Ervín Heinl

"What was increasing labour productivity? By increasing the speed, mostly by increasing the speed, or that the loom originally had - I don't know, twelve looms, then some sixteen, and there were some that had twenty looms. It didn't really have much effect then, but it was just fashionable, it was a striking movement. Take our famous weaver, Mrs. Šimáková from Podluží! Well, she spent a lot of time at the district or regional party committee. A replacement weaver wove for her, but it was still written down under Šimáková's name, so she was still considered the best!"

"What's important now is how I ended up as a lighting technician. Velveta had an anniversary, that's the year normalisation started. And Velveta invited artists from Prague. And among other things, there was going to be a stripper performing - as the highlight of the variety show. Well, they arrived an hour late, so it dragged on, and then she actually performed. Only, you know. We were all in the portals - the fireman and myself and the [staff] from the box office and the directors of this theatre, and in the front row sat the city general. Well, at the end, when it was about to be revealed, she turned around so she was facing us who were standing there. And she stuck her ass out at them. And there was one official sitting there, and he wrote it up - a bunch of obscenities and stuff. And I got mad. Velveta was publishing a company magazine at that time, Red Velvet it was called. And he wrote this defamatory article in it, and I subscribed to it. Now I read it, I said, 'Jesus Christ, what kind of crap is he writing here?' I mean, like this, as part of the consolidation, they fired the former director and he was filling in. He was working at Velveta, but he was also a theatre director. And I said to him, 'Hey, you're lucky to be kept here, you're a loser to the ground!' And he threw me out of the theatre right away. Just over. Well, I didn't take it lying down and I still had about four more shows to go before the end of the month. Well, I didn't light them, of course, because he forbade me. And I went to complain to the national committee and he had to pay me the money - the hours - out of his own money."