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Industrial Cooperative

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo and Bottom photo) The Industrial Cooperative connected with the Orthopedic Hospital of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps in Kweiyang (Guiyang) teach trades to the maimed. (2 views)
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Railway Worker

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a…

Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a group of 60 railway workers who banded together to form a cooperative. They use blacksmith forges and bellows to melt and weld the steel rails. then hammer them into swords for use against the enemy.