The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-02

w speaks of civilization" it means
white civilization" Peoples OF 9th
er colors are not supposed to enjoy
the great benefits to be found under
the folds of flags flung to the breez-
es by the white race. Every effort
must be put forth to maintain this
myth.
1t is therefore necessary to ex-
plain away the recent crime OF
white civilization" in China, in
what has become known as "the
rape of Peking," when the murders
and massacres that have always
been the favorite weapons of occi-
dental armies were again inflicted
upon a helpless people.
In speaking of the terror invoked
in Picking, Charles Daley, writing
in the Chicago Tribune, declares:
at had been a terrifying fort
night. Grimes Of the most shock
ing nature had been committed by
the ruthless soldiery, all unchecked
by the Shantung generals and their
Manchurian and White Russian al
lies.
"Details of the crimes committed
by the Shantung bandits and their
White Russian allies never can be
written; they are too revolving.
Their victims run into the thou
sands.
"In a village outside the Tung
Chihmen the men were driven from
their homes, the girls and women
subjected to almost continuous out
rage, and when not thus abused
were kept bound to stakes in the
courts of the houses. This also by
White Russians.
"As for the villages farther from
the walls of Picking there were
cases where whole families were
murdered except only the young
women and girls-even small girls"
That sounds like the excesses OF
the world war; Of every war, and
white civilization" has been re-
sponsible for the greatest wars.
No effort, of course, is made to
explain who the white Russians"
are. The casual reader, ignorant Of
developments in the orient, and I'M
able to connect last weeks or last
years historic incidents with those
of today, will somehow identify this
scum of capitalist militarism with
the Russian Soviet Republic.
1t is therefore, well to emphasize
again that these white Russians"
are the worst enemies of the Union
of Soviet Republics. Not only that,
but they continue to exist as pow
er only because of the support they
receive from the boosted white
civilization" of the great imperialist
powers. American soldiers and sail
ors under the American flag were
sent thru Vladivostok into Siberia in
an effort to aid these white COM
rades" under Kolchak, to overthrow
the rule of the workers and peas
ants and establish the bloody re-
gime of the czarist murderers. The
Chicago Tribune and every other
hysterical mouthpiece Of American
white civilization" frantically sup
ported this intervention. No men,
ton was then made of the burning
of villages, the massacre of great
sections of the population, the raw
ishing of helpless women and girls,
the destruction of means OF trans
portation, of railroads, Of bridges
and public buildings, and the laying
waste of great sections of the coun-
trysides. These crimes were COM
mitted against workers and peas
ants and were therefore, excusable
in the eyes of the publicity agents
OF white civilization"
Yet the workers and peasants
triumphed. These white guards"
were driven off Russian soil. white
civilization" however, took them un-
der its protecting wing. Thousands
have come to the United States
where they now act as strikebreak-
ers. Others have joined the impe-