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...Purpose Boss. Ultimate goal of the urban commune organizers is the complete fusion of personal and working life. One of the first and most publicized of city communes was at the coal-mining center of Yangchuan in Shansi province. At Yangchuan. according to the Peking People's Daily, "living quarters were readjusted so that cadres, workers and their dependents are housed according to their pit, shifts, sections and teams." That done, "political, cultural and physical-culture activities were organized . . . Each person is a worker-soldier, as well as a student, whose living quarters are workshop, barracks and classroom...
...last week,there were nearly 25,000 communes; their membership, at least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head...
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