The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-14


Kuomintang to retreat and come to terms with the
left and the Communists.
The May Plenum of the c. C. of the Kuomintang
again dominated by left elements. 1t was de-
cded that Wang Ching-Wei (the left leader) must
return.
The centrist and right elements in the Kuomin-
tang are opposed to workers and peasants control
over the activities of the Nationalist government
and against the governments moving to Hankow;
they rely for support on certain sections of the
army, etc.
A Strike Law.
Recent reports from China indicate that the Kuo-
mintang and the Nationalist government are seri-
Ously concerned about the growth of the labor
ment. The newspapers report that according to de-
cisons of the Central Committee of the Kuoinntang
on this question the Canton government promul-
gated new law on January 9th, 1927, concerning
strikes. According to that law workers have no
right to carry in demonstrations or to arrest
merchants and manufacturers to confiscate their
goods The law forbids the existence of the yellow
trade unions and other strike-breal1ing organza-
tons; but at the time it enforces, to a large
extent arbitration in the solution of conflicts in
military, financial and communal enterprises and
also in enterprises of socalled primary necessity
1.-THE list of which has not yet been published) This
law also prohibits picketng during strikes to some
extent.
The dangers of the position intensified by the
international position of the Nationalist govern
entering on its decisive phase and is becoming ex-
ceedingly difficult The imperialists are doing all
in their power to demoralize the Nationalist move
ment to find traitors in the camp of the right ele
ments of the Kuomintang The immediate question
before is in the first place to convert the Kuo-
mintang into left wing organization, not only on
festive occasions such as congresses and confer
ences, but also in its daily activities and secondly
that the reorganized Kuomintang should acquire a
stable leadership (not in resolutions, but in deedsl
Nationalist hoth at fho oantro
and in the provinces The adoption of a correct
line and the formulation of concrete practical pro-
posas these two questions is the most important
task facing the Fifty Congress of the Communist
Party of China.
The Communist Party of China will in the first
place have to revise its decisions of the June Plenum
of its Central Committee in respect to its relations
with the Kuomintang
Incorrect Decisions
The June Plenum of the c. c. of the Communist
Party of China decided on the following concerning
the INTERPRETATIONS between the party and the Kuo
mintang: ~ To substitute an alliance as separate
bodies for the policy Of alliance by utilization; (2)
to adopt definite independent political policy; (3)
to endeavor to find basis for the Kuomintang in
the ranks of the urban petty bourgeois democracy
a. to suggest that the Kuomintang should not be
organized as a centralized party but that its or
CARNATIONS in the localities should take the form
of clubs.
All bhcSc ueclSlOHS HluSC De revised. Inc tlrSt
resolution logically pre-supposes the exit of the
Communist Party from the Kuomintang, and as
such contradcts the decisions of the Seventh En-
larged E. G. of the international which condemned
such an action a gross political error. From
this point of view the proposal to organize the left
Kuomintang in fractional groups is also wrong
The proposal to organize left Kuomntang fractions
is basically decision to split the Kuomintang and
form two Kuomintangs. The possibility of such
split must be foreseen, but we must bear in mind
Of fbo r. II n
l. that even if large section of the capitalist big
bourgeoisie is eliminated from the National move
ment, the driving force in the Chinese revolution
will be bloc Of still more revolutionary char
aeter, the bloc of the proetariat, the peasantry
and the urban petty bourgeoisie" and that "somie
sections OF the large bourgeoisie can still for
certain length OF time march together with the revo-