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Soviet District there are 3,676 non-trade union workers in the said
district which means not more than 5 per cent of the whole working
body. In other words, 95 per cent of the workers in the Central Soviet
District are members in the trade unions. In the district of
Hsinkuo this percentage reaches as high as 98 per cent. Can this be
dreamed of in the Kuomintang-ruled districts? Except for the
U.S.S.R., can this be dreamed of in any of the imperialist countries?
In short, in the course of only two years, the Soviet Labour Act
has been generally observed in all towns and all villages. In the
two years, the capitalists and the kulaks attempted to resist the Act.
But the active struggles of the working masses, together with the
close superintendence of the Soviet, have frustrated them. In deal-
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ing with independent producers and middle peasants who would have
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violated the Labour Act in their relation with farming hands or other
employees, the method of convincing them with frank explanations
has been used. All these account for the general improvement of
the living conditions of workers, the development of their militancy
in the revolution and their vital task in the revolutionary war and
the Soviet reconstruction.
According to reports from Kun-lu Wantai, Lun-kan, Hsin-kuo,
Shien-li, Sikiang, Yu-tu, Chinwu, Shanghan, Ninhua, Changting, and
Hsinchien, out of the 70,580 trade union members in these twelve
hsien, 19,960 are now NOT serving either FOR in the Red troops or in the local
partisan units forming 28 per cent of whole membership, and
also 6,752 in various Soviet organs forming 10 per cent. The two
make a total of 38 COMMERCIAL
per cent. The remainder amounts to 43,860 persons.
It was they who cancelled the Second Government Bonds to
the amount of $43,855 and bought recently the Government Reconstruction
Bonds to the amount of $197,803. This means that every
trade union member DISTRIBUTION
bought the bonds to the amount of $4.5 on the
average. Among them, 12,435 are members of the Communist Party
or the Young Communist League, the percentage being 28 per cent.
From these statistics, one learns how ardently the working masses
are joining the Red Army, support the revolutionary war and favour
the Communist Party. But these are nothing but the outcome of the
work of the Soviet for their interests and to promote their militancy.
Some one said that workers gained nothing since the revolution,
neither has their militancy been promoted. This is completely a vile
slander!