The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-29
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Poge One)
der the Chinese people without fear
Of the consequences
JUDGING from a perusal of the
J capitalist papers, they have re-
ceived secret orders from the war
department to pull out all the stops
and let the neutrality-suspicious.
loose. Even the New York World,
that pretends to be favorable to China
editorially is just as vicious in its
news columns as the New York
Times. Every lie cabled by the Asso-
ciated Press is printed without even
a question mark. The New York
Times fired an honest journalist who
had hitherto covered the Chinese sit
uation and supplanted him with the
lying stool-pigeon, Frederick Moore.
We are in period of war hysteria
and the capitalist government will not
stand for any nonsense like telling
the truth.
WHEN the story of the massacre"
w appeared in the capitalist press
The DAILY WORKER pointed out
that it carried all the ear marks Of a
fake. There was no attempt made
to give an approximate number Of the
dead and wounded. The dispatches
were carefully written by trained
liars. The press agencies were tipped
off to produce a massacre" and they
did, partly to whip up popular hyster-
la and partly to justify the terrible
deed committed by the two naval
butchers that turned their guns on
the civilians, men; women and child
rem, who were peacefully walking the
streets of Marking. I predict that
when the truth about this crime
reaches the public it will shock HUI
manity, if il IS not shock-proof by
now.
CONGRESS is adjourned and the
~ little Wall Street puppet in the
White House is even freer than usual
to do his masters bidding without m
reference. The scattered opposition
in both houses is toothless. 1t banks
occasionally but never bites. The
sentiment Of the masses turnout the
country is against intervention in
China. But United States marines are
there, United States warships are
there, Chinese people have been
slaughtered by American armed fore
es. Yet but for the protests of the
Communists there is hardly a muir
muir. Where are the pacifists who so
glibly talk Of disarmament doing?
What Is the league of nations doing?;
this league in which the pacifists re-
pose so much confidence. To answer
the question here would be to insult
the intelligence Of our readers? What
is the socialist party doing? 1t still
processes to be against capitalism.
IF there ever existed an occasion on
L which the American masses, should
be aroused it is now. There is danger
of world war and one that will make
the last one look like a back alley
quarrel between two small boys. That
the imperialists are not as well pre-
pared as they would like is true, but
they are not masters of fate. They
see the great Oriental expanse of
juicy exploitative territory slipping
from their grasp. They see the pos
sibility of a mighty revolutionary
union stretching from the Neva, Len
ingrad, to the mouth Of the Yangtse
River and from Vladivostoli to the
Dardanelles. England has vision of
India carrying the Nationalist rovolu-
tionary banner to victory and wiping
out the Amritsar massacre in the
blood Of the Kings Own Borderers
And Wall Street sees the Filipinos
looking to an em.ncipated China for
help rather than to fake political
friends in Washington. Imperialism
is in danger. II is showing its fangs.