Our Party's First Discipline Inspection and Supervision Iron Army

Wuhan is a heroic city that has made outstanding contributions in the history of the Party. The party's first discipline inspection and supervision iron army was born in Wuhan.

The first Central Supervisory Committee was elected by the Party's five major elections.

From April 27 to May 9, 1927, the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Wuhan. On May 9, the first Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the predecessor of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was elected at the Huangpi Guild Hall in Hankou (now No. 31, Hankou Autonomous Street). The first Central Supervisory Committee was composed of 10 members. The seven official members are Wang Hebo, Yang Xianan, Xu Baihao, Zhang Zuochen, Liu Junshan, Zhou Zhensheng and Cai Yichen, and the three alternate members are Yang Peisen, Xiao Shiyue and Ruan Xiaoxian. Wang Hebo is the chairman and Yang Xianan is the vice chairman. This is the first time in history that our party has explored and tried to set up a central discipline inspection agency.

On June 1, 1927, in accordance with the spirit of the Five National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China passed the "Decision on the Third Amendment of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China" (usually referred to as the Five Party Constitutions). Since the Great Revolution was at a low point at that time, the Five Party Constitutions were the only party constitutions in the history of our party that were not passed at the party's National Congress, but passed at the subsequent Politburo meeting. Although the revolutionary situation was very severe at that time, it was this time that the amendment to the party constitution played an important role in the history of the party's discipline construction. For the first time in the party's history, the five party constitutions set up a special chapter of the "supervisory committee", which standardized the establishment and functions of the party's discipline inspection and supervision organs for the first time in the party's history, and proposed that the primary function of the supervisory committee is to "consolidate the party's unity and authority." this is the first regulation of the discipline inspection and supervision system by our party in terms of system. At the same time, there are not only special chapters on discipline and special chapters on discipline inspection institutions in the party constitution, which systematically achieves the goal of having special institutions to implement and maintain the party's discipline construction. For the first time, the party constitution also raised strict party discipline, especially political discipline, to the level of party obligations. Later practice proved that the party's discipline construction needs to be maintained by special discipline inspection organs. Without special discipline inspection organs, it is difficult to effectively guarantee the party's discipline construction.

Strict discipline and loyalty are the true qualities of discipline inspectors.

Those who enforce discipline must first observe discipline. The Central Supervisory Committee is the highest body of the party's discipline inspection. Under the circumstances of extreme difficulties and white terror, none of the 10 members of the first Central Supervisory Committee defected and surrendered; in severe historical moments, secrecy discipline is the most important discipline, and none of the 10 people betrayed the party's secrets. Six of these 10 people died in 1927 and 1928. A total of 8 people died in the execution ground or on the battlefield. One person was missing during the war years. In the end, only one person saw the founding of New China. These data fully show the spiritual demeanor of the early discipline inspection and supervision personnel, and also reflect that this is a team with strict discipline and a glorious tradition. Since most of the committee members sacrificed heroically in the revolution prematurely, they died before they were successful, and they had not had time to devote themselves to the party's discipline construction. As a result, the first supervisory committee did not play a greater role later. It can be seen that this discipline inspection and supervision The Iron Army is so tragic.

After attending the Fifth CPC National Congress, Wang Hebo, chairman of the Supervisory Committee, and Yang Paoan, vice chairman of the Supervisory Committee, attended the August 7th meeting held in Hankou on behalf of the Central Supervisory Committee, and was elected as a member of the political Bureau of the interim CPC Central Committee and later secretary of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. On October 18, 1927, Wang Hebo was arrested in Beijing for betrayal by a traitor. In prison, he was tortured and unyielding. He would rather sacrifice himself than preserve the organization. He never exposed the address of the party's organization and organs in Beijing, so that the enemy's plot could not succeed. Facing the butcher's knife, he was full of revolutionary optimism and died bravely in the middle of the night on November 11.

Other martyrs died in the first Central Supervisory Committee: in May 1927, Xiao Shiyue died in a battle, only 19 days before he was elected as an alternate member. In July 1927, Zhang Zuochen and Yang Peisen were arrested in Shanghai. They would rather die than surrender after being tortured. They sang the "Internationale" and died calmly. Zhang Zuochen was only 21 years old when he died. In June 1928, Xu Baihao died in Shanghai. In October 1928, Cai Yichen was arrested for betrayal by a traitor. Before his death, he wrote a poem: "Shen Ming, a righteous minister, swept away the smoke and dust with a sword; With a smile on the brow of a horizontal knife, loyalty hides Kunlun". Cai Yichen was born in Wuhan. His introducer for joining the party was Dong Biwu, one of the founders of the Wuhan party organization. What impressed people most about Cai Yichen was what he said, "Be upright, think of the people, and don't look for the organization. trouble." In August 1931, Yang Paoan was secretly shot by the Kuomintang reactionaries on the wasteland in Songhu Garrison Command. He was 35 years old. After being arrested, he was unmoved by the KMT's high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and even dropped Chiang Kai-shek's call to persuade him to surrender. Before his execution, he righteously wrote the famous sentence "Boarding the car generously, and every phase is complete. In March 1935, Ruan Xiaoxian died. He was the first director of the Central Audit Committee of our party and the founder of the people's audit system.

Good Family Style and Family Education is the Excellent Inheritance of Discipline Inspection and Supervision

The sea is flowing in a way that is heroic. The members of the first supervisory committee scrupulously abided by the discipline inspection and supervision personnel's strict discipline, loyalty and unyielding nature, interpreted their infinite loyalty to the party with their lives, and composed a song of praise.

Before Wang Hebo died in 1927, his only entrustment was to "request the party organization to strengthen revolutionary education for his children, and never take the opposite path to him". Wang Xialong, Wang Hebo's eldest son, was born in 1919. When he grew up, he inherited his father's ambition and took part in the anti-Japanese national salvation work under the leadership of the Communist Party in 1937. When Nanjing fell, he was arrested by the Japanese, tied to a lamppost and burned to death. He was only 19 years old when he was martyred. The eldest daughter Wang Xiaozhen, who lived in Nanjing with Mrs. Wang Hebo after the founding of New China, is an ordinary cadre of the Bank of China in Nanjing. After the founding of New China, the second daughter Wang Xiuzhu worked in the Beijing Stamp Factory and was still an ordinary cadre until she retired. Whether in war years or peacetime, Wang Hebo's descendants have always kept in mind his instructions, be a low-key person, work diligently, be honest and self-sustaining, do not cause trouble to the party, do not engage in specialization, and do not use the banner of revolutionary martyrs.

The descendants of other members of the supervisory committee also abide by the instructions of their ancestors and inherit the excellent family style and family education. After Yang Paoan's sacrifice, his four sons all embarked on the revolutionary road. Xu Baihao's descendants read the family motto "be a useful person in China" every year during the Qingming Festival ". Cai Yichen's descendants are still unwilling to cause trouble to the government because of their difficulties. There are too many such deeds. The firm belief, unyielding spirit, indomitable will and good family style and family education of the first discipline inspection and supervision Iron Army are worthy of our memory and learning, and inspire us to keep moving forward on the road of discipline construction.

Source: Learning Times