Some factory directors have tried hard to find new niches for their workers.

Later, another factory director was accused of ordering the assassination of a Siberian governor.

The acting factory director says, "You can't make a condenser out of freedom."

To be sure, many local factory directors and shop owners are unhappy.

"Responsibility should not be shoved onto the single person of the factory director," one of these dissenting views held.

In several cases, factory directors elected by their workers have been rejected by the Government ministries that oversee the plants.

They continually drive themselves, both singly and as a group, to exceed the targets set for them by the factory directors.

In his last years he worked as a factory director for a company that manufactured gloves.

I remember a year ago, when the General Secretary summoned a few dozen factory directors to discuss matters.

The factory director called for a vote.