MAO'S THOUGHT MOVES MIRACLES IN: DARK CORNERS
The following dispatch, bearing a Peking dateline, was sent over the wires of Agence France Presse September 20: ©
“Thirty Red: Guards from Shenyang (Manchuria), who came to Peking to learn from experience in the big Chinese cultural
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revolution, became night-soil collectors:in this city Monday, and have carried out all the operations pertaining to this profession under the guidance of Shih Chuang-hsiang, ‘the all-China model night-soil collector, ? according to the New China News Agency.
"These Red Guards had decided to learn the profession of night-soil collector following the appeal of Mao Tse-tung, who advised all the Red Guards to acquire experience from the workers, peasants and soldiers. 7
"Before accompanying them on their rounds through the city, Shih Chuang-hsiang explained: to the Red Guards the importance of the tasks they were to carry out, telling them: 'In. emptying out. the latrines, you not only help in a clean-up job, but you also uproot capitalism and revisionisn, which we must extirpate from all the dark corners of our country."
"The work of the Rea. Guards was. completely: satisfying to
the old night-soil collector, and he was moved to congratulate them again and again, telling them each time: 'You are really: good revolutionary fighters, educated in the. spirit of the thought of Mao Tse- bung + VM