The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-01
CHINESE Mill
STRIKE STILL ]:
ON, SAYS SHlH
Is
Visiting Educator Tells
of Terror
BY CARL HASSLER,
Federated Press.


for the Japanese exploiters in Shang-
tional Chinese feeling is systematl-
calIy stirred up against the nations
principal enemy. A month-Iong series
of national observanees keeps the anti
Japanese sentiment at it's maximum.
1.-THE Shanghai strike of almost a
year ago will be famed to new heat
by the May commemoratton days"
says Prof. Peter S. T. Shin Of 500
chow university, near Shanghai, who
visited the Federated Press in Chi
cago and told of the labor situation
in that important world port. "The
international labor day comes May
first, which the Chinese observe with
great demonstrations in the industrial
centers. 1t will be used particularly
against the oppressive foreign en-
ployers, notably the Japanese, in
whose mills in Shanghai the breaking
point was reached that led to the
strike of May 80, 1925.
Humiliation Day.
"Then comes three exclusively anti
Japanese observances, called the days
of national humiliation, May 4, Z and 8.
They recall to the national Chinese
consciousness the degrading II de-
mands imposed on China by Japan in
1915 when the western powers were
embroiled in the world war.
FINALLY comes the first anniversary
of the strike itself, which became an
international event by the savagery
of the repression, the justice of the
striker demands and the occasion it
gave for bringing to world notice the
brutality and rapacity of the foreign
administration of the so-called Shang-
hal International Settlement. British,
Japanese and American forces Co
operate to rule the city by marines,
machine guns and men-of-war."
Police Terror.
The strike started when the police
of these powers fired "A shots into an
unarmed crowd that was protesting
against the killing of Chinese worker
by a Japanese foreman in a Japanese
MILL. These killings of employees by
straw bosses come up in the foreign
courts and are usually decided in favor
of the employer. Chinese shopkeep-
ers, manufacturers and bankers Joined
with the students and workers in the
protest strike which tied up great
part of foreign-owned business in
Shanghai for months and is still max
ing itself felt in some departments,
according to Shin.
U. S. Marines.
American marines were let loose on
the crowds and bloody scenes fol.
lowed. The municipal council, the
city's ruling body, composed of six
British, two Americans and one Japan
csc, finally gave $4,000 to the Chinese
chamber of commerce as indemnity to
the families of strikers slain by the
police and marines. The Chinese re
fused to accept foreign blood money
and let it be known that they would
take care of their own.
Now, almost year later, Shin finds
factory conditions somewhat better
but the international oppression which
united the Chinese in the strike has
not been lifted, despite much interna'
tional palaver
Conditions.
1--WE want you to know the condl
lions in our mills" the Chinese strik
ers appealed to American labor year
ago. "The working hours average
over IL a day. The wage average is
about SIS a month American money
The lowest wage is 71s cents a day
The highest is so cents a day
The equipment for sanitation in oui
factories is so poor that the death
rate is correspondingly high. The
workers in our mills are brutally
| treated.
| "Under such conditions we naturally
expect sympathy from the workers OF
other lands, especially from America
But now your country even unites
against us with the other powers
sending your forces to suppress us"
This complaint is still justified by
the anti-Chinese policy of President
Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg.