In the production team period, what role did the "work recorder" belong to? Don’t the clerks have to work?

I hope that everyone will not slander and vilify the production captains, accountants and labor planners during the collectivization period, thinking that they were officials or like the current labor contractors. They are all democratically elected through members' meetings and are not appointed by superiors. They are people trusted by the vast majority of the people. There are only a handful of people with evil tendencies and low moral character.

Of course, because of their responsibilities, they must be selfless and treat those who are not working hard, are lazy and cunning, those who have poor work skills, or those who harm the collective interests. It is inevitable to make criticisms on site and in meetings, and even fight against certain people. Therefore, some people, out of selfish motives, think that all team cadres are a bit annoying, or even do evil things.

In fact, both the team leader, accountant and clerk work together with the members and take the lead in order to convince the public. They start work earlier than the members and finish work later than the members. They have to clean up those areas that are not in place, especially the corners. Their sense of responsibility is stronger than that of ordinary members.

Due to their work and responsibilities, they are entitled to certain labor subsidy points according to the relevant regulations of their superiors. Except for the team leader going to meetings, the accountant's accounting, and the clerk's work breaks and deletions for the employees, they are all Participate in labor recording work points.

In addition to working, the employee recorder also records attendance every day, including lateness for work and early departure. The recorded attendance information will then be reviewed by the team committee, including member representatives, which is regularly chaired by the team leader, to determine how many work points each person should receive. Those with less work points will be increased, and those with more work points will be reduced. Reduce the labor force and add agricultural products to the mix.

All in all, both the team leader, the accountant, and the clerk serve the members. In addition to their other responsibilities, they are all workers like the members, relying on their labor to earn work points.

When I was in the production team, I also worked as a "work recorder". A recorder is just a member of the team with some knowledge selected by everyone or the team leader. They are volunteers who record work points for everyone. They not only work the same as members, He will even work a little more and set an example for everyone. Of course, he will also keep track of his work.

During the production team period, "recording workers" meant recording each person's work points in a work point book. Regular settlement (usually one month) is done, linked to the accounting accounts, and checked with the workers.

Production teams are not all men, women, and children working together in a collective. To work normally, they are usually divided into several labor groups, and each group has a certain amount of land. For example, when harvesting wheat, cutting rice, and planting seedlings, various farm work production teams have unified quotas of work points. For example, my team planted five acres of rice seedlings with 30,000 holes and met the quality standards. The quota of 30 work points per mu must be between 2 and 8. Between 10,000 and 30,000 to 20,000 holes, 2 points will be added for over 1,000 holes, and 2 points will be deducted for 1,000 holes less. There are also quality requirements such as planting spacing, hole plants, depth, etc. If not qualified, work points will be deducted. If it doesn't reach 20,000 to 80,000, it will be necessary to replenish the rice seedlings. After planting every day, the production team leader will lead the labor team leader (some are also employees) to check and accept. If the price is exactly 30,000 and the quality is consistent, then the 5 acres of land will be divided into 150 jobs. If it is planted by 10 people, then at the end of the day, the team leader will evaluate the work points. According to technology, speed, etc., more work will be rewarded. There are also cases where the work points of the previous day are evaluated when the rice is raised the next day, and the recordkeepers have to keep accounts. Only when the team leader is also an employee, he will participate in the acceptance inspection. When evaluating work points, the clerk has to keep accounts and temporarily put down the work he is doing.

There are also production teams working collectively, sometimes including men, women, old and young. For example, working on rivers, weeding, collecting cotton, planing potatoes, threshing fields, etc., there are also quotas, and they are all led by team cadres. At the end of working on big rivers, etc., the work points are calculated together, and they are usually deposited in the accountant first. The rest are also reviewed every day, and the person in charge will distribute the labor to each group's clerk, or to the accountant. The accountant and the clerk must reconcile the accounts every month. The accountant will record the work points of each person in the account, and the clerk will record the work points earned by each person in each labor book, and then send them to each household to check whether there are any errors. (Most people also keep accounts in their homes, or rely on memory). If there are any mistakes, ask the bookkeeper or accountant to make an accurate calculation again.

When the clerk and the accountant reconcile the accounts, they must record the work points, and no work is done at this time. It is usually called lost time recording. The rest is nothing special.

In the past, when collectives were organized, the village usually had a captain, deputy captain, accountant and custodian, and each group also had a recordkeeper. The cadres in the village are not officials, but the captain is in charge of the overall situation, and the deputy captain leads the members to work. Except for the captain who does not work, other cadres must work and take the lead. Remembering workers is the same as being a member of a cooperative. A few dozen or a hundred extra points will be recorded at the end of the year. As a kind of reward, it does not mean that you can stop working. In particular, the deputy captain is more tiring than the members. After the work is completed, he has to take the lead in the work. If the deputy captain does not take the lead, the members will procrastinate. This is the hardest thing for the deputy captain. Because the captain's commune has many meetings, and a commune member meeting is held in the evening to announce the above tasks, so they rarely participate in labor, and only go to the fields to check on the situation when they have free time. In fact, the cadres on the team are all selected by the members. As long as they have the ability to run the village affairs well, the members will choose them as team leaders every year. The clerks are directly selected by the cadres, that is, those with some education are selected as clerks. On the contrary, all village cadres must participate in labor. It does not mean that they do not have to work if they become cadres. In the past, only brigade cadres were released from work, and the village clerks were members of the commune, let alone not participating in labor. It’s the same in rural areas everywhere!

Remember how many work points employees are subsidized on a monthly or annual basis. They participate in labor as usual during the day and go to the meeting room of the brigade headquarters at night to record the work status of employees. Our village is small. There are only about 40 households in the whole brigade, more than 200 people, divided into two teams. Each team has a clerk. The team leader will be there at night, because he arranges the work during the day, and many members also Will arrive at the scene, verify the situation of the day, and accept the farm work arrangements for the next day. Regardless of the brigade cadres or squad leaders, clerks, warehouse clerks, etc., they are not out of work. They only rely on a few work points to subsidize them. Go and drink from the northwest.

During the production team period, clerks were counted Member of the production team leadership team. Work like a member, and at the end of the year, you will be given processing points.

The production team leader is not completely out of work, and he also works, but it is not a real work done by you and me.

The production team leader takes the lead when working, and no one else can go in front of the team leader. In 1968, I graduated from junior high school at the age of 18 and went to work in the fields. The team leader was an old man in his fifties. We are very pushy, and when we are working, we have a half-hour break in the morning and afternoon. When the captain was there, he was not allowed to rest and worked until he got off work at noon or in the evening. The members of the club suffered a lot, and they had problems with him in their hearts.

One night in winter, a members’ meeting was held. The raw man stood on the stove, and the tube of the stove was burning red. The leader of the team was talking, and the three new cotton-padded jackets inside were newly made and attached to the stove tube. All the members saw it, and I saw it too, and wanted to tell him that someone tugged on my clothes. No one told him that he was still frothing on his tongue and felt so hot all over his body. At first glance, there was a big hole in the cotton-padded jacket. The old man cried and complained to everyone, "You are too bad, you are so damaged, and no one will tell me." Everyone covered their mouths and laughed secretly, which made me feel uncomfortable.

After I worked in the production team for two years, the leadership team of the production team decided to let me work as a clerk. They all praise me for being steady, accurate, and able to do well. Every morning, the members gather at the production team. I take names one by one and observe whether any of them go home after taking their names. In the afternoon, we gathered at the production as usual, took names one by one, and observed. Day after day, I recorded it very carefully and accurately. Received unanimous praise from leaders and members.

Therefore, clerks are considered members of the leadership team and work just like members of the commune without leaving work.

Let me tell you the truth: the "work recorders" have confirmed that the collective production team is not what some media said: "Before dividing the fields and working alone, farmers ate from a big pot and worked the same whether they worked well or bad." But what did the production team members do? How much dividends can be distributed at the end of the year? It's all based on evidence.

When learning from Dazhai in agriculture, the clerk was a witness to "distribution according to work, more reward for more work": How many ditches did the members dig in a day? How much fat have you accumulated? How much grass was hoeed? How many wheat fields were harvested...are all recorded. These data all come from "work recorders". How much money you can get during the year-end dividends is determined based on the original data of the "recorder".

At that time, it was compulsory for workers to record work.

It's not that you don't work, but that you are more diligent than ordinary people and have good moral character. Only then can you be selected as a clerk by the members. At most, at the end of the year, as suggested by the team leader, give the clerk a hot water bottle or something as an encouragement.

Recording staff will receive work point subsidies every year. Participating in work is the same as being a member of a commune. Working in a field or on a construction site, there are no "work recorders" who do not work.

In those days, the production team was at the lowest level, with captains, deputy captains, women captains, accountants, custodians, cashiers, and record-keepers. In our local area, even the captains, except for meetings with superiors and visits, usually did not They all work on farmland and construction sites with commune members, and the annual work point subsidy is of course higher than that of other cadres...

I also worked as a few cashiers in the production team. Although the production team did not have large funds, the accounts must be balanced with the accounting accounts every month. If it's not right, it needs to be corrected repeatedly and rechecked with an abacus (abacus). Don't be careless.

Our timekeepers at that time only went to each construction site to record work in the last hour of the afternoon. During the rest of the time, they worked as usual like everyone else.

During the period of the People's Commune Production Team before and after the 1980s, although the clerk did not play a role in the production team, at best, he was just a small member of the team committee. Although his official position is not large, his power is considerable. First of all, it must be someone whom the production captain trusts, and he must also be of the same mind as the captain, otherwise, the captain's job will be difficult. For example: the team leader made a decision to reward and punish social workers, and the clerk recorded it in front of the team leader and everyone, but after the incident was over, the decision was not implemented at all. On the surface, he obeyed the captain's orders, but behind his back, he secretly went his own way in the work score sheet. He was rewarded fairly, but fined and deducted, and he was secretly a good person. Because time has passed, who will remember. In fact, it is equivalent to emptying the rights of the captain. There was a saying in the production team that if you offend the accountant, you will not be able to guarantee your rations; if you offend the clerk, you will get less points; if you offend the fattener, you will get two spoons worth of one spoon. From this joke alone, we can see the importance and power of the recordkeepers in the production team back then. It is also a microcosm of the great collective back then. Therefore, the recordkeepers back then were first appointed by the captain, and they were people who were of the same mind as the captain. On the surface, everything depends on the captain, but in fact, the power cannot be underestimated...

Although the clerks in the production team had great power, they still had to participate in the labor of the team like other members. Even take an active leading role. This was mainly because the clerk was not only someone the captain could trust, but also had a certain influence on the production team at that time and had high prestige among the members. Especially everyone listens to what he says and is willing to listen. It can also be understood as a symbol of rights.