The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-07
FLAY
PERIALISM AT
WORKERS PICNIC
International Protest
Against Exploitation !

The Anti-Imperialist demonstration
at the fourth annual Communist pic
mic, held at Beyer's Grove, California
and Irving Blvd, July 4, was real
international affair, with a Chinese,
an American Negro, West African,
and American Communists speaking.
The speakers were James p. Cannon,
Ella Reeve BIoor, c. T. Chi, II. v.
Phillips, and a West African worker.
James P. Cannon, member of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party, assur-
ed the representatives of the oppress-
ed peoples who were present that the
Workers Party fully supported their
fight for freedom from foreign imne-
rialism.
Communists Support Chinese.
The Communists, Cannon said, real
ice that world Imperialism will never
be destroyed until not only the col
onial countries drive out their foreign
oppressors, but until the workers of
those countries seize power and set
up workers and farmers govern
ments.
In the fight of the Chinese workers
to drive out the American capitalists,
the American Communists are whole
heartedly with the Chinese workers
and against American capitalism, Can
non so;d Tho CNviat erovarpuoaut and
the Communists of the entire world
fully indorse the fight Of the Cypress
ed races and nationalities against i'm
perialism
Chinese Speaker.
c. T. Chi, of the Chinese Students
Alliance, who received an ovation, as
did the other anti-imperialist speak
ers, related the history of the present
fight of the Chinese workers to take
possession of their own country and
drive out the foreign troops, who are
slaughtering Chinese for the foreign
capitalists.
This fight Of the Chinese workers
is different from the Boxer war, or
any other Chinese movement" Chi
said. "In this movement, the Chi
nese have intelligent leadership. they
know what they want and they will
fight on until they are victorious"
An International Struggle.
1--WE Chinese are not only against
Imperialism in China, but we realize
that the fight against Imperialism is
an International one" Chi said. I'VE
support the fight of the workers of
India. Morocco, and all other Cypress
ed peoples against Imperialism"
Ella Reeve Bloor, who has just ar
rived in Chicago from California, en-
route on a coast to coast hitch-hillng
tour for the DAILY WORKER, told
of the widespread unemployment
which prevails thruout the country.
She told of the campaign of the Work
ers Party in Los Angeles which Sc
cured $4,000 votes, in the recent NUM-
cipal campaign.
Unemployment.
"In the western industrial cities"
said Comrade Bloor. "the open shop
bosses deliberately created an unem-
ployment menace as part of their I'M
ion smashing drive. They threw thou
sands out of work and then they said,
These men, if they wanted to work
could go out on the farms and get
jobs
But when l got to Kansas, 1 found
the roads choked with workers who
couldn't get jobs on the farms be-
cause there were too many of them.
and because the Kansas harvest this
year is failure. The crops are very
poor and thousands of farmers are
penniless."
Comrade Bloor told of the Chinese
workers she met in Denver and in
San Francisco, who are supporting
the fight against Imperialism and who
are friendly to the Soviet Union be-
cause they realize that Russia is the
only nation friendly to the oppressed
peoples.
Negroes Fight Bosses.
H. v. Phillips, representative of the
American Negro Labor Congress,
spoke on behalf of the seventeen mil
lion Negroes in the United States. II
can assure YOU" he said, that altho
the Negroes are oppressed more than
ne most exploited white workers,
hat the Negroes are taking an ac-
tive part in the fight against impe-
rialism."
The race problem in America Is
fundamentally class problem, Phil
lips said, and the Negroes are taking
their places along side the white
workers in the struggle against CAPT
talist exploitation.
Africa Uniting.
A worker from West Africa spoke,
describing conditions in Africa. and
daclarinQ that all Afrioo ,,nttfrr