The Last Summer Of An Old Textile Mill

"The facilities are seriously aging, the workshop temperature can not fall down, and the whole relocation is impossible to reinvest and transform. In the weaving workshop, high temperature, high humidity and high noise make young new recruits. Spin Female workers can not afford it. Hot summer is also the peak time for new workers to quit their jobs.

　 Work is like sauna.

In July 8th, the temperature was 37 degrees Celsius. Xi'an Textile Group Three company (three factory) has just stepped into the gate of the weaving workshop. The machine running at a high speed makes a loud noise of high decibel and squeezed into the ear, and the head feels "buzzing". After that, the high temperature and high humidity quickly steam the skin out of the sweat, and the "hair" in the air is also inhaled in the mouth and nose. There are only one person in the workshop wearing masks and earplugs. Most workers seem to be used to it.

Master Wang, who has worked for over 20 years, sweating profusely after he finished his work. clothes It was already wet through. He said that the summer textile mills, like steamed sauna every day, work two pieces of clothing every day. A lot of sweating costs a lot to the body, and eats a lot at every meal, but it is not long meat, nor can a fat person be found in the workshop.

In order to encourage the workers' energy, every summer factory has to carry out the labor competition of "high temperature, full attendance and safety". At the same time, every department rotated regularly every day to deliver mung bean soup and chrysanthemum tea to each workshop. Sometimes, everyone would get a popsicle.

Master Wang sighed that the bitter days were coming to an end. He and his workmates had been involved in the trial run of the new textile machines in the new factory. They would spend the last summer in the old textile mill.

A farewell old Old plant

Xi'an textile city is an old textile base invested and built 60 years ago. It has made a great contribution to the economic construction of the state and Shaanxi. After the relocation of the old textile mill, it will introduce international technical textile equipment, and the old factory site will be reserved for urban construction land. With the completion of the new site of Xi'an Textile Group and the commissioning of its equipment, three factories and four factories built in the 50s of last century will be relocated and merged into a textile company this year.

In the weaving workshop of the four company of Xi'an Textile Group (four factory), more than 3000 old machines in 50s were demolished, leaving an empty factory building. A stray cat flew past. An old worker sighs that this is the meritorious workshop of the textile industry in the whole province, where there are more than 10 national and provincial labor models.

Aging of textile workers

In the four year of the factory model worker, Yu Fang master entered the factory at the age of 16, with a service life of 27 years. He was awarded the title of "technical champion", the model worker in Xi'an, and the 38 red banner in the whole province.

Now, the main work of the master of the year is to conduct technical assistance in the pre spinning workshop. Apprenticeships from remote cities come to work two hours ahead of time every day. She starts from several kinds of cotton and fiber, and starts training step by step. In order to stabilize the heart of apprenticeships, master chefs attracted professional knowledge and showed solicitude for life.

Old worker Chen master laments that the wages of textile mills are not attractive, it is difficult to retain people, and can not recruit young people under 35 years of age. At present, no one of the third textile mills is willing to enter the factory. The young people in Xi'an are even less likely to come. Master Chen said that when he entered the factory in 1986, the wage of the textile mill was relatively high. The apprenticeship was only 39 yuan, but there was still a balance every month, and now he was 2000 yuan a month, and spent three of his family.

After 20 years of Master Wang's exclamation, he and his wife are two workers in the textile mill, and two people earn 3000 yuan in monthly income. Only daughter's birthday, the whole family just bite out for dinner, in the past 20 years, I have not seen a movie, every time I get paid, I have the idea of resigning.

After seeing the completion of the new plant, Master Wang rekindled hope in his heart. He said that it is his greatest expectation to let the textile workers live a respectable life.