The daily worker., 1927-04-27

! VIM pANeSA a. noooiil Bdutd hCIOul
Is the latest and largest of japan
voted to obey the order. Strike is
hereby declared and the help of all
patriotic Chinese is called upon. I'm
less our end is attained we will not
resume work"
Among the foreign population of
the city this newspaper strike is
looming larger in interest than the
Nationalist victories. It is, so to
speak, the talk of the town
Mimeographed Sheets
Both the Hankow Herald and the
Central China Post are issuing
mimeograph papers, on typewriter
paper, five or six sheets, single
spaced They are filled, for the most
part, not with news Of any kind but
with heated articles against the gov
ernment, which in some cases are
childish. Of the two, Hankow Her
aid is the more truculent. It's editor,
Mr.. Bruno Schwartz, of six or seven
years residence in Hankow, has de-
clared frank and open battle.
The Herald, historically, has been
wavering publication taking on
protective coloration with each change
of administration here. Chinese of
long residence in Hankow have told
the writer that the papers policy
under WI Pei-fu was distinctly pro-
WI Pei-fu. While the arena was still
in control of the old-line warlords and
provincial mandarins, its editorial
policy, these Chinese state, was
strongly Nationalist.
Veering With the Wind
AS the Nationalists neared Han
kow, however, its tone changed some
what. During last December, after
the Nationalist officials arrived, it
was inclined to strike the sympathetic
note in its occasional editorials. Dur
ing the trying days of January, how
ever, it took the point of view of the
British die-hards 1t again changed
during February, and became more
than ever cordial toward the Ma
tiOnalists.
For the two weeks preceding this
strike, however, its tone completely
changed. 1t assumed to speak for
the pure" Nationalist and spoke
heatedly against the radicals" 1t
finally became openly abusive of in
dividuals.
It's columns, always carefully
watched by union officials, finally
brought about the strike, which is
still going on and, from the state
ments of the Printers Union, seems
unlikely to end very soon.
The Central China Post has been
typically die-hard, but much more
thinly and family than its exemplars,
the p. and T. Times Of Tientsin and
the North China Daily News Of
Shanghai. 1t has, however, been con-
sistently pro-British and anti-Nation-
alist, and has been also consistently
abusive. It's entire local news col
umns have been one large sneer at
everything Nationalist. The tiniest
news item was not too small to re-
fleet some phase Of this grand sneer
Must BE No Compromise
A series of interviews amongst lab
or and party leaders here indicates
this point of view; in such stressful
times as these, with the Nationalist
fighting everywhere, seeking with all
their might to master a difficult
situation here and on the fighting
front, these can be no compromise
with open counter-revolutiona cri-
ticism. The line Of the. two English
language papers these leaders look
upon as plainly counter-revolution
airy. The fact that the papers are in
a foreign language and are owned
by foreign capital, instead Of lessen
ing the offense serves to heighten Il.
These leaders take the line that these
editors are, in sense, guests here.
1t is not their country, but the coun-
try Of the Chinese. Chinese are in
control of this territory and they are
not ready to suffer open criticism
from alien newspapers published in
Chinese territory.
The printers, in refusing longer to
handle counter Revolutionary and