INDUSTRIAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2011
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• Publication Date: February 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLI
INFORMATI
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT ina%striel tabor orgar.izationo
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PUBLISHED monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Nan-ch,16
DATE
PUBLISHED October 1948
LANGUAGE Chinese
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ORGANIZATION Of SALT INDUSTRY 1 OR~
Initial steps In organization of unions among salt-produotion workers
were taken by the Ministry of Finance in 1940-41, when the salt vorkere in
Szeohvan sere argeatzed largely or the pattern of postal and telegraph work-
era.
The salt industry being recognised an essential to national defense,
skilled salt workers of military service age have been given deferment from
military service.
During the war years, growth of the uni7un organization movement was
rr.4trioted largol;; tc, Sze%Ave.^_ and a few other salt-producing areas not
un4er ems' occupatio&. Some difficulties were experienced at first in
organization of the Chekiang workers.
After the war, a new advisory commiesioe for organization of salt
workers throughout the nation and. coordination of the argeni:astions was set
up by the Finance and Social Welfare Ninietrie+:. Un!er this set-up, progress
was made in homogeneoaa unification of the salt workers , labor organizations,
with the emcantion of a few areas where special c nditiovs seemed to warrant
temporary deviations from the general plan. Some of these areas, were
Turman, Shensi, Hunan, the Northwest, and Chekiang.
After adoption of the Constitution, the workers seemed to acquire a
heightened realization of the iuportsnce of organization and in Reach 1948,
it was pooeible to organise the National Association, of 3at Workers Unimne
of the Republic.
The Union organization set-up Is generally as follows:
1. Local unions are organized for the local political area in which
they are located.
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eligible ?or union memberEhip.
3. The unions are called Wt Workers Unions plus the name of the local
4. The unions in any giver. nux:olpality shall include onLj workers whose
industrial area is located within the political jurisdiction of that ,mmici-
pality.
The following table lists the figures for the numbers of salt workers in
.crious geographical areas in 1947:
Area Class of Worker
Total
Workers of
military Age
Total
Skilled
Others
Skilled O
thers
Northeast 1,760
11
1,771
337
339
Chang-lu 1,055
1,422
222,477
21 4
7
68
Shantung 2,248
1,805
4,053
433. 18
0
613
Nual-psi 7,812
2,818
10,630
762 4
0
802
Huai-nan -----
Shang-hai
3,351
Chekiang 65,876
3,892
69,768
19,248 61
3
19,861
Fukion 26,422
572
26,704
1,777 2
7
1,804
Taiwan 6,3t2
2
6,311,
?,89 .-
-
8~
rvangtung-
vengei 29,663
3,650
33,313
6,436 35
3
6,794
Szechwan-
8ikang 29,357
8,619
37,976
777 14
1
918
N Szechwan 36,590
4,958
41,548
1,446 11
1
1,557
Yunnan 4,159
2,315
6,474
964 41
3
1,377
Northwest 1,535
363
1,898
758 21
5
973
8hevel-
Shandi 1,934
112
2,046
322 --
-
322
Hunan 350
720
1,070
20 1
9
39
Hu1,eh 1,092
860
1,952
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