The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
After Marking
Continued from yesterday

ten 80 hours before the Marking bombardment, and
that the editor made short but very eloquent COM
ment
"a statement published on the preceding page
gives the number of warships now assembled
at Shanghai and elsewhere in China"
We reply to the "Times" that we have found
that information, and that it has fully explained to
us the Marking tragedy.
It stands to that the preparation of the
Marking bombardment was begun long before the
Shanghai victory When the House Of Commons
congratulated the government sending troops to
China, it also sanctioned the dastardly deeds the
troops were to perform the Yangtze River On
that day-that March 10th of this year-the
Labor Party also sanctioned those Deeds AS Work
ers Life" has correctly pointed out "the MacD
and the Cynes share with the Tories responsibility
for the deaths of British and Chinese workers at
Shanghai this week" The Communists in Great
Britain realized that storm coming, that "the
danger is now more serious than it has ever
been before" And the Labor Party intensified this
danger by giving the hangmen of the Chinese peo-
pie free hand
March 10th is important historical date in the
preparation of the great against the Chinese
Revolution. Undoubtedly, however, the Shanghai
victory the decisive event which provoked the
Marking bombardment After the Shanghai victory
Baldwin, in replying to question raised by Beckett
said that the government is maintaining contact with
the Nationalist Government of China. There is no
doubt that the British imperialists took fully into
SJfateg1cal,
social and political significance of the Shanghai
victory. Prior to the Shanghai victory not only
Macdonald (who declared that Miles Lampson and
O'Malley excellent dipomats) but also the rul-
ing circles of Great Britain cherished great hopes
that their agents would dissolve the Kuomintang
They anticipated that the right wing of that Party
would be strengthened and that compromise would
be made between the right elements in the Kuo-
mintang and the Northern militarists, who are the
agents of international imperialism.
The Shanghai victory dealt these hopes severe
blow. The British imperalists understand perfectly
well the political significance of the victories of
the national revolutionary movement They have
also understood and taken into account the fact
that the Shanghai victory, which came as a result
of the united action of the nsurgent Shanghai pro-
letariat and the approaching Canton armies greatly
changes the social and political nature of the Chi
nese revolutionary movement All correspondents
of the British press, without exception, in descrb-
ing the Shanghai events, emphasize the role and
significance of the Shanghai victory from the point
of view Of the growing influence of the Commun-
lists and the strengthening of the left wing in the
Kuomintang.
The decisions of the Kuomintang conference
prior to the Shanghai victory, caused uneasiness in
the imperialist camps. But the mperialists are
practical people They not accustomed to be-
lieve in words and resolutions They held that if
events prove favorable to their side, then Chang
Kai-shek will soon withdraw his declarations about
submission to the Kuomintang and turn towards the
imperalists.
Shanghai strengthened those social elements which
make compromise impossible and launched the Chi
revolutionary movement on a new path For
this reason must regard the destruction
of Marking not merely as a strategic move to
assist the Shantung group but also as retaliation
for the Shanghai victory
GO far we have been speaking only of Great Britain
But do not overlook the fact that the military
nada hin tha
hands of the Americans Anglo-American collabora-
ton in the struggle against the Chinese revolution
is a new factor deserving the most earnest atten-
ton.
Prior to the Shanghai victory the American press
adopted attitude of expectancy. Quite serious and
influential papers allowed themselves the lux
ury of describing the national revolutionary move
ment sympathetically, and from time to time they
even censured the Northern mtarsts for their ter
rorist acts The position of the American papers
was absolutely clear. American capitalism was
mostly interested in the defeat Of Great Britain 1t
cherished the hope that result of the defeat of
British imperialism, America would easily be able
to take the place of Great Britain and penetrate
China through the "open Door" policy which would
do away with the spheres of influence that the var
ious states had secured before America had become
a powerful imperialist state
The American position in relation to the Chinese
struggle resembed very much her position in the
world prior to 1917. At the beginning of the
war America stood aside, warming herself at the
fire of the world and transforming the blood
of the European workers and peasants into shin
ing gold which was systematically and gradually
slipped to America. America entered the war
at the twelfth hour in order to strengthen her posi-
tions and establish her world domination. American
capitalism intended to adopt the same tactics in re-
gard to China It hoped that with the aid of honeyed
words it would be able gradually to penetrate the
economic life of China and quietly capture one posi-
ton after another, Great Britain was losing them
owing to the development Of the Chinese revou-
tionary movement.
But Shanghai caused serious change in tho at
titude of the ruling class Of America to the Chinese