The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
1000 Do Honor
To Memory
OF Sun
Promise to Garry On Fight
For China's Freedom

More than 1000 Chinese and
American workers packed the Chinese
Theater, Bowery and Delaney street,
yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to
the memory Of Sun Vat Sen and to
pledge their support to the Chinese
emancipation movement.
A touching tribute was paid to
the memory of the Chinese revolu-
tionary leader when two thousand
men, women and children, white and
yellow, all of them wearing little red
buttons carrying his picture, made
the customary three bows to his por-
trait and to the Nationalist flag.
Workers Revolution.
William F. Dunno, editor Of The
DAILY WORKER, voiced the senti-
ments Of the audience by indicating
clearly the class character of the
Chinese struggle. "The Chinese
movement is not merely Nationalist
movement" he said at is not a
struggle between the East and the
West. 1t is the fight of the Chinese
workers and peasants against ex-
ploitation by foreign and native CAPT
talists and against their tools, the
war lords"
Contradicting the statement made
by Professor John Dewey, the pre-
ceding speaker, that the Chinese
movement was purely nationalist,
Dunno pointed out that the struggle
of the Chinese masses was mex
tricably linked with the struggles of
workers and peasants throughout the
world. THE Chinese workers and
peasants" he said, "are leading the
masses of the East in a fight against
world imperialism and exploitation"
Liberal Interpretation.
Professor Dewey, who has exer-
cised a good deal of influence over
Chinese liberals, declared that the
Chinese nationalist movement was
merely an attempt to set up demo-
cracy like that Of the United STATES.
and that it was "untainted by Boil
shevism."
The international and class char
acter Of the Chinese revolution were
emphasized by Bertram D. Wolfe,
director of the Workers School. "Sun
Vat Sen is a common leader in a
common struggle against capitalism
throughout the world" he declared.
DR.. Suns parting message to his
people, which was read by T. w. Chu,
an outline of the Chinese situation
by H. Linson, editor of the Chinese
Nationalist Daily, a brief sketch of
DR.. Suns life by A. K HUI, denun-
citation of British aggression by State
Senator Loring M. Black and brief
addresses by David S. Ogino, A.
Frankfeld, Miss X. Y. Loo and Sui
Peng were other features Of the pro-
gram.
Lead Struggle.
Dr.. Sun Vat Sen, in whose honor
the meeting was held, led the Chinese
struggle for emancipation from 1895
to the day Of his death, March IL,
1925.
He was born in 1866 at Hsian-
Shan, Kwangtung and educated at
the Hongkong Medical College. The
Sino-French war Of 1885 and the
Sino-Japanese war Of 1894 convinced
him that the foreign powers were
bent on the exploitation and possibly
The dismemberment Of China.
AS early as 1894, DR.. Sun realized
that a revolution which would de-
stroy the corrupt Manchu government
which had been handing out conces-
sions to foreigners, would alone stop
the exploitation Of China by foreign
imperialists. The discovery that he
had actually planned the overthrow
of the Manehu dynasty led to the
execution of seventy Of his followers
and to his fligh, to Japan in 1896.
1911 Revolution.
He returned TO China number of
times to organize popular opposition
to the Manchu and foreign imperial
ism only to meet with failure. In
1911, however, series Of foreign
loans, the annexation Of Korea by ia
pan, rising prices and heavy taxation
by the corrupt Manchu government
brought about a revolution which DR..
Sun directed. The revolution resulted
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