WORK PLEDGES

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31163, 13 September 1966, Page 17

WORK PLEDGES

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG, September 12. Workers and peasants all over China have pledged to promote a new upsurge in production and construction, according to a New China News Agency report monitored in Hong Kong.

But the report indicated that there had been dissension on the production front during the country’s current “cultural revolution.” In speeches and pledges,

masses of the workers and peasants from one end of China to the other said they would transform their spiritual strength from the thought of the Chinese Communist Party chairman, Mao Tse-Tung, into a mighty material force. The agency quoted an engineer of the Harbian railway carriage plant in northeast China as saying that workers there had exposed those in power who had taken the capitalist road as well as reactionary, bourgeois socalled specialists and authorities. “These reactionary elements thought that without them, the workers would not be able to fulfil production tasks,” he said. But since the beginning of the cultural revolution, the production targets had been fulfilled every month in terms of output and quality, although each month's tasks were bigger than the previous month.” The agency said there were excellent prospects for one. of the best harvests in Szechwan, China's biggest grain-producing province. The region, which had increased its grain output every year for the last four years, overcame an unusually severe drought. “Everywhere the crops are growing well and a joyful atmosphere prevails,” the agency reported.