The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03

demands. Their immediate enemy is, natural
ly, their bosses, the majority of whom are
Chinese capitalists. 1t is generally believed
that the Chinese in America are mostly related
to each other and that family ties are stronger
than class divisions so that it is very difficult
to agitate among the Chinese in America
While not Understanding family ties and all
other feudal relations and ideologies as OBJ
stacles in the way of the class struggle, it
should be pointed out here that class conscious
ness among the Chinese workers here is not
as difficult to arouse as it is generally sup
posed. fourteen or sixteen hour day and
unusually low wages are strong enough to
break any family ties and arouse class con-
seriousness among the workers. Contrary to
the general belief that they are immune to the
class struggle, the Chinese workers in Amer
lea can boast of many strikes since the world
war. Ten years ago there was New York
restaurant workers strike. Five years ago, the
Chinese Workers and Artisans League in San
Francisco conducted a strike. Aside from
these two big strikes, Chinese workers in Los
Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia all have
strikes to their credit. Recently, about 800
Chinese laundry workers went on strike in San
Francisco for three weeks and partial
victory. Increasing numbers of militant Chin
csc workers have joined American Revolution
airy Unions organized under the leadership of
the T.U.UL. There are also militant organ
izations of Chinese workers in America such
as the Chinese Workers Alliance which have
been in existence for pretty nearly two years
Under the leadership of the TUUL and fight
ing shoulder to shoulder with the Negro and
white workers, the Chinese Workers Alliance
and individual Chinese workers organized in
American revolutionary unions are organizing
the Chinese workers in America and leading
them in their militant fight against the capt.
talst class
The political fight of the Chinese workers in
America also has glorious past to its credit
When Chang Kai-shek betrayed the Chinese
revolution in April, 1927, the Chinese workers
here led the fight against Chang in the Kuo-
nlintang in America and consolidated the left
wing movement in this country. After the
Wuhan betrayal of the revolution by Wang
Chn-wei and Co., the workers in America
openly denounced the renegades, and, realizing
that the Kuomintang banner had turned into
an emblem of counter-revolution, they dissolved
the kuomintang organizations under their con-
troll in many cities and led the petty bourgeois
elements who were still sympathizing with the
revolution into an independent united front or
ganization called "The League for the Support
of the Workers and Peasants Revolution in
ganization similar to the Anti -Imperialist
League. During all these fights, militant
Chinese workers in America were struggling
under the guidance of their only party organ
ization, the Communist Party of America
Side by side with their Negro and white COM
rades, militant Chinese workers in America
have already taken up the fight for the COM
mon cause and against the common enemy, the
world of capitalism in general and American
imperialism in particular. American imperial
lists have their agents in China, in the persons
Of the Chinese miltarists, to fight for their
interests, and their right to exploit and enslave
the Chinese masses. But the Chinese workers
and peasants also have their brothers in Amer.
lea, in the persons of.Negro, white and yellow
workers, to fight for their emancipation and
Independence. The fight is. international and
is going on in all parts of the world! The out
come is certain--the victory eventually belongs
to the working class!
THE END.