ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL ISSUES REGULATIONS FOR TRANSPORT COMPANIES

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• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CoNmEmJ'71u" PUENf lA1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Transportation - Transport regulations
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Shanghai
DATE
PUBLISHED 5 Apr 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SD
U. S. C., SI AND St, AS AMENDED. ITS TRAMSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORISED PERSON IS PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE OF
INFORMATION
DATE DIST. VI/ Jul 1950
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL ISSUES REGULATIONS FOR TRANSPORT COMPANIES
Pei-ping, 3 April (Hsin-hua) -- At its 25th session, held 24 March 1950,
the Administration Council passed the following regulations to eliminate
feudalistic practices from the transport industry.
1. Authorities in all areas shall organize transport companies to elimi-
nate from the transport industry the feudalistic system of labor contractors,
foremen, assistant foremen, and baggage carrier bosses,, and to provide goods
transport service for local public and private business, government offices,
popular organizations, and military units.
2. A company control committee shall be organized by company officials
appointed by the authorities and-delegates of the transport workers' union.
The manager of the company, appointed by the authorities, shall be the chair-
man. The committee shall carry out democratic control of the company. The
manager of the company shall make periodic reports to meetings of the labor-
union members or their delegates on the receipts and disbursements of the com-
pany and the state of the business.
3? Extortionate charges and other'malpractices by labor contractors,.
foremen, assistant foremen, and luggage carrier bosses having been eliminated,
the transport company shall set up a fair and unified schedule of traffic and
make contracts with public and private companies. It shall establish a busi-
'hess office in a convenient place to ha" le freight and baggage for shippers
and travelers.
4. To eliminate the extortionate treatment of transport workers by their
former self-appointed masters, wherein they were frequently required to render
uncompensated service, the transport company shall collect from the transport
workers a uniform amcnt oi: from 10 to 20 percent of the earnings of transport
workers as a service charge to be used for the maintenance of wharves, the ex-
pansion of operations 7sic7, and welfare services for the transport workers.
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5. The transport company shall each month apportion from 30 to 50 percent
of the amount it collects from the workers to.the union for workers' insurance,
welfare, cultural, and educational purposes.
6. Transport companies everywhere may undertake supplementary enterprises
outside the transport field, such as contracting to cultivate new land, construct
and repair roads, manufacture brick and tile, and carry out water conservation
projects. In this way the companies may expand the transport workers' opportuni-
ties for employment, increase their incomes, and also direct them gradually into
other fields of endeavor. e
7. To do away with the #Cd feudalistic practice by the leaders of the trans-
port workers. of controlling wharves to monopolize the business, the transport com-
panies shall in agreement with the transport workers' union organize the workers
into groups and deploy them at the places of work under a unified system.
8. A transport worker shall have a minimum of one year's transport experi-
ence (figured from the time of registration), be registered in the transport
union, and be passed by the union as suitable for service before he may be em-
ployed by the transport company.
9. When a transport worker's registration is canceled by a local union,
the action must be reported to the national committee of the transport workers'
union for recording. When a transport company wishes to increase the number of
its ordinary transport workers, it shall secure them through the national com-
mittee of the transport workers' union. Not more than 10 percent of the usual
number of workers may be hired as temporary workers. Any temporary worker shall
be considered a regular worker after he has put in 300 working days, and shall
receive the came treatment as the others. The national committee of the trans-
port workers' union shall be familiar with transport labor needs throughout the
country and distribute the labor force accordingly.
10. The transport company shall educate the workers in new attitudes to-
ward the work, to observe labor contracts, to protect the goods by careful han-
dling, to observe working hours, to expedite goods transport, to work where they
are told to, to be mutually helpful, and to refrain from peculation, cheating,
extortion, false dealing, fighting, etc. Workers should observe the transport
regulations and obey the orders of transport police. if any of the above improp-
er activities should be manifested, the company shall deal with the case accord-
ing to its merits, except willful lawlessness which shall be dealt with by law.
If necessary, the workers may be discharged.
11. All public and private enterprises, government agencies, military units,
and popular organizations that have their own equipment and laborers shall not
undertake transport service for others, and thus take work 'way from the regular
transport workers. Any organization desiring to hire extra transport workers
shall do so through the transport company. Transport union members shall have
first prioriey for such j^.T?:.
12. Private transport companies having equipment and a labor force may
continue to operate, but they shall cooperate with the government company and
observe its price and territorial regulations.
13. All puUic or private enterprises, government agencies, mil'tary units,
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pay for such services at the local rates set by the company.
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14. Local transport workers in any city shall not interfere with the
transport of goods into the city from the outside. Conversely, except for
return cargo, outside transport workers shall not undertake any local trans-
port service within cities.
15. If accused by those who have suffered at their hands and tried by
a people's court and condemned, former 7wbor contractors, foremen, assistant
foremen, and baggage carrier bosses who have been particularly wicked in their
conduct, and have earned the ill-will of the workers, may have their possessions
confiscated and the proceeds used to supplement the welfare funds of the union.
16. These regulations, having been passed by the Administration Council
of the Central People's government, are published for observance.
17. These regulations shall be interpreted by the Ministry of Labor of
the Central People's government.
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