The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
Russian Workers Delegation in China
BY VICTOR VAsKoV.
The Canton Strike Commit

hand. You feel the presence Of a CEN
tralized leadership. Who is this
leader? The strike committee. Let
us go over there.
A big, fenced-off park A number Of
buildings. Fine homes. They had
once belonged to a rich Frenchman,
then to a rich Chinaman, and are new
occupied by the poor strikers. Quite
number of institutions. We shall
not miss a single one of them, but
before visiting them we must first at
tend the special meeting called by
the strike committee in honor of the
U. S. S. r. Trade Union delegation.
The strikers in Canton elected per-
manent body, a delegates meeting
consisting of 700 men, who confer
three times a week and decide on all
questions arising in connection with
the strike. Members of the delegate
meeting are elected on the basis of
one to fifty strikers. This makes it
possible to keep the entire mass of
the strikers actively in touch with
events. This is a most important
point, especially in the light of the
tales of the imperialist press about a
small group of agitatOrs being re-
sponsible for the entire trouble. Agi-
tators, there are, of course and good
agitators at that. Tho we don't know
the Chinese language, thru an inter
| prefer we followed very closely the
speeches delivered by the Chinese
comrades and we must admit they were
good speeches. Every speech empha-
sized the necessity of fighting the i'm
perialists to the complete emancipa-
ton of the Chinese people.
comrade Shao Chin.
The first speaker was Comrade
Shao Chin, chairman of the joint
Hongkong and Shameen strike com
mittee. He warmly welcome the dele
cation on behalf of the Canton and
Hongkong workers. The very fact of
the arrival in China of labor repre-
sentatives from a distant country at a
most historical and crucial moment in
the existence of the Chinese people
and of the Chinese workers proves
that international labor solidarity ex-
lists not only in books and appeals,
but in reality as well. Comrade Shao
called upon all those present to be-
come permeated with the noble ideal
of international solidarity of the pro-
letariat and asked the delegation to
convey the fraternal greeting of the
strikers to the U. S. S. R. Central
| &c nj 70, ho
Red International of Labor Unions.
Here, under the bamboo roof of the
big veranda where previously rich
Frenchman and then rich Chinaman
had rechned in leisure, now meet the
representatives of the striking work
ers from whom we get the true story
of the latest events in southern China.
We are down at the source.
"They Shot at U.s."
"a demonstration of workers and
students has recently been fired on at
/ Shanghai. We protested against this
cold-blooded murder of our brothers
| by the imperialists. We organized a
! demonstration on our own streets.
They shot at us from Shameen. More
murder. The imperialists claim that
we did the shooting. This is a lie.
We were unarmed. We have photo
graphs showing that the murdered
! demonstrators had wounds in the
back The imperialists are lying. We
can prove this at any time.
After the Shanghai shootings we
wired to the British general council
and labor party, but received no re-
ply. We had no course other than
that of direct struggle, and we unhes-
itatingly took up this course.
"The imperialists have blockaded
us" continued Shao. "They want to
deprive US of our rice and fuel. 1t is
the same sort of blockade that they
operated against Soviet Russia few
years ago. The telegraph and the
other means OF communication are in
the hands of the imperialists who
have cut us of from the rest OF the
world. The imperialists are fooling
the world. 1t is a lie that we are
against foreigners. We are only
against foreigners who Cypress us,
who have deprived the Chinese people
of their freedom. We welcome for
eign friends, but we are opposed to
the imperiahsts. They say we are
reds. Well, call us reds if it pleases
you. We want to liberate our people
and this, as far as we are aware, is
in no wise contrary to any laws, to
any fundamental rights. They have
been killing us, and not the other way
around. We want the whole world to
know this.
We Pay Them in Their Own Coin
"They are blockading us. We pay
them back with the same coin. How
ever, our CONFERENCE.-The has not
been very effective thus far. This is
due TO the Chinese militarists and
counter-revolutionist who act as an
instrument in the hands of the inn
perialists against us, against the ma
tional emancipation movement. The
assassination Of Lao Chung Kai is the