The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
CHEER FOR CHINA,
india, SOVIETISM
AT Detroit MEET
Organize in All-America
Anti-Imperialist League

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cheers for China, India and Commun-
ism all over the world!" Several hun
bred Chinese and Hindu students
responded to this prophetic slogan as
one man last night; when the chair
man, H. S. Liang, called for the three
cheers, the auditorium of the startled
Detroit Central Y. M. C. A. rang with
the thunder of the reply.
This incident followed a speech by
Manuel Gomez, secretary of the ALI
America Anti Imperialist League,
who had come from Chicago at the
invitation Of the Ford Chinese Stu
dents Club and the students Elmer
gency Committee of Detroit to adj
dress a joint meeting of these bodies
with the Hindustan Club of Detroit.
Other speakers included w. L. Hsu,
J. L. Huang and Mrs. Ma, Chinese, and
Alup Singh, S. NJ Ouarahi and Mr..
Deb, Hindus.
Press Growing Liberation Drive.
Determination that the great ma
tional liberation movement which has
sprung up in China shall not die down
but shall push on to eventual COM
plete victory over foreign imperial
ism, showed itself thruout the meet
] ing.
Hindus as we'll as Chinese showed
that they are willing to make real
sacrifices for what they clearly recog-
nize as their common cause. When
collection was taken up for funds
to be sent to the students and work
ers of Shanghai, many of them dug
down into their pockets and handed
over every dollar they had with them.
Loud and prolonged applause greeted
contribution of $25 by the English
speaking branch of the Workers
(Communist) Party, local Detroit.
Against English lmpreIaIists.
]. L. Huang, in charge of the col
lection, misunderstood the term Eng
lish branch" confusing 1t with the
name of the Communist Party of
Great Britain-and he instantly
shouted out: 1--WE are against the
English imperialists, but we are not
against the English Communist Party"
In the name of the Chicago branches
| of the Workers Party $40 was pledged
Altogether, the collection amounted
to $1,000, given freely, amidst indie
scribable enthusiasm
Shows Antl-ImperiaIist Unity.
Gomez, in his address, dwelt upon
the significance Of the meeting as a
sign of the anti-imperialist unity Of
Asia, and not only of Asia, but Of the
oppressed colonial and semi-colonial
peoples everywhere. That this unity
is no fiction was proved by the mere
mention of the heroic struggle OF the
Riff tribesmen against imperialist
France, which evoked stormy ap-
plause.
The speaker also declared that the
meeting represented an even more
ltranscendent unity-the unity of the
revolutionary working class move
ment in the home countries of impe-
rialism with the struggle for liberia
ton in the colonies. He laid special
emphasis on the close friendship
merging into alliance between China
and the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics, symbol of the international
victory of the working class.
The terrible conditions prevailing
in the foreign-owned textile mills of
Shanghai were wildly portrayed by
Mrs. Ma in a speech bristling with in
dignation and defiance. And the
climax TO the meeting was reached
when gray-haired Mr.. Deb, president
of the Hindustan Club of Detroit, his
voice breaking with emotion, assured
the Chinese that the Hindus were
ready to stand by their cause not only
with money, but with their life's
blood if need be.
Organize Provisional Committee.
At the conclusion of the meeting
an unofficial provisional committee of
three was set up to consider plans for
establishing section of the ALL
America AntiImperialist League in
Detroit.
The committee, which is to meet to-
day, consists Of H. s. Liang, presi-
dent of the Ford Chinese Students
Club and chairman of the Chinese
students emergency committee; All
med, Of the Hindustan Club, and
Edgar Owens, district organizer of
the Workers Party of America in the
Detroit district.