1927 10, Mao Zedong led the revolutionary army of workers and peasants to Jinggangshan area, and decided to establish a revolutionary base here, implement the armed regime of workers and peasants, and create a red regime in the middle of the Luo Xiao Mountains. At this time, it is nearly cold winter, but the military supplies are very scarce, and the food expenses of only 50 cents per person per day are often unsustainable. Many soldiers have only two layers of light clothing, and their lives are very hard. The supply problem became an urgent and serious problem at that time. In order to solve this problem, Mao Zedong instructed Yu Benmin to take charge, and hired some local tailors in Ninggang to start the production of clothing and munitions in Bashang, Niuyabei and Mayuankeng in Mao Ping.
1928 65438+ 10, the revolutionary army of workers and peasants captured Suichuan city, and seized hundreds of loads of white cloth from the enemy in dafen, which solved the problem of winter clothes for the troops at that time. In order to make these fabrics into military uniforms as soon as possible, a garment factory was formally established in Taoliao Village, Mao Ping Township.
Taoliao, located under Huang Yangjie, about ten miles away from Mao Ping, is located in a remote place, and there is also a production room-Zhangjiamiao. From then on, Zhangjiamiao hung the brand of clothing factory and became the clothing production base of the revolutionary army of workers and peasants.
Mao Zedong is very concerned about clothing production and personally wrote a signboard for the clothing factory. In order to make garment production better serve the army, besides Benmin, Yang Lisan and Fan Shude, the garment factory also appointed Lin Shanbin as the factory director to specifically manage the work of the garment factory.
After the establishment of Taoliao Garment Factory, the sewing staff expanded to more than 40 people. They dyed the captured white cloth into grey cloth with homemade pigments. Production projects have also expanded from single clothes, hats, rice bags, leggings and bags to the production of cotton-padded clothes.
1928 During May, the Red Fourth Front Army captured Yongxin County in one fell swoop, which not only expanded the base area, but also seized a large number of enemy munitions, including 0- ammunition, pieces of cloth, cotton-padded clothes and 6 sewing machines. In this excellent situation, the working conditions of the garment factory have been greatly improved, and the number of personnel has increased to 130. The whole plant is divided into 13 groups. What's more gratifying is that the manual sewing has been changed to machine operation, and several soldiers who can use sewing machines have been transferred from the front line to enrich the garment factory, thus entering mass production.
In order to meet the needs of garment production, the garment factory not only strengthened the political and ideological education for workers, but also established a party organization among workers and developed some outstanding elements to join the party. At the same time, a set of quota production method is adopted, that is, each set of clothes pays 65 copper coins, which fully mobilizes the production enthusiasm of workers and effectively promotes the production progress.
1During August, 928, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee misjudged the situation of the enemy and ourselves, forcing the Red Army to move to southern Hunan, which led to the "August defeat" of the border area and the Red Army. In order to avoid losses, the garment factory moved to Lijiaci in Ciping to continue production. 1929 65438+ 10, the red army failed in the enemy's third "suppression" in southern Hunan, and the garment factory had to be dissolved and concealed.
The establishment of bedding factory has played an important role in the development of Jinggangshan revolutionary base area. At that time, it was unthinkable for the officers and men of the Red Army to spend two winters safely if they did not start garment factories according to the situation. At the same time, the opening of garment factory accumulated some experience for our army's later arms industry and became a model of hard struggle.