The daily worker., 1925-07-04
BY GREGORY zINovIEV.

Ch1neSe workers demanded the elgnt-
hour day for Juvenile workers, the
ten-hour day for adults, and one days
rest in seven; demands which the
workers Of the advanced capitalist
countries put forward half century
ago.
The movement became a profound
political event, which has assumed
world historical Importance.
From the demand for the eight
hour day to the demand for the evac-
uation Of China by the foreign troops!
For this the Chinese workers needed
In all only few days. The working
masses in Russia-after long period
of Observation-Disclosures traversed an
The troops Of the English and Japan
ese imperialists have now furnished
the Chinese workers with just les
son as, in their time, the reaetionary
troops of Nicolas Romanoff, who was
spattered with the blood of the peo-
pie, gave to the Russian workers.
TtHE Russian workers in their time
L learned thru painful and bloody
experience the connection between
economics and politics. And the strug-
converted more and more into a poll
tical struggle, and ever louder and
louder resounded the "cry of the peo-
ple": down with despotism! The
Chinese workers are now learning by
painful and bloody experience, not
only the connection between econom-
les and politics in general, but also
the connection between economics in
China and international politics, the
politics Of bloody Imperialism.
The troops of the English and Jap
anese imperialists have shot down
dozens of Chinese workers and also
students who suppoterd them. The
English gendarmes have arrested
workers employed in the electric pow
er stations and water-works in Shang-
hal These sections of the workers Of
Shanghai have been compelled to
work at the mouth of the revolver
in the literal sense of the word Not
withstanding, the strike is extending
to a general strike and the movement
is spreading and growing. The slo-
gans of the fight against international
imperialism are growing louder and
more powerful; the workers of Shang-
hal are coming forward more and
more decidedly as the leaders of the
general movement of the broad mass
es OF the people of China.
7lHE English, Japanese and Ameri-
L can imperialists are sending-ur-
gent war signals to their warships and
are dispatching them to the scene of
action" One need not be a prophet
in order to predict that the hate of
the hundreds of millions of Chinese
people against the foreign capitalist
robbers will become all the more deep
er and that their demand: Clear out
of China" win resound all the louder.
LNNGLISH and Japanese imperial
ism, and especially the first, can
not live without plundering the colon
les and semi-colonial countries. With
out the predatory plundering Of such
countries as China there would be no
excess profits, there would be no pos
sibility OF bribing the labor aristoc-
racy in their own countries. There
are only two alternatives: either
plundering Of the colonies or hasten
ing the proletarian revolution in its
own country. This is the issue which
faces English capitalism. The dia-
lectics of history are working in such
a manner that it is precisely the
pressure upon the colonies which Is
Fastening the ripening Of the national
liberation movement in the east and
which. in turn, is also expediting the
proletarian revolution in imperialist
England.
"Fifty-one per cent of the proleta-
riat are less than 20 per cent when,
among the 81 per cent there exists
imnarialigt infection and pettv hour