"FACTORY" "It has to be done." " It's simple." " It wasn't possible..." "Maybe, maybe not." "Tell us how to organise it." "We have to create an organisational plan and hire some specialists." "We have to pay them." "We can't do it on Sundays." "It would take until New Year." "Let's not fool ourselves." "We are paper-pushers." "I'm almost buried in paper." "In order to put the scrap iron on the production line, the whole length of the crane has to be operational." "And it's not." "Wait..." "It's done." "We've decided the input cranes are OK, and now that we're working" "on all the technology, you're saying the crane is no good?" "What really is the case, then?" "It's obvious that the crane is no good." "So why are we talking about it so late?" "At first, it was only the heaters." "But during operation, 40% of the heating elements were destroyed." "I'm not sure how." "Tell me simply - either we are modernising, because we found out the old way was not good enough, or we have destroyed the line and we need to rebuild it." "We're modernising." "Mr Kolodziejczyk will tell us why the pipes are not insulated yet." "It was done but quality control showed that the insulation was poor." "I wouldn't say so." "We were supposed to go and touch the pipes to check them." " And what was the result?" " It wasn't done." "Who's lying then?" "Me, Czerwinski or you?" "Is there a report of the survey?" "I would like to remind you that the report should have been drawn up, but it never was." "Mr Czerwinski, was it done or not?" " Partly done." " Only partly?" "Let's advise on the reports." "The last one didn't show this..." " So we won't have the parts?" " We won't." "We can't go to the Ministry." "It's the most important thing now." "Nothing is more important." "We haven't done enough." "As yet." "Not enough, but we're working on it." "For us, for the working team, most of it is pure theory." "We don't have the casting cleaning plant and it is really slowing us down." "It's impossible to work without a supply from the foundry." "Our appeals to the manager don't help." "We still haven't got the casts for the casting cleaning plant." "We're still waiting." "So the foundry doesn't need the casting cleaning plant." "Do you agree?" "We've got the patterns and we've started production." "Does the casting cleaning plant problem slow you down?" "Yes, it does." "Is the old plant fast enough?" "No, it isn't." "Our colleague, Czerwinski, is responsible for this." "The "Proodlew" documentation is not up to date." "They've signed an export contract, so they won't work for us." "They have sold us the machine without the most important part." "This drive." "They sold it to us like this?" "We said we were swindled..." "You had a month." "What did you do during this month?" "We had an allocation but the agent had a deal to sell the grinders to Czechoslovakia." "They have to pay the penalty, legally we're all right, but the problem remains." "If the engineers can't solve it, the workers won't either." "We need the documentation." "This year's imports of our casts will be worth 21 million zlotys in hard currency." "This is only because some people and some companies confirmed the deliveries for 1969 and now it's the end of 1970 and we don't know what's going on." "We appealed on different levels." "We did what we could but not all of us are professionals." "What about the cable?" "Did we ask any of the ministers?" "The Vice Minister was here." "He said he has no problem with helping the new foundry." "He thinks he can give us more than we're asking and give it to us more efficiently." " We were writing letters..." " To whom?" "To the Associated Industries, naturally." "And so on." "And what?" "The Associated Industries, all of them, simply said no." "Our foundry is not a government priority job." "The government decided only three plants in our factory in Ursus were priority jobs." "We don't have to know why." "So we can't promote it like we promote other jobs." "Even so, we can't get the cables." "I don't get it." "It's a matter of life or death for us." "Wait..." " 300 tonnes..." " 30% of which is sand." "Which means that 100 tonnes of sand are thrown away every day." "Every day, we bring in five freight containers of sand just to throw it away." "We made a complaint about the last shipment, but the agent says the supplier is innocent" " Why?" " Because of our deal." "So the company that supplies the sand won't be accountable?" "Not by law." "So they didn't acknowledge it?" "They didn't and they blamed the PDMO company." "Comrades, let's understand one thing." "We have an important problem to solve." "We didn't get all the spare parts that were ordered." "We only got 15-20% of them." "Someone has got to pay." "But Director Puchta said..." "And Director Gorniak also said, "Comrade Haslinger, we need a coordinator to get the spare parts for the new foundry."" "But we don't have a coordinator." "It's a problem across the country, but we can't tell our fitters and operators that we don't have any fuses, valves or lamp holders." "It's very hard to obtain electrical fittings produced in this country." "The factory in Poznan sends us to Warsaw," "Warsaw sends us to Radom, and so on and so forth." " Firstly." "Secondly" " I want you to understand." "If you get some parts for us, we will appreciate it." "We know it's not easy." "But no parts for the automatic device for a year - it can't be like this." "If the device breaks we have to close it down and call the repair department." "And what will they do?" " What?" " I'm sure" "And who will provide the casts?" "If we close down the foundry, our production will fall by 50%." " We only have two foundries." " Yes." "Despite dozens of meetings, dozens of promises from Ministers, we still don't get the parts." "They used to say to us, "You don't know how to work." "You're always late." "It's your fault."" "We said we're sorry." "Last year, we prepared the drawings, the specification for the parts." "Now it's still our fault and we get no parts." "This is the procedure, we have to prepare the repair plan." "Then we ask the Foreign Trade Centre for an offer, they ask the producer for their offer, they send the offer to us, then our import application goes to the anti-import commissions." "There are plenty of them, in different Associated Industries - separately for pneumatic, mechanical and electrical parts." "You're saying..." "The bureaucracy slows us down." "We're engineers, not simple people." "We need to increase production from 14,000 to 28,000 tonnes a year." "But we have some requirements." "We can't make tractors without the casts." "Throughout last year and in the first half of this year, there were no routine repairs or surveys." "We have to make up for 18 months of inactivity up until July." "If we now say we have no spare parts..." "What do we do then?" "Close the factory down?"