The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-07

but also in the imperialist states.
These are firstly the counter-revo-
lutionary movement of the merchants
and the rich farmers of the south of
China, where at the present moment
the leader Of the national-revolution
airy party, the Kuomintang, the fam
Gus Sun-Yat-Sen, is in power; and
secondly, the conflict between the
military governors of the provinces of
central China, Chekyang and Kyansu
The ImperiaIist War Against the Ma
tional Revolutionary Movement in
the South Of China.
In order to understand these events
it is necessary to throw light on the.
facts which preceded them At the
end of August last, telegraphic com
Imunication, was received from China
ito the effect that the government Of
Sun; Yat7Sen had captured vessel
with a cargo Of arms, travelling from
a British port in the principal city of
the. Kwantung province for a British
commercial agent in China named Lin
Puck. This merchant is the head of
a merchants militia, established to
protect the property of the Chinese
merchants in the Kwantung province.
At a conference of this militia held
in May, it was resolved to centralizC
all the detachments. This was a
symptom of the preparations being
made by the Chinese merchants joint
ly with the rich farmers and with the
support of the British imperialists for
a rising against the national revo-
lutiOnary party and against Sun-Yat-
Sen.
The relative strength of the Kuo-
mintang government party and the
merchant forces was such that Sun
Yat-Sen did not dare disarm these
eounter-revolutionar detachments.
Moreover, both the Kuomintang party
and Sun-Yat-Sen himself, owing t.
their failure to understand the process
Of class differentiation taking place
in the social basis, of, the alnational
movement, did not observe the serious
danger this merchants militia repres-
ented. Sun-Yat-Sen even believed that
he could gradually subordinate these
attachments to himself without hav-
ing to resort to violence. He thought
he would be able to use them in his
fight against the reactionary general
who was being supported by the Brit
ish imperialists.
Sun-Yat-Sen did not see the intel
lectual connection between the reac-
tsonary movements of this general and
the preparation being made for the
rising OF the merchants. and for that
reason he failed to see the organiza-
tional connection between General
Chin-Chun-Ming's staff and the staff
OF the merchants militia.
He failed to take into account the
fact that behind the whole of this
counter-revolutionary movement in
south China stood the government of
]. Ramsay Macdonald; but the seizure
OF the cargo of arms, the boycott or.
ganized by the merchants in Canton,
the note despatched by the British
consul to Sun-Yat.Sen's civil gov
lerner, and finallythe arrival of British
icrmsers,i ands gunsboats in Canton
swaters, revealed to DR.. Sun the count
er-revolutiohary conspiracy of the
Chinese merchants and British i'm.
perialists.
In a telegram addressed to ]. Ram
says Macdonald on Sept. 5, Sun-Yat-
Sen says the following:
Dear Mr.. Ramsay Macdonald, the
chief of the Hong Kong Shanghai
Banking corporation has organized
a detachment of so-called fascists,
the object of which is to overthrow
my government This aim is to be
achieved after these rebels have been
well armed and with the aid of arms
and munitions imported from Eu-
rope on board the steamship Calf.
g This steamer arrived in Canton on
10th August, and was Immediately
arrested nv nv government Cinca