TRANSPORT WORKERS VOLUNTEER FOR KOREAN CAMPAIGN; MORE WOMEN BEING USED FOR RR WORK, PATROLS

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• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
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• Publication Date: July 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GE {719F1UF !TII1&4ORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Transportation - Rail
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hankow; Ho:r Kong; New York
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 Mar - 17 May 1951
LANGUAGE Chinese
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING TN! NATIONAL DEFENSE
Of TN! UNITED STATES ?ITMIN TNT MEANING Of ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C.. SI AND CO. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION ON TN! EBY RUTIOM
Of ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AM UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO'
NISIT!! BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. /y Jui 1951
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
TRANSPORT WORKERS VOLUNTEER FOR KOREAN CAMPAIGN;
MORE WOMEN BEING USED FOR RR WORK, PATROLS
Many rail transport workers are volunteering their services for the
Korean campaign. Increasingly, women workers are being trained and em-
ployed. Some are used to patrol railways. Efforts are being made to
overcome the existing shortage of skilled workers in railway shops. The
national, propaganda network is in operation among railway workers through-
out the country, and is reaching 90 percent of those in the Northeast.
Beginning 1 July 1951, the railways will assume responsibility for full
carload shipments of freight. Through service between Shanghai and
Canton resumed 3 May 1951 following repair of washout on line near P'ing-
hsiang, Hunan.
HUNAN RR WORKERS VOLUNTEER FOR KOREA -- Hankov, Ch'ang-chiang Jih-pao, 10 Mar 51
Ch'ang-sha -- At a rally held on 28 February 1951 for the railway workers of
the Chang-sha section of the Heng-yang Railway Bureau, 39 employees, including
a 40-year-old locomotive engineer, signed up to be sent to Korea to assist in
transportation work.
At the railway shops at Chu-chou, approval has been given for 79 employees,
including Chen En-ch'eng, the more than 60-year-old assistant chief construction
engineer of the railway shops, to be sent to Korea for transportation work. The
latter is reported to have said that although he is old, it makes no difference
that'his legs are no longer agile, that he is still competent to repair and con-
struct railways and is anxious to go along with the party.
Up to 3 Marcn 1951, at the Cheng-chou Railway Bureau, 110 in the Public
Safety Department, 37 in the Traffic and Switching Department; and 91.in the Ma-
terials Department had signed up indicating their readiness to go to Korea.
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RR WORKERS DEPART FOR KOREA -- Hankow, Chang-Chiang Jih-pao, 18 Mar 51
Chang-sha, 14 March (Hsin-hua) -- The Aid Korea Transportation Corps of the
Heng-yang Railway Bureau departed for the front in two sections on 6 March and 10
March, respectively.
Hankow -- On 12 March 1951, the second group of railway workers of the sec-
tion of the Lung-Hai Railway between Pao-chi and Lin-t'ung who volunteered for
participation in the transportation corps of the "Aid Korea Campaign" left Sian
on their way to the front. Before their departure, the Sian Railway Subbureau
staged a farewell meeting which was attended by more than 2,000 persons. At this
meeting, anti-US sentiment was whipped up on the grounds that the US is now re-
arming Japan, at whose hands China suffered. greatly during the Sino-Japanese
hostilities.
NORTHEAST RR WORKERS LOSSES HEAVY -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 3 May 51
Hong Kong -- Fatalities among the railway transportntiuu. workers of the North-
east in Korea; in connection with the Korean military cempaiga, have amounted. to
286 men up to the present.
EMPLOY WOMEN LOCOMOTIVE DRIVERS -- Hank.ow, Chang-Chiang J'.h-pao, 15 Mar 51
Tsinan -- Although for some time there have been female members of locomotive
crews on the Ch'ang-Chung Railway in the Northeast, the first of such workers to be
employ ,oA railways inside the Great Well began work on 8 March 1941 on locomotives
attached to the Railway Subbureau at Pang-fou, Anhwei. Junong this group of four
women were Li Shih, locomotive driver, and Yu Fei, fireman. Under the supervision
of a locomotive instructor, they drove the locomotive named "8th Mach" omen's
Day] which drew passenger train No 164, from P'u-k'cu to Pang-fou on time.
On the same day, 33 women were put to work on trains of the :hsnghai. Railway
Bureau, following a ceremony attended by about 1,000 persons:
WOMEN PATROL RR TRACKS -- Hankow, Ch'ang-Chiang Jih-pao, 7 Mar 51
Cheng-chou -- A large number of women are rendering good service on lines
under the control of the Cheng-chou Railway Bureau. These women %re being employed
to patrol assigned sections of the railway track both day and night, to make in-
spections and report anything out of order, and to prevent acts of sabotage. Some
very fruitful work has been (lone in locating and retrieving from nearby private
premises stolen railway materials and apparatus.
TRAINS SKILLED WORKERS FOR RR SHOPS -- Hankow, Chang-Chiang Jih-pao, 2 Mar 51
Hankow -- The engineer of the Chiang-pien Bridgeworks of the Peiping-Hankow
line at Hankow is Chu Wei-fan. Under his instruction, a number of employees in
their off-duty time have learned the technique of laying out the work from the
engineer's blueprint drawings, enabling them to triple the efficiency of the plant
and speed up their work.
The bridgeworks is responsible for repairing or, when necessary, replacing,
all bridges on the lines under the Cheng-thou Railway Bureau. Prior to September
1950, among the 200-odd employees, only two men were skilled in laying out the
CONE E 1T1M.
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work, and they were unable to keep up with the jobs to be done. During the past
6 months, nine selected workmen have completed a systematic course of study in blue evening classer', including arithmetic,men6 hatwon, geome of tlueprintired inngg,
and all subjects essential for laying out can z:)w direct the work of 30 workmen. Recently, a second training clashs of four
men finished the course. The bridgeworks is now rapidly catching up wit its
backlog of work.
PROPAGANDA NETWORK COVERS WORKERS -- New York, Rua-ch'iao Jih-pao, 17 May 51
Peiping, 27 April (Hein-hua) -- The propaganda network
propagandists.
and in railway shops and offices has almost 15,000 pnePwB
Their functions include ideological indoctrination, information about current
events with interpretation of their significance, and exhortation ofPtheowworkers
to step up production, avoid carelessness, waste, and accidents.
also includes ways in which they may resist the US and aid Korea, protect their
homes, and defend the country.
Over 90 percent of the 200,000 railway workers in the Northeast have heard
these propagandists in action. The latter reesou ce-
car-
fulness in their methods, using phonographs,
toons.
EXTEND RESPONSIBILITY TO CARLOAD SHIPMENTS -- Pankow, Chang-chiang Jih-pew,
15 Mar 51
lch effect on
Hankow -- On 1 April 1951, the Ministry of Railways will
be effected at
all the railways of the country, regulations railway inngattore which
e
shipments of freight between 331 imp tmaereffe will at
the responsibility of the railway. Beginning 1 July 1951,thi service wt l be
extended to all railway freight stations in the country. and prngect their
make it minecessary for shippers to provide men tp,~ccs~~R ;l is shipping
full carload shipments, and will result in great savings to shippers costs.
CANTON-SHANGHAI THROUGH-TRAIN SERVICE RESUMED -?- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 3 May 51 The
t erv-
throug Canton, 2 May (by telephone) -- According torepots, due to a ghh-trainos
ce between Canton and. Shanghai . Thhea track suspended r now repaired and through
the track in the rsngum_ sonng s
service May 1951 in accordance with the regular schedule..
resumed
Trains ns i will to run be every of on in both directions, leaving the terminals at. Can-
other 3 day y i
ton and Shanghai on the odd days of the month during May.
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