Workers '71: Nothing About Us Without Us

MORNING

Warsaw speaking, Program One.

It's six o'clock and we are broadcasting the morning review.

Kielce was visited yesterday by the First Secretary

of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Edward Gierek.

INDUSTRY-PROGRESS-SOCIALISM

He toured several leading industrial facilities

and met with workers, or in this case miners.

SOCIALISM - GUARANTEES SAFETY AND HARMONIOUS PEACE IN PEOPLE'S POLAND

Will the mission of working class unity…

Every day the number of factories fall…

WORKERS' COURT INCREASED DISCIPLINE AND THRIFT IN EVERY WORKPLACE

GLORY TO WORKING PEOPLE

LONG LIVE THE POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US

DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR

Pillar A1! Młodzik!

- Niemiec! - Present.

- Wójcik! - Present.

- Kukla! - Present.

- Górnik! - Present.

Pillar C1.

- Herst! - Present.

- Gąsior! - Present.

- Łebek! - Present.

- Jurownik! - Present.

- And Makowski! - Present.

- Pillar C1a. Apriok! - Absent.

- Tatarczyk! - Present.

- Kazimierczak! - Present.

- Zela! - Present.

Demidowicz!

TOOLS

16, your name?

Gaźbowski, right?

Romanowski...

He hasn't prepared it, you know.

He hasn't prepared it yet.

But what kind of work is it?

Grip? There is no full set. No, it isn’t set.

Lenda and Cyra haven't prepared it for him.

They have cards, but they wander around and don't think about preparing it.

-You took that much already. But now I'll stand and wait for work.

You won't stand here, I'll just heap it on and come back!

- How long then? - About one hour for him...

- I'll be waiting... - What do you have?

- This ones for radiators. - No, no radiators.

Mr Kosumek!

Communism sharpens your teeth, it will calm down finally and...

But what's there to say...

PUBLIC MEETING -Let's say it like it is.

The rule is: you talk too much - they throw you out. And that's what happened.

That's what happened!

- Our deputy. - Manager.

Sure it happened, he came to...

- The Chairman come from the committee. - Mr Orłowski?

Yes. He called me here and talked to me.

I told him the truth, that we work hard, and we earn little.

That we're on a shoestring,

that we're soaking with sweat...

for high quotas and low wages.

They told us, sure.

So I told them how things are: that we don't have the coupons

we don't know the prices, we don't know how much we earn,

we don't really know what we work for. And the next day after that

they called me upstairs and gave me a transfer card.

But why are you afraid to talk about these things?

People are afraid because they're kicked out the door after that.

I would’ve been out the door myself if my doctor hadn't saved me.

-I'm telling you that's over. No one's kicked out for that.

If the doctor hadn't given me the note that I can't be transferred...

There are things that if you don't like it, the gate is wide open.

And you have to go, don't you? That's why everyone is scared.

Please, feel very free to...

Please talk and behave the way you always do in any congress.

How large the raise is going to be is a matter, isn't it? -Yes.

- Well, within five years, no. - But how? When it comes to raises,

how are you going to get the raise that you are talking about now.

By the guidelines... in the guidelines for the Sixth Congress,

it is assumed to be 17-18%

through technical progress. By upgrading personnel grades.

How? The machine can't put out more, it's already at 1500 watts!

How could it, how could it do more?

Accidents already happen.

Unless we are going to do two shifts.

Superiors...

After working here so many years,

A man is going to die with this group. I'll sit!

-But gentlemen, with good machines. This is automated work for you.

Yes, it is.

But what will be the quota? How does he choose it?

Well spoken!

The quota will be the same,

but the salary per personnel grade will be higher.

It's not about the grade if a worker can only go up by group.

After a few years can they apply for group VI? Group X let's say?

But they're only on hourly pay when groups are entitled to higher day rates!

But the reports…

If the losses are still bad, it is our duty to

fix and regulate them. But if it's bad, then well...

I would like to raise one more issue.

Our quotas are too high.

Each little while he comes by and he raises our quotas.

Now it turns out that I work a whole 8 hours for 36 zlotys.

Tell me, how can one live with such a salary

and how can one keep a house with that?

We can hold a grudge against the manager,

but he is just as innocent as we are.

The actuary comes, each time he notices anything new.

Boom - he gives us a new quota.

He gives a high quota, we work hard,

faster, and eventually there are rejects,

because it's not quality that matters, but quantity!

So we ruin materials,

because we’re running it faster, faster, faster, faster...

One group rushes another.

It happens that a lot of money is made,

but a good part of it is thrown down the drain.

I'll explain everything, Mrs. Biegucka.

What you are saying...

What you are saying, is only partly true.

Come on, every woman here will confirm!

When you were speaking, I didn't interrupt you, Mrs. Biegucka.

And no one has told you that you can't earn more.

And please tell me if there are accidents like

that when a worker earns 2500 or 3000 zlotys,

someone cuts his pay.

Please tell me. Were they? Are they?

- There were those cases! - Well, when were they?

Before the December Events.

Well, that was then now is a new period, no?

Sure, but one can't tell how things will be in it.

No. So far it hasn’t been that way, and it doesn't look like it'll be

that if he earns 3000 zlotys... - Cause if you earned 2000, 2800 or 3200,

then he came and halved it. - Yes, you're right that that happened.

There was chimney regulation, now chimneys don't exist.

Unless you were punished for not working!

It is just a matter of looking after our components.

When they come right from transport, they look like this:

Clean legs, elegant, no corrosion on them at all.

We unload them here.

They lie without any cover, without anything.

Outside, it's raining, snowing, winter or not winter.

Then those legs look like this:

How much does is take to put them to work now? Twice as much. At least!

But the price is, unfortunately, the same.

No one can do a thing about it then.

And this is not about much, it is not about any damn financial outlays.

It's just about covering it with something,

so it won't rain and snow on them.

Then it won't be as rusty as it is now.

And twice the work doesn't need to be done when the price is the same.

And tons of acid goes on it. Acid is wasted, but labor is paid the same.

How much in savings would that be!

HANDS

HEADS -Here is a finished device again.

Molding could be brought to here..

- It's a bit heavy... - What?

- Too heavy. - Sure it's heavy, but this...

This one can be rolled up immediately. - Look, see... wait.

It's stuck now.

It's jammed, let's see.

What happened here? I forgot the driver.

-No, no. Not from this side. You can pull it away from there.

Jesus!

- It's coming. - Slowly.

It got dirty here.

A bit.

Some scruff got inside.

So now. It would lighten your load a lot, wouldn't it?

Yeah, it's already running on those routes.

Our route is quite overloaded here.

You can't unscrew this screw.

Unscrew the screw while it stays there.

- So there we go... - We had pliers like these ones.

And they wasted my day just knocking me out.

Because there is no possibility, unless here it is: the pump may be damaged.

It may not work. - The pump could be damaged.

And now remove it. You may be able to improve this job yourself.

Make it easier and faster. - Right away.

Twelve minutes for the one piece. And...

10 pieces go to the engine. - 10 pieces.

10 pieces per engine, that is, we would have an hour,

One, 10 pieces, 120 minutes or 2 hours.

Yes.

-2 hours would be down. For an engine.

It pays off this way.

DISTRICT

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Already, Black?

Already?

Now there will be a song:

In the mountains and valleys, You all know about this,

That our factory, Is already famous

And we enlist! - You give up today.

- To sit down a bit. - So, start, now!

In the mountains and valleys,

Ey, in the mountains and valleys

You all know about this WE WELCOME THE VI PZPR CONGRESS

Ey, that our factory