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CONCLUSIONS ON THE LAND INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGN
can all apply and join. In many places, however, the old method is
still being followed and remains unchanged; without introduction
one still cannot join the Poor Peasant Corps. Worse still, when nonmember
poor peasant masses in Taching District of Juichin had
rushed to attend a Poor Peasant Corps meeting, the man-in-charge
of the Corps simply refused to admit them. In Chuchajen District of
Posheng, the Poor Peasant Corps did not admit even a single person
during the month of July. In all the districts and hsiang where the
land investigation has gained results, the Poor Peasant Corps has
developed broadly and in places where the land investigation has
gained no or little result, the phenomenon there is that the Poor Peasant
Corps is in the state of closed-doorism. Likewise, the great lead-
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ership role of the hired hands in the Land Investigation Campaign
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was not appreciated by many comrades. The Party Resolution stated:
“The masses of the hired hands, who are brothers of the urban
proletariat in the countryside, are the vanguard of the land
revolution. Hence, the working personnel in the Soviets must
maintain close contact with the [rural] labour unions through
which activism of the masses of the [rural] workers can be developed
and organized in order to make them the vanguard of
the Land Investigation Campaign.”
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Our Comrades who have carried work according to this directive
are still few in number. The principal method here is to have the
rural workers join up the Poor Peasant Corps and set up within it
individual small groups of workers. Through these workers’ small
groups [hsio-tsu] we should go out to unite poor peasant activists,
develop the Poor Peasant Corps, and promote advancement of the
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Land Investigation Campaign. The experience in Shanho hsiang of
Huangpo District is valuable. When our comrades there twice failed
to convene a Poor Peasant Corps meeting, they held a joint meeting
of the rank-and-file members of the Agricultural Labour Union and
the Handicraft Labour Union and spurred a few dozen workers to
arise actively so that they each bring a poor peasant to join the Poor
Peasant Corps. On the following day the Poor Peasant Corps again
convened a meeting to which all attended as anticipated, and thus
unleashed the Land Investigation Campaign. This experience in
Shanho hsiang should be employed in all the villages. The highlevel
leadership organs of the labour unions here should provide the
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