The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-29

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" called for having been for years
the revolutionary center of China, is a
subject of much interest in the world
press. In the current issue of asia, .
in addition to an interesting article
by Lewis S. Ganett, Anna Louise
Strong (Anise), in colorful picture
of this city, tells of the women of New
China and RED Canton"
Her trip to this city was arranged
in Shanghai thru the wife of Sun-Yat-
Sen. Arriving there, she was met by
Mrs. BOrOdin, Russian-American wife
Of the Soviet representative" and a
Miss Lao. The mother of the girl
was also a woman of New China, wife
of a general of the army of the South
who had been murdered. On his death
she knew the strength of the ancient
custom she was Haunting when, in
stead of retiring to her upper room
Tor years of stricken mourning, she
used the days of her husbands funeral
to arouse a sluggish people. She had
started three educational workshops
for striking women-a laundry, san
dal-making shop, sewing shop with
these new-fangled sewing machines"
BY day they worked at their trade; in
the evening they learned to read and
write and studied the principles of
Sun Yat-sen: 'nationalism, demOcra-
cy, socialism"
The dark little flamelike girl sat be-
side me in the car as we swung thru
many wide streets, the work of Sun
Yat-sen against much opposition, con-
verting the ancient city into the most
modern town in China outside the for
eign concessions.
At the home of Mrs. Lao other
women gathered. Here was a strong
girl in her early twenties, with hon
est, penetrating eyes, who had spent
seven months in Moscow, learning
about revolutions" She had
strangely contrasting double job in
"women's instruction" and in "revo-
lutionary secret service" With an in
tellectual woman of forty, head of the
Women's Normal School, she was dis
cussing arrangements for the women's
mass meeting called for the morrow.
Everyone turned to welcome a calm,
sleek-haired woman in the early thir-
ties, whose eyeglasses gave a touch of
modernity to her face-Mrs. Chang
Kai-shek, wife of the general who
within the past two weeks had dis
posed of three invading armies and
was now in Swatow, consolidating his
victory. There was a noticeably pa
triotic flutter around Mrs. Chang,
and a listening for the latest news
from the front General Chang was
a millionaire by inheritance; he had
spent a million and a half of his own
money to help organize the troops of
Canton. Yet alone, among all the
troops in China, they were not spoken
OF by the name of their leader; for
they took pride in belonging to "the
nationalist cause" and not to any man,
however respected.
The author continues:
And now discussion begins about
the mass meeting of the morrow and
the need of starting large womens
organization, so that the women of
South China may be swiftly educated
to take part politically with their hus-
bands in building the new government
The younger women are impatient;
the older women more cautious. Mrs.
Lao especially. she who in her own
person has dened ancient custom, i'd
mits its power. Women cannot be
awakened so quickly" she says. Gus
tom is three thousand years strong"