The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-25
CHICAGO WORKERS
SHOW SOLIDARITY
TO RUSS, CHINESE
Hit Citizens Military
Training Camps

"A historical alliance is being con-
summated between the oppressed co
lonial peoples and the revolutionary
Russia and rebellious China no longen
stand alone in their struggle against
world Imperialism" declared Manuel
Gomez, chairman of the mass meeting
held in the North West Hall to pro
test against the renewal of attacks on
Soviet Russia and the suppression OF
the struggle for freedom against the
Chinese. ses
The meeting, which was held under
the joint auspices of the Workers
Party and the Young Workers League,
was a. Stand by Soviet Russia! Hands
Off Ching meeting, combined with a
protest. demonstration against the
CITIZENS Military Training Camps,
campaign against which is being car
lied on by the Y. w. L.
NH. V. Phillips, organizer for the
American Negro Labor Congress, ex-
pressed the solidarity of the Negro
workers with the victorious workers
of Russia and the fighting people OF
China THE next war is approaching
swiftly, but this time the imperialists
of America will not so easily get the
Negro to sacrifice himself as cannon
fodder for capitalist profit The at
tacks of General Billiard on the Negro
ex-service men has awakened thous
ands of Negro workers and ex-sol
sifers
"The Citizens Military Training
Camps are just one more instrument
in the hands of the American imperial
lists to build up a powerful military
and naval machine for the advance
ment of capitalist interests" said
Max Shachtman, editor of the Young
Worker, speaking for the Young
Workers League. After analysing the
purpose of the c. M. T. c., Comrade
Shachtman pointed out who was back
of the camps, and its relation to the
menace of new world war. This time
the voice of revolutionary protest is
being heard turnout the world, in the
spirit Of Liebknecht They thought
they had killed Liebknecht, but new
ones are arising everywhere" The
mention of Jacques Doriot and the
fight of the Communist Party OF
France against war in Morocco
brought cheers and great applause
Chinese Speaks
The great number Of Chinese work
ers and students who were present
listened as attentively as the rest to
an appealing speech by T. j. Jul, of
Canton, and the Virginia Military AGA
deny, who expressed his gratitude to
the Workers Party for the support it
was giving the struggle of his country
men. China is looking to Russia for
aid, and it is being supported like by
a rope across deep ravine The i'm
per.alists are trying to cut that rope
with a knife and kill both of its enc
mics, and the workers of the world
are tearing the knife away from the
rope" Comrade Jul was greeted by
real demonstration.
Thurber Lewis traced the struggle
of the Chinese workers against impe-
rialism thru the last century and
pointed out the world significance of
the fight of colonial peoples against
world imperialism, which indicated
the death-knell of the bourgeoisie.
This is only beginning" said j.
Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY
WORKER, in the concluding speech
of the evening. This is a beginning
which will end up when we have tens
and hundreds of thousands to de-
monstrate on the streets, in the lar
gest halls of the city, in every city of
the country; when we have our Negro
comrades, our Chinese and Mexican
comrades, marching together with the
white workers in determined opposi-
ton to the war mongers. We greet
the day when the red flag flies on
Canton, the harbinger of the red flag
which will yet fly over the capitals of
every nation in the world, the symbol
of the World Union of Soviet Repub-
Inc