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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
scious needs of the millions of the worker-peasant masses. Having
this power in operation, the Soviet shapes itself into a dictatorship
and organizes the revolutionary war and the revolutionary court
which wage violent attacks upon the class enemy from all directions.
This brings about the enormous function of the Soviet court in the
Soviet territory.
d. THE SOVIET LABOUR POLICY
FROM MARX
TO MAO
The Soviet, based on the class character of its political power
and on its enormous task of arming the toiling masses to fight out
imperialists and the Kuomintang through a revolutionary war, must
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initiate class struggles of workers, defend their every day interests,
develop their revolutionary initiative, organize this initiative in the
enormous revolutionary war and turn the workers into active leaders
for the revolutionary war and pillars for the consolidation and
development of Soviet power.
Interests of the workers are completely protected under the Soviet
labour policy. The labour situation under it as compared with
that n the past while under the Kuomintang rule, or with that of the
districts now still ruled by the Kuomintang, forms a sharp contrast
which is comparable only NOT to the difference FORbetween
heaven and hell.
Before the Soviet districts came to exist, that is to say, when the
Kuomintang were the rulers, the workers were slaves of employers.
The long working COMMERCIAL
hours, the meagre wages, the brutal treatment,
and the absence of any legal means whatsoever for protecting the
interests of workers are what will remain permanently in the memory
of every worker. All these disadvantages for the workers still exist
in the Kuomintang-ruled DISTRIBUTION
districts and are aggravated. Lately, the
real wages of workers in the white districts have been cut by more
than 50 per cent. Cut of production, mass-dismissal, and lockout,
have been the common methods of capitalists to launch attacks upon
their employees. It logically follows that broad unemployment has
been formed. To speak of industrial workers alone the unemployed
now exceeds 60 per cent. In the Kuomintang-ruled districts, to strike
is a criminal act in the eyes of the rulers. In March, 1933, the Kuomintang
authorities at Hankow even proclaimed death punishment
for strikers. Whenever there is a conflict between labour and capital,
the Kuomintang never fails to stand on the side of the capitalist
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