WAGE SITUATION IN CENTRAL-SOUTH CHINA ADMINISTRATIVE AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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WAGE SITUATION IN CENfRAL_SCU'1'H CHINA ,1Dp
ffNISTRATIVE _I~RFr~
ISiiamary. The followin
Kua -tzu Ch'sn -shah Chian g report summarizes excerpts from t:.e book
-hua (Informattve Lect
lished by the Cent
ral-
ures on Wages) pub-
1952. This s South China Wage Neform Committee in Wuhan in
since the ~ ummary discusses benefits that hava accrued to the workers
plementation of wage reforms.]
Citing the provisional regulations governing wages in national and Local state-
operated communication enterprises in the Central-South Administrative Area, a re-
port of the Central-South Wage Reform Committee stresses the importance of a "wage
system compatible with the type of work." This system is fort,
that workers on projects of national importance should be entitled to a higher
wage. The re ort her expanded to mean
P ,justifies this stand by citing Stalin's words
enemy of wage systems."
"equality is the
According to the report, the policy of the Central~outh Wa e
is to increase the total wage fund without any reductio^ in wa~yes. Thus b
menting the wage system based on ei-ht g Reform Committee
based upon the wage Level of the lattergpudts, the total woo ~ Y imple-
of 1~'
J51, was increasedflr the area,
The committee re 5 percent.
three wa Port pointed out that workers can increase their wages in
the workers. Thisican beY is by increasing the enthusiasm for
from the ranks of w accomplished by clearing counterrevolutionarioel~ong
second xa orkers and raising the ideoloL;ica1 level of the workec?s.meThe
Y ie to improve the technical efficiency of the workers and the third
waY is to abolish the use of old wage systems.
The committee report discussed the questio^ of wage differential a
and 3homefias them by saying that such payments are necessar
take- p y of the workers not be P yments
grade wage scale. lessened by the implementationrofrtheaeight-
The logic of this action, the committee report ports out, is io permit the
introduction of a scientific wade system and to carry out Chairman Mao's desire
to help the working class,
The committee report indicates the need for ad,Justing old piecework wages
by Planning new ,job specifications, adjusting the payment for each unit of
produced, and giving more consideration to the take-home pay of the workers.
goods
In planing ,job specifications, the committee report said that modern im_
provements have greatly increased the potential output of each worker. It
mentioned the case of textilE workers who were required to tend
under old ,job specifications, but are actually capable of tending four to six
looms. only two looms
In fixing the payment for each unit of output, the committee r~
the cases of wages for piecework in the coal mining and textile industries. It
said that miner's wages were too Low and textile mill worker's wn, -Port cited
level. 6es too high-
under the old system and advised ad,justin;; the two to conform to a uniform wane
However, the committee report pointed out that the real wag
must be taken into consideration and, in view of var in,
different types of enter es of the workers
differentials to assure thesworkersicertainsminimummstandardsiofolivingnd in
system of wage
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committee report t
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acked them as devices ' _lectricity, coal, and rice
to placate the workers and stroo 1 of the reactionar ' the
it praised ~'nrker's welfare G Y urged their Y Y.uomintang regime
ties sanatoriums facilities and urged the deal elimination. However,
cooperatives, and the use xpansion of cultural facili-
of safety appliances.
The committee report points out that the
either on the basis of individual
eludes such working com Piecework wage system can be applied
production or group production. The lntter io-
aiders this system the bestnes as teams, Groups, and collective units, It con-
for the individual worker as w~lllasoforhe wa~e?_paid-accord in to-
it said, the worker receives a Groups of xorkers. g xork principle
amount he Sage which varies directl Under this system,
produces, Y in proportion to the
The committee report stresses the importance cf establ3shin
standards under the piecework system by pointing out that man
by factories and mines were outmoded. It reco G Production
low standards b mmends the replacementaofstheseted
y new standards set by "progre,sive workers."
I^ implementing the eight-grade rage system, the committee re
that a system of awards be put into effect at the same time,
be given for rational innovations Port recommended
materials, and co , 4unlity production, work safety' awards should
mpletion of above-quota completion of Y, economy of
The committee re Production plans.
Kuomintan Port concludes xith an attack upon the wa e
g regime which exploited the workers. It then pointed outythatuundertthe
People's regime, incomplete statistics from
South area showed an 8.8 13 factories and mines in the Central-
crease of over 1 Percent increase in the productivit
that after the presentead,jus~entnof9r5ia over the figures forYl95o1abj~ and an in-
area will be increased a Bes, the level of wa Predicted
ppreximately 1j percent. ges 1^ the Central-South
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