The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-12

CANTON, China, May 1.-(By Mail.)
1.-THE Third AIl-China Labor Con-
gress, which opened it's sessions here
today amid great enthusiasm pervad-
ing the entire city, where a holiday
was declared by the Canton govern
ment, turned out 10000 demonstrators
marching beneath a sea of banners
flown by $50 organizations, sent a mes
sage of warm fraternal greetings to
the workers of all the world thru the
Red International of Labor Unions.
The message follows:
"Fellow Workers of the WorIdl
"The Third All-China Labor Congress
opens on this glorious May Day of
1926 in Canton, with more than 400
delegates from all over the country,
representing 100000 organized work
ers, and attended by peasants dele
gates. The Congress rises in memory
of the comrades who have laid down
their lives for the workers cause all
over the world and sends brotherly
greetings to those suffering behind
prison bars or active in the struggle
throughout the world.
1.-THE Congress notes with satisfac-
ton the unprecedented development
of the labor union movement in China
since the Second Congress and the
heroic movement which the Chinese
workers have been leading agaist the
attack Of international capitalists in
China since the massacre in Shanghai
nearly year ago. These robbers,
who exploit and Cypress you, go to
the length of intrigue and open MUIR
der in China for the sake of their
profits.
"They keep fourth of the worlds
population under subjugation by
means of unequal treaties, which they
forced upon them at the point of the
bayonet. In order to maintain this
situation, they station troops and war.
ships in Chinese territory, ready at
any moment to shoot down the revo.
lutionary masses.
Imperialist Oppression.
| AACg put up q DOSuS OuluCoG bOf'
eminent in Peking and each of them
set its particular tool, the militarists,
to fight for it on it's behalf. Thus the
people, and first of all the workers
and peasants, suffer from the constant
strife in the country, and on the pre-
test of protecting their own nationals
under this situation, they justify the
stationing of their troops and warships
in China and the necessity Of the un-
equal treaties.
when the masses rise against such
a state of affairs, they employ their
troops, warships and the militarists as
their hangmen, as in the slaughter OF
Chinese people in Shanghai on May
31st, in Canton on June 29d, in Picking
but recently, and a score of other
places.
1.-THE Congress calls upon the
world workers to put an end to
such atrocities as practced by
their bourgeois governments in
China.
"Just as the international capital
lists are organizing a united front
against the proletarian Soviet Union
the world workers and the Eastern
peoples, they are also endeavoring to
avoid temporarily their conflicting In
terests and rally together all the reac
tionary forces to suppress the grow
ing anti-imperialist movement, having
as their target the revolutionary gov
eminent in Canton and the Hongkone
strike, which is already on its eleventh
month.
1.-THE Congress calls upon the world
workers and their unions to support
the anti-imperialist movement in Chi
ma, particularly the 10000 Hongkong
strikers.
"The Congress is fully aware of the
difficult struggle of the Western work
ers against the reduction Of wages and
lengthening Of working hours, while
the capitalists either try to cheat them
by government mediation as in the
present struggle of the British miners
or openly suppress them by force OF
arms as in the Australian seamens
strike and the American miners
strikes.
Unity for Glass Struggle.
"The Congress regrets the lack OF
international action on the part Of the
workers, and appeals TO them for an
immediate unifcation Of the world la.
for union movement. Failure to at
tain II will simply play into the hands
Of the international capitalists, while
opposition to unifcation will be sheer
treachery.
Long live the unifcation Of the
world labor union movement
Long live the world revolutionl
Workers OF the world and op
pressed peoples OF the East: Unitel
Signed: The Third All-chlna
Labor Congress"