The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08


continued and one central power station sup
plies power to all of the factories and furthermore
this station supplies electric light to every
workers home. One dyeing plant was closed down
and all of its machinery moved into the other,
today all Of the material is dyed under the one roof
in a factory employing between four and five thous-
and workers. The purchase of raw materials and
supplies for both the primary and secondary units
as well as the sale of the products of the factory
are in the hands of the central management excus.
lively
Factory buildings which were formerly separated
have been now being joined together in order
to do away with the hauling of material from one
building to another. Buildings that were unsuitable
for the new production methods are being torn down
and new buildings erected in such way as to fur.
ther unite all of the former factories into one unit
But with few exceptions most of the above noted
changes effect the element of economy in produc-
ton rather than the quantity. But look what foil
lows:
Repairing and Moving Machinery.
Since 1922 the repairing Of machinery has been
put an organized and planned basis By that
I mean that they did not wait for a machine to
break down before they fixed 1t and further that
they did not start In haphazard manner 70 repair
first machine in one department and later in an
other.
They carefully went over all Of the buildings and
equipment in the Nikosky unit and found out just
what their resources were. On the basis of this
cided just what buildings had to be torn down.
which ones had to be altered and how others could
be connected. In considering the question Of the
buildings they approached their problem from the
point Of view Of doing away with all duplication
and breaks in the continuity Of che productive pro-
cess. They set out to establish "chan system"
OF production so that all Of the material would
come into the factory at its proper point and fol-
low straight line through the plant until It came
out as the finished product.
With these plans in mind they started TO repair
machinery Whole departments were stripped Of
their machinery and the machines were not merely
repaired but completely rebuilt In doing this they
made themselves practically Independent Of the OF
iginal manufacturers of the machines for they made
blue prints patterns and castings OF all Of the ma
chine parts and produced them in their own machine
shop In schools connected with the factory (which
have dealt with in another artice) they turned out
designers. draughtsmen, pattern-makers and machin
sts In this way they laying the basis for build
ing their own textile machinery in the very near
future.
After these machines repaired they are not
set back in their former places. They are set up in
accordance with the new plans that have been made
For example all of the spinning machinery is being
put together in one set of buildings, the weaving
machinery into another and the thread making ma
chinery into the third. All Of these units are being
so arranged that they feed directly into the bleach
ing, printing and dyeing plant, from which the
syndicate in Moscow receives the orders for all tex
tile goods There the orders are distributed among
the various factories, from which the goods are
shipped directly to the purchaser
II by any chance the former owners were to come
back to Orekevo to reclaim their property they
would have a pleasant time trying to decide which
buildings and machinery belonged to them. They
would find 1t so hopelessly mixed up that they would
be compelled by the force of circumstances TO con-
nnue the operation one plant. However we need
mot worry. This very progress now being made pre-
siudes any possibility of their ever coming back.
Few Concluding Facts.
IN addition to the general production figures given
ut the beginning Of the article the following are
even more startling evidence of what has been
accomplished by the workers during their short
period OF industrial management
In spite of the fact that of the spinning and
weaving machinery dates back to 1885, l. e. A years
cid, production has greatly increased
Output In Spinning Mill per 1000 spindIes
1918 1926
Ill pools OF yarn. 1872 pools of yarn.