The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-10
Workers Of Chicago
Order Coolidge to
Leave China Alone
(By Federated Press)

claim and unanimous assent the
crowded Hands Off-China mass meet
ing in the Ashland Auditorium May
ordered the following telegram sent
to President Coolidge:
This mass meeting Of 5000 Chi
cago citizens, having listened to adj
dresses on the situation in China by
Jane Adams, DR. John A. Lapp and
others, together with messages from
Clarence Darrow and President John
Fitzpatrick Of the Chicago Federation
of Labor, urgently requests that you
81. Withdraw all American armed
forces from China.
"2. Direct the state department to
use no other kinds of pressure in any
attempt to favor one Chinese. group,
and that you
90. Proclaim to the world that the
policy of the American government is
to intervene in no manner in the at
tempt Of the Chinese people to work
out their destiny and that you are
ready to recognize whatever govern
ment the Chinese people choose to
establish in power. (Signed) Carl
Haessler, chairman"
China Marches.
Immense enthusiasm greeted the
clear and forceful speech of Chao-
Ting Chi of the Chicago Kuomintang
"China," he exclaimed, marches
toward freedom at the head of the
oppressed peoples of the east. India,
Korea, the Philippines and the Negro
races will follow in revolt against
imperialist tyranny The Chinese
liberation movement is a mass strug-
gle of the awakening workers and
peasants against both foreign and
native Oppressors."
Hindu Speaks.
The rebel spirit of India was ex-
pressed by Haridas Muzumdar
Margaret Haley of the Chicago
Teachers Federation spoke wittily and
uncompromisingly against British and
American imperialism and for the
Chinese cause. Manuel Gomez of the
All-American Anti-Imperialist league
outlined the relations of the western
imperialisms and their common hos
tility to the Chinese Nationalist
movement and the Soviet Union.
Clarence barrow, unable to appear
in person, sent the following message:
81 believe that every. people in the
world should be left freegto work out
its own problems. The modern west
ar, ..yorld with Sc No,.I;a oa,,ooi4 49,.
established its own courts in China
and the east, simply because it had
the power. AS well might the eastern
world establish their own courts in
Great Britain and America. The
American gunboats have no business
in Chinese rivers.
"The Anglo-Saxon people who in
vest in foreign bonds should take their
chances in collecting foreign loans
and investments, as other countries
take their chances here. The mis-
sionaries should claim no special
privileges.
There is no possible excuse for the
western world to interfere with
China, and the American people do
not believe in any such policy.
tSigned) Clarence barrow"
Fitzpatrick Writes.
John Fitzpatrick, serving with OAR
row on the committee but likewise
unable to be present, asked that the
following message from him be read
to the mass meeting:
II gladly express the sympathy of
the Chicago Federation of Labor and
of Chicago workers for the Chinese
revolutionary movement. We are
against American Intervention in
4 China.
1--WE are always on the side of free
y om We are with the Chinese people
Hbad against imperialism, foreign or
american. (Signed) John Fitz-
patrick"
The committee Of which Attorney
VIM. H. Holly is secretary, is organ
izing Hands-Off- China conference
to be held in Chicago at an early date