To the responsible comrades of all Central Bureaus and Sub-bureaus: What are the prevailing good and bad tendencies in industry and the labor movement within your respective regions? (1) Have excessively high demands regarding working conditions led to a decline in production and caused capitalists to shy away from investment? If such a situation exists, what measures have you taken to address it? (2) Following struggles, workers have become organized, and their reasonable requests for improved living standards have been appropriately met—requests that were neither excessive nor detrimental to capitalists’ entrepreneurial spirit. Instead, these measures have boosted workers’ enthusiasm for labor, thereby expanding production, revitalizing the economy, and benefiting both labor and management. How common are such instances in your region? Have they become a general trend? (3) Is the guiding principle of the trade unions and Party branches to cooperate with factory management—whether state-owned or private—with the shared goal of expanding production and prospering the economy? In other words, are you implementing the correct policy for industry and the labor movement in the liberated areas? Or, on the contrary, are the trade unions and Party branches pitting themselves against factory management, prioritizing only the workers’ short-term, one-sided interests while disregarding whether production expands and the economy flourishes? In essence, are you still following the labor movement policies of the White Areas during the Civil War? Among Party and trade union cadres in your regions, how well do they understand these two different approaches? Please reply to us as soon as possible via a brief telegram, providing information on these three questions to the best of your knowledge.
Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript under the central code “Yin.”