In 1938, he was part of the contingent of striking miners that marched from Chauk to Rangoon in November to present their demands to the BOC.

[1] The pamphlet was a series of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist arguments and was sold for 4 annas at Shwedagon Pagoda on October 8 and 9 to raise money for the Strike Relief Organisation.

Hla Gyi describes the poor lot of the majority of the country in both objective and subjective terms and notes the imbalance of wealth distribution.

The total income of approximately 95 per cent of poor people is roughly calculated at only about 100 million kyat per year.

[3] Hla Gyi condemned monopoly capitalists in the fields of oil, mining and timber, as well as landlord and banking.

The capitalist era that has arrived is like ancient times when virgins had to be handed over to immortal dark sorcerers, such as the dekaton, ayigyi and shinmahtee.

Presently, these modern dark sorcerers wear the masks of capitalists and bring about the dominance of this dirty system over our great country of Burma.