KWANGTUNG GENERAL LABOR UNION AND CANTON CENTRAL LABOR UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600790010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
DATE OF INFO.
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Kwangtung General Labor Union and
Canton Central Labor Union
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
:2 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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were in ~anton. The chairman nf the union was LIN Chiang-yun (2651/6973/7189),
2. The Kwangtung Provincial General Labor Union also had a deputy-chairman and
a secretary. It was organized into ten departments and committees,. whose
chiefs, appointed by the Chinese Communist Party, were for the most part
veteran Communists. The departments and committees were as follows:
mewer or e Kwangtung Provincial Government and as chief directr of thew_50X1-HUM
preparatory committee of the South China Regional Seamen's Union.? In 1951
LIN was chief of the Chinese Communist National General Labor Union.
a. Organizat
b
ion Department
f.
Women's Labor Department
. Cultural
P
and Educational Department
g;
Policy-Research Department
c.
roductio
d
L
n Promotion Department
h.
Private Industries Committee
.
abor Pro
tection Department
i.
Manual Labor Committee
e. Child Lab
or Department
j.
Shop and Store Workers
Committee
3. The union was financed by.subsidies from the Chinese Communist Party and by
monthly fees paid by the members.,.and it sponsored a Provincial Labor'Union
Officials School.
fifth , and sixth floors of the Yung An Building ontheBundinjjCanto
4fTh
n.
e
executive committee of this union was responsible for directing the organi-
zati
on of labo
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r un
ons in..Canton. HUANG Wei-min (7806/0084/3046) was
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the headquarters of the Kwangtung Provincial Gen
l L
b
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committee chairman, LIAO Li-min (1675/4539/3046) and WU Chieh-min (0702/0094/
3046) were vice-chairmen, and other committee members included TAN Tso-fun,
IUANO Tun-wing, LIN'Tsui-yung, CHANG I-ming,'OU-YANG Po, YUNG Chian-wing,..
LIA Chiaa,.. And . TUNG ?Ch:ia 2 ....,,.~ .,.._ ...
Comment. According to the Hua Chiao Jih Pao of 21 August 1952,
Chtiang-yun was then only nominally chairman of +Ino
~..Y--oiGi wvaa-va-L ,,t,r,ur union ana cnairman of the South China Regional
Branch of the Chinese Seamen's Union. The Kwangtung Provincial General Labor
fJna' actually controlled by its secretary-general CHIEN Neng-hsing
(7115/5174/5281), while the South China Regional Branch of the Chinese 50X1-HUM
Seaments Union was actually controlled b
its
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rman T
AN Ch ti-kI o
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Comment LIN was an offs nar of tha Kwanqtjjny aAnArA_j T a}nr.
e was one o e mem
overn-
50X1-HUM
ment Council in August 1953
2.
HUANG Min-wei (7806/3046/0251), undoubtedly the the present report as chairman of the executive committeeoofmtheiCentral
Labor Union of Canton, as an officer of the Canto
G
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n
enera
Labor Union.
No Chinese characters were received for TUNG and the other committee members.
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