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CONCLUSIONS ON THE LAND INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGN
rect directives of the Central Bureau [of the Soviet Areas] and the
Central Government, they have performed a genuine Bolshevik work.
In the way of appreciating the task, they were aware that the Land
Investigation Campaign and the revolutionary war are closely linked
together. Hence, they have carried through this task in earnest,
firmly grasped the leadership of the Land Investigation Campaign,
and developed the local work systematically. In the way of the mobilization
formula, they firmly grasped the work of the most and
relatively backward seven hsiang among the eleven hsiang of the
entire district. In these seven hsiang Soviets they mobilized the
labour unions, Poor Peasant Corps and other mass organizations
through which they went out to mobilize the broad masses. In the
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way of the class line they resolutely executed the tactic of relying
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on the hired hands and poor peasant in alliance with the middle peasants,
thus broadly developing the Poor Peasant Corps. They explained
that land investigation is not land distribution and that class
examination is not to examine the class of the middle and poor peasants
and hired hands. The work of “class talk” has been done very
sufficiently. When the landlords and rich peasants of Wofeng hsiang
intimidated the middle peasants and drove a section of them into
panic, our comrades paid a visit to several middle peasants and talked
to them individually. After they had relayed [the talk] to other
middle peasants, the middle NOT peasants FOR of Wofeng hsiang began to
quiet down immediately. Actively supported by the land investigation
policy of the [hsiang] Soviet they [the middle peasants] have
moved into a joint COMMERCIAL
attack on the landlords and rich peasants, from
whom they have endured extortions previously, along with the poor
peasants and hired hands. Comrades in Jentien District have once
incorrectly classified the status of several peasant families but they
have promptly corrected DISTRIBUTION
the mistake. As for directing the mass work,
they first of all conducted widespread propaganda. What they held
was not a district-wide or hsiang-wide meeting but a village or residence
meeting. Thus, they got access to the broader masses for whom
they have repeatedly conducted propaganda and agitation. Therefore,
the masses of the entire district have come to understand clearly
that the landlord investigation and class examination are their own
responsibility and that they are for their own interests. They then
went on to investigate class status, they spurred many people to go
out to investigate, gathering data in detail on each status to be proven
to the masses. Thus, no incident of mass discontent took place. And
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