The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Imperialist Lackeys in
China Speak Familiar
Language of Labor's Foes
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


by the few. They always mask their
blood baths in the name of ''civiliza-
ton This is the Civilization" that
recognizes but one god and his name
is profit"
While Marshall Chang was talking
at Tientsin the Picking government
of the northern war lords went out
of business, having lost its meal
ticket. Chang protested not to be
troubled by this. The white guard
generals of Kolchak's anti bolshevik
army are still fighting the red men
ace" in the tea rooms of Seattle and
San Francisco. So Chang announces,
II shall go to Picking soon and then
| shall issue a proclamation to the
world" In other words, Silas H.
Strawn, the american Commission
er" to China will probably have to
call in his stenographer and dictate
another heroic utterance on behalf
of the 13 nations that recently sent
representatives to Picking to discuss
their rights to keep their heels upon
the necks of the Chinese masses as
long as they desire. The IS nations
include the United States, Belgium,
the British Empire, France, Italy,
Denmark, Japan, Holland, Norway,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the
Hessianized Chinese war lords.
The report drawn up by the I'M
lucky 10 condemns the existing
methods in China as a nation lack
ing a controlling central govern
ment, without an effective constitu-
ton and torn by civil strife among
military chieftains."
Yet these alien powers are ener-
getic in their support Of the "milit-
airy chieftains" that keep China div
ided, especially in support of Chang
Tso Lin, their mouthpiece, who is
going to talk to "the world" They
make war upon the only centralized
and stable ruling power in China,
the Canton government, just as the
Versailles peace allies supported
every nondescript general who
came forward to war on the Moscow
government of workers and peas
ants.
Chang Tso Lin can have a ines
sage" only for the ruling, exploiting
classes of the various capitalist ma
lions, pledging himself to help i'm
pose on the Chinese working masses
the superb agony of capitalist ex-
ploitation, against which the Shan
ghai strikers rebelled last year.
The only message concerning
Chang Tso Lin that will deeply in
terest and bring joy to the workers
of the world will be his complete
defeat and elimination from the
Chinese area of struggle. Every
days news brings more encouraging
reports that this is being accom-
plished.
When the Versailles peace confer
ence was in session in Paris in the
spring of 1919, with Wilson, Lloyd
George, Clemenceau and Orlando
trying to divide the world among
themselves and their allies, Kolchak
made 100-mile gain against the
Bolshevik Red Army across the
wastes Of Siberia. The peace con-
ferences Immediately saw Kolchak
at the gates of the Kremlin, in
Moscow, threw all peace overtures
they were considering with the So
Wet government overheard, and
Joined in the many intervention eff
forts that followed, but failed.
It doesn't look as II there will be
any more imperialist "gains" in
China. But the war isn't over by
any means. A new crisis develops
around Hankow. The proclamation
that the Chinese workers issue to
world labor calls for energetic sup
port in every possible way of the
national revolutionary movement in
China. American labor must not
fail to respond.