On the squandering of salary funds and perversions of labor legislation at the Bolshevik confectionery factory.

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Appendix No. 4 to p. 51/5 pr. PB No. 103.

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of 4.VI.1932

About the squandering of salary funds and distortions of labor legislation at the Bolshevik confectionery factory.

After listening to the report of the Commission for Combating Waste of Wage Funds on the situation at the Bolshevik confectionery factory, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks states:

1) The factory management has applied the double cladding system. An understated plan was submitted to the trust for approval and defended before the trust, and the actual operational plan of the enterprise was sent to the shops. This allowed the factory management to report to the public about the overfulfillment of the plan, while the actual plan of the factory was not fulfilled.

2) Having on February 26 the underproduction in the main biscuit shop by only 54 tons (2% of the monthly plan), the management of the factory puts before the trust the question of reducing the February plan for the biscuit shop by 330 tons , in order thereby to cover the underproduction in other shops and report to the public about the overfulfillment of the plan for the enterprise as a whole.

3) While the weight loss during cooling of products leaving the machines is actually 3-4% of the weight, the factory in its plans showed these losses in the amount of 13 to 30%.

4) The factory still applies different wages for men and women for the same job.

It is so ingrained in the factory that:

a / payroll statements were prepared separately for men and separately for women;

b / at the meetings of the RKK on behalf of the administration, proposals of this type were introduced and recorded: "In view of the fact that at furnace No. 6 male labor was replaced by female labor, then the rate should also be reduced from the 3rd to the 2nd category";

c / when the norms were established in April 1932 on machine No. 8 for workers in the direction of the chains, men were assigned grade 3, with a daily wage of 3 rubles. 38 kopecks, and for women - 2nd category, with a daily earnings of 3 rubles. 51 kopecks

5) The factory during the 1st quarter has overruns against the planned salary fund of 96,000 rubles. (12% of the plan). The overexpenditure of wages against the actual production output is much higher and reaches up to 25% of the fund in some shops (biscuit workshop).

Despite this situation, the factory in its official documents shows salary savings against the plan for January in the amount of 9.600 rubles and for February 10.200 rubles.

6) In order to hide the actual cost overruns resulting from the lack of wage regulation, the factory in its plans projects an increased, against the need, the number of workers. So, for example, in February, according to the calculations of the trust, 2.620 people were required to complete the program. workers, the factory designs in its plans, and the trust subsequently approves 2,768 people, while in reality the program was carried out with 2,522 workers.

7) Trust Mosselprom, approving the plans of the factory, proceeded not from the production capacity of the equipment, but from the average indicators of the actual work of the enterprise over the past time. Despite the fact that the Bolshevik factory is located right there in Moscow and is the only independent biscuit factory, the trust did not specifically supervise its work, allowed double planning, did not study the production capacity of the factory and stamped the plans presented by the factory.

8) The leadership of the party and trade union organization at the enterprise, instead of exposing and decisively fighting the above phenomena, took the position of hushing up all these facts.

9) The factory large-circulation "Bolshevik" instead of exposing all these ugly facts on the basis of the deployment of Bolshevik self-criticism, took the position of the most unscrupulous hallelujism and broadcast advertising notes and articles about victories on the front of the plan.

The Central Committee of the CPSU (b) decides :

1) The management of the Mosselprom trust for poor leadership and bare administration and stamping of plans - to issue a reprimand.

2) The director of the factory, Comrade Vakhrushin, for double planning, distorting the labor legislation on women's labor and squandering salary funds - to be removed from work.

3) To put on view the bureau of the cell and the faction of the factory committee for hiding the above facts.

4) To point out to the Krasno-Presnensky District Committee that there is insufficient attention to the work of the Party organization at the Bolshevik factory.

5) Instruct the faction of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions to check the work of the Central Committee and the IOC of the Union of the Confectionery and Milling Industry.

6) To instruct the NKSnab of the USSR to ensure the practical implementation of the proposals for the Bolshevik factory by the commission for combating the squandering of salary funds.

7) Publish this resolution in the press.