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co-operatives, as well as the programs of culture building like clubs,
evening classes, and primary schools, all have gained extremely great
achievements and all the work is being carried through ever more
smoothly. Based on the activeness of the masses, large numbers of
activists have joined the Party on their own, and are drawn into the
Soviet’s work. The best example is Jentien District of Juichin. With
the assistance of the Central Government Work Corps the Land Investigation
Campaign in Jentien has spurred the masses of the entire
district who have in fifty-five days, thoroughly stamped out the
feudal remnants, searched out some three hundred landlord and rich
peasant families, brought before a firing squad the so-called “big
tigers,” twelve counter-revolutionaries, for execution and suppressed
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counter-revolutionary activities; they have arrested among the So-
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viet work personnel, the class heretics who have sneaked into the
[district] Soviet. The entire district has searched out a land of 22,000
mou (mou = 0.0614 ha) and some 20,000 toiling masses in the district
have each acquired in average an additional land of one mou
and two mou and were distributed countless belongings of the
haoshen and landlords. Relying on the unprecedented height of mass
activism, they have expanded the Red Army [detachments] in fiftyfive
days by some 700 people, who have joined the Juichin Model
Division, without a single person deserting. They have saved grains,
to sell to the Red Army, NOT which amounted FOR to some 1900 tan. No other
district of the whole county can match it. At the instance of various
hsiang the entire district assumed the promotional sale of economic
construction bonds COMMERCIAL
worth 40,000 yuan. Landlord fines and rich peasant
taxes which were collected totalled 7,500 yuan and those that
can be continually raised will be 10,000 yuan. Co-operatives have
grown rapidly and the institutions of culture and education such as
clubs, study classes, DISTRIBUTION
evening classes also have increased. The number
of Party members has expanded and the leadership of the Party
has been strengthened. The labour union work, too, has moved forward.
The entire district has transformed, to breath a fresh spirit.
From one of the backward district of Juichin, it has altered its status
in fifty-five days and became a first rate district comparable to
Wuyang. We now want to ask: Why has Jentien District achieved
such a great result? That we should point out: because of their understanding
of the import of the task of land investigation and because
of their formula of mobilization, their class line and their mass
work, which have been resolutely carried out according to the cor-