The Archive · 1928

ANTI-NATIONALIST AGITATION

General Labour Union Still Busy. with Propaganda Unrest and agitation are being kept alive among the radicals, according to a report appearing in other journals, by funds advanced by Sun Chuan-fang, who hopes, it {9 understood, to undermine—the Nationalists through instigating petty, and perhaps greater, di turbances, to such a degree that his Shantung armies will have better chances of success in their proposed attack upon Hsuchowfu, where it is. understood that skirmishes between the two forces took place on Friday last.

In spite of all attempts of Chiang Kai-shek to eliminate the former General Labour Union, who, it. will be recalled, resisted so determinedly in Chapei last March, by substi the Shanghai Federation of Labourers, the Shanghai General Labour Union is, by no means, as defunct as the authorities wish. They organized the recent strike among the tram workers, and have been a thorn in the side of law-abiding elements since they were disorganized.

Their latest effusion, issued on ning, the anniversary of the Peking-Hankow Railway mas-sacro, consist of numerous small handbills, advocating Communism ich were found on Chapoo Road by the police. Translations fol White Terror! Overs throw. the ourers! Rise, up and demand work! Tet te detnandl that all factories For work. immeiiatels! the Spirits of the susuaey at Phe spirits are still alive! the Chinese nal the ral Teabour workers who have "Let ne destroy the "Blue Sky and BOSE, The ate!ana the Bea tanner vation Reg "it

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