CHEKIANG ISSUES LAND-REFORM REGULATIONS; KIANGSU PREPARES FOR LAND REFORM

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• Publication Date: November 27, 1950
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CHEKIANG ISSUES LAND-REFORM REGULATIONS;
KIANGSU PREPARES FOR LAND REFORM
Chekiang provincial government has issued a severe pronounce-
ment against sabotage of land reform and demands that complaints
of the people be attended to more speedily. Cadre training for
land reform is under way in Kiangsu Province. Recalcitrant land-
lords are punished by death, imprisonment, and fines-.
WARNS LANDLORDS AGAINST SABOTAGING LAND REFORM -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-
pao, 8 Sep 50
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Since Chekiang was liberated, some rebellious landlords have been using
various devices for sabotaging or avoiding land reform, such as selling, giv-
ing away, mortgaging, etc. These practices have become more serious since
the promulgation of the land-reform law by the Central government. Th pop-
ulace has even been incited to destroy forests and kill work animals. At
the same time, Kuomintang secret agents and counterrevolutionaries are creat-
ing social chaos. To ensure progressive and orderly land reform this winter,
on 26 August, the Chekiang People's government issued the following pronounce-
ment:
1. Beginning with the day of liberation and ending with the day when
land reform is completed, it is forbidden to sell, give, mortgage, or in any
way dispose of any land, animals, tools, grain, buildings, etc., that accord-
ing to the provisions of land law should be confiscated or requisitioned, or
to disperse or conceal any such possessions. Any such illegal transactions
already completed are declared null and void; and except where refund has been
made by the original owner, will be dealt with according to the circumstances
and in harmony with the law.
2. All land, animals, etc., subject by the land reform law to confisca-
tion or requisit:sn, until formal confiscation and redistribution is made,
shall be protected by the original owner. He s+.y not willfully destroy prop-
erty or let the land lie fallow. Those who disobey shall be punished and made
to pay for the damage. Offenders other than original owners shall be punished
in like manner.
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3. The people shall have the right to note and report on such infrac-
tions of the law. Lawless elements, reactionaries, and secret agents who in
any way destroy public or private property, spread rumors, or create disorder
shall be arrested and sent to the local government for trial.
Wang Erh-ch'iang was a reactionary landlord living near Yu-hang, Che-
kiang Province. For 10 years or more he had held various civil and military
posts under the Kuomintang. He was constantly active in counterrevolutionary
work. In July of last year, when the government issued an order forbidding
sabotage of wooded land, he started rumors and incited the people to cut down
trees and get lumber and fuel while they could,meanwhile getting considerable
profit out of these transactions. He also led-other landowners to dispose of
their property to escape the ill effects of confiscation.
The whole matter was thoroughly aired in a meeting of village cadres and
of the peasants' union, who were enlightened as to the purpose of the anti-
sabotage law and the damage done to streams by forest removal. Charges were
thought against Wang, who was sentenced to death, and on 13 August was exe-
cuted. The people of the countryside were greatly pleased, and went on
quietly with their work of production.
CADRES MUST HEED COMPLAINTS OF PEOPLE -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 6 Sep 50
Hangchow (special correspondent) -- In the past few months the Chekiang
provincial Department of Civil Affairs has received a considerable number of
appeals, some transmitted from government quarters and some sent in by the
people. Most of these are concerned with local cadres. The more important
cases are turned over to special examiners or to the investigation office,
and others are referred to the local officials for report. In a good many
instances there has been delay in handling these appeals.
The Department of Civil Affairs, desiring to increase efficiency, heed
popular opinion, and manifest a high degree of responsibility towards the
people, has instructed all offices concerned that all such cases referred to
them must be promptly handled and reported. Even if there are difficulties
in settlement, there must be a prompt report. The instructions point out
that in some places the cadres have shelved such complaints, with threats of
willful revenge. Such bad habits of suppressing popular criticism must be
sternly corrected. The department is issuing a list of complaints and urg-
ing speedy report on the cases involved.
KIANGSU TRAINS CADRES FOR LAND REFORM -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 6 Sep 50
To prepare for land reform this winter and next spring, the Chang-shu
(Kiangsu) Communist Committee has initiated training classes for cadres. It
was decided that each of the 224 hsiang, in the hsien should provide seven
persons for this training. Four of these are to be persons wholly engaged in
production and three must spend at least half of their time as producers.
The total to be trained is 1,568. Courses of 2 weeks length began 12 August.
The series will be over by the last of October.
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PUNISHES OBSTRUCTIVE LANDLORD -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 6 Sep 50
Teng Pao-ho, a recalcitrant landlord of Ch'ing-lung Hsiang in Chen-
chiang Hsien of Kiangsu, owned 54 mou which he rented out in its entirety,
not doing any farm labor himself. He also owned more than 40 mou of wooded
land in the hills, where there were more than 20,000 pine trees about 10
years old.
~7 When land reform came, Tena used every conceivable method fto nullify
iJ . He distributed various I.%.-cels to his peasant friends. He sold one
wor.. animal, which was jointly owned with Peasant Li Ting-fa, the pretext
for selling being his immediate need for the 2 piculs 2 pecks of grain which
he received in payment. Worst of all was his scheming to destroy his forest.
He approached an ex-soldier, complimented? him on his service to his country,
sympathized with his economic stress, and told him to go there and cut all
the wood he needed. Quite a number of trees were felled before the local of-
ficials could intervene.
On the eye of land reform, he tried to get Ma Chin-shan to cut wood in
the forest, but'Ma rebuked him, refusing to fall in the trap. Then Landlord
Teng inveigled several dozer ~f his friends who lived near the hill land to
go there by night and fell tees. In two nights the entire stand of pines
was gone. The People's government learned of this and sent him up for trial.
On the afternoon of 23 August, a vindication-of-,justice assembly was
called to deal with the recalcitrant landlord. More than 800 peasants at-
tended, one after another bringing charges against the accused, asking the
government to punish him for obstructing land rcfo z. The People's Court
sentenced him to 3 years' imprisonment, depriving him of citizenship for
that same period; he was fined one million yuan, to be used for replanting
the forest and replacing the farm animal.
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