DESCRIBES UNEMPLOYMENT IN TSINGTAO

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: August 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC -REPORT
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEN11IAL OH~I~EHIIAL
INFORMATION FROM
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. 2 jrAug 1950
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PUBLISHED Tsingtao
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The following speech was made on 22 May 1950 in Tsingtao by Chang Yun-
shan, Deputy Minister of Labor, at a meeting welcoming a team of the North-
east Labor Recruiting Committee:
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Sine liberation, the number of unemployed workers in Tsingtho_hasbeen
increasing steadily. From January to March 1950, the Tsingtao People's gov-
ernment carried out registration of the unemployed, and in January, 5,703 per-
sons registerd, including 1,824 men and 3,879 women. According to incomplete
data, +,672 more unemployed workers were reported from the beginning of March
to the end of April 1950, making a total of 9,013. The exact number of the
unemployed, cannot be verified because, it is thought that 65 percent of the
unemployed woken and 35 percent of the unemployed men did not take the trouble
to register in the January registration.
During the past 2 months, only 509 unemployed were placed in jobs. Today,
the Northeast Labor Recruiting Team gave employment to 138 technicians and is
continuing to recruit several hundreds more from the city. The Shantung Con-
struction Company and the Shantung Railway Bureau also employed a number of
workers. Never the less, a big unemployment problem still confronts Tsingtao.
Here are the principal causes for the present unemployment:
1. Enemy air raids and blockade -- KMT airplanes, based on Taiwan and
other islands, are assisted b;j the US imperialists in attacking our cities.
They are also blockading our ports. It is necessary, therefore, to liberate
Taiwan, other islands, and Tibet. To attain this goal will naturally require
a huge military expenditure..
2. Repeated natural calamities in 1949 -- Some one million calamity-
striken people in China need money and provisions.
3. Economic reconstruction -- The economic system in our country was
heretofore dependent and semicolonial in nature. it is being .reorganized
into an independent, people's? economic system.' The process will require a
long time and much hard work.' During the reconstruction period, severe eco-
nomic dislocation and chaotic conditions are to be'erpected.
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4. Inflation -- The continually rising prices of the past 12 years have
created a false economy. The present stabilization of commodity prices
. aused overstocking of markets with unsalable goods and forced a drop in pro-
duction.
5. Capitalists -- Capitalists are skeptical about the workability of
the present governmental policy. They are therefore witholding capital, and
taking a "wait-and-see" attitude.
The liberation of Taiwan and other islands is not far from being realized
and will force the enemy to stop air raids and the blockade. The large amount
of money now being used for military purposes can then be used for the economic
construction of the country. The economic construction work in the Northeast
has been completed. The number of workers in the Northeast industries has in-
creased by 170,000 since 1949. The Northeast has no unemployment problems. It
needs more workers.
The following steps are now being taken to aid the unemployed-
1. The implementation of the "production-for-self-.help" program by the
participation of the unemployed workers in ma_ing bricks, nets, ropes, etc.
2. The implementation of the "work-in-exchange.-for-provisions" move-
ment. Workers dredge canals, repair wharves and jetties, dry grain, etc,'to
receive wages in kind.
3. Assistances from various agencies. Government agencies of all levels
and general labor unions make inquiries of various enterprises to find employ-
ment for the unemployed. The Northeast Labor Recruiting Team is now recruiting
more than 1,000 Tsingtao unemployed; the Shantung Construction Company has given
work to 250; and the Shantung Railway Bureau's Ssu-pu Machinery Factory hired 30
unemployed. ?
4. 4he implementation of the "return-home-to-pursue-production', movement.
Unemploy ' who have homes in rural areas are being urged to return home to pur-
sue agricultural production until better conditions prevail in Tsingtao..
5. Emergency relief work. The Tsingtao gov. rnment has given emergency
provisions to the unemployed. Monetary donations are also being solicited to
help them temporarily. The Tsingtao General Labor Union has set up an unemploy-
ment relief committee to help the unemployed.
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