The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-10
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

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4 China is being formed
The tremendous sweep Of the Chi
nese national liberation movement, its
broad mass base, its continued VIC
tories, its remarkable ability to con-
solidate and organize itself, the rapid
rise of the labor movement and the
extension of organization among the
peasants, and finally, its uncompro-
missing anti-imperialist character, is
tending to force a united front Of the
imperialist powers for armed inter-
vention in China.
Rivalries still exist and will con-
tinue to exist and their Importance
must not be underestimate but the
general interests of Imperialism, faced
by the probability of being swept COM
pletely out of China, are becoming
paramount.
THE preparations for actual armed
l. invasion of China by combina-
ton of powers with Great Britain the
most aggressive at the moment are be-
coming more brazen because of the in
ability of the Chinese militarists (Sun
Chuang Fang, Chang Tso Lin, WI
Pei Flu, Chang Tsung Change to stop
the advance of the Kuomintang
forces. No day passes without news
of an increase in and new activities
of the imperialist forces in China.
The troops commanded by these
imperialist tools are, it is now clear
unable to offer any serious resistance
to the peoples armies. 1t perhaps
would be more correct to say that
these troops are unwilling to fight
against their own people bearing the
standard of Sun Vat Sen.
Britain and Japan especially have
depended upon the militarists to dc
the fighting for them. For a certain
period this method worked we'll but
the collapse of Sun Chuang Fang, the
decentralization of the forces Of WI
Pei Flu, the dissatisfaction ever
among the Shangtung troops Of
Chang Tsung Chang hitherto re-
garded as imperviods to Kuomintane
propaganda is evidence that little
can be expected from these former
allies of imperialism. They have
taken the Kuomingtang cure.
| NOTHING has been more disgust
IN ing than the inspired stories
emanating from Shanghai and pennec
by the various correspondents of the
imperialist press. These individuals
have Landed Chinese militarists like
Chang Tsung Chang, they have
/ praised his savagery and eulogiseC
his swordsmen as they struck the
heads from "agitators." They pre-
dicted the collapse of the trade union
and nationalist movement in Shanghai
after the mass murders but 10 and
behold, as we learn from other dis
patches, there were 100000 workers
on strike instead of the 100000 which
they estimated" and the beheadings
simply gave the movement a new i'm.
petus,
Far from being paralysed by terror
the sturdy Chinese workers anC
students have forced the chief of po-
lice who was responsible for the exc
cutions to flee Shanghai and start in
the general direction of Mukden. Non
will he be safe if he gets there. I'm
doubtedly a little squad of "Dare to
Dies" have been instructed to drop
all other work until this bloody tyrant
has been sent to join his ancestors.
Q IMILARLY, the foremen and
~ superintendent in the Shanghai
factories who made the mistake OF
being loyal to the imperialists and
militarists instead of to the people
who co-operated with the murderers
are now, according to dispatches, be.
ing given taste of their own medi-
cine which, because they are towards
and mercenaries, will have the effect
of further weakening the support they
can give to their masters.
The imperialist press correspond
ents are of course enraged by these
unexpected developments. Their fine
humanitarian instincts which could
tolerate the mass murder Of students
and workers fighting for national
liberation by degenerate assassins
turn to revengeful frenzy when the
masses strike back.
But the anti-Chinese propaganda
coming from Shanghai and other
cities can be explained only by the
vagaries of newspapermen.
Some of the recent dispatches,
notably those to the British press
bear all the marks of deliberate at
tempt to incite and justify war on the
Chinese nation by an imperialist COM
bination. The London Spectator pub
fishes an article from its correspond