CHINESE COMMUNIST LABOR ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900580007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved ore 20j i"I'2/'0 -'M P82-00457R007900580007-
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, AGENCY REPORT NO.
1 FOR , I REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Communist.Labor Activities
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 11.0i C r
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. On 1 March 1951, the Chinese Communists initiated a nation-wide systems ai
labor insurance. According to their statistics, there are 721 indu ntrfay
units (which employ more than 100 workers, and of these 559 have regist red_.'
with local labor bureaus for insurance a!plications.
2. In some areas the response to the labor insurance system 1.n
-3 been very
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weak. In t/uhsi, at the end of the registration period on 16 March, four
factories had complied with the order to register their workers for
insurance. In Canton by early Aril only the Power Plant Union, the Water
dorks Union and the :6ieh Tung Ho (-i'A TRl ) Tngineering TTorks 11,aion had
asked, their employers to narticinate in the insurance plan.
3. In response to a request by Communist authorities, "orkers in .Factory `1o. 5
of the China Textile Cornoration in Shanghai signed a contract of aaatriotism
under which they agreed to accent a wage cut of one-third and to increase
the c:'orking day to 12 hours. As a result, the percentage of wasted products
increased.. In January 1951, 12 nereent of total production was waste; in
February 13.5 percent, and in March 22.2 percent.
4. ,-recent evacuations of industrial concerns to the Northwest have caused wide--
spread unemployr^-nt in Shanghai. Unemployed workers are also being sent to
Korea. :Then 1,000 uner.)nloyed workers being trained. by the police heard
that after graduation they would be sent to Korea, 500 of them escaped.
As a result of an order by JAC Shu ?shih, chief of the Military Control
Commission, the remaining trainees were sent on 27 Parch to a snecial
training camp under strict secret police surveill.ance.
5. The Shanghai-11anking Railway `.Iorkerad Union was asi-ed to send 100 volunteers
to Korea. When no one volunteered, the chairman of the union's board of
directors designated an initial consignment of 60 volunteers. One of these
eseanedl from the police guard before the train left for the north.
6. YU Pl ng-c' i en Ir .) , a former director of the Transport Uorkers
Union in !'Tanking who had been asked to join the voluntary arrq destined
for Korea, was executed for his reactionary behavior after he quoted
news from the Voice of America.
Next ReviewQ'For Release 001/12/04
CONFIDENTIAL in letter of 16 October 1976 from the
to the
Director of Central Int igtates.
Archivist of the United rAates'
This decun.lent. is hereby re9-aded to
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7. In :February and 1'arcN19 ,!or!-ere in canton ,sere ex?cute ; at least
others were arrested anft their '.)resent vherea.boute 7, ve Sa:CtTe 1^w1r
8 The number of in,".usti?ia1 accMM.ents in $h n.Thai bas soared., qnrl workers
are suffering; from industrial fatigue. 3k111c.A.