The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA) was a labor organization[1] formed in 1933 to protect the civil rights of overseas Chinese living in North America[2][3] and "to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society."[4] An openly left-wing organization,[3] the CHLA used various means — including the slogans "To Save China, To Save Ourselves"[4] and "Resist Japan and Save China”[5] — to oppose the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.[3][5][6]
- ^ [1] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine The Journal of Asian Studies
- ^ [2] Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine The Chinatown Files: Organizations(chinatownfiles.org)
- ^ a b c "Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance", p.183–185 (including notes), Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai (compilers and editors), Chinese American Voices, University of California Press (2006). ISBN 0-520-24310-2.
- ^ a b [3] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Temple University: To Save China, To Save Ourselves by Renqiu Yu
- ^ a b [4] Chinese Vanguard, 3 March 1938, 1. (Translation by Chia Yin Hsu.)
- ^ [5] Chinese Vanguard, 28 October 1937, 2. (Translation by Chia Yin Hsu.)