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World's People Eagerly Seek Chairman Mao Badges

China Reconstructs, May 1968 Proudly we wear the badges of Chairman Mao, The ever-red sun rises in our hearts; With Chairman Mao's call engraved within us, We become pathbreakers in revoluton and production. On the streets of China's cities and towns, in the trolleys and buses, at meetings and public places, in roads and villages of the countryside, wherever the revolutionary people see each other wearing Chairman Mao badges they greet each other with an especially warm smile. Their boundless love for our respected and beloved Chairman Mao draws them together.

Abroad too, in countries around the world, revolutionary people often crowd around a Chinese wearing a badge of Chairman Mao to ask him for one. And when they get it, they shout with joy, "Long live Chairman Mao Tse-tung!"

This eager demand for the shining Chairman Mao badges is an expression of the increasing depth with which Mao Tse-tung's thought has taken root in the hearts of the world's people as the great proletarian cultural revolution in China continues its victorious march. A Malian friend put it this way: "Chairman Mao says that 'The salvoes of the October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism'. Today, it is China's great proletarian cultural revolution which has brought to the whole world the Marxism-Leninism of our era, the invincible thinking of Mao Tse-tung the revolutionary fighters' weapon everywhere."

This is why, with great warmth, the revolutionary people not only of China but throughout the world call Chairman Mao the red sun in their hearts. And their sources of inspiration and strength are the writings of Chairman Mao, his photos, and the Chairman Mao badge.

Making the Badges

Chairman Mao badges arose with the cultural revolution, an explosion of the revolutionary masses' deep love for Chairman Mao. The Peking Red Flag Badge Factory began to make them. Then from every corner of China letters began to arrive by the hundreds at the factory every day. In simple, sincere, beautiful language, people across the nation, their hearts filled with love for our great leader Chairman Mao, poured out their faith in Mao Tse-tung's thought. Varied in a thousand ways, these letters made one demand "Make more Chairman Mao badges!"

A medical worker in Kiangsu, about to leave for the countryside in response to Chairman Mao's call to go among the broad masses of workers and peasants, wrote the factory workers: "In the days and nights to come, we cannot depart from Mao Tse-tung's thought even for a second. We especially long for a shining badge of Chairman Mao so that in the hard struggle ahead of us we can draw strength and courage from it. "

The factory workers had personally experienced the people's demand for badges. For example, peasants in out-of-the-way villages had sent delegates to the cities, crossing mountains and rivers with sacks of food on their backs, to get badges of Chairman Mao. When the coveted badges at last lay in the peasants' hands for the first time, their eyes shone with tears.

To deeply moving letters and scenes such as these, the revolutionary workers and staff members of the badge factory responded with a solemn pledge: "More and better badges of Chairman Mao!"

Their factory used to make souvenir pins of scenic spots and ornaments with feudal and superstitious themes. The revolutionaries had suggested many times that they produce Chairman Mao badges, but the idea had always been suppressed by the handful of Party capitalist-roader leaders in the factory.

Then the cultural revolution opened the floodgates, the factory revolutionaries rebelled and began turning out Chairman Mao badges. Their first month's production of 30,000 were snatched up by the eager masses. In 1967, when the "January Revolution" in Shanghai swept out across the whole nation, the factory's revolutionaries fought together and seized the power back from the handful of capitalist-roaders. Monthly production of Chairman Mao badges rose to 6,000,000, with variety increasing from two kinds to twenty. Today, besides Peking, Shanghai and Canton where the greatest quantity and varieties are produced, factories in the provinces are also making the badges, Still, the supply never meets the demand.

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