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314 MAO TSE-TUNG
en He did not farm and he did not cut firewood. Winter and
summer, wearing a ragged old cotton-padded jacket he would curl
up on the cold Rang. Each day he would smoke one-fifth of an
ounce [er qian] of opium. His wife and children cried from cold
and hunger. After the revolution and educated by the government,
he has become the production director of Fourth township.
Everybody praises his method of work. He is a labour hero.
Moreover he keeps a close watch on loafers. He forces then to
make production plans. Every five days he goes up into the hills
to supervise them. Under his direction Liu Guai and Yan Fenghe
have each planted 24 mou of land this year.
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TO MAO
(2) Our methods of mobilization are:
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(i) Doing propaganda, educational, and persuasive work to
get them to take part in production. Having got some grain in
their prospects improve.
(ii) The government gives them definite production tasks,
such as opening up uncultivated land (see examples above). They
are inspected at regular intervals. Moreover special people in
the villages are designated to supervise their production.
(iii) Urging the masses to struggle against them, and to force
NOT FOR
COMMERCIAL
them to join production. This year in the two villages, Jinpenhe
and Yunshansi in Third Township, Panlong District, production
competitions were organized. In this situation, Chang Degong,
a loafer in Jinpenhe, was forced by the villagers to go up into
the hills to open up new land. He has opened up 3 mou. At the
moment he is preparing to plant 15 mou.
(iv) Organizing the loafers in collective labour. The loafers
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are concentrated in the district town and organized into teams to
open up new land. After they get rid of the opium-smoking habit,
they can go home. The land opened up and farmed is given to
whoever does the work.
(v) The government solved some of the loafers’ production
difficulties.
(3) Results.
The masses were very pleased that the government made the
loafers take part in production. The masses opposed them very much