ABSTRACT
It is of extremely great significance that the Pacific Labor Conference is held this time in Hankou. For this reason, the All-China Peasant Association and the Provincial Peasant Association hosted a welcome banquet in the Pu Hai Chun Restaurant in Hankou on May 31. The peasant associations of Wu[chang], Yang[xin] and Xia[kou] xian also participated. About one hundred people attended the welcome banquet, including Mao Zedong from the All-China Peasant Association; Chen Yinlin, Fu Xiangyi, Guo Shuxun, and Deng Yasheng from the Provincial Peasant Association; and representatives from Wu, Yang, and Xia xian. Twenty-eight delegates to the Pacific Labor Conference were invited to attend the banquet as guests. It began with an opening address by Mao Zedong, the chairman [of the banquet]. The gist of his remarks was as follows:
