SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Rec. 9 a.m. CHUNGKING, May 20. The Kuomintang National Congress adopted resolutions calling for a minimum wage scale, a 48-hour week, annual vacations with pay for farmers and labourers, elimination of exploitation of farmers (particularly exorbitant interest on loans), fair distribution of land, encouragement of unionism among farmers and labourers, social security, strict- enforcement' of monogamy, severe penalties for prostitution, abortion, kidnapping, and infanticide, and proper birth control and vocational guidance. The Congress also recommended the use of 300,000,000 dollars' worth of Chinese securities which are frozen in the United States for war and reconstruction
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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