Su Zhaozheng

Su Zhaozheng () (1885, Qi'ao Island – 1929,

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

), early phase leader of the

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, labour movement activist. A native of the Qi'ao Island of Xiangshan County,

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...

Province, he became a sailor, active in

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's nationalist organization

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, and took part in organizing the Sailors' Union in 1920. As its chairman he led the General

1922 seamen's strike The Seamen's Strike of 1922 began on 12 January 1922, when Chinese seamen from Hong Kong and Canton (now Guangzhou) went on strike for higher wages. Led by the Seamen's Union after shipping companies refused to increase salaries by 40%, the strike ...

of Hong Kong and the General Canton–Hong Kong strike in 1925. He later assumed the office of Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, became a member of the Communist Party in 1925 and almost immediately also in its Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC's Sixth National Congress. He participated in formulating the plan of Guangzhou Uprising in 1927 and was elected President of Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Government of

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. Simultaneously, he acted as Minister of Labour in the Leftwing KMT Government of

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. He died from overwork in

in 1929. 1885 births 1929 deaths Republic of China politicians from Guangdong Politicians from Zhuhai Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangdong Members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party {{china-politician-stub