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j Behind the Silken Curtain
Communism Has Made Chinese Work Harder Yet Grow Poorer
By M. Siva ram
North American Nowspapor Alliance
j BOMBAY, May 16.—The eco
nomic picture of China, under the
Communist regime, presents a
series of startling contradictions
centered on one stable theme:
The Chinese people work harder
than ever and yet remain poorer
than ever before.
Official Peiping publications set
forth tall claims of victory on
This is the lost of five articles recounting
a newsman's "nightmare" in Peiping
where the writer, on authority on the
Far East, recently spent two months.
the economic front but if you
watch the scene keenly, despite
the limited facilities allowed by
authority, you will be disposed to
agree with the professor who told
me that, in practice, Chinese Com
munism has "made the rich peo
ple poor and the poor people
poorer.”
Life has grown increasingly
hard for China’s classes as well
as the masses. One does not have
to be an expert to realize this—
even when the people he meets
are too scared to discuss their
On the national food front, ac
cording to official claims, China
has a large surplus. Well over
1,000,000 tons of food grains and
flour went last year to Soviet
Russia and Peiping this year
claims to have 1,000,000 tons of
rice to spare, to relieve India's!
food shortage.
Famine Unmentioned.
Nevertheless, there is a big
famine on in China and millions
of people are faced with starva
tion. Neither the Chinese official
dom nor the official Chinese press
makes any mention of the famine
and distress in the Chinese coun
tryside but millions of Chinese
government servants are contrib
uting a sizable share of their
meager salary to the national
famine relief funds.
From reliable unofficial sources
in Peiping last winter. I learned
that acute famine conditions pre
vailed in many parts of the coun
try—in Anhwei, Kiangsu and
Shantung provinces in East
China, Hopei and Pingyuan prov
inces in Nortfy China and several
districts in Southeast China. The
population affected by famine is
estimated at nearly 100 million.
On the labor front, the Chinese
have come into their own; official
propaganda says China's workers
uavc oluuu up. uui, uiaicuouj,
their standard of living has not
improved in the least. Factory
workers now sit at the conference
table with tneir employers and are
able to buy essential requirements
at government-controlled prices.
Their earnings, however, as fac
tories and workshops produce
less, make less profits and are
faced with a slump in business,
complicated by governmental
controls.
Plight of the Peasants.
In the villages, the peasants,
who constitute about 75 per cent
of the nation’s population, are
faced with the stress of hard work
and hardly any returns.
In the provinces where land re
forms have been completed,
peasants who received small plots
of land have found cultivation
difficult and uneconomical; pro
duction was compulsory and the
surrender of a large share of the
crop in tax to the government was
equally compulsory. The plight of
these peasants was so serious that
the government recently reduced
the level of taxation.
In the provinces where land
reforms are now being intro-;
duced. farming is reported to be
in a state of chaos. The land
lords and their tenants are at
loggerheads and production is se
riously affected. Even in the rich
plains of Eastern and Southern
China, they produce just enough
to feed themselves and to keep
the tax collector away.
The Chinese business and in
dustrial community, concentrated
in the major ports of the east
coast, te nervous about the policy
of the new government and has
sent much of its liquid assets to
the safety of Hong Kong and
Grim Austerity Program.
Meanwhile, the government is
working on a program of grim
austerity. Official salaries and
wages have been drastically cut
down, seriously affecting govern
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ment employes of all grades and
every section of the middle class
white-collar fraternity. Salaries
and wages are calculated in terms
of the cost of'food grains, which
remains at the control level, en
forcing rigid austerity on every
one.
An average government official
above the clerical grade, gets a
starting salary of around 200,000
JMP (Jin Min Pao—people’s
money) about $8 per month, hall
of which is usually deducted to
cover his boarding and lodging.
Chinese clerks employed by for
eign concerns receive as much as
10 times the government scale ol
pay.
In Peiping, the capital of the
people’s government, a -well
dressed man or woman is a rare
sight on the streets. If anybody
were to go out in an expensive
dress he acquired in the days be
ifore the “liberation,” the ever
! vigilant police will call on him
in the evening, with searching
questions regarding the wealth he
was suspected to have hoarded
away somewhere.
That is the new economic or
der in Red China—the systematic
leveling down of society to suit
the pattern of Communist domi
nation.
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White Suits
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Sixes 7 to 10. Reg. 7.95
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j INFANTS' WEAR Reg. sow
| 157 Prs. Infants' Socks. Sizes 4, 4Vi_ 39c 15c
18 Cotton Blouses. Sizes 1 to 3_ 1.98 67c
8 Cotton Knit Creepers_ 1.59 67c
15 Corduroy Crawlers. Size 1_2.49 S7e
20 Cotton Wash Suits. Sizes 1 to 3_ 3.98 99e
11 Kleinert Rubber Sheets, 36x50_ 2.98 99c
6 Handmade Pinafores. Size 2_ 3.98 1.99
10 Cotton Crawlers, embroidered_ 3 98 1.99
Miscellaneous Infants' Wear. Shirts, creepers, blankets,
pinafores, diaper shirts, buntings, sacques, bonnets. Reg.
59c to 4 98-15C t0 1.99
GIRLS' WEAR, SIZES 1 TO 6X Reg. sow
137 Knit Polo Shirts, sizes 3 to 8_ 1.29 87e
39 Girls' Blouses, sizes 4, 6, 6x_1.98 & 2.98 97c
16 Blue Denim Gob Hats_ 1.69 87c
14 Blue Denim Midriffs, sizes 3 to 6x_ 1.00 47e
33 Blue Denim Shorts, sizes 3 to 6x_ 1.98 97e
13 Blue Denim Pedal Pushers, sizes 3 to 6x_ 1.98 97c
1C Summer Dresses, sizes 1 to 6x_ 3 98 2.47
20 Summer Dresses, sizes 3 to 6x_ 5.95 3.47
6 Summer Dresses, sizes 1 to 6x_ 7.95 4.97
10 Smocked Dresses, sizes 3 to 6_ 8.95 5.97
22 "Celeste" Dresses, sizes 1 to 6x_ 10.98 6.97
3 "Celeste" Dresses, sizes 5, 6_ 12.95 7.97
5 "Celeste" Dresses, sizes 4 to 6x_ 14.95 8.97
19 Organdie Pinafores, sizes 1 to 6x_ 6.95 3.97
8 GIRLS' SPRING COATS
1 Sizes 2 to 6x. Reg. M.95_
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4 Cotton Sl^ps, sizes 10, 12_ 1.29 47*
13 Cotton Print Shorts, size 8_ 1.98 47*
38 Cotton Blouses, sizes 7 to 14_ >2.98 87*
19 Cotton Printed Skirts, sizes 7, 8, 10_ 1.98 1.271
7 "Sacony" Blazer Jackets, sizes 8 to 14 6.95 1.99
29 Two-piece Cotton Ploy Suits, sizes 7 to 12._ 2.98 1.99
7 Summer Dresses, sizes 8, 10_ 4.98 2.97
5 Summer Dresses, sizes 7, 10_ 5.98 3.47
3 Summer Dresses, sizes 8, 12_ 6.98 3.97
1 Summer Dress, siz« 7_ 7.98 4.97
4 Summer Dresses, sizes 7 to 12_ 12.98 7.97
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