The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-04


continue the arrogant attitude
steward the Chinese demands for
Justice.
Bankrupt Traders.
Outwardly affairs are becoming nor
NAL in the foreign concession, but be-
cause of months stoppage of BUSH
mess a financial miracle will have to
occur to save small shopkeepers from
Ruin and permit even the resumption
of dislocated business.
The Chinese are far more bitter
Rthan before the strike started and for
hgood reason. They have not obtained
1.-THE slightest satisfaction of any kind
hnpon their thirteen demands, which
4hey regard as the very minimum CT
s3ustice. They are nursing their griev-
Eances none too solently while the ne
sgotiations, deadlocked here, are
shifted to Picking, where the Shanghai
demands are buried and lost under
mountains Of red tape. Moreover, the
secrecy practiced by the powers incul-
Gates suspicions-probable justified
Dnes, too.
Instead of abating, the strike is get
ting irmer in the port. Except for
american, French and some smaller
countries shipping all is tied up
tightly. Hostility to Japan seems
5essening, but that toward Britain is
concentrating and deepening.
ImperiaIIst Buster.
The folly of the arrogant imperial
ist business men who claim the right
of all superior" people to boss the
masses of China, is evident m their
+, attitude and efforts to pass the buck.
They pretend to think, If they think
at all, that the trouble will wear out"
that all the foreign invaders need to
do is to sit tight and make blum
with arms and that things will elbow
over"
If one looks back twenty years, one
can see that the trouble will not blow
over until the causes, in the invasion,
robbery and insult of the Chinese ma
fion, is ended.
Passing the Buck.
Out, lnlUuCU WIN vain dllO6duCcg
the foreign residents will not concede
that the injustice, indignity and ex-
ploitation they have been and are fore
ing upon China is the cause of the
trouble. So they cry out Soviet
propaganda"
1t serves the purpose of the imper-
talist powers to raise the cry of so
Wet propaganda every time the
Chinese make a demand that Chinese
shall rule China. Just as they did in
the world war, when all that differed
with the allies was German propa-
ganda," so now they try to stifle criti-
cism of their plumber and rape of
China by pointing at the only power
which has treated China as an equal
Soviet Russia.
A continuance of this diplomatic
hypocrisy only drives the Chinese into
the arms Of Soviet Russia, but the
imperialistic agents here, probably
more arrogant and overbearing in
their ignorance than are the slick
diplomats in European foreign Offices,
are blind as bats to what is going on
under their eyes.
Here the British and the rest try
to swagger about as before with an
attitude Of rigid domination and a
show of military force. The leading
British newspaper published in Shang-
hal, comes out with cartoon, show
ing the courageous British lion rails
ing his paw and about to strike, CIV
ing the idea that Britain is ready to
use force.
Governments Wish to Trick China.
The truth Of the situation is prob
ably that altho the British govern
ment under Baldwin and the Ameri-
can government under Coolidge would
like to sweep every Chinese costal
city with machine gun fire and teach
China lesson" they are, for all their
desires, convinced that it would be
mistake TO say so openly and proceed
frankly upon such a course. II they
can do so, they will postpone and ca
attitude, then assert the rule Of force
without limit in sudden assault to
1ole and deceive China into a massive