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CONCLUSIONS ON THE LAND INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGN
or no achievement was made, however, it has been demonstrated that
the Party organs have ignored the Land Investigation Campaign. For
instance, after the Central Bureau’s resolution on the land investigation
was issued, the Huichang County Committee has not even
once discussed the land investigation work for nearly two months.
Not until the end of July did it hold a meeting to discuss the land
investigation. The Hsiahsiao District Committee of Juichin [County]
has entirely left the Land Investigation Campaign unattended over a
period of time. Ward committees of Juichin City, though held a
meeting once, did not push forward the suburban branches to head
the leadership of land investigation, while each branch did not hold
any meeting on the Land Investigation Campaign. At other places
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like Yutu, Shengli, Shihcheng, and Ninghua, the county committees
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and many district committees have not likewise exerted real efforts
at paying attention to the land investigation work. The Party and
the Central Government stated that: “The Land Investigation Campaign
has become a struggle to spur the masses and deeply penetrate
the rural classes, and a powerful method to thoroughly resolve the
land question and purge the feudal and semi-feudal [forces]” (the
Central Bureau’s Resolution); that “the Land Investigation Campaign
is the task, which the Soviets in various places cannot allow to relax
for a moment” (the Central Government’s Decree); and that “the Land
Investigation Campaign NOT is a most FOR ‘principal link’ of the present
work” (Conclusion of the Eight-County Conference). Nevertheless
many of our comrades stated that they . . . “were very busy and have
no time to attend COMMERCIAL
to the Land Investigation Campaign”. The Party
Resolution stated: “To handle the Land Investigation Campaign with
a perfunctory attitude of bureaucratism and formalism is most harmful.”
Notwithstanding, these comrades handled the Land Investigation
Campaign with DISTRIBUTION
the style of bureaucratism.
3. IN CERTAIN PLACES THE PARTY HAS SURRENDERED
TO THE LANDLORDS AND RICH PEASANTS
In places where the Land Investigation Campaign has been unleashed,
there are yet many individual but serious mistakes. That is
to say, in these local Party organs and Soviets there appeared frequently
some individual comrades who have manifested their opportunistic
vacillations in the Land Investigation Campaign which
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