The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-16
Hands OFF China"
Recognize Soviet,
Czech Coop Urges

in Brunn on 25th of February after
report by Comrade Krokova,
adopted a resolution which was
sent to the British Cooperative
WQmens Guild, and which draws
the attention of British wome n
c opera tors to the fact that
the British government is paving the
way for another world war through
its military intervention in China
and it's aggressive policy against the
Soviet Union. The resolution invites
British women cooperators to or
ganize protest demonstrations, and to
demand of the British government:
(D cessation Of military intervention
against revolutionary China; (2)
withdrawal of the warships and
troops sent to China; (3) protest
against the brutality, pillaging and
murders of the reactionary troops in
China; (4) establishment of friendly
relations with the Soviet Union.
The resolution adopted at the end
of May by the district society of
Czecho-SlOvakian cooperatives in
Voleslav contains the following state
ment:
"The peril of new imperialist
struggles, which are bound to be
more terrible than the recent world
war, is at present greater than ever
before. The present international
situation is similar to the situation
which preceded the outbreak of the
world war.
eve do not believe in the pacifist
declarations of the capitlists and in
their disarmament demand; we
know full well what is behind the
phrases about imperialist disarma-
ment of the individual states has as
sumed unprecedented dimensions"
The resolution then enumerates
the warlike measures of the i'm
perialist powers, and particularly Of
Great Britain against the Chinese
people, and declares:
'The sympathy of the cooperators
is entirely on the side Of the Chinese
revolution. We call upon coopera-
tors to oppose intervention in China
because we look upon the struggle of
the Chinese people as a just struggle
'Do your duty in the face of the
attack on the Chinese revolution.
Work everywhere to prevent the war
peril developing into another world
war! Every one into the struggle
against the war peril! Long live the
international solidarity of the CO.
operators of the world"
Reds Refuse to Split Coop.
In answer to the decision of the
managing committee of the Czecho-
Slovakian Cooperative Society, which
forbids Communist members of the
society to work in the cooperative
fractions of their Party (See Coop
Inform" No. } the general meeting
of the "Voela" in Prague adopted a
resolution on April 3rd which con-
tains the following statement:
Although we look upon this de-
cision as the expression of one
sided attitude and as an attempt to
forbid Communist members of the
managing committee all activity in a
political party, we repudiate most
energetically the idea of a split in
the cooperative organizations, but
at the same time we declare that our
representatives in the managing
committee of the society are doing
their duty in full accord with the
members whom they represent.
eve insist on the development of
united workers cooperative move
ment. General economic conditions
convince rs and all workers, to an
ever-increasing degree, that the at
tacks made on the workers CO.
operatives and on workers as a
whole can only be repulsed by joint
effort. Unification of the entire
workers cooperative movement into
one organization cannot be achieved
in hurry. But if we want to achieve
this aim all, those whom we want to
bring over to our side must have the
certainty that they will not be ham
pered in their Party work"
The resolution goes on to say that
the decision of the managing COM
mittee has caused considerable
alarm and confusion among CO.
operatives because it is directed
against the unity of the central So
ciety.
"The Cooperative Council of our
society declared once that it will not
intervene in the dispute between the
Social Democratic and Communist
parties. And yet this decision is an
infringement Of this principle. We
declare on the strength of the above
mentioned facts that such efforts
cannot further the unity of the CO.
operative movement and can only
jeopardize the development of a
united workers cooperative move
ment in Czecho -Slovakia."