Chapter 39 Report the discussion and implementation of the correct handling of conflicts among the people to the Central Committee within a deadline

(April 19, 1957) The Shanghai Bureau, the provincial (municipal) party committees and autonomous region party committees, all departments at the central level and all party groups of state agencies: Regarding the correct handling of contradictions among the people, various localities are discussing it.Please share the opinions of the pros and cons of both inside and outside the party, your own opinions, your assessment of the overall situation, what is the attitude of the prefectural and county levels, and whether your committee, the secretariat or the party group have discussed this issue in depth and many times. The question: whether the first secretary and the party ministers or vice ministers at the first level of the Central Committee (referring to those ministries where non-Party ministers are ministers) have seriously grasped this extremely important issue of ideological and political work, or have they still entrusted the second or third in command to manage it? I still don’t use my brain as much as in the past; have the first secretary and other secretaries and party members, ministers or deputy ministers managed newspapers, periodicals and schools, have you read articles on such issues in newspapers and periodicals, important editorials are in Have you read it before publishing it, and have you edited it? Has the abnormal tension between the party and people outside the party (mainly intellectuals) eased somewhat? The style of the Kuomintang (i.e. treating the people as enemies, adopting methods of combating oppression, the so-called people's democracy, the so-called mass line, the so-called integration with the masses, and the so-called concern for the sufferings of the masses are just empty talk to these people, that is, Some people in the party have a reactionary and anti-people ideological style) Has it started to change? Have you given lectures to school students and factory workers? , within fifteen days of receiving this telegram by telegram.Reports from various departments in Beijing were sent in written form.

central April 19, 1957 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript.