ORGANIZATION OF THE CHIN CHOU RAILWAY BUREAU

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• Publication Date: December 29, 1960
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Organization of the Chin Chou Railway
Bureau
le The chief of the Chin Chou (6939/1558) Railway Bureau
Chao Wenmp e u (6392 2~+2 2 28 -
directs an extremely lar a and complicated organization.
the following divisions and separate offices are
under the jurisdiction of Chao and his deputy, a Mr Chan (1728):
and other construction items.
Labor and Wages Division - investigates and determines the labor quota.
e. Communist Party Commit'ee
f. Political Division o determines the labor quota after making investi-
gations.
g. Designing Office - designs bridges, new roadbeds, stations, tunnels
d. Youth League Coti'.
c. Planning Division = drafts plans for all railroad projects.
and section labor union
b. Personnel Division (chew 5710) - inspects and grades the work done byJ
each worker.
i. Public Security Division m in charge of the public security offices at
all large stations, the public security watch offices for bridges and
'the security officers. aboard trains.
J. General Affairs Division m in charge of the Railway Bedding and Clothing
Factory and the procurement of other stores.
k. Accounting Division
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1. Supervisory Office-for the Safe Operations of Trains-- handles and
disposes of train accident cases.
m. Financial Affairs Division - handles all financial and economic affairs
of the bureau.
n. Freight Division - directs all freight operations including the freight
offices at stations and sub-bureaus.
o. Passenger Division - directs all passenger$operations and activities.
p. Capital Construction Division - supervises engineers and resident
inspectors of the Ministry of Railways.
q. Engineering Division - in charge of all track laying units, bridge and
other construction units.
r. Materials Division - responsible for all materials yards and warehouses.
t. Coordinating Division - coordinates traffic (traffic control) and the
activities and operations of station chiefs,
u. Electrical Division - in charge of all electrical operations in road
maintenance and work assignment areas.
v. Locomotive Division - in char a of the locomotive repairs and parts, 50X1 -HUM
manufacturing plant an the procurement of new locomotives.
w. Rolling Stock Division - directs the rolling stock repair and parts
manufacturing plant an procures new rolling stock items
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x. Sub-Bureaus - The Chin Chou Headquarters has complete jurisdiction over
the sub-bureaus at Ch?engmte (0015/1795), Pai-ch?eng-tau (llol/100l/l3ll),
Yeh-pomshou (5509/2672/1108), Tamhu-span (1129/5706/1472), Cheng-chic-tun
(6771/1367/147o) and I Hsien (5030/1905). There may be other sub-
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2. Each of
diction
en-yuan (2799/3013/0337 was chief of
the Engineering
Div~ a Chief Engineer under him was KGxanYu-k'un
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includes the following sections, shops, committees and separate offices:
a. Repair shop
b. Division Office of the Labor Union - each engineering unit has a sub-
branch of the Labor Union.
c. Division Headquarters of the Youth League Committee - each engineering
unit has a subbranch headquarters.
d. Branch Headquarters of the-Communist Party Committee - each engineering
unit has a subbranch headquarters.
e. Political Section - in charge of political affairs and the politics
study movement.
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f. Youth Section - it is possible that this section no longer exits.
g. Labor Safety and Protection Engineer - in charge of personal injuries
and casualties among engineering or construction workers, various
types of devices for the protection of construction workers, and
safety equipment.
h. Personnel Section - handles the working attitude of all the worker,
in the engineering units of the engineering division and the alloca-
tion and coordination of manpower,
i. Materials Section - maintains stone and gravel y?iards, sand yards,
lumber materials plant% and all materials warehouses of engineering
units.
~. General Affairs Section - directs the general affairs offices of all
the engineering units, distributes uniforms and stationery and
directs the mess unit.
1. Accounting Section
in. Labor and Wages Section - investigates on-the-spot workers quota
and decides on the labor quota, revises piece work rate and decides
the wage norms.
n. General Engineer - assists the division chief and chief engineer with
the settlement of engineering problems.
o. Coordinator - controls the progress of construction, requests rolling
stock for the movement of freight, requests closing of road.
p. Technical Section - solves the technical problems of the engineering
units.
q. Operational Work Section - controls the work program of all the
engineering units, such as the working regulations and employment of
manudi workers.
r. Engineering Units - This is the construction arm of the division and has
three sections: No 1 - Railway line engineering section; No 2 - Bridge
engineering section; No 3 - Housing construction engineering section.
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3. Each of the sections in the Ennineerin Division maintains its own nraani
the organization of the Engineering Units. It has both a political and
engineering chief and the political officer is in charge of the followtgg
aspects of the engineering unit:
a. Protection Unit - handles public order: anti-sabotage measures, theft
and pilferage.
c. Youth League Committee
d. Communifst Party Committee j handles political studies conducted in all
offices (shih 1358) and passes on work plans of all offices.
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The chief of the a eering unit I Li Ching-ya 50X1-HUM
(2621/51+27/3768 directs the following activities of the unit:
a. Labor Protection Officer - supervises the safety equipment and
labor ahd technical devices.
b. Materials Office - allocates and hauls various types of construction
materials and construction machinery.
c. Personnel Office - hires temporary workers and assigns and allocates
technical personnel.
d. General Affairs Office
e. Planning Office
f. Accounting Office
g. Labor and Wage Office - carries out the cage quota, determines quota
and inspection standards and estimates number of workers required.
h. Technical Office - technical engineer for construction.
i. Coordinating Office - submits reports to the division on the progress
of construction, submits plans for use of rolling stock in freight
traffic and closes lines when required.
J. Work Sites - The first, second and third sections accept work assign-
ments, and the organization of these work sites is determined by the
magnitude of the construction work to be done. Each work site controls
a segment of a construction section.
5. The director in charge of each work site is an engineer and the organization
of each work site includes the following:
a. Work Chief (kung-chang 1562/7022), (Pan-Chang 3803/7022) or squad
chief (tsu-chang)
b. Personnel Officer
c. Materials Officer
d. General Affairs Officer
e. Engineer - technician
f. Coordinator
g. Director from the Party Committee
h. Youth League Party Committee Member
i. Labor Union Representative
6. The Chin Chou Railway Bureau
personnei- in an engineering Unit is not e ; some engineering units can
have as many as 10,000 workers or as few as 1,000 workers, but the impor-
tant thing is that the smallest unit comes under the business accounting
system. A work site may have as many. as 3,000 people or as few as 100
workers. The various divisions of the railway bureau are not generally
as large as the engineering division, although the sub-bureaus are extremely
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division
large and, in some cases, as large as the engineering division. Almost all
of the major divisions are as complicated organizationally as the engineering
members of the party, the Party Committee thoroughly investigates their
past and qualifies them for the job only if they think the applicants are
completely reliable. The investigation of non-party members goes on continu-
ously.
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The chief's of the bureau, divisions, sections and all other units are all
members of the Communist Party. Al]. of them have the background of either
being.former cadres in underground work, old cadres from the Yenan area,
or cadres who took part in the long 25,000 li march. The technicians
are the only ones who do not have this kind of background; they are tech-
nicians of the old China, but most of these technicians are also Communist
Party members who joined the party after the Communists took over the
country. If any of the technicians or engineer are not
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