The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-18
The open Door, and the
ct enth Power" Problems
for Imperialism in China
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


lot of things they have charged against the Chinese
people.
with being nation of pacists. Yet in the present crisis
no Chand RISES India to paraze the mtancy Of the
against their arch-oppresso mperast 6rtain
thing the London diplomats would never have dreamed of
few short weeks ago.
1t has been charged that China was divided nation
Yet unity is developing from end of the nation
other under the murderous attack of British guns the
industrial districts of Shanghai aided by the warshps of
half dozen nations with those OF the United States in the
When the French inspired Yunnanese troops tried 10
take Canton, they found united opposition the revou-
tionay troops, flying red embems from their rifles OPP
all China numbering 100000 soldiers under centralized
leadership.
This makes the so-caIed "open door policy" in the
Orient take on meaning Chine adopting "open
door" policy of her own, inviting mperiaiists of all
nations to get OUT just the big capitalist nations originally
urged the open door, to get in and jointly loot the Chinese
nation.
An authoritative spokesman of Wall Street. like the New
York Times sadly aments that France failed to sign
Nne-Power Treaty drawn up the Washington Conference
in the spring of 1922 which eafmed the mperiast prin
cpe OF the open door, policy to get into China and
back in the failure of the United raty
the Treaty of Versailles But the French provoked raid on
Canton while the British shooting down strikers in
Shanghai would indicate that the imperas rivares are
deeper than the signing of treaties Washington
ferences
The Chinese clever enough to take advantage of
these divisions among their oppressos China may not be
strong enough Dust all at once So she adopts
the next best tactic of seeking them sngy which
accounts FOR the present campaign against the British which
at times also includes the Japanese nsoube complications
are bound arise out of any effort get complete united
front OF perat powers for concerted action against the
Chinese. -
American diplomacy, still urging the "Nine-Power
Pac using the fear of the Tenth Power" Union Of
soviet Republics to DO the bidding Of its Wall Street master
On another page there published today map of the
proposed air route from Moscow Peng and Vadivostok
The route now being charted by fleet arpanes that
was gwen great send-off left Moscow That is the
SOVIET Union the Tenth Power edging just little closer
to the Chinese Republic struggling to work its own
oesy against its oPpressos ZnoVev has referred to the
on Mexico as the sheet lightning of the social revolution
nose arpanes coming out of Moscow the messengers of
the Soviet Union, may well appear to the allied mperass
as the harbngers Of the growing only in the
ORIENT but turnout the world The international bandits
may well look for their open door, to find hast exit
Mnere they will CO. faced in other colonies subject ma
tons by similar uprisings, and home by dscontented
ana rebeng working class they doubtless do not know
lnese are days when capitalist Imperialism can only whistle
10 keep up its courage But that will save from its
doom. " - - "O' 10