CULTURAL REVOLUTION. IN A .SILK MILL
[The following report, datelined Hangchow, September 28, appeared in the September 30 daily bulletin of the Hsinhua. News Agency. ]
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Workers of the Tungfanghung Silk Mill (originally Tuchinsheng Silk Mill) in Hangchow are producing great numbers of finely worked pictures of Mao Tse-tung to meet the huge demand from revolutionary people both at home and. abroad.
As the great proletarian cultural revolution surges forward throughout the country, more and more people: are buying such pictures of Chairman Mao.: Every day, even before the shops open, long queues of workers, peasants, soldiers, youngsters and others of the revolutionary masses form up outside the shops to buy the picture. Orders are | pouring in from Peking, Kwangchows Chengtu, Harbin and other cities.
The silk mill, which was originally noted for its decorative landscape-andfigure designs done ‘in silk, still continued to display, even after liberation, the . old shop sign with the name given it ey the capitalist owners, the ruthless exploiters of the working people.
On August 23, in response to a proposal by the Red Guards of Hangchow's schools and colleges, the workers banded together with these young fighters, smashed the old sign and changed the name of the shop to one with a revolutionary meaning: "Tungfanghung" (the east is red).
The workers, deeply. moved, gave a pledge: "Chairman Mao is the red sun in our hearts and in the hearts of people the world over. We must weave more silk pictures of Chairman Mao, of finer quality and at greater speed, to make the red sun from ‘the east shine out all ‘over the world. mo
‘The revolutionary workers of ‘the mili then set to work to convert a number of the silk-weaving looms for :the production of pictures of Chairman. Mao.
Sixty-year-old veteran worker Hsu Kang-chien said: "It is the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao that has inspired us to smash the bad old shop sign and replace it with a glorious new one. Chairman Mao is the red sun in the hearts of us workers. We must overcome every difficulty in the way of turning out greater numbers of fine-quality silk pictures of Chairman Mao, because these are wanted by the revolutionary people at home and abroad. "
The silk mill sent to Peking for the latest photos of Chairman Mao. Newly designed head-and-shoulders portraits showing Chairman Mao in the olive-green uniform of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the red arm band of the Red Guards will shortly be put into production.
Over the past few days, the daily output of the woven silk pictures of China's great teacher, leader, supreme commander and helmsman, Chairman Mao, has practically quadrupled. .
BOOM IN PUBLICATIONS INDUSTRY IN CHINA
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