The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-10
Forming the ImperIaIist Front Against China

ly. After reciting q number Of al
legged beatings Of missionaries, etc
Tho makes no charge that q single
person has been killed and lists the
injured as Americans) he says;
A T the risk Of prophecy, one
"A would venture to ssy that moth
ing but a stern, sharp lesson win re-
store order In China and make it an
abode fit not only for foreigners but
for the Chinese"
The correspondent characterizes the
national liberation movement as "Box-
erism" and says that it is "compli-
Gated by Russian assistance and direc-
ton"
The implications of the above state
ments are clear. The imperialist
powers will raise the slogan of claw
and order for foreigners and Chinese"
as an excuse for war.
It is we'll to examine carefully the
charges of violence against civilian
foreigners made at this time. The
record shows that right from the time
of the Hongkong strike in 1929 up
to the present that civilian foreigners
as rule have been perfectly safe in
even in the most remote sections OF
China. The exceptions to this have
occurred when the banditry of the
militarist leaders, now crushed out in
the provinces which the Kuomintang
governs, was rampant.
THE hundreds of missionaries
i commercial representatives, etc.
who with their families are now IN
Shanghai, have travelled there from
the interior of China without serious
mishap although they may have sui
fered some personal discomfort. But
whatever their discomforts have been
they are neglible compared with such
outrages as the bombardment OF
Wahsien where some 1000 Chinese
were killed by British cannon, the un-
provoked shooting of strikers and
students in Shanghai by British po-
lice and the recent unexampled public
executions of workers and students in
the same city.
The Chinese know that the i'm
perialists of all nations are involved
in these affairs. If they were to take
life for life they would be more thar
justified.
The most amazing thing in connec
ton with the Chinese national liberia
ton movement, and a result of it:
consciousness and discipline, is the
tolerance with which the Chinese
have treated nationals whose govern
ments have massacred them by the
thousands.
IMPERIALISM, be it British, Ameri-
L can, japanese or French, has nc
case against the Chinese on this
ground.
But the publicity campaign against
China will continue for the reason
that Imperialism must get out Of
China in the very near future or, u
desperation, launch an offensive
against Kuomingtang and the masse:
which it leads.
AS the Communist Internationa
says in its recent appeal to the work
ers of the world to stop war OF
China:
workers, do not persuade your
selves that the conflicting interests Of
the imperialists can prevent join
attack upon China; the internationa
robbers are coming to an agreement
concerning the division of the spoils
In preparation for the bloody attach
upon the Chinese people, the CAPT
talist provocateurs are trying to de
stroy the feeling Of solidarity
amongst the toilers with the heroic
struggle of the Chinese people"
/ THIS is the reason for the delugt
L Of fake atrocity stories and the
increase of general propaganda
against the Chinese masses and the
peoples government. Murderous mill
tarists who execute students anC
workers by the hundreds are praised
but the masses led by the Kuoming
tang who are smashing the militarists
are described as the most fitting tar.
gets for the fire of Imperialism.
If there is a joint invasion of China
and if it meets with some success, il
will be followed by an attack on the
Soviet Union and the rise of reac-
ton still blacker than that which
now holds the workers and colonial
peoples in its grip.
The slogan of Hands Off China
must be made reality by forcing the
withdrawal of all armed forces from
the land where the flag of freedom
swapping in "the. sweet wind that
blows from the SOUTH" as the Chinese
say, is driving Imperialism to frenzy