That is why when the new workers' and peasants' representative council was elected in the city, a hundred or more representatives were unwilling to attend after the first few council meetings had discussed only the expansion of the Red Army and mobilization for the transport corps, entirely ignoring the well-being of the masses, so that the council was unable to go on meeting.
Mandarin
汀州市群众的问题是没有柴烧,资本家把盐藏起来没有盐买,有些群众没有房子住,那里缺米,米价又贵。
汀州市羣眾的問題是沒有柴燒,資本家把鹽藏起來沒有鹽買,有些羣眾沒有房子住,那裏缺米,米價又貴。
tīng zhōu shì qún zhòng de wèn tí shì méi yǒu chái shāo , zī běn jiā bǎ yán cáng qǐ lái méi yǒu yán mǎi , yǒu xiē qún zhòng méi yǒu fáng zi zhù , nà lǐ quē mǐ , mǐ jià yòu guì .
The problems facing the people of Tingchow city were that they had no firewood, no salt was on sale because the capitalists were hoarding it, some people had no houses to live in, and rice was both scarce and dear.