CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927 — Page 102

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Many as are the suggestions we have for improvement there is one thing essential to the complete solution of all problems concerning the livelihood of the people and the removal of all the hardships of the peasants, workmen, and other classes, and that is the early success of our Northern Expedition and the National Revolution. Therefore I should shout as my sixteenth slogan, "Let us all work hard to accomplish the National Revolution

Today is the most joyous festival for our Chinese work- men as well as for all workmen in the world. All of us should temper our joy with the reflection that difficulties and hardships still surround us. We must stand together and work energetically and spontaneously with the courage of our convictions. Again, while our own Chinese workmen must endure all the miseries of oppression to get their living, we must remember that all the working classes throughout the world are also subject to the same But we can- miseries, and we should do our utmost to help them. not help them till we have become strong enough ourselves, for if a man cannot run himself, he certainly will not be able to help others to gallop. Therefore the accomplishment of the National Revolution will not only enable us to help ourselves but also others, and will not only help China but also the whole world. So let our seventeenth slogan be, "Without the success of our National Revolution there can be no World Revolution".

I greet you all with the hope that our workmen will win soon their radical emancipation, and let us end by shouting our eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth slogans with one voice:-

The Kuomintang is the only Party that will promote the

real benefit of the workmen.

The Kuomintang is the only party that will create property for the workmen and leave them to enjoy it.

The Kuomintang is the only party that is fighting

for the emancipation of the workmen.