The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
The Chinese Mass Liberation Movement Will Overcome
the Present Crisis.

efforts the mperats to crush the Chinese liberation
meet resistance in form which alone shows the
roots of the movement
This resistance be compared best the impact of
the shore No has spent itself, had its
strength shattered by piers and beakwe than another takes
its place and the land is allowed moments respite.
Imperast propaganda attempts to make every temporary
setback suffered by the Chinese liberation appear
crushing final Nothing farther
truth The brefest survey of the history of the
1922 gives the lie to such statements
Since the strike of the transport workers Hongkong
1922 the organization of the proceeded
which decsivey upward direction aho broken here
and there by defeats
organization of the eaconary merchants association
and the suppression of the labor unions Canton by its armed
hailed the decisive gov
eminent But the labor movement continued and the
murder of workers and the smashing of unions ceased
Then the Shanghai This interpreted
the final blow which would drive the liberation into
Intellectual egaty had the opposite effect The
rallied to the banner of the Kuomintang
The defeat and withdrawal of the Of General Fng from
Peng thru Nank pass and his retirement back of Kgan be-
the milarist forces of Chang
liquidation of the Nationalist movement in the north.
But the northward march of the Kuominang armies from
Canton began and they had reached the Yag river
ured the greatest center of heavy industry China he three
cities of Hankow Wuchang and Hanyang and established
base in the heart the nation greatest waterway
The Kuomintang armies began their Shanghai
and first Sun Chuang and then Chang Tsunghang became
The heroes who to stop their advance They would
reach Shanghai the biggest port in China and of the largest
in the world.
The armies of national liberation Shanghaaded by
the strikes and armed instructions organized the labor
American and British warships bonbarded Marking and
killed hundreds of Chinese This murderous sup
posed to put the finishing touches to the national liberation
movement.
The Marking was followed by the treason of
General Chang Kashek Like all traitors he and
vicious toward his former comrades than the mperasts
dreds of Communist workers and labor unon have been
cuted unions and peasant organizations suppressed of
terror inaugurated
Chang detection was to encompass the downfall of the
Wuhan ankow) government. The imperast press was ub
liant and the execution of workers greeted with sadc
glee.
But the Wuhan government expressing the work
and peasants and the honest sections of the middle class
tinued to exist and win victories
General Feng declared his allegiance govern
and inflicted defeat after northern mtarist
Now comes the alliance between Chang and Fenq against the
Wuan and the mpeast press yeps
umphany The defeat of the Chinese liberation movement
far the aims of the workers and
TAIN it says.
Of the greatest significance however, the fact that no
sooner the counter alliance between Feng and
Chang contaminated than great strikes boycotts
breaks out the principal seapors Even large sections of the
middle class drawn into the movement the Shang
hal where the Chinese property fighting the proposed
increase IN taxation SO greedy and arrogant the merast
henchmen Shanghai that they try and the
Chinese themselves the cost of maintaining the mperast
occupation forces
For effective support struggle against this cynical
demand the merchants depend upon movement
be noted this Chang Kashek has sent
squad Of execuoners numbering two hundred Shanghai
terrorize the,masses.
Chang thus works for the imperass against both the
masses and the middle class.
Wuhan has not yet fallen spite predictions of the
mperass and the tremendous scope the movement
guarantee that the crisis of the liberation movement
not decisive bat that like those which have preceded
vved and the alteration movement will with its base wild
cned.
This much is sure that Chang and Feng continue to make
concessions to the mpeas they will be overwhelmed by the
tidal wave of the mass liberation movement
Immediate future developments the Chinese struggle are
uncertain but with the that the
destroy Imperialism marsm was never stronger among
the that the liberation never had wider
base and that this that present military
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