THE SIXTH ALL-CHINA LABOR CONGRESS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHINA NATIONAL UNION OF TRADE UNIONS

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The Pre eratoryeSession of the Sixth All-China
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1, The Preparatory Session of the Sixth All-China Labor Congress was opened in
Harbin on 31 July 1948 with LIU Nine-4, Chairman of the Congress Preparatory
eaunittee, presiding. LI Hsieh-pol Secretary-General of the Congress
Preparatory Committee, first made a report on the past functions of the
Preparatory Committee? The following is a summary of the major points of
eI's report:
Originally it was plalned to call the Liberated Area Congress of
employee& and laborers e1egates (IACELD)(Chieh Fang Chu Chin
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in Yenan in September 1945; the Preparatory Committee for this congress
had been formed by the delegates of the various general labor unions of
the Liberated Areas and was organized in Yenan in April 1945. THUG Fa
(la 4H was chairman of this committee; since ThNGgs death in April
19469 LIUNing-i has been Chairman of the committee. Because of the
Japanese surrender which forced the cemmittee to be active in various
new areas which the Chinese Communists occupied ahead of the Kuomintang
forces, the convocation of the LACeLD was postponed. Finally, in March
1948 the Preparatory Committee notified the various labor unione of the
Liberated Areas to prepare for the All-Liberated Areas Congress of
asployeee' and Laborers Delegates.2
According to the committees announcement, this conaress was to be held
:n Harbin an 10 June 1948. Because of requests from CHU Hsueh-fan and the
Shanghais, Tientsin and other underground "demcratic labor unions" in tee
then Kuomintang-controlled areas to send delegates of their unions to
attend the congress, the date for the congress was again postponed to
1 August 1948 in order to allow sufficient time for the underground
delegates of the various unions to arrive in Harbin. As the congress
then vete not limited only to delegates of the Liberated Areas, LIU Ning-i0
CHU Hauch-fan and various other leaders of the "democratic labor unions"
suggested that the title for the congress be changed to the Sixth All-
China Labor Congress; this su2gestion was approved by the Preparatory
Committee on 30 July /948.
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After Li Hsieh-po finished presenting the above report, the new name for the
congress was pawed in the preparatory session of the congress. The Presidium
a the Congress of 34 ,raccibers and the agenda for the congress were also passed
in the preparatory session. As for the agenda, a few key...members of the Presidium
prepareithings ahead of time and then-presentethem to the members for "passing,"
thus making approval by the members simply a formality)
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e, The opening session of the Sixth All-China Labor Congress took place on 1 August
1948 in Harbin with 504 labor delegates attending. These included delegates from
Northh? East, Northeast, Northwest ard Central China (the geographical lisisions
epplied to China by the CCP), the Kwangtung-Kwangsi and other Liberated Areas,
the labor delegates .(mystIy. CCP underground personnel responsible for fomenting
otrikes an recruiting personnel) from Shanghai, Tienteins Wuhan and other
Kuneintaag-controlled cities and muricipalitiess the labor delegates of railroadss
mines? military installations, electriolestallations, weaving industries and
other so-celled productive enterprises (Ch 'anPu Men )j t ?I ), the
delegates of the Liberated Areas EMployees? and Laborers' General Union (Chieh
aeg Ch 'u Chih Kung Tsung Hui Al oi the association lee by
CHU sue an) and the various "democratic labor unions" in the Kuominteee-
controlled areas.
h In addition to the 504 labor delegates, others who attended the opening session
included LO June-huan 41:),? Assistant Secretary of the Chinese Communist
northeast Central Politburo and concurrently Deputy Political Commiesar of the
northeast Military Zone (as of February 1948, Political Commissar of the Peiping-
Tientsin Frent Command (Headquarter.) under General LIN Piao), LIN Feng (4- OL)?
Chairman of the Northeast Administrative Council, FEND Chung-yun (;),6 41'1' 100
Chairman of Sungchiang Province, Ca Ch 'i-won mayor of Harbin (as
of November 1948, mayor of Lukden)? and the representatives of the "soldiers of
the Northeast People's Liberation :ally, the farmers, wonen and youth of the
Northeast."
5,, The session opened with all members singingals_Intera_ntiona12. Then the following
"Honorary Presidium" was passed:
Stalin, "leader of the labor clars of the whole world"
LIAO Tse-tung, "leader of the Chinese labor class and of all the Chinese people"
CHU To Commander-in-Chief of thf Chinese People's Liberation Army
Nuenetsovs Chairman of the USSR All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (AUCCTU)
Louis Saillant, Secretary-General of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
The composition of the "Honorary Presidium" and its passage were simply a formality.
Actually all projects and resolutions were formulated or decided upon beforehand
by the Presidium of the Congress before presenting them to the delegates present
Coo agreement or passages and :his passage was always accomplished without argument
and the delegates simply followed the lead of the Presidium.
6. Following the passage of the "Honorary Presidium," LI Li-san? representing the
Presidium of the Congress, deliverec the opening speech which lasted three hours.
The major points of his address, in summary, were as follows:
The past five All-China Labor Congresses were held under the leadership of the
Chinese Communist Party. It was because of the guidance of the Chinese Communist
Party that the Chinese labor claes started their revolutionary stragele and
revolutionary lebor movements whjch have resulted in the, present achievements
of "political rights and liberateon.n It was because of the "revoluti uary
minter strength of CHU Ten and the "national leadership of MAO Tse-tung" that
the Chinese labor class has the present chance of holding the Sixth All-China
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;eber Congeess in the literated lunicipality of Harbin, It was because of
he aesesteeee of the labor clasees of other nations of the world and "the
help of the people of the USSR and that of the Soviet Red Army which demolished
the Jareneee troops and liberate the Northeast" that the Chinese people were
creed teom Japanese oppression. Therefore, the Sixth All-China Labor Congress
here reereients the national labor class of China in a salute to CHU To, LAU
"seetune and Stalin. The mission of the Sixth All-China Labor Congress is to
,ii3C1M how to increase the unitr among the labor class in suppressing the
world rescionary force led by American imperialism and how to unite with e13
,tiemocratie classes of the nation" in completely deaolishing the Kuomintang
-eacticeary groups and establishing an independent, liberal, democratic and
erCified new China as pointed out by Chairman LAO Tse-tung.
Alter IJ Le-ssn finished his report and the applause subsided, the Preeidium
aombees spent ebout half an hour in reading the telegrams and letters of con-
seatulatiens sent to the congress feom the CCP Politburo, the USSR AUCCTU, the
TU., the 'reach Employees and Laboeers Joint Union, the "democratic" labor
unions of tmerica, the Thailand Employees and Laborers' General Union, the
eeerseas Chinese labor unions, the china Labor Association, the Democratic
Ceneus$ Kunietang Revolutionary Ocknittee and other minority "democratic" parties.
k'he Politiaml Commissars LO Jung huen and LIN Feng successively gave speeches
eeceuregin: the laborers to eoopera ,e closely and to work together with the
r!ople's Liberation Army in liberating the whole of China. FENG Chung-yun?
ChU Ch 'i-won end other "guests" of the Congress also gave same words of encourage-
went and c)ngratulatione, The sees3on ended with the passage of a motion to send
Lelesrams of salute to StaLtn, MAO Tse-tung and CHU To as drafted be the Presidium.
The record session book place on 2 auaust 1948 and the highlight of this meeting
was a 3ergthy political report by K10 Kang (111) 4 ). representative of the
Chinese Communist Party's Northeast central Bureau (Chung Kung Tung Pei
Chung Yang Chuir dieJj ). KAO presented the "historical facts"
eleeroina ?low the Chinese labor cla:is had struggled under different political
caaracteristies of the present natimal and international situation into
"democratic" and nreactiona-y" and noncluded that it is "the duty of the label.'
elaes to Iloilo with all demecratie elesses of the world for the overthrowing of
American imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionary regime."
One of the most significant events of the entire Congress occurred during the
third session 3 August 1948 when CH EN Yun utilized the time of the entire day's
eeecion to deliver a lengthy speech on the "Present Aims of the Chinese smployee-
Jeoorer (lrade Union) Movemelt." Tie content of CH' EE's speech was actually the
eate- ae that of the "Resolutions" peesented by LI Li-ean on 17 August (see psra-
eraphs I" and 19). Like the Resolutions themselves as well as LI Li-san's pre-
senteeion speech, the tone of CHIN's address was violently anti-Kuomintang and
neti-Ameriear and the points of his entire speech followed the oscow party line.
It is significant that this speech aas delivered by CII ?EN Yun, who is a member
cr the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee and Central Politburo and
that the Lesolutions as such were presented by another ardent international
Communise, LI Li-san. In conclusion, CH'EN stated that in order to realize
these aims there must be established the China National Union of Trade Unions
TUTU),
11, On 4 and August 1948 the delegates at the congress were divided into small
groups to discuss the reports made by KAO Kang and CII 'EN Yun. There was no
argument en any points KAO or CHta suggested.
On 6 and 9 August sessions were retuned with U./J.-sans CHU Hsueh-fan and
others voicing their reasons for supporting KA0band CHIEN's reports. At the
end of the 9 August session, all delegates voted to give Complete support to
all pointe in KAO'ssand CH'EN's reports.
V. The 10 August session and part of the session of the llth were used by CHU Hsueh-
lbn in reporting on the employees' and laboreremovement in the Kuamintang-con -
trolled aeeas. As had LI Li-san$ FAO Kang and CH'EN Yuri, CHU put the struggle
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ogainst Anerican imperialism and aeainst the reactionary Kuomintang regime
)o the Ain of the fight of the emp:'oyees and laborers in the Kuomintann-con-
erelled areas. Then CHU related how the "Kuomintang reactionary groups con-
trolled and slaughtered the laborers, how the laborers suffered under the
Kuomintang economic collapse, and how they carried out their heroic anti-CH1ANG
and anti-emerican struggle." Fina:,ly he mentioned the "historical facts"
regarding ham the Chinese Labor Association (Chung Kuo Lao Tung Hsieh Hui
lp ih ir ) was established and haw it joined the Chinese Communists
in January 1946 to realize its sirelar aims. In the 11 August session, OU-YANG
Thu-junia Al )0 Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Establish-
eeet of the Shanghai (Communist) Labor Union, gave his own report and supported
t41:: stateeents of CHU Hsueh-fan. CU-YANG listed all the labor strikes and labor
etreTles,since the Japanese surrender in 1945 and concluded that these were led
by the "dmoeratic labor unions" (underground) for the purpose of carrying out
the anti-CHIANG and anti-American movements.
11!. In the 12 August session lau fling-i reported on the international trade union
movement. He first discussed the eorld Federation of Trade Unions (FTU); then
he mentioned how MEG Fa had represented the Liberated Area Labor Union and
CHU Hsueh-fan had represented the Chinese Labor Association in joining the
September 1945 Conference of the WilU in Paris, thus establishing the link
with international labor leaders anti international trade unions. LIU stressed
the folleerine:
"The eorld democratic strength has been united under the leadership of
Stalin and other Communist leaders of the world. To be faithful to the
international proletariat means to be faithful to one's own race! The
expansion of the international trade union strength will never cease if we
depend on the assistance of the democratic trade unions of the USSR and
other democratic nations of the world, upon the national people's strength
and the overseas Chinese labor strength, and upon the victory of inter-
nationalism. The way to peace and democracy is to support the eFTU? to
strengthen the CNUTU and to cooperate closely with the labor class of all
nations for the formation of a united anti-American front."
15. In the 13 August 1948 session LI U-san announced the Regulations eoverning
the CHUTU II explained that because of the latest changes in the situation
in China, new missions were new put before the labor movement. In order to
fulfill these now missions: a change in the form of the organization of the
labor unions was needed. Strictly speaking, different productive enterprise
trade unions should be the units or members of the CNUTU. All productive
enterprise trade unions existing ee present, all vocational unions and all
local labor unions should be members of the CNUTU. Anyone who works in any
enterprise, school or organ and who depends on the salary or rages from his
nenual or mental labor as the major source of his income should join as a
member of the respective trade union which union is in turn a member of the CBU13.4
There were no meetings on 14 and 1) August. In the 16 Aueuat session, the
iresidium's proposal was "passed" to send a telegram to the overseas Chinese
in the name of the Sixth All-China Labor Congress. This cable expressed
qempathy :or the overseas Chinese :ho "are oppressed overseas by the reactionary
Kuomintang" and heartily welcomed the overseas laborers and personnel of the
industrial and commereial circles emong the overseas Chinese to come to the
"liberate areas and participate in the Communist industrial reconstruction."
17. In the seesion of 17 August 1948 La Li-Ban represented the Presidium of the
Congress in announcing the "Draft esolutions Concerning the Employee-Laborer
(Trade Union) Movement." These were passed with applause. These resolutions
were actually the saw in content as CH 'EN Yun's report on the "Present Aims
of the Chinese Employee-Laborer (Trade Union) Movement." (See paragraph 10.)
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In the session of 20 August 1948 the election of members for the Executive
emmittee of the China National Union of Trade Unions took place. As
"mqgested by the Presidium of the Congress," 53 members and 20 alternate
olnbers for the Executive Committee were elected. As "suggested by the Presi-
'lluit," the motion was passed to leave eight additional seats on the Executive
ommittea -- six for members and two for alternates -- for leaders of trade
elions of "areas to be liberated Ilay the CCP) between the time of the present
Aeet5ne of the Congress and the convocation of the next All-China Labor
(;ongreE.a." (See paragraphs 23 and 25 for a complete list and brief biography
the present members of the Executive Committee.)
iq the 21 August session II Li-sae summarized the points of his own reports
and of those made by KAO Kang and CHIEN Yun on the present aims of the Chinese
,iiployee-Laborer (Trade Union) Loeement and made these into final resolutions
of the Congress; these of course were "passed" unaltered. These "resolutions"
were not the result of discussions of the proposals made by the delegates to
the cong7ess but rather were the unification of the ideas and principles
?eeviously set up by a few key members of the Presidium, CCP members who are
ardent leaders and advocates of the international labor movement.6
vO. The closing ceremony for the Congeess took place on 22 August 1948. Chairman
7,1U Ning-i first announced the foedal establishment of the China National Union
of Trade Unions, then read aloud the names of the members of the Executive
Committe3. Following this, LI Li-ean represented the Executive Committee in
eacouraging the "unity of all employees and laborers under the banner of
CAO Tse-tung1;" CHU Hsueh-fan then echoed LI's words. Then General LIN Piao
vepresented the Chinese Communist Party's Northeast Central Bureau (Chung Kung
TsngPeiChunglsngChu I, 3t.. or -)11,-
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ehort epochs encouraging the inceease of all production, especially the pro
duction of ammunition in the Liberated Areas and the protection of all machines
in the Neomintang-controlled areas so that they would not be destroyed by the
norait'Itang before or during the aerival of the Peop1e4s Liberation Army and
eo that they would be able to function and produce as soon as the Ieopleps
afleratien Army arrived. After a few other guests and delegates made short
Teeches, the Congress was closed with the singing of The Internationale.
The Leading Personnel of the China National Union of Trade Unions CNUTU
-L The firs. Executive Committee Meeting of the China National Union of Trade
Unions was held on 10 October 1948. The Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the
';-erecutive Committee were elected and the membership and position of the
standing Committee, which has 15 members and 6 alternates, was voted on0
he follmin7 were elected;
4egyAlve Committee: Chairman l CH'EN Yun Vice-Chairmen: LI Li-san
LIU Ningi-i
GNU Hsueh-fan
ntandane r'ommittee.7 CP'711 Tun
CHIEN Yu
LIN Chliang
Chih-ehen
LIU ChIane-sheng
TANG Tuneenlao
CHANG Weiechen
CPU Chun-loin
ternate Members"
KAO Lin .
K'ANG Tune -ho
CEOU Ting
All the above members of the Stewing
Committee as well. See paragraph 24.
LI Li-san
LIU Ning-i
TS,AI Ch,ang
FE NG Wenpin
'Yl Li-jung
GNU Hsueh-fan
LI Hsiehpo (LI Chia-pos, LI Chi-po)
SUN Hsueh-chih
'MING Kuei-fen
SU Tsai-wen8
Committee are members of the Executive
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Tho first meeting of the Standing Comeittee of the China National Union of
Trade Unions was held on 20 Octobee 1948. The following persons were
eTeoeen to hold posts in the CNUTU:
Secretary-Ceneral of the CNUTU: LI Hsieh-po
Chairman, Organization Departmeet: LIN Ch'iang-yun
Cheirman, Cultural and Education Department: HSU Chih-chen
Chairman, Production Department CU 'EN Yu
Chrirman? Labor Security Deperteaent: 'PANG Yun-chlao
Chairman, Juvenile Workers' Department: FIG Wen-pin
Chairman, amen aorkersIDepartmcnt: TS 'AX Cheang
Chief, International Liaison Department: LIU Ninn-i
Chief of the Secretariat: PIENC Kuang-wei9
Chairman, Private Enterprise Camittee: CardiCr Wei-chen
Chairmen, Operations Committee :or WIT-Controlled Areas: CHU Hsueh-fan
Vice-Chairman: CHLT Chun-hsin
lembees: KAO Lin, YEH Wei-min LI Chei-hein
The Presidium of the Sixth All-China Labor Conereas: Name List and Iaeutificetion
CHANG Chin-pao Al% ), well known CCP woman labor leader and former
Chief of the aoman's Leber Department of the former China National General
"aen)or Union or the CCP.
_;TIAING Pa-lin.0e)* an old miner of Tsaochuang Ale), Shantung,
and Vice-Chairman of the Shantang General Labor Union,
CHANG Peing p.), Chief of the Delegation of the Hopei-Chahar-Jehol-
,tiaonLee Employees 'and laborers; Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for
the Establishment of the Hopei-Ceahar-Jehol-Liaoning General Labor Union.
elLANG Wei-chen (On ki 44), Chairman of the EmployeesIand Laborers' Joint
Union of Harbin Municipality.
MAO Chan-keuei cAb ft), 'Superior Class Labor Hero"(T?e Teng Lao Tung
Yine Leiung 14- 4 g 4t ), of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Horner Area;
ea has been 'rewarded" for epecia) accomplishments in "socialist" labor.
CHIEN Yu (11, ;h11 )0 well-known CCP labor leader and an alternate of the
Chinece Communist Party; he is a former Comintern member and considered the
"right-hand man" of CHIEN Yun,
CHeEti Tun (Tit 4), presently c member of both the Central Executive Committee
end tfe Central Politburo of the CCP; he was at one time an apprentice in the
Shannhai Commercial Press; he received training in the USSR after the Communist
Long Larch and returned to Chire during the war against the Japanese, at which
time be worked in Sinkiang in liaison with Soviet officials before becoming
Chief of the Organization Depanment of the CCP Central Connittee in about
1939; he was a former Comintern member; he was at one time Chairman of the
(Chinese Communist) National Soviet Labor Union, a Comintern-sponsored organ
fonmed in about 1932 and the pradecessor of the Liberated ereas Labor Union
CNI7EN Chih-tao (14.; 311)0 a chemical engineer; he is the Chief of th
Northeast 1151itarz Chemical EneLneering Mein Factory.
Ch'ing (I) representetive of the Tientsin "Democratic" Labor Union
(underground).
cAITI eeh-fan ChaLrraan of the China Labor !association which
wan e Kuaeintang ortaniwation uAtil CHU fled and went to Harbin via Paris;
he is els? a vice-chairman of tie eFTU.
4"10 Cheang-ehiu (a) 4k 1,), Coalman of the Northeast Arsenal Laborers,
Ceneral Union; he was formerly Chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border
Area General Labor Union.
410 Lin 0, 4;P, Chairman and :epresentative of the South China "Democratic"
Labor Union (underground).
Chei-hsin gfr ), rep -esentative of the Wuhan (cities) "L'emocratic"
Labor Union (underground).
ni Chich-P0 (el' 10), well-anown CCP labor leader; he is a member of the
Ceetral Labor Committee of the CC? and Secretary General of the Preparatory
Cemmittee of both the liberated Area EMployeesland Laborers, Joint Union
-41fiCi the Sixth All-China labor Connress.
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la ilsien (41: 4,14), an old arseral laborer of Taiyuan, Shansi; he is the
Chairman of the Tlaihangshan (,;,;,.. il 41-i Shansi) Employees and Laborers'
Joint Union.
La Li-an (4, a:L. .3-e.), well-krown CCP labor leader and ma:1)er of both
;,4e Central Executive Committet and the Northeast Central Bureau of the CCP.
LI Len-shan (et A. J4), representative of the Peiping-Hankow Railway
Area General Labor Union.
LI rime-che (*- .#)_ IV, Chairman of the Northeast Railroad Labor Union,
TJANG Yung-fu ag iy.... 4 ), an outstanding laborer of the Cheng-tlai
Railroad, Shansi?-
7a7A0 5u-kuang (41- 4.1X kj), 1Xrector of the Board of the China Labor
Aosociation headed by CHU Hsuel -fan.
:LIN Ch'iang-yun (44, 141 al;), t former Comintern member and loader of
labor movements in Kwangtung; he is a representative of the employees and
laborers of the Kwangtung-Kvanasi Liberated Area,
LIU Ch i-shou (g) 4g- A ), a "Superior Class Meritorious Statesman"
(Tie r.I'eng Kung Chien15, 4., Irk OL ) and an outstanding laborer of the
Department of Ordnance of the northeast Liberated area.
Lau Ning-i (gi :43 ar-), well-imown CCP labor leader and Chairman of both
the aberated Area Employees ? ind Laborers' Joint Union and of the Prepara-
tory Committee of the Sixth A32-China Labor Congress; he has been a member
of the Board of Directors of the WFTU since 1946 when he replaced Comintern
membeo ThNG Fa, ddeeased.
CIU Pao-shan (0j It 04 ), an old potterer and Chief of the Delegation of the
Antung (Manchuria) Employees and Laborers.
LIU Ying-yuan (p] * Ai)* "Labor Hero" of the Harbin Municipal Power Plant
and a member of the lExecutive Committee of the Harbin General Labor Union.
SUI Chen-tung ( ), a 'labor Hero" of the Hokang (it igl) Coal Nine
in the Northeast.
SUN Hao-chIing (4, --* 3i), a "Labor Hero" of the First Industry and
Mining Department of the Northeast.
SUN Yu-hui (.* jE A ), an old miner of T'angshan (It 614 ) and Chairman
of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Genaml Labor Union,
TRANG 71'uei-fen (1 ge 4-), woman labor leader of Shanghai, influential
in weaving-mill strikes, and a representative of the Shanghai "Democratic"
Labor Union (underground).
TIANG Yuri-chlao (A t ,) th
4!), -Jell-known CCP labor leader in the Noreast.
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TSIAI Ch/ang (jta Ilt , well-klown CCP woman labor leader and a member of
both the Central Executive Committee and Central Womenls Committee of the
CCP; she is a former Comintern member and is a vice-chairman of the FDW
(World Federation of Demetcratie domen).
WANE .Th'un (3E It), Chief of ,he Delegation of the South Liaoning (AL it )
Employees and Laborers.
WAZ Yueh-hsuan (1. fil tf), a "nada dorker" of the Hsiaofengman (Manchuria)
Power House. e
YANG K'ai-lin (415 NI 14:_), oll technician who is a specialist in repairing
arms for the keoplegs Liberation Army; he is the assistant Chief of the Shansi-
Suiyuan Department of Ordnance (Chun Kung Pu ? rre liT ).
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Vo.4-,.J-So "la ,amaaavarkuar
CNAP71- Chli (ik, 10), an active member of the employees' and laborers rnoveirtent,
CHANG Chin-pao
CHaNG Fu-lin
CHANG Wei-chen
CHAO Chan-k/uei ,a
CHAO Kuo-eh Al Iiang ( T.,N )10, Vice-Chairman of the Shansi-Hopei-Shantung-
Harlan Boeder Area General Labor Union,
CII 'EN Hsiu-shan ai ), a "responsible official" of the Liaoning employee
and .laborers' moviiment; he wee formerly Chairman of .the Hupeh Provincial Labor
Union.
WEN Yu
CHIEN Yun? Chairman,
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CHEN Yung-tien (A, lk *)(also pronounced CHEN Jung-tien), "Labor Hero"
of the Stansi-Hopei-Shantung-Henan Border area and member of the border .
,
area Council.
ChlIENChih-tao
Ch'IU Chin (Ja-... t ), member of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Liberated Area labor
movement; formerly a responsible official of the Shenghai Seamen's Union.
CHOU Ying (144 IV, member of the Operations Committee (Kiang Tso Wei Yuan
Ihaiet. 4t ) of the China Labor Association; she is a member of
the Central kbcecutive Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee
and Chairman of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Women's Association.
CHU Chih-ch'eng ca., Z: 31), Secretary-General of the Head Office of the
Hain Um News Agency; he was fcrmor Secretary-General of theSillkatuallUa20
CHU Chan-hein (1._ 4t leijs one of the "responsible officials" of the Shanghai
Electric Power and Engineering Labor Union (underground).
CPU Hsneh-fan, Vice-Chairman.
PENG Sten 0,16 4), a represertative from South China; one of the former
"responsible officials" of the Seamen's General Union.
FENG Won-pin (1, -.">:,, 40 )0 a Armor Comintern member and presently Chairman
of the Preparatory ?Committee of the libereted Area Youth Federation.
USIA? Ts'ai-feng (Ai l'iv. 4o), Chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border
Area Ceneral Labor Union.
HSU Hung (a AX.), a member of the Operations Committee of the China Labor
Association.
HSU Pillg (a 11)2 Chairman of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railroad General Labor
Union.'
HSU Chih-chen CP 2s..... 4,
4k) heae9 of the Hopei-Chahar printing presseee he
was formerly a responsible official of the Han Yeh Ping (1 44 14 )
General Labor Union. (Dan Yoh Ping is the name of the steel plant in Hanyang)
K'ANG Tug-ho (1 iK ip), former Chairman of the Shansi General Labor Union.
KAO Lin I- ''
KAO Ch'ang-chiu
KU Liang (14 It), Chief of the Organization Section of the Shanghai Labor
Association (Shang Hai Kung Jen Hsieh Hui Thu Chin K'o-t-iileja ie. t6icklektly. .
KUO Huan-wen (.45 0; -;(), a "responeible official" of the China Labor
assocation,
LI Ch'iang (4: A), Chinese Cemmunist ?arty radio expert.
LI Hsieh-pos secretary-General ef the CNUTU.
LI Li-ean2 Vice-chairman.
LI Ming-che
LIANG Kuang (g Apo a member of the employees' and laborers' movement in
Kwangeuna; he was formerly Chief of the Youth Department of the South China
Office of the China National General Labor Union.
LIAO Su-kwng
LIN Ch'iang-yun
LIU Ch'ang-sheng UM 11,_ )0 leader of the employees' and laborers' movement
of Central China and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the CCP;
forma:1y he was a "responsibleofficial" of the Northwest Executive Bureau
(Hsi Pei Chih Hsing Chu iii t... t)Q, 41 45 ) of the former China National
General Labor Union.
LIU Eing-is Vice-chairman.
LIU Ta-ch'ao (ai ie. AC)2 leaeer of the employees' and laborers' movement in
Kwangieing; former "responsible official" of the Hong Kong Seamen's Union.
LIU Ying-yuan
MA Ch'un-ku (.9.0 ;Ka t ), a leeder of the employees' and laborers' movement,
MA Hui-chih (A OF ?.), Chaieman of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Border Area
General labor Union.
SHEN Hung C4t, el?), outstanding mechanical engineer of the Shansi-Chahar- Hopei
Industry Bureau Kung Yeh Chu -re 45 ).
SU Tling-yu ( a_ 4) Vice-chairman of the Shihchiachuang Trade Union.
SUN Hsueh-chih (Itt; le -11...., )2 Chairman of the Shantung Provincial Labor Union.
SUNG Hein-huai (z tr 4, ), a "responsible official" of the employees' and
laborers" movement in Liaoning Province; he was formerly Chief of the Youth
Department of the Executive Bureau of the Soviet Area (Su Chtu Chin Using Chu
Ch'ing Nien Pu
''Y'lf, 4 q4 a -1 ) oio
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Krei-fen
T0ALU Yun-ch'ao
Chang
TS'AI Ohu-pin 05; t )J a "rosponsible official" of the Chun n Yuan (1') ijR)
Liberated Orea Labor Uni0n.11
,;NG Kueng-ch'i An lei- )0 one of the "responsible officials" of the
China labor Association.
nTU K.en_(t gt)? "Standing ExecAtive Secretary" of the Kiangsu Labor Union,
To V)? leader GO' the HoJei-Chahar-Jehol-Liaoning labor movement; he
was a former committee nember of the North China Office of the China National
General Labor Union.
YIG Chin-hua (4*t f)0 outs ,anding woman labor leader.
Yi Li-Nnn (eit, At Secreta y-General of the China Labor Association
and Actinr Chairman of the Board of Directors of the same Association.
25. The Reserve C.(mbers of the Yaecutiv], Committee: Name Liat and Identification
aoe.
rJ1InNO En-te it)? a membo'- of the Executive Committee fa: the Harbin
:onicipal General Laboo Union and a "Labor Nero" of the Railroad Administra-
4ion (Tlieh Lu Chu* g5 ) narbin.
Chief o ;he Del.egation of the hopei-Chanor-Jehol-
Liaonion e)mployees' anu Laborers' overientl and Chairman of the Preparatory
Comittee for the ostablishment o the Hopei-Chahar-Jehol-Liaoninn General
Labor Union.
nii."i0 Lin (0., 413C); a leader o' the labor movement of the Churn.; Yuan
(Honan) Liberated Arca; he was foomerly Chairman of the Central China General
Labor Union,
ClIa0 Thu-won (4 1)1111)1, Vice Chairman of an underground labor union in
nouth China.
CU EN Chuen 1W), one of the responsible officials of the Chauffeurs'
Labor Union of the China Labor aseocation.
CH'EN Huiechling Olt V ), a :eacer of women laborers in Lorth China.
CHIIEN fiai-hoo (* i.gp-Ap. )0 Chai man of an underground labor union in South
China.
cHtiEr Usia-mm &115 )0 a member of the Operations Committee of the
China Labor association.
HAN nu-chleng 011 Chairtian of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai
')eportmeht Store Labor Union.
"3.hia-ch'i (in ff), Secretory of the Postal Service Employees' and
Laborers Union (undernround).
Li Ch'i-hain 11- Api-)t represontatiie of the ouhan "Democratic" Labca-
Union (underground).
LL FeugalAen (47 a), "Labor Heroioe" of the Shansi-Kansu-Ninnhsia Border
Area; "chief woman 'laborer of an ormy thiform Factory. "13
luai-T;mg (4; lt), member of th.-3 Operations Committee of the China
Labor Association.
LI Lien-shun (if- 4 .14), represontattve of the Peipinn-Hankow Railway "Demo-
oratic" Labor Union (underground)
LIaNG Yunn-fu (lp outstondino laborer of the Chenn-T'ai Railroad
icalflrro; oan7iroo.)
OU-YaNG Tu-jun (1%4:zialp? Cha-roan of the Preparatory Committee for the
;.:stabliohment of the Shanghai (Communia) Labor Union; he was formerly on ap-
prentice in the Shanghai Power Ccionany.
PAI Lin-k'ai (t7 4. :60, a membor of ;he Operations Committee of the China
Labor Association,
SUN Pi-then (4 f 40), Vice Chairman If an underground labor union in South
China,
WANG Ch'ing-yuan (I-
Union in France.
!III Wei-en (V, gt
Labor Association,
CHANG P ( )
j!E Aa)? former Chlirman of the Chinese Laborers' General
A), member of the Operations Committee of the China
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26. Several aspects of the CNUTU definitely reflect Seviet influence and are
poeeible evidence of Moscow connections and USSR clrection:
o. The wmilarity in organization and structure of the CNUTU with that of the
Soviet Trade Union organizatior and structure le apparent from wch things,
mono otherss as the pyramidal etruoture and the "Democratic Centralized
nysteres" the authority and functions of the hxecu.tve Committee and Standing
Committee, the use of vinstructors" (trade union ctoanizers and inseectors)? etc.
b, The CCP has adopted the Soviet Idea of "labor heroes" and "awards of merit."
c. As in the Soviet systems the CCP now includes all emeloyees and laberers in
its trade union set-up, that is, both manual and ment 1 laborers; formerly
this vas not necessarily true ce the CCP labor or tracl) union organization.
d. Like the Soviet coal, the aim ce' the Sixth All-China Lor Congress, the
CNUTU and the CCP is to "combat American imperialiam;" %c: course, the
Chinese Communists will add "and the imperialism of the ',lectionary Kuomintang."
The powerful and influential CV officials of the CNUTU e.e Party members, are
Moscow trained and are former Comintern members; hence tie CNUTU is not an
organization dominated or controlled by "nationalist" Chi.eee Communists.
2? Liaison with Moscow and Soviet officials can be carried on b. those CCP
leaders going to the USSR or passing through MOSCOW to attend \trious inter-
actional labor or trade union c Inferences such as those of the'.1elet-dominated
orld 2ederation of Trade Unione (UTU). Several CCP officials u the CNUTU
also hold positions in the WFTU,
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1111111v,.?,,t. The number of CNUTU officials who are listed in tis reiNkt
and in CCP Chinese-language publications regarding the CNUTU as holding posit.eo,s
i'or various labor organizations for Shanghai is perhaps indicative o.7 the prepea,,
tion by the CCP for a take-over of Shanghai labor elements. Varioue'reports from
sources other than those of this report and various Chinese-languag: press arti-
cles have already given some information on the liaison, contact an. "negotiations"
going on between Shanghai labor leaders and trade union elements wiLh officials
of the CNUTU such as CHU Hsueh-fan, former Shanghai labor leader aed Ch ling Pang
eecret Society "fraternity brother" of Shanghai labor ozar TU Yuchesheng.
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25X1X publications such as the Chi et in Hong Kong, plus Chinese Communist
Chinese-language publications in Hone Kong and some CCP Chinese-language
publications filtering into Hong Kong from CCP-controlled areas of North China
and Manchuria; b) interrogation of travelers from CCP-controlled areas of North
:Mina and Manchuria who come and co from Hong Kong as well as miscellaneous bits
of information gathered from leftist and third party members in Hong Kong with
good Communist contacts. Biographical information was supplied to a large degree
1)y c) a wea-educated Chinese philosopher and mathematician who was formerly a
GOP member but left the Party in
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m. The word "all" was added to the title because by March 1948
there were more Liberated Areas than formerlor.
_Comrent. CCP publications in Hong Kong are perhaps naively honest in
25X1X their presentation of such incidence:, as the "passing" of motions or proposals
at the Coneress; all CCP Chinese-lareuage publications which have discussed or
reported or the ::ixth All-China Leber Congress simply state that such and such
'as passee" (1.,Jia2 114 At) by the delegates attending." No mention is
made of amendments, criticisms etc., by the minority.)
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25X1X ',' mon c oriment The CNUTU is an enlargement of the former China National
eo,eiae
Labor Unionof the Chinese Communists which formerly considered
1Lner factore as well as group mcabership as a basis for membership and did
nt include or require "mental" ltbor to be organized into unions. It should
noted that "China Natienal Unien of Trade Unions" is but one of eaveral
reosible translations of the Chin ,se name, "Chung Hua Chluan Kuo Tsung Kung
N'ef'LJ03 -a- t ). Weer possible translations are: "China
'ettonal. General labor Union," or "All-China Federation of Labor."
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"Overseas Chinese" here means at least overseas Chinese
eeeeNenists and so-called "democraeic" Chinese overseas such as Democratic
Leanue members and other leftists,
25X1X
1111411coment. The Chinese CommeaistsIsugenarized English-language version
the resolutions adopted by the Sixth All-China Labor Congress was published
xi the CCP fortnightly Chitx.r.213st? Vol. 5, No. 5, 28 December 1948. This
,e)glish-language text does not give the specific date on which the resolutions
eere reseece simply stating that ;hey were "passed in August 1948." The
eninese text given. in The Trend ices therEER1m2:4.aborer Eavgent(ter-Alt,)
e CUP publication put out by the naborersI Cultural Society (Jr- ite..4t,
endicatea that they were passed on 1 August, which date does not coincide with
:.ee date given by Communist sourees who have returned to Hong Kong from Yanchuria.
03 ie plain even from these publications that the formality of "passing" the
solutions did not take place on 1 August since that was the date set for the
eenine zeremony; these "slips" in printineethe dates are further evidence that
,i1 was orepered ahead of time and that the Congress itself acted primarily
tk' 'Mbber Starap
25X1X 7 Commert. Accordinr to one source, all of the following members of the
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ere and wee members of the Comintern: CHIEN Yu,
CHIEN Ifun2 FEW Li-jung? HSU.Chihechen? LI Hsieh -po, LI Li -san, LIN Chviang,
'Al ChIane, LIU fling YI
Companq. SU is probably an additional Executive Committee member of
%W;c5nrri chosen after the Sixth ell-China Labor Congress.
25X1X .1111.99,yrypjA? PIENG is probably an additional Executive Ccamittee member
lnd Stanlinn dommittee member of the CNUTU chosen after the Sixth All China
Labor Coenress; at least, according to the regulations of the CUUTU, he tiould
have to be a member of these comm ttees chosen by the Standing Committee.
,t_trcomest.. It is not clear what "Joviet Area" refers to, whether it means
the Kuanenng Peninsula area or one of the former "Soviet" Areas; the CCP used
-ha term, "Chinese Soviet Areas" .n the 1926-1934 period.
25X1X11.Comment. The area is between Ioyang and Chengehou? Honan.
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gempnte The tem% "Movement," was not in the original reference, but .
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lt is assumed that this is the correct interpretation,. '
)3glimpi Comment. The location of this factory has not been established.
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