The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24

China have been giving the inn
preston recently that the Hankow
government was on the point of col
lapse. We warned our readers not
to take these dispatches without
liberal pinch of salt 1t is to the in
terest of the imperialist powers to
create the impression thruout the
world that the Hankow government,
which represents the interests of the
Chinese workers and peasants is
weakened to the point of futility. Such
IL not the case.
YESTERDAYS dispatches indicate
that the revolutionary nationalist
forces have made important adj
vances. The efforts of the capitalist
correspondents to ally General Feng
with Chang Kai-Shek have not sur
vived. Feng is with Hankow. And
Hankow has the same revolutionary
connotation that Canton had until the
northern advance and the detection of
Chiang-Kai-Shek.
TOR the benefit of those who came to
the conclusion that the treachery
of Chang Kai-Shek meant funda-
mental change in the composition of
the nationalist forces fighting the for
eign imperialists and the native milf
tarists, l would draw attention to the
manifesto issued by the Koumintang
with headquarters at Hankow declar-
ing that the merchants, manufacture
ers, peasants and workers are impor-
tant factors in the Nationalist revo-
luton. The capitalist correspondents
want to create the impression that
Hanlow is trying to conciliate BUSH
ness. AS matter of fact the mani
festo does not indicate any important
change in the strategy of the general
staff of the Chinese revolution.
COME people came to the conclusion
y that when the Chinese Communists
raised the slogan of the expulsion of
the right wing of the Koumintang
that this meant the narrowing of the
base Of the nationalist revolution to
me workers and peasants exclusively.
Nothing of the sort. The trade union
movement in China is young and in
experienced. The organization of the
peasants is still in it's infancy. The
revolutionary middle classes still play
an important role in the liberation
movement. But the workers and
peasants thru the Communist Party
of China will redouble their efforts
to secure the leadership of the ma
tionalist revolution and change its
character, in so far as conditions per-
nit into a social revolution. We are
glad to be able to report, from read
ing between the lines of the dispatches
that the Chinese revolution is in
healthy condition.
IN all probability Great Britain will
break off diplomatic relations with
the Soviet Union. This act viii be
regretted by big industrial financial
interests in Great Britain. The eco
omic groups behind Winston
Churchill and the extreme conserva-
tive wing of the cabinet want break.
They also want to establish fascist
government in Britain as soon as pos
sible. 1t seems to me that this-the
threatening breaks a stupid move
on the part of the British government
at this time. But beggars cannot be
choosers. as the old saying has it.
And while Britain is not yet reduced
to beggary, he condition is far from
an envious one.
IT is reported from London, or rather
predicted that Italy will follow the
British lead in case of break with
Russia. Chamberlain sounded out
BRAND of France when he was in
London few days ago but the
French foreign secretary was evas-
i've. Germany has turned deaf ear
to the British suggestion and the
United States, not having recognized
the government of the Soviet Union,
seems bent on gaining as much COM
mercial advantage as possible from
the strained relations between the two
II
\powers.
THE Colombian delegate to the inter-
\ national economic conference in
Geneva created quite scene at that
august gathering when he stated that
Columbia would prefer the investment
of European capital in that country
to Wall Street capital because of the
tendency of the United States gov
ernment to interfere in the internal
affairs Of Latin-American republics.
And the headline artist who fixed up
the story for the New York Evening
Post concluded that European CAPT
tai was foreign" in Colombia
THE government Of the Soviet Union
is planning an English boycott ac-
cording to an Associated Press dis
patch from Moscow and take 1t from