The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
Celebrations
Hail Memory
of Jose Wong
Leader of Chinese in
Cuba Was Murdered
by MachadO in 1880
BY Y. T. YOUNG


-Four years ago, Jose Wong. tbs
leader Of Chinese workers in Cuba
and member Of the Central Conn
mittee Of the Cuban Communist
Party, was strangled to death in
Havana jail. The murder was pres
ceoed by 2 secret conference ba-
tween the Kuomintang ambasssdor
to Cuba and the officials of the De-
partment of the Interior of the
Cuban government, showing how
closelyChiang Kai Shek and Ma
Chado as the agents of American
imperialism, worked hand in shand
in hunting down the revolutionaries.
BY numbering Jose Wong. inst as
they murdered Mena and 6ther
Cuban working class leaders, these
lackeys hoped to stem the rissing
revolutionary movement in Cthba.
Blu, today, four years after fine
death of Comrade Wong, the Cuba n
masses, under the leadership of thai
Communist Party, have not only
overthroWn the bloody Machado re-
gime, but are fighting steadily for
the establishment of workers and
farmers rule. The voices demand
ing the SEN nce OF the assassins
of the Wong case have become so
loud that the Cuban authority was
forced to arrest few of them re-
Gently.
Opposition to Fascists
The Chinese workers organiza-
tons in Cuba, of which Jose Wong
was one of the founders, have been
able to give q deadly blow to the
attempt Of Chang Kai Shek to or
ganize fascist Blue Shirts among
the Chinese abroad. Huang Whong
Shing, Chiang's notorious agent,
was forced to hide himself and
ready to get out of Cuba, on &C
count of the mass protest from the
Chinese and native workers. This
splendid victory gave great impetus
to the Anti Fascist movement
among the Chinese population, not
only in Cuba, but in the United
States as well.
1t must be emphasized that Jose
Wong, by his devotion and self
sacrificing work, became a leader
OF the Cuban working class as a
whole.
He played a leading role in the
huge May Day demonstrations and
strikes. especially me strike of 200,-
600 Cuban workers in March, 1880.
Not long after he joined the Party,
he was elected member of the
Central Committee. 1t is also sig
nif1cant that he was arrested at a
comrades home where he was pre-
pairing for the celebration of the
opening of the First Soviet Con-
gress of China. This again demon
strates how Wong increasingly
fought for the defense of the Chi
nese revolution, by actively partici-
pating in the class struggles in
Cuba.
At the time when the Kuomintang
tang government has not yet been
so fully exposed and the Chinese
Soviet movement had not yet been
as consolidated as it is today Wong
continuously called upon the masses
to fight against every step of the
Marking government to sell out
China (for instance the American
silver loan advanced to Chang Ksi
Shek) and pointed out to the
ma--cs th-t only the Soviets can
saT, China. Il is obvious that the
murder of Wong is part Of Chang
Kai Shek's act Of slaughtering mil
lions who dared to defy his betrayal
of the national interests of China.
All over this continent, the Chi
nese workers are holding memorial
meetings in honor Of Jose Wong.
These meetings must be powerful
protests agains, Chang Kai Shek
and Mendieta, the butchers of Chi
nese and Cuoan peoples as we'll as
against their master, American inn
periaIsm. 1t is imperative for thu
workers in the U. S. to support these
&C ivitiss as a sign of solidarity to
the oppressed masses in China and
Cuba.