The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-14
Red Rays

THE Chinese Revolution is not dead
as yesterdays events in Canton
prove. 1T has entered another and a
more advanced phase. The present
upheaval in Canton is definitely COM
mitted to the establishment of the
Soviet form of government and has
broken with the traitorous leadership
of the Kuomintang that sold the Chi
nese masses to the imperialists. The
lessons that the Chinese workers and
peasants learned during the civil war
of the past years will stand them in
good stead now and they will know
how to deal with the native militarists
| and careerists as well as with the
foreign imperialists.
| YOU will notice that the capitalist
press refers to the revolutionary
workers as a "mob" and of course
they blame the Russians" for the re-
volt. They would not think of blam-
ing the reactionary Kuomintang
leaders who massacred the workers
and peasants when they got the drop
on them a few months ago. The
revolution in Canton is an effective
reply to Chang Kai-shek's offer to
the world powers a few days ago,
which was a broad hint that the
Kuomintang was now ready to sign
BON the dotted line and hand over
China to the imperialists.
THE trouble with this kind of pro-
gram is that there are too many
Chinese workers and peasants who
want something that the imperialists
cannot afford to give them. The in
ternational plunderbund can afford to
pay Chang Kai-shek, Chang Wing
Wei and other renegades a stiff price
for their treachery, but they cannot
afford to be so generous with AGO.
100000 workers and peasants. sAnd
the masses have learned from bitter
experience that their freedom depends
on their own efforts.
AMERICAN marines are doing
"A special night instruction duty" in
Shanghai. British and Japanese
marines have their bayonets fixed
ready to use them on the workers who
are ready to rise against their execu-
TONERS. Only a few days ago Cool
| ldge said in message to congress
that we" were at peace with the
world. Such trifling incidents as the
rape of Nicaragua and the threat
against China are not worth noting.
Will the American workers permit
this government to slaughter the Chi
nese again as was done when "our'
battleships rained death and desola-
| ton on Socony Hill, Marking? AS
those lines are written dispatch ar
rives with the news that United States
guns have been landed in Canton!
PRESIDENT Coolidge has approved
the "billion-dollar" navy bill, the
| largest appropriation of its kind ever
made by United States government
IN peace time. There will be weeping
and crashing of teeth in London, and
the rulers of the tight little isle" will
speed up their preparations for the
| contest between the two rival i'm
perialist powers that is considered
|
struggle the chief sufferers will be the
masses of both countries who will
gain nothing from the catastrophe
unless they put an end to a system
which breeds wars as surely as a
swamp breeds mosquitoes.
THE governor of Oklahoma would
be impeached by now if he did not
have the courts and the state militia
on his side. This is powerful COM
bination. 1t seems that there is
woman in the case. Her picture
unless it was taken several years ago
| almost explains everything. 1t
seems the girl took too much of the
| burden of office off the governors
shoulders. The latter is also charged
| with getting funny with the treasury
| The state women's christian temper
ance union ordered month of prayer
for the governor a few days ago,
which probably means that the gov
ernor keeps reasonably sober. For
| tunately this rebellion is not taking
place in Leningrad, Odessa or Kev.
In that case we would be obliged to
deny that the Soviet government was
overthrow for the goth time.
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GOVERNMENT officials will con-
" tinue to borrow money from
friends under suspicious circum-
stances. The sad case of A. B. Fall
should serve as valuable lesson to
them. But no. w. S. Hill of South {
Dakota, member of the shipping
board, accepted loan from man.
indirectly connected with shipping
| interests" Another little black sat
chel! Mr.. Hill is banker and
2laimed that he accepted the loan
20 save his bank. The G. o. P. will
not hesitate to sacrifice a small
banker for the sake of one hundred
thousand votes. Coolidge gave Hips