RESOLUTION ON THE EXECUTION OF THE LABOR LAW
20 December 1931

[Text] The following decision has been made by the Central Executive Committee on the execution of the labor law:
1. It is to be executed in accordance with the articles of the labor law
passed by the First National Congress of the Chinese Worker-Peasant-Soldier
Soviet.
2. This labor law becomes effective as of 1 January 1932.
3. Following the implementation of this labor law all decrees and laws and
decisions on labor questions previously announced by the various levels of
government become ineffective.
4. The People's Committee and the Ministry of Labor of the Central Government
can promulgate various special laws, specific regulations and tables in accordance with the regulations set forth in the labor law and to expand their
applications.

5. Should there be amendments and addenda to the labor law it will be done
by order of the Central Executive Committee.
6. This labor law is effective within the territories of the Chinese Soviet
Republic.
7. Offenses against the various articles of the labor law and all other laws
regarding labor to be promulgated in the future will be punished in accordance
with the penalty set forth in the criminal code.

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman
Hsiang Ying, Vice Chairman
Chang Kuo-tao, Vice Chairman

Central Executive Committee

20 December 1931

--- Notes

• "Soviet China," USSR Foreign Workers' Publishing House (Moscow) 1933