Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 1, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday february 1, 1968 stresses shatter chinese Economy by Robert s. Elegant Hong Kong special tons the planned Economy of communist China As splintering under the strains of the attempted total purge of chinese society called the great Prole tarian cultural revolution. An uncontrolled form of primitive capitalism is Fot the moment taking its place the extreme faction cent ered on communist party Orchid Florist fresh Cut carnations personal shopping Only these spicy Long lasting blooms in asst colors Are attractively packaged. Include plenty of greens and Floral nutrient. Florists Tammas Scott three tem Donald chairman Mao tse Tung denies that abstract human nature exists. Ubut the maoists attempt to i political Power and Zeim pose economic discipline is now encountering profound from the natural human inclination to work for material rewards and to provide for one s self and one s family As Best one can in the chaotic conditions that now prevail throughout China. Official and unofficial re ports from seven key prov inces in the past week have state of econ Omic anarchy private Enterprise is burgeoning in communist China in the form it always takes in disrupted societies b Lack Market eng speculation evasion and systematic theft of govern m e n t property material shortages Are compounded by breakdowns of the transportation system while the e anti maoist officials of the communist party who still retain much local authority Are wooing. Popular support by offering the incentives of increased wages lower taxes and a variety of fringe benefits the present tendency is anathema to the maoists for three reasons the people s Tion upon material rewards defies that and not economics must control All men s actions. The maoist economic system is based upon total suppression of private Enterprise and total control of All economic activity. Present economic trends strengthen their enemies making even More Remote the prospects of the re imposing their control on China. There Are As yet no reports of acute deprivation in China. Indeed unofficial reports indicate the contrary since the peasants Are Selling food for their own profit and the recent Harvest was Good. Nonetheless the breakdown of both transportation and Central control creates a danger that bad Luck in one area could produce food shortages which would now not be relieved by bringing supplies f Row other sections. The staunchly commercial chinese people Are More and More following their own economic Road regard less from the formal and largely ineffectual Center of Power in the present Asser Tion of economic Independence not Only erodes the maoists scant remaining , but also enhances the Strong tendency toward regional groups under local Rule the situation is made worse from the maoist Point of View by the growing corruption among the Hund red factions who Are ostensibly supporters of the leftist clique of Tung and. His Deputy vice chairman Lin Piao of the communist party. Public funds Public goods and Public vehicles Are regularly diverted to private use and private entertainment. Acute is the paper shortage in Kiangtung province adjoining Hong Kong that maoist activists Are enjoined to practice How could a numb fingered Bone chilled slush splattered puddle Hopper become a Winter Lover in just a few hours by flying non Stop from Toronto to Miami with air Canada. 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Must rigorously Deal with the evil wind that incites the masses and cripples the directive also warned against the Recrudescence of but this time in a specific and literal sense rather than the figurative sense the maoists have assigned to that term in the past. As they did last year workers Are again desert ing their posts on the pretext of participating in the cultural revolution. The directive called urgently for improving the efficiency of labor and in c King urge economies the people were enjoined to practice the strictest Economy in the use of Coal electricity cooking Oil met als and lumber. Use Small materials for big the directive ordered. Use Good materials to their utmost find substitutes for materials in Short Supply and even utilize rubbish we must not waste a single Penny a Grain of Rice an. Ounce of Coal an Inch of Wood a Watt of electricity a drop of Oil or a Sheet of warehouse keepers were warned to guard against spoilage and unauthorized or corrupt Issue of their goods Peno decals and books were ordered reduced i numbers. Private sources Iii Kiangtung reported a determined Campaign t o suppress publications of the adolescent maoist activists called red guards. The people of Kiangtung were told to use animals or their own legs rather than motor driven vehicles for All Short journeys. Similar reports have come from Shanghai and from the provinces of Nanhwei Houpei Honan Sze Chwan and inner Mongolia. In Shanghai workers Are demanding increased econ Omic benefits threatening strikes if their demands Are not satisfied organized groups of private unions banned in China Are being formed to press those de mands. P v a t e hawkers now peddle for their own profit Large quantities of a wide Range of commodities including c i g a r t e s watches Industrial machinery and implements. In Nanhwei and Houpei critical Indus trial goods Are in Short Supply and Public funds have been diverted to priv ate uses. The full of peasants and Cit Folk originally assigned to labor in the Countryside. The same tendencies have appeared in that Laige disputed province in the far Southwest called Sze Chwan. Although the political Situa Tion there is unclear the Recrudescence of. Capital ism appears Well advanced. 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