林育南是无产阶级革命家，党的早期工人运动的著名领袖。林育南1898年冬月生于湖北黄冈，1915年考入武昌中华大学中学部。1917年，他加入恽代英创立的革命团体“互助社”。翌年五月，他积极参加武汉学生反对北洋政府与日本帝国主义签订卖国条约《共同防敌军事协定》的斗争。191 Lin Yuk-nan is a proletarian revolutionary and a prominent leader of the party’s early workers’ movement. Lin Yu Nan was born in Hubei Huanggang in the winter of 1898 and was admitted to the Wuchang Middle School in 1915. In 1917, he joined the “Mutual Aid Society”, a revolutionary group founded by Dai Daiying. In May of the following year, he took an active part in the struggle of Wuhan students to oppose the Beiyang government’s signing of the Treaty of Selling Nations with the Japanese imperialists for the “Joint Defense of Armed Militaria”. 191