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have already had some remarkable successes over the past few years.
After the various counties did this work, the number of loafers
greatly decreased. However, in those regions where they still exist
we should use both persuasion and compulsion to mobilize all of
them to go to the production front during 1943. The experience of
Yanan County in this work is good, Bolshevik experience. Mobilizing
loafers to take part in production not only increases the labour
force but also reduces the number of bad people doing bad things.
It is supported by the people and strengthens social peace.
When emphasizing support for families with members working
in the War of Resistance, we have in the past put support for families
with civilian personnel in first place and support for families
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with kin serving as soldiers in the War of Resistance second. This
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is entirely wrong. Now we should reverse this and put support for
families with kin serving as soldiers in the War of Resistance first.
The system of substitute cultivation [daigengzhi] should first be
applied conscientiously for those family dependents of soldiers in
the army resisting Japan who lack labour power (making no distinction
between our own army and friendly armies). Secondly it should
be applied to those dependants of workers in the Party and government
who truly lack labour power. In those areas where labour cooperatives
[exchange-labour teams] have been successfully organized,
the solution of this NOT problem can FOR be entrusted to the co-operative.
Granting leave of absence to take part in production means that
in the busy agricultural COMMERCIAL
seasons Party and government officials in
the Border Region whose families have difficulties are each year
permitted to return home on two occasions, each time for several
days, so that they can take part in family based agricultural production.
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and secondary school of the Border Region should
also stop classes in the busy agricultural seasons, letting the students
and local teachers return home to help production. This is
another method of adjusting the use of labour.
The armed forces assisting in production means that each busy
agricultural season the troops of the Border Region spend several
days helping the peasants in the areas around where they are stationed
with the ploughing, hoeing and harvesting. Moreover they
do not receive any payment (they eat their own food). On the one
hand this can help adjust the use of labour power, and on the other
hand it can strengthen the relationship between the army and the