RESOLUTION ON "1 AUGUST" COMMEMORATION MOVEMENT

11 July 1933

[Text] The 1st of August is the commemorative day of the worldwide anti-imperialist war. It is also the commemorative day of the Nanchang Uprising in China. The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was born with the Nanchang Uprising and grew progressively in the course of the struggle. This year's "1 August" comes at a time when the danger of the new imperialist bandit war and anti-Soviet war is tremendously intensified; when Japanese imperialism is committing aggression against China on a broad scale; when the Kuomintang is openly selling out the three northeastern provinces, Jehol and North China, it comes at the same time when the high tide of the anti-imperialist and anti-Kuomintang movement is surging throughout the country; and when the Soviet movement and the revolutionary war are winning unparalleled great victories. Therefore, this year's "1 August" has a very great meaning for the revolutionary struggle. With a view to commemorating the establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and giving encouragement and preferential treatment to the fighters of the Red Army, it is resolved by the Central Executive Committee:

(1) to approve the proposal of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission by designating "1 August" of each year as the commemorative day of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. It is further resolved that on this year's "1 August" commemorative day war banners be conferred on various commanderies of the Red Army and at the same time medals be awarded to responsible comrades who led the Nanchang Uprising and to commanders and fighters with distinguished services of achievement in the Red Army.

(2) to charge the Interior Department and People's Commissar Department with the production of preferential treatment cards for Red Army families and their issuance to all members of families of the fighters of the Red Army.

(3) to organize Red Army Public Land Control Committees under the Land Department of district soviets and under township soviets for the purpose of managing the production and harvest of Red Army public lands and the custody of harvested crops. Under the joint jurisdiction of the Land Department and the Interior Department of district soviets, committees for the preferential treatment of Red Army families should be organized in township soviets to handle all matters pertaining to their preferential treatment.

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Government
Hsiang Ying, Chang Kao-t'ao, Vice Chairman

"Red China," No 95, 23 July 1933

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