The pines and cypresses can withstand the wind and rain and cold, and the willow can adapt to various environments and grow all over the place. Comrade Jianye has the qualities of the resilient pine and cypress and the style of the willow tree that grows roots and sprouts everywhere.
From the end of 1938 to the beginning of 1948, in the ten years, the party organization has repeatedly transferred Xu Jianye's work, he was able to quickly adapt to the environment, familiar with the work, where he stood, rooted and blossomed, and produced fruitful results.
In November 1938, in order to strengthen the workers' movement in Chongqing, the central county committee of Beibei transferred Xu Jianye to the Tianfu coal mine in Beibei to work on the labor movement. Tianfu Coal Mine is an important base for industrial and civilian coal in Chongqing, and is also one of the more concentrated areas for industrial workers in Chongqing. Originally operated by national capitalists, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, bureaucratic capital crowded into Sichuan, Tianfu Coal Mine became a large enterprise with bureaucratic capital as the main body. The mine equipment is old and rudimentary, backward tools, primitive production methods, workers in the darkness of the underground labor, not only political personal freedom, economic exploitation by all the capitalists, foremen, at the same time due to poor labor conditions, workers are often in the water, fire, gas, collapse threat, many miners lost their lives because of broken arms and legs, or suffered from silicosis without medical treatment and death. Therefore, this is not a "heavenly palace", but a living "hell on earth".
Jiaye was sent by the party to the "hellish" Tianfu coal mine to engage in labor movement work, to fight for the miners' legitimate right to live, the task is very honorable, but the work is difficult, for a young man of nineteen years old is very arduous. He met the difficulties and, after arriving at the mine, worked night and day under the cover of his open occupation as superintendent of the Baimiaozi winch station, which had more than one hundred workers. In September 1938, the first Party branch was established in Tianfu Mine. At the end of 1938, due to the expansion of the Party's ranks, it was decided by the Beibei Central County Committee to expand from a branch to a general branch. At the beginning of 1939, the party members developed to 70 or 80 people, Tianfu party branch was expanded to the Beichuan Railway Mining District Committee, Fan Hengcai served as secretary of the district committee. Later, it was changed to the district committee of the industrial area, with Liu Yuming as the secretary and Xu Jianye as the organizing committee member. In the era of Kuomintang rule, Xu Jianye, as a manager of Tianfu coal mine, ostensibly to carry out the work assigned by the mine, to complete the task of transporting coal by winches every day, to obtain the "trust" of the mine, to cover up his party's work among the workers. This situation is very difficult to deal with, but Xu Jianye with strong party spirit and full of revolutionary enthusiasm to do a good job, he is always thinking about how to white temple winch station more than a hundred workers united, to fight for the legitimate rights and interests of the workers, and do their best to serve the workers.
He took off his student clothes, came to the masses of workers, and workers **** eat moldy rice, live with the dark and damp huts. Everywhere concerned about the plight of the workers. He often make time to participate in physical labor, to help workers trailers loaded with coal, sweaty. He always smiled at the workers and spoke in a friendly manner. He saved his money and the meager salary he earned, except for paying the party fee and taking out a small part of it to bring back home to support his mother and sister, the rest was all to help the workers who were in difficulty in their lives. In winter, the mine gave the staff charcoal for roasting, he also used it for everyone's enjoyment. Whenever he talked with the mine about production and workers' life, he always took care of the workers' interests. As a result, the winch station workers are treating him as one of their own, have things to tell him, have difficulties to find him to help solve.
When and the workers gradually harmonious feelings, mingled, he set out to politically raise the consciousness of the workers. He publicized the anti-Japanese and national salvation to the workers, and told them the basic theories of Marxism-Leninism, such as why the workers were poor and the reasons for their exploitation and oppression, to inspire the workers' enlightenment. Some workers often said that it was our bad fate to be poor and suffer, and that they did not choose good feng shui when they buried their ancestors' graves, and that "it is only our destiny to have only eight hectares of rice, and we are not satisfied with a liter in the whole world". Xu Jianye patiently educated the workers with the examples of the Soviet Union and the anti-Japanese base area people's liberation, and told them the facts about the exploitation of workers by the capitalists, so as to make the workers' ideological consciousness continuously improve. He also found activists among the workers and cultivated them, and successively developed Wang Zhanyun and Liu Suichuan into the Party. At the same time of ideological education to the workers, but also teach workers literacy, learning arithmetic, singing, etc., by the workers welcome and love.
-After the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang in January 1939, Chiang Kai-shek implemented the "anti-***", "limited***", "dissolving***" and "anti-dumping" programs. After the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Party, Chiang Kai-shek implemented the reactionary policies of "preventing ****", "restricting ****", "dissolving ****", and "anti-***", massacred ****producers, and set off the first anti-*** climax. With the reversal of the political situation, the Chinese and foreign capitalists in the Tianfu coal mines intensified their exploitation and oppression of the workers, who suffered even more. The General Branch of the C**** Tianfu Party decided to lead the workers in their struggle with the mine authorities for their right to survive. The Baimiaozi winch station, where Jianye was located, had a better mass base, and the Party decided to use it as a breakthrough to bring the struggle to the whole mine.
"May Day" International Labor Day is approaching, Xu Jianye and other winch workers to carry out propaganda activities, explaining in layman's terms the origins of the "May Day" International Labor Day, workers listened to the very educated and inspired, and realized that as long as we are united, we will have the power to oppose the capitalists, we will be able to protect the mine. The workers were very educated and encouraged, realizing that as long as we were united, we would have the power to oppose the capitalists and protect our own interests. The workers expressed their intention to stop production and take a break on May 1 (actually a strike) to protest against the cruel exploitation and oppression of the mines.
Early in the morning of May 1, the winches stopped turning, the station was silent, workers went to the Beibei to play in twos and threes, and it did not take long for the train from the mines to bring coal piled up in the Baimiaozi coal station. Winch station is the throat of the coal mine transportation, winch a stop, not only mine coal can not be transported, the river boat can not drive away. The mine learned of the winch station stoppage, very alarmed, the director of the transfer class Li Jigao furious ran to blame Xu Jianye said: "you as a winch station administrator, you manage the workers where to go? Why are they on strike? This is your dereliction of duty! Quickly get the workers back to work, or they will all be fired."
Jianye, seeing Li Jigao's aggressiveness, was very angry, and said unhurriedly, "Director Li, you can't put it this way, the workers neither asked me for leave when they left, nor did they state the reason why they didn't go to work, and when it was known that the work stoppage was taking place, they were nowhere to be seen, so what dereliction of duty did I have?"
Li Jigao, seeing Xu Jianye's righteousness, immediately softened and said with a smile on his face, "Okay, okay, no more of that, just now when I came, Director Lan (Tianfu Company's Coal Yard Director Lan Tiren) was in a hurry. You see! The winch stops the coal is piled up, quickly go to Beibei to call the workers back to drive".
"That's good, I only have a handyman around, he may not be able to tell the problem, you wait, I personally go to Beibei to persuade the workers to come back to work". Jianye said slowly.
Li Jigao was afraid that after Xu's departure, the winch station had no one to grasp the work, and it was even more difficult to do, so he agreed to send a handyman to go. The handyman went and didn't return until late afternoon and said, "I went to great lengths to find some workers, but they didn't come back and asked me to convey to Director Li that today is 'May Day' International Labor Day, and that it should be rested, bright and early, and there is no talk of dismissal. If you want people to work, give them overtime pay, otherwise they won't work."
Li Jigao, who has always oppressed workers, was furious after hearing this and shouted, "Against it! Against it!" Immediately brought Xu Jianye to see Lan Tiren.
Lan was furious as soon as he saw Xu Jianye and reprimanded Xu aggressively.
Jiye said unhurriedly, "Director Lan, the workers have made it clear that today is 'May Day', International Labor Day, and workers around the world are taking a holiday to rest and march in commemoration. You used to hide it from the workers, but this year they saw it in the newspaper, so they should be allowed to play for a day! If the work requires overtime pay. If the mine is willing to pay overtime, I'll go and convince the workers to go to work right away."
Lan Tiren refused to agree, and the two sides stalemated. After a while, the winch driver and some of the workers came to Lan Tiren's office and questioned Lan why he was violating the workers' legitimate rights; and what reasons he had for firing them. Lan Tiren was forced to use the excuse that there was no precedent for a May Day vacation, and that the company might not agree to pay overtime.
The workers did not give in and insisted on not driving, Lan Tiren had no choice but to use the phone to ask the mine to agree to send overtime pay. Under the specific command of Xu Jianye, the workers at the Baimiaozi winch station won the struggle for the right to rest on May Day, and won the right to take a day off on May Day in the Tianfu mine. Since then, Tianfu Mine has taken a day off on May Day, and overtime pay was given to those who worked extra shifts. The workers have since become more trusting of the Chinese ****productivity party and of Xu Jianye and other leaders of the working class.
Following the victory in the struggle for the right to rest on May 1, Xu Jianye and others fought for the workers' right to live. A couple of miners suffered from typhoid fever and their lives were in danger, but they could not afford to go to the hospital run by the mining bureau for treatment. The workers were very anxious to see their friend in distress facing the threat of death. Jianye mobilized workers and other brothers to help, however, how much the penniless miners can fund, can only be a drop in the bucket, can not solve the fundamental problem. Xu Jianye was very anxious, and immediately looked for the secretary of the work area Liu Yuming to discuss, decided to propose to the mine, asked for treatment to save the lives of workers. However, the exploitative capitalists did not pay any attention to it.
Xu Jianye and the others were fired up and felt it was better to beg the beast than to fight it. He sold three carloads of coke that had been parked at the Baimiaozi winch station for three months, and the coke sold was partly for the treatment of the miner's wife and husband and partly for other workers who were having a very difficult time. After the rescue by the Party and the workers, the sick miners recovered and expressed their gratitude, saying that in the future they would listen to the words of the administrator and unite with their fellow workers and fight together.
The sale of coke was soon known to the mine, and the capitalists stormed out, immediately sending men to the White Temple winch station to investigate. The representative of the mine angrily called Xu Jianye to his office for questioning. Jianye took it in his stride, feeling that with the masses of workers as his backing, nothing was to be feared.
"May I ask Administrator Xu where the three truckloads of coke parked at the station have gone?"
Hsu replied slowly, "I don't know."
"You really don't know?"
"Really don't know."
Seeing that Xu Jianye was adamant about not spilling the beans, the capitalist representative laid out the whole story of the coke sale, then fixed Xu Jianye with a hostile gaze.
Jiaye looked calm. Justifiably, he said, "Since the mine knows all about it, why are you asking me!"
"You are an employee of the company, and instead of defending the interests of the mine, you are negligent in your duties by selling coke against the rules and doing things for the poor workers. You go and tell the sick worker to pay out the money for the three loads of coal quickly."
The mine representative's words enraged Xu Jianye, who retorted, "When a worker gets sick, the mine should have paid for his treatment. You see death, not only do not care about the workers, but also forced them to pay for compensation, should it? I agreed to sell the coke, so if you want to pay for it, deduct my salary!"
The mine's representative was at a loss for words and huffed, "Administrator Xu, we'll see!" Gray slipped back to the mine.
After a few days, the company put up a notice to fire the sick worker. Jianye learned of this and immediately studied the matter with the head of the mine's Party committee and secretly convened a meeting of Party members to make three decisions: (1) to immediately report to the central county committee of Beibei in the Central Committee of the C*** and ask for advice; (2) to put forward conditions to the company authorities that no worker should be dismissed at random and that workers should be given medical treatment for their illnesses; and (3) to hold a strike if the company authorities did not accept the conditions put forward.
The Central County Committee of Beibei agreed with the opinion of the Party Committee of Beichuan Mining District. The workers took action and sent representatives to the company to withdraw the order to dismiss the sick workers. The mine not only refused, but threatened, "If you make trouble again, you will all be imprisoned." The winch station workers, who had been tempered by the struggle, were not at all afraid of the capitalists' intimidation and decided to go on strike immediately. During the strike, the mines first suppressed the workers by arresting them for "causing trouble" and then tried to sabotage the strike by recruiting odd jobs. Jianye and others organized workers to take control of the winch station and means of transport in time, and the capitalists failed to succeed in their evil plans.
On the fourth day of the strike, the mine felt that it would lose too much money if it didn't return to work, so it softened its attitude and sent people to the winch station to talk to Xu Jianye, to promote him to be the head of the transportation unit to bring him closer. Xu Jianye scoffed at the official position, righteously said: "as long as the mine agreed to the reasonable conditions put forward by the workers, the resumption of work is possible, you can find the workers' representatives to negotiate, as for the transportation unit director, I do not care." Mine representatives have no choice but to find the workers' representatives, late-night negotiations, and finally to "not dismiss sick workers, workers sick medical expenses reimbursed by the company, the workers' wages partially converted into rice to send the next day to return to work," and other items to reach an agreement. Once again, the strike ended with a victory for the workers.
Under the leadership of the Party organization in Tianfu mine, Jianye led the workers to carry out a justified, favorable, and sectional struggle against the capitalists, which not only improved the class consciousness of the majority of workers and the level of the struggle, but also cultivated and trained a number of workers like Wang Zhanyun, Liu Suichuan, Tan Pailin, Liu Bingcheng, Liu Shuzhou, and other workers like the Party members and the backbone of the masses, and also laid a solid foundation for the more extensive struggle of the Tianfu workers with the capitalists later on. It also laid a solid ideological and organizational foundation for the later broader struggle of the workers in the Tianfu mine against the capitalists.
In 194O, the fascist forces in the world were extremely rampant, and the Kuomintang hardliners were compromising with Japanese imperialism on the one hand, and actively launching the second anti-*** climax on the other, and frantically suppressing the ****production party. Dictator Chiang Kai-shek created the "rice grabbing incident" in Chengdu and arrested Luo Shiwen, the secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Che Yaoxian, the secretary of the Provincial Military Commission, and many others. Then, in Chongqing, Wanxian, Yibin and other places in a massive manhunt for revolutionaries, the destruction of underground party organizations, Sichuan suddenly dark clouds.
Comrade Jianye, because of his repeated participation and leadership in idling and strikes at the Baimiaozi winch station, thus aroused the suspicion and attention of the reactionary faction of the Kuomintang, decided that the Tianfu Road Mining Company would come forward, under the guise of transferring Xu to work at the head office, to spy on him, and then secretly arrest him. Liu Yuming, secretary of the mine, got the news from inside the company and immediately reported to the central county committee of Beibei, China ****, after the central county committee made a decision to quickly transfer Xu Jianye, escorted by Liu Yuming and other escorted to the riverside, and then to Chongqing.
Chongqing, at that time, was the companion capital of the Kuomintang government, the center of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary rule, and the largest industrial city and transportation hub in southwest China. It was also the seat of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the C*** and the office of the Eighth Route Army. The two sides of the enemy and us are tit for tat. The struggle was very sharp and complex. Xu Jianye came to Chongqing in this treacherous situation to fight a new battle.
1941. China's war of resistance entered an extremely difficult period. In early January, Chiang Kai-shek's reactionaries created the shocking "Anhui Incident". The "Wannan Incident" on the Jianye education extremely exploration, so that he further recognized the reactionary nature of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the enormity of the revolution, recognizing that the revolution must be bloodshed, there are sacrifices. He was determined to adhere to the revolutionary spirit, listen to the words of the party. Work steadily and revolutionize to the end.
After the "Anhui Incident", the Party's organizations at all levels in the state-controlled areas were sabotaged and suppressed by the Kuomintang's reactionary faction, and were in a difficult situation. In order to save the party's strength, the central government of China **** for the party's work in the state-controlled area formulated the policy of "shade elite, long-term ambush, accumulate strength, waiting for the right time", the Southern Bureau put forward the "hard work, hard work, hard to make friends" of the three diligence policy, requiring each member of the party to share the party's worries and find their own social occupation hidden. The Southern Bureau put forward the policy of "diligent study, diligent work and diligent friendship", and required every Party member to share the Party's worries, to find his own social occupation, to hide himself, and to overcome all difficulties in order to do a good job. Loyal to the cause of the proletarian revolution, Xu Jianye followed the Party's instructions and, through the introduction of Wu Xiaokang, the principal of Daxigou Primary School, took the alias of Xu Lide and went to teach at the school. In order to be able to stay hidden for a long time and get a foothold in his work unit, he studied the teaching materials diligently. He endeavored to learn the relevant knowledge and paid attention to good relations with the masses. When he was teaching at Daxigou Elementary School, he loved the students, followed good advice, and never inflicted corporal punishment on them. When other teachers were sick or had problems, he took the initiative to help substitute for them. He had a very cordial relationship with all parties, which covered him to carry out the secret work of the Party smoothly.
Soon. When Comrade Jianye learned that the bank was looking for an accountant, he decided to apply for the exam, considering that a bank accountant would be a better way to conceal himself and fulfill the mission entrusted to him by the Party. After a period of preparation, Jianye was admitted to the Chongqing Hecheng Bank as an accountant. After his arrival, he buried himself in his work during the day to familiarize himself with the accounting business, worked as a party ding at night, and continued to study accounting expertise late at night, quickly becoming a connoisseur and gaining the trust of the bank authorities.
This period, Jianye Party relations in the Chuanjiang seamen district committee, under the leadership of the Chinese *** Chuandong Special Committee of the labor movement member Wang Zhizhong to do the work of seamen workers, mainly to grasp the livelihood of the company's workers to build the organization. In order to get close to seafarer workers and carry out work, it was necessary to start by making friends. Jianye used his spare time to go to the areas along the river where seafarers lived, and took the opportunity of seafarers going ashore for tea to sit with them in the teahouse, and soon made friends with a lot of teahouses (on-board waiters), sailors, helmsmen, cargo handlers, engineers and other basic workers. In the contact with seafarers and workers, Jianye started from the actual situation of the workers, and by talking about family life, "Dragon Gate" and the history of the development of the Minsheng Company, he enlightened the workers and friends, so that they could understand what exploitation and class oppression were. He gave vivid and concrete lectures that were easy to understand, and the results were very good. After a period of time, Jianye's relationship with the seafarer-workers gradually became closer.
Hsu attached great importance to the cultivation of activists, and took every opportunity to send them into the KMT-controlled pseudo-trade unions to work for the workers or to counteract their reactionary role. At that time, the Chongqing Municipal Party Department of the Kuomintang in the seafarers and workers in the registration, Jianye and other seafarers and workers to take advantage of the opportunity to insert some of the backbone of the seafarers and workers into the sailors, helmsmen, cargo, engineers and other trade unions, and some of them also became a trade union clerk for workers to fight for the wages and treatment of workers to organize the welfare undertakings to make a certain contribution.
Comrade Jianye to the bank and into the bank, because he worked hard, good behavior, proficient in business, the bank boss soon promoted him, sent to Langzhong County Office as director. Jianye is very contradictory, such as going to work inconvenient, to lose contact with the original workers; not to go and to lose the social occupation. After consulting the party organization decided to go for the time being.
In the winter of 1942, the leading comrades who had been in contact with Xu Jianye suddenly moved away, and Xu lost contact with the Party organization. Xu Jianye, who has always regarded the Party as a loving mother, once separated from the Party's leadership, like a wandering orphan, his heart was on fire. He resolutely decided to resign from the bank to return to Chongqing to look for the party organization, and into the bank bosses think that he is as familiar with the business, hard-working talent, very rare, not approved. Xu Jianye decided to leave his job and go back to Chongqing to look for the Party.
Jiaye returned to Chongqing, did not find a career, he used the original savings to maintain a minimum life. But he was not discouraged, not discouraged, and believed that he would be able to find comrades and organizations. What is more valuable is that in the process of losing the Party's leadership and searching for an organization, he still consciously worked for the Party, and actively penetrated into the various factories that he had originally contacted to make friends with the workers and propagandize the Party's policy and the future of ****productivism to the workers. He went to the Twenty-first Arsenal, Twenty-ninth Arsenal, Fifty Arsenal, Tianyuan Chemical Factory and Copper Dollar Bureau to carry out his activities. He went to the workers' homes to visit them and talk to them, and the workers respected him, and when they saw that he was having difficulties in his life, they asked him to have dinner with them at home. Comrade Jianye was optimistic and generous, and he went there gladly to live with the workers and ate with them. The workers and their families praised him, "Mr. Xu looked up to our poor and suffering workers, truly a family."
In the summer of 1943, Xu Jianye found former classmates Zhou Zhiyuan and Zhou Ping in Neoshui Middle School, talked about his unemployment, is looking for the party organization, Zhou Ping immediately reported this situation to the central county party secretary Xiao Zekuan in **** Baxian, Xiao also reported to the organization department of the Southern Bureau of the **** Central Committee in the report of the Yu Jiang Zhen, in the question and answer, said: "Xu Jianye is no problem, is a good! comrade, we are worried that we have not found him, in the future it will be given to you (referring to the Central County Committee of the C**** Ba County) to lead." Comrade Jianye found the party organization, the mood is exceptionally excited, since then, under the direct leadership of Xiao Zekuan, actively engaged in the work of the labor movement. At the same time, Comrade Jianye actively sought social occupations as cover through various channels. He worked as an accountant at the Chaotianmen Grain Warehouse and the Shawan Warehouse. At that time, working in grain warehouses was a beautiful job (with "oil and water"), and people used to say, "It is better to be an official than to work in grain, and it is better to work in grain than to work in warehouses." Comrade Jianye utilized this occupation to shade himself well, and also helped the Party and succored comrades in need with the wages he earned.
Though Comrade Xu Jianye nominally had no leading position in the central county committee of Ba Xian, he actually took part in the leadership of the central county committee and was mainly responsible for the workers' movement in Chongqing. His work style is deep and meticulous, serious and solid, and very courageous. In order to grasp the basic situation of the city's industrial workers, he worked without sleep or food, and went into some factories and mines in the military, iron and steel, chemical and textile systems, such as the 10th Arsenal (Explosives Factory), the Yufeng Yarn Factory, the Shunlv Iron Factory, etc., and carried out investigations and researches, with the help of the "Newspaper Reading Group", the "Reading Club" and the "Life and Workers' Association". In the form of "newspaper reading group", "reading club", "life mutual aid group", etc., the workers were organized, and Marxism-Leninism was propagated and revolutionary principles were explained to them. More than a dozen party members and nearly 100 worker activists were directly led by Xu Jianye during this period.
In 1945, the Party sent Xu Jianye to Zunyi, Guizhou, to learn about the situation and open up work. Without hesitation, Jianye took simple traveling clothes to Zunyi and completed the task given by the Party in time. Two or three months later, when the situation changed, Comrade Yu Jiangzhen of the Southern Bureau asked Comrade Xiao Zekuan to send a telegram to inform Xu to return to Chongqing. After Xu Jianye returned to the mountain city, he still carried out the work of the labor movement, and his social occupation was the accountant of the Yu Gong Ferry Company.
In August 1945, the Japanese imperialists unconditionally surrendered. The eight-year-long hard war against Japan was over, and people thought that China could be independent and strong from now on. The US imperialists took the opportunity to invade China and colluded with Chiang Kai-shek to start a new civil war.
After the victory in the War of Resistance against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't wait to plan for the return of Nanjing. Some of the anti-Japanese period from abroad to Chongqing factories and enterprises, lost after the closure, and then moved east; coupled with the U.S. goods flooded the market, the national capitalist factories and stores in the competition have gone bankrupt, has made significant contributions to the war of resistance to the Japanese in Chongqing, Chongqing workers, was a large number of dismissal, dismissal, thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, the workers out of the province to return to their hometowns without the fare, the workers of Sichuan are unemployed without food, the situation is very miserable. As one of the leaders of the Chongqing workers' movement, Xu Jianye, thinking of the unemployed workers and anxious about them, actively participated in and led the unemployed workers' petition to the Kuomintang authorities, and fought for the return of more than 100,000 unemployed workers to their hometowns and the severance pay for their efforts.
In leading the Chongqing workers in their struggle against Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang, Xu Jianye conscientiously carried out the Party's policies, paid attention to the strategy of the struggle, and combined the economic and political struggles, the legal and illegal struggles, and the immediate and long-term interests. He strictly demanded that the party members and worker activists in factories and mines should pay attention to the art of struggle. In the struggle against the Kuomintang authorities, especially against the national capitalists, they should analyze the situation specifically, treat them separately, and try their best to be reasonable and favorable, so as not to let the Kuomintang seize the handle and use it as an excuse for sabotage and suppression. In 1946, the "3.23" tragedy occurred at the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works. In 1946, after the "3.23" tragedy at the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, a large-scale strike was held in the whole factory, demanding the KMT authorities to punish the murderers, raise the wages of the workers, and improve the labor conditions, etc. Comrade Jianye went to the factory in time to learn about the situation, and supported the workers in their righteous actions. However, he took a different view on the workers' demand for the establishment of a labor union.
When Liu Jiayi and other comrades of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works reported on the demand for a labor union, Comrade Jianye patiently asked, "Do you know the Kuomintang's labor union law?"
"No."
Jianye said, "The Kuomintang has a labor union law that states that no labor unions can be set up in arms factories. Your conditions in terms of demanding better wages and benefits and not being allowed to fire workers at will are fine and tenable; but by demanding the establishment of a union, the Kuomintang can excuse itself by saying that you have violated the law. Arrest your workers' representatives. As long as you put forward good conditions, the Xinhua Daily can publish articles in support of you, and other factories can hold demonstrations or strikes in solidarity."
With Jianye pointing out so much, Liu Jiayi was enlightened and said in a loud voice, "You speak well, you speak well! In the past, we only know how to fight with the enemy, but neglected the struggle strategy, in the future, we must learn the Party's policy very well, and improve the art of struggle." After saying this, the two men laughed heartily.
After a short while, Liu Jiayi of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works and others were ready to mobilize workers to blow up a hundred tons of steel furnaces and deal a severe blow to the Kuomintang reactionaries. Liu Jiayi to him for instructions, Comrade Jianye think blowing up a hundred tons of steelmaking furnace. On the one hand, the enemy could shut down the factory under the pretext of making the workers unemployed and without livelihood; on the other hand, it would bring difficulties to our post-liberation construction. So, he decisively canceled their plan and guided them to blow up the weapons depot of the plant, which would not only deal a blow to the enemy's arrogance, but also support the victorious march of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In late December 1946, the "Shenzong Incident" occurred in Beiping (Beijing), in which American soldiers raped Chinese schoolgirls. When the news reached Chongqing, the revolutionary masses, especially the young students, were furious and rallied to hold a powerful demonstration against the violence. The servile Kuomintang reactionaries sent military and police agents to stop the procession, sabotage propaganda speeches, and beat up revolutionary youths. Witnessing this, Liu Zhengli, a worker activist of the 10th Arsenal (introduced to the Party by Xu Jianye in September 1947), became furious and agitated, denouncing the secret agents, and was nearly arrested. Afterwards, Jianye said to Liu Zhengli: "Comrade Zhengli, your sense of justice and bravery are valuable, but we are still in the White Terror, the enemy is always on the lookout for our actions, the slightest carelessness, you may be arrested, the sacrifice of your own imprisonment is a small matter, but the cause of the revolution to cause unnecessary losses is a big matter. " Liu Zhengli was so convinced that he said he would be cautious and careful in the future.
In May 1947, Qian Ying of the Southern Bureau of the **** Central Committee, who is responsible for leading the underground party in the southwest region, instructed that the **** Baxian County Party Committee get in touch with the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. Thereafter, Wang Pu, secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee, handed over the work of the labor movement of the Municipal Committee to Xu Jianye. This period, the party's task is very heavy, from 1941 after the incident in Anhui Province, Chongqing underground party organizations basically stopped the development of new members, a lot of activists after five or six years of cultivation and exercise, ****productivist awareness generally improve, the struggle resolute, and actively requesting to join the China ****productivist party, the party has decided to absorb the activists of them to join the party. Xu Jianye, according to the Party's positive and prudent policy of building the Party, talked to the workers' activists night and day about examining their political attitudes, social relations and work performance, and developed them to join the Party, with some talking to them more than a dozen times. In Chongqing, where the military and the police were heavily armed and secret agents were rampant, it was difficult to find a good place to talk to the activists and to think of ways to avoid enemy surveillance and stalking, etc. However, Jianye overcame all the difficulties with wisdom and courage, and successively developed workers such as Peng Ji'an, Liu Zhenli, Yu Zusheng, Niu Xiaogu, and Pi Xiaoyun to join the Party.
In October 1947, Qian Ying decided to merge the party organizations of upper and lower Chuan Dong, Chongqing Municipality and part of Chuan Nan, and established the Provisional Working Committee of Chuan Dong of the People's Republic of China (Provisional Working Committee of Chuan Dong for short), with Wang Pu, the former secretary of Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, reappointed as secretary of the Provisional Working Committee. At the same time, the Chongqing Municipal Committee was reorganized: Liu Guoding, secretary; Ran Yizhi, deputy secretary; Li Weijia, member of the Standing Committee; and Xu Jianye, member of the Committee (in charge of the Chongqing labor movement). Wang Pu returned to Chongqing from Shanghai in October to report on his work, and brought back to Xu Jianye some of the party members and activists under the leadership of Du Yanqing of the labor movement group of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the C***, who was responsible for the leadership of Xu Jianye. His burden has become heavier.
After the outbreak of the national civil war, the Southern Bureau of the C*** Central Committee and the Sichuan Provincial Committee, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Central Committee, decided to shift the focus of their work to the countryside. After the establishment of the East Sichuan Provincial Committee in October 1947, it put forward the guideline of "Rural work comes first, and the city serves the countryside", and decided to carry out armed struggle in the Yuechi, Wusheng, Guang'an, Hechuan, Dazhu, Oishui, and Liangshan areas in the Huayng Mountains, and in Yunyang, Fengjie, and Wuxi areas in the east of Lower Sichuan, to set up revolutionary bases, to disturb the enemy's rear, and to destroy the military resources of the Kuomintang reactionaries. KMT reactionaries' supply of soldiers and foodstuffs, to hold back the enemy forces and to cooperate with the liberation army's entry into Sichuan. The Provisional Party Committee of Eastern Sichuan requested the Party in Chongqing to serve the armed struggle in the countryside and support the countryside. The C**** Chongqing Municipal Committee responded positively. Wang Pu, Xiao Zekuan, Jianye and other comrades have done a lot of work in this regard; (a) unreservedly sent a number of strong party, close contact with the masses, have experience in the struggle of the labor movement cadres to the countryside, plus the transfer of Tan Jianxiao, Wen Jingtao, Liu Zongling, Chen Jing et al. to the region of Huayhuash Mountain; Peng Jiyan, Lv Zhichao to go to the Liangshan Mountain; Lu Kwangte, Li Ruwei to the Lower Chuandong. Some of them for military leadership, some for the political work of the guerrillas, some start a small arsenal, each in its place, fighting bravely. Li Ruwei and other heroic sacrifice on the frontier. (b) Actively raise funds, purchase and get guns and ammunition from the arsenal to support the guerrilla forces. Jianye and other comrades in Chongqing workers and peasants ironworks workers, to get a foot lathe, drilling machine and firearms accessories; in the twenty-first Arsenal and other units of workers' support, to get a number of raw materials for firearms and ammunition; through the Xinhua Machine Factory Zhang Peilong and other risks to get a number of pistol springs, and personally by the Nationalist Aviation Committee to get to the armory to the Chungking system of the pistol two by Liu Zongling, Pan Weimin drew drawings, made into models. The model was made by Liu Zongling and Pan Weimin. Jianye and other comrades of a series of arduous activities, for the founding of the ordnance repair center in Guang'an and Liangshan small arms to create the conditions for the repair factory. (iii) Providing simple medical equipment and medical supplies for guerrilla areas in various places. (d) Organizing workers of some factories and mines in Chongqing to hold slacks and strikes in order to restrain and disperse enemy forces. From the fall of 1947 to the spring of 1948, Jianye and other comrades successively guided the Twenty-first Arsenal, Chongqing Ferry Company, Chongqing Yufeng Yarn Factory, Yuhua Yarn Factory, Zhongxin Yarn Factory and Shunchang Iron Factory to carry out slack work and strike struggles, organically combining the Chongqing Workers' Movement with the armed struggle in the countryside, and writing a new glorious chapter in the history of the Chongqing Workers' Movement and the history of China's labor movement.