IMPORTANT POINTS OF 1953 PROGRAM OF THE CHINESE MINISTRY OF LABOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 418
• Publication Date: April 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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IMPORTANT POINTS OF 1953 PROGRAM
OF THE CHINESE MINISTRY OF LABOR
Rain-hum Yueh-pao
Peiping, May 1953
[The five key-points of the 1953 program of the Ministry of
Labor were outlined in an article entitled "Important Points of
the 1953 Program of the Ministry of Labor" which was originally
published in the Shanghai Lao-tung, No 3, 1953.1
The two fundamental prerequisites for large-scale economic construction
during 1953 are satisfactory basic construction work and the guaranteed completion
of national production plans. During the concentration on large-scale economic
development, certain privately operated enterprises which are not beneficial
to the planned national aconomy will be progressively weeded out. Problems of
temporary unemployment, changing jobs, and the adjustment of labor-management
relations will arise from this situation. To solve these problems, the
Ministry of Labor plans the following five-point program.
1. To assure the completion of capital construction plans, consideration
will be given to the welfare of construction workers who constitute an important
force in economic development. To avoid the present condition, where work is
begun in one factory after another and completed in none, the placement and
allocation of labor must be centralized. A study of practicable safety and
health measures and facilities for construction projects should be made. The
administration of safety and sanitary measures in basic construction work and
the administration of labor insurance regulations shoula be checked; also,
workers collective contracts and labor contracts should be studied and broadened.
2. The problems of training skilled workers will be studied to meet the
demands of capital construction and of new factories and mines for technicians.
For a time, the industrial ministries themselves will continue to be responsible
for training technicians, but the over-all supervision of the training program
is the responsibility of the Ministry of Labor. The Ministry of Labor will
coordinate all the technical training activities of the industrial ministries
and will study the training methods, standards, and teaching materials of the
various ministries. The Ministry of Labor will propose standards, such as the
preferential treatment of students, and will supply the various ministries with
trainees. Labor bureaus throughout the country must broaden and reorganize
training classes for the unemployed in order to fit them for other occupations.
Private supplementary vocational schools must be registered and reorganized to
expedite the training and supplying of technical workers and personnel to the
ministries.
Regarding the centralized allocation of technical workers, the following
preparatory work can be carried out this year: (a) In collaboration with the
State Statistical Bureau, the Ministry of Labor will make a report on the
number and distribution of technical workers. (b) In collaboration with the
Wage Office of the Committee of Finance and Economics, the Ministry of Labor
will set up standards for the classification of some of the important types
of industrial technicians and the methods for testing workers to determine
their grade classification. The Ministry of Labor will also study the problem
of labor force quotas. For these reasons the first special conference will
be called in March to discuss the allocation of the labor force.
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3. The third important problem to be emphasized is that of labor safety
and labor insurance. Illness
among workers and the number of deaths from
injury must be reduced in order to raise the production rate. Therefore, the
single most important task for 1953 is to carry out the decision adopted by
the All-China Labor Safety Conference held in December 1952. There will be
an investigation of the administration of labor insurance regulations. Special
attention' should be focused on establishing and broadening group insurance, and
on lessening the illness rate of workers. In collaboration with the Ministry
of Public Health there will be a conference on public health work in factories
and mines and a study of the most serious occupational diseases and methods of
preventing tuberculosis.
4. The next important problem is that of readjusting labor-management
relations. There must be a plan to readjust gradually labor-management relations.
and working hours, either by collective contracts or by government regulation.
To reform the existing laws, labor consultative conferences must be expanded,
and collective contracts must be established. Studies must be made on how to
differentiate the independent producer and his apprentices from capital-and
labor and the attitudes governing the relations of apprentices to masters.
The treatment of apprentices must be regulated, and apprentice-master contracts
set up to reduce present labor-management disputes. The first All-China Labor
Bureau Directors Conference will be held this summer to discuss labor-management
relations.
5. The final important problem is that of the unemployed worker. Some
groups of the unemployed can enter either construction work or construction
repair work. the retraining of the unemployed who seek employment in new
occupations must be based on the needs of production. Individual contracts must
be signed before training is begun to assure the graduates of definite positions.
Able-bodied persons who are unable to find employment will be given relief benefits
in exchange for labor. Those persons who are unable to work will be given relief
but under a different system. Persons who are unemployed but who have prospects,
of work and some outside source of income should be reassured and encouraged
to wait.
The first persons among the unemployed to be considered should be
those who lost their positions during the Five-Antis Movement.
In conclusion, the Ministry of Labor, the Labor departments of the admin-
istrative areas, and the labor bureaus of industrial cities are urged to follow
these plans for 1953.
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