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...July 1938 Indusco had no equipment and a one-man staff. By October 1940 it was "a living chain of small industry over 2,000 miles long." Its links were some 2,300 plants in 16 provinces, run by 300,000 Chinese. Entire overhead for one month is but $6,000, of which two-thirds comes from overseas. For the Kuomintang is reluctant to help. Chiang Kai-shek's shih-shih (yes-yes) men see in it "a new kind of democratic working-class mobilization outside their control...
...Snow, Indusco and the Red guerrillas prove that China's peasants are capable of self-government, that China's only hope lies in more democracy than the Kuomintang will grant...
Cooperatives entirely revitalized whole towns. In Shuangshipu (Shensi Province), Indusco enrolled 1,200 people-one-tenth of the town's total population. The other nine-tenths live almost solely by supplying services to Indusco members and their families...
Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...
...work for a common cause, how to subordinate personal means to group ends. Each cooperative governs itself, elects its own officers, makes its own rules. If China ever succeeds in becoming truly democratic, it will be because the crankshaft has been turned over by democratic self-starters like Indusco...