile power.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary founding of the Communist Party of China, a number of "old textiles" sang the praises of the great achievements and spiritual wealth that the Chinese Communist Party led the people through reviewing the new China's textile construction process and their work life experiences.

In order to carry forward

This year's "71" is the 90th anniversary anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. This reminds me of many unforgettable past events.

It is the party that has given me second lives and trained me to meet the needs of my work.

Before liberation, when I was still at school in Shanghai, I was enveloped in the shadow of "graduation is unemployment". On the busy streets of Shanghai, there was a common tragedy of college graduates "telling the land".

However, just after liberation in Shanghai, in the summer of 1950, we all assigned jobs after graduation.

At that time, the whole country was not yet completely liberated, and the state and people's lives were still in difficulties. All more than 30 of our class were assigned to interns in textile mills in Shanghai. After a year, they became formal workers, and many of them became leaders of workshops and departments.

I am assigned to the "blowing carding workshop" of the twelfth cotton mill in Shanghai.

At that time, the workshop was the worst in the whole factory, and the flowers and dust were flying everywhere. When the cave was released, the dust was thrown out into the earth's cave and every Saturday to sweep out the rubbish.

Every time I work with the workers, I am young, I have just joined the work, and I am very motivated.

This winter, the US imperialists invaded the DPRK, and the Kuomintang plane bombed the Shanghai power plant by air.

Our factory is deeply touched by the power plant.

The vigorous campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea started.

A year later, I went back to the factory and asked for a rework. The personnel department of the factory asked me for a physical examination.

Review the results, the hospital said that no recovery, will not be able to prove.

The two heads of the personnel department were old members of the PLA. They were very difficult to see me. They agreed that I should go back to the factory and consult with the director and chief engineer to take care of my body and not go back to the workshop to work in the chief engineering office.

The director and chief engineer are very kind to me.

Under the care of the party, six months later, I was pferred to the planning department to take part in the grading.

With wages, family difficulties also eased. I worked harder and joined the Communist Party of China.

After half a year, he was promoted to deputy chief of the planning department.

Another half year later, he was pferred to Beijing and worked in the research department of the Ministry of textile industry.

In those days, there was no cure for lung disease.

Without the Communist Party and the new society after liberation, I would not be able to live to this day.

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The research department of the Ministry of textile industry is responsible for drafting reports, writing articles and consulting staff for the department leaders.

At that time, I did not know anything about the situation, nor did I write articles.

The leaders of the research room are all old revolutionary and old party members, who are very nice to us from the factory.

The study room is next to the library. When I was free, I went there to read books, and read history, philosophy, politics, literature, management and so on, especially Chairman Mao and Lu Xun.

With the training of the party, I gradually grasped the basic knowledge of analyzing problems and writing articles, and began to adapt to the new job.

The collection of the suffering and struggle history of the textile working class, which has been exploited and oppressed, has given me a very deep class education.

In 1959, the Museum of revolution and history (now National Museum) was built to collect cultural relics.

The textile industry has a long history. Textile, railway, mining, shipping, shipbuilding and other five industrial workers have been called "the representative of China's new strength" by Chairman Mao, the most progressive class in modern China, and the leading force of the revolutionary movement.

The Ministry of textile industry has been identified as the key unit for collecting cultural relics.

The leadership of the Ministry attached great importance to the establishment of the collection office of revolutionary cultural relics, and pferred a bureau director to be a director. I worked with a comrade in the technical department as a clerk, in conjunction with textile offices (bureaus) and enterprises across the country, to collect historical relics of the development of the textile industry and the exploitation, oppression and revolutionary struggle of the textile working class.

A large number of cultural relics in various parts of the country are issued: one is "Contractor", "nurturance worker", "

Many cultural relics also reflect that the bourgeoisie exploited the surplus labor value of workers by means of extremely low wages, over 12 hours' working hours and bad working conditions in order to grab excess profits, and suck up the sweat and sweat of workers.

Historical records: "in 1925, the Japanese mill in Qingdao, the workers did not exceed three bags of flour per month"; "in 1930, Shanghai textile workers, male workers wages a little more than 1 meters per month, and the women workers only had about 6 fights"; before liberation, the workers of Qingdao cotton mill worked 12 hours a day, watching the women workers of the spinning shop, having a meal, joining them, biting a cold acorn nest and drinking a cold water.

When the car blossoms, the Japanese devil sees and braids, which is a beating. "The air in the workshop is dirty and the temperature is above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Lung diseases and other infectious diseases are the occupational diseases of textile workers.

There are no safety devices in the workshop, and injuries occur when workers die.

This is the case in Shanghai and other places.

In the old society, prices rose every day and workers' real incomes were lower.

Statistics show that the prices of old Shanghai increased by 84800 times in the 8 years from July 1937 to August 1945 during the war of resistance against Japan, and the rice rose 131200 times.

From September 1945 to May 1949, during the war of liberation, 3 years and 9 months, prices rose 35036 times, and rice rose 47069 times.

If the counterfeit money is equivalent to 3 million to 1 of counterfeit gold coupons, the price increase will be more than 105 billion 100 million times.

Not only the textile workers, but also the people all over the country live in dire straits.

A large number of cultural relics record: imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism and cruel oppression and exploitation on the head of China's textile working class aroused their strong resistance.

They fought from the earliest spontaneous struggle to organized struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

In the 1919 "54" movement, the strike of workers in Shanghai began at the beginning of the Japanese run cotton mill, and the general strike of 15000 factories in Japan and inside and outside the cotton factories.

In 1921, when the Chinese Communist Party was founded, the struggle of the Chinese textile working class against the "three great mountains" entered a new historical period.

The "May 30" anti imperialist movement in 1925 was also initiated by the textile workers under the leadership of the party.

At the beginning of this year, a number of workers from the eight cotton mills in Shanghai and Japan were fired, and more than 40 thousand workers from 22 Japanese mills in Shanghai were on strike.

Japanese capitalists also killed Communist Party member Gu Zhenghong, and more than 20000 workers from Shanghai and Shanghai West Japan mills immediately went on strike.

The people of Shanghai responded positively, and the workers in Shanghai took part in the strike, a total of 250 thousand people, and launched a massive mass revolution in May 30th.

Textile workers took an active part in the armed uprising of the workers in Shanghai and threw themselves into opposing the struggle against Japanese imperialism and the Kuomintang's reactionary rule until they overthrew imperialism and the Kuomintang's rule in China.

After the founding of new China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the textile workers became the masters of new China. The party and government first implemented democratic reforms in factories, abolished the search system of insulting the workers' personality and the feudal system of managing the workers in the first place, and carried out democratic management.

The wage and working hours reform was carried out and the 8 hour working system was implemented.

All factories have installed ventilation and cooling equipment, establish safety and health responsibility system, and install safety protection devices.

The workers said, "in the past, the workshop was hot and stuffy, and now the workshop is like spring, which is the second liberation of textile workers."

Transformation of old factories to improve working conditions and increase living and welfare facilities.

The newly built factories have not only a row of modern production workshops, but also a well situated staff dormitories, as well as welfare facilities such as staff canteens, kindergartens, hospitals, children's schools, etc., which fully embodies the superiority of the socialist system, and the enthusiasm of textile workers has been unprecedentedly high, which has made a significant contribution to solving the problem of people's dressing.

When the collection of revolutionary cultural relics is finished, I am afraid that the valuable historical relics collected from all kinds of hardships will not be fully utilized after reporting, and it is a great pity if it is lost.

In order to keep these cultural relics as far as possible, I copied and arranged them day and night, and edited a "history of suffering and struggle" of the textile workers' class (without modern photography and photocopying conditions) before reporting them to National Museum.

Later, due to busy work, this information was pressed in the bottom of the box for more than 50 years.

This manuscript can also be regarded as a valuable historical material reflecting the history of the textile working class.

Recently, I am going to print it out and send it to various textile museums as historical materials for class education.

The noble character and fine style of the proletarian revolutionaries have become an example of my lifelong learning.

After the collection of cultural relics work, I returned to the research room and had the opportunity to contact with the department leaders.

Some of them were party members during the great revolution, some took part in the Long March, and some took part in the "one two nine" student movement, some of them were old party members and old revolutionaries during the war of resistance against Japan.

They were educated and trained by the party for many years, and experienced the test of life and death for a long period of revolutionary struggle. Their Marx's world outlook, revolutionary spirit, fine style of work and noble character touched me deeply, and many past events often caused me endless yearning.

Old Minister Qian Zhi Guang was a proletarian revolutionist who joined the party and participated in the long march in 1927. The leading comrades of the Central Committee said he "made immortal deeds for the victory of the revolutionary war and the establishment of new China".

He led the textile industry for 32 years, and made the textile industry of the 1.5 colonies the largest textile country in the world.

His pragmatic approach made the textile industry avoid a lot of trouble and get healthy development.

In the "great leap forward" era, iron and steel "satellite" and agriculture "put satellites". Some cadres of the textile system thought that cotton could not be used too much, and also caused an unhealthy trend of "machine speed" and "soil spinning and weaving".

Vice Premier Li Xiannian said that "money is light with Marx doctrine". Shanghai textile capitalists called him "iron abacus".

In order to rebuild the Yizheng chemical fiber factory, at the age of 81, when he retired from the front-line leadership, he also went to the director of the Construction Committee, Han Guang, before he went to work.

Later, comrade Han Guang said: "in order to develop chemical fiber and solve the problem of dressing, money is always working day and night, painstaking efforts, we are deeply moved."

In the cultural revolution, the cadres in the Cultural Revolution were delegated, and all the units were selected in the countryside. Qian took into account the fact that there were many cadres in the southern part of the country, many technicians, and many technicians. Under the pressure, they went to the south to select points. They built a textile machinery factory and a textile mill in Shaoyang and Anlu respectively, so that they could bring their children down, and their children were also well arranged.

Later, the organs returned to normal work, and they were gradually pferred back to technical posts to give play to their special skills.

The spirit of caring for cadres, caring cadres and seeking truth from facts is deeply moved by the cadres.

In his long life, Qian spent all his life in the white area and worked hard to earn his living. He raised funds for the Red Army in the Long March, took part in the whole process of the Republic's talks, set up many economic undertakings to solve the economic supply of the red base areas and the CCP in the Kuomintang ruling area, but he kept on working hard and frugal style all his life, and lived a clean and frugal life all his life.

According to the requirements of the "biography of Qian Zhiguang" issued by the CPC History publishing house, 6 comrades from the research department and the planning department of the former Department of textiles have completed the task in 3 years. In the process of compiling, we have received a profound education of party history and Marx doctrine.

Comrade Chen Yifang and I have just retired, and once met vice minister Li Zhengguang in the aisle.

He said, "Lao Wu, Lao Chen, I am 80 years old, and I am still working. You just came down, do not be negative, and continue to struggle."

Vice Minister Li Zhengguang once ran a small textile mill in Yanan. Later, the state wanted to develop the chemical fiber vigorously. He worked hard and became a chemical fiber expert.

When the Shanghai Petrochemical Fiber Factory was just built, the wire drawing equipment was out of line, and the product could not be sold. He settled down in the workshop all day with illness, and finally solved the problem.

I went to work at the Shanghai textile machinery factory with Wang Ruiting, deputy minister, and worked in the factory. He worked day and night, infected every member of the working group and joined him in rotation.

Later, in order to build the largest modern Yizheng chemical fiber factory in China as soon as possible, Qian sent him to the scene as commander in chief, and did not work day and night, bringing out a revolutionary and militant workforce, overcome many difficulties and set up factories in a high standard.

Now they are all dead, but the spiritual wealth left by them is never extinguished.

After Comrade Hao Jianxiu took over the post of minister, it coincided with the organizational reform. The national Editorial Board requested that the former research office and the general office should be merged into an office, and I would like to form a new office.

Hao Jianxiu paid special attention to the investigation and research, and realistically planned the development of the textile industry.

Under her leadership, many reports drafted by the general office were approved and commended by the Party Central Committee and the State Council leaders.

There was a meeting of the director of the opening hall, and some of the leading directors of the major districts and some of the department leaders made speeches, calling for the opportunity of "textile fever" everywhere, "go all the way up" and "play for life".

For a time, the seminar turned into a blind pursuit of blind development.

I was responsible for drafting the report, feeling at a loss, criticizing these sentiments, and the atmosphere of the meeting was a bit tense.

That evening, Hao Jianxiu talked to the Deputy Minister of Shou Han Qing, who was in charge of the plan, and thought that my speech was right, and encouraged me to draw up a report according to the actual situation of the textile industry at that time, and then hand it over to the meeting for discussion.

They succeeded in adhering to the principles of the party and seeking truth from facts.