The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
Seizure Of Marking Is
Typical OF Restraint of
the Peoples Revolution
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

The newspaper reports do not give extended details
to this meeting. The Marking massacre stuff had
fallen flat. The excuse, eagerly sought for, to open
hostties large scale against the Chinese people,
had exploded into thin air.
The report of the International News Service for in
stance of this meeting between the redbaitng secre-
tary of the navy and the skebreaker president should
be made part of history. 1t reads:
Secretary Wilbur went to the White House shortly
before and informed President Coolidge that all
of the Americans out of Marking.
"Wilbur said the navys advices indicated only one
had been killed. DR.. j. E. Williams, and two wounded
Miss Moffatt and Mr.. Hobart"
That was all. And it hasn't been proven that the
Peoples army responsible for this killing.
When bootleggers, beer runners and hijackers run
amuck in Chicago the casualties are greater
Yet in Chicago, as has been brought out in the mu-
ncipal campaign raging there, the attorney gen
era of the state refuses to permit any investigation of
such shootngs, for instance as the McSW1ggn affair
that resulted in three deaths.
The incident at Marking, when the Peoples Armies
took over this important city with nearly half million
population is proof Of the ability of the Nationalist
government to maintain revolutionary law and order
It is the highest tribute that could possibly be paid to
the discipline OF the Nationalist soldiers and the self
restraint of the Chinese masses
When the Peoples armies successfully seized the
city, it meant that 5000 northern troops the allies OF
the imperiaiss including white
Russian ercenaries had to be driven out Yet in this
clash only American life lost that of the Rev.
IL. Williams, VINO ought TO nave been Ddck III MS
home Of Shawnee Ohio, instead of trying to carry
the bible gospel Of Rockefellers Standard Oil Company
to people who had stomach for it.
The imperialist government of the United States,
however, is not worried about the fate of the Rev. Dr.
Williams. When Wilbur and Coolidge met their only
regret could have been that there were not more cas-
ualties to offer them better excuse to come to the
rescue of Standard Oil and other American investments
in the Far East.
Nd hot wis
sionaries and the agents of big business get out of
China that all warshps, with their hordes of marines
and bluejackets be withdrawn That will be the best
protection for American lives IN the present SITUATION
But the government at Washington DEGREES differ
entity Politicians diplomats, swivel chair generals and
admras and decide to rush 1900 additional mar
ines to China. The nearly 1000 marines and blue jack
cts already in China with than half hundred
Warshp have not proved sufficient to stir up the nee
essary amount of trouble to provide for
actual declaration of war. More must be sent. More
are being sent
But at the same time the campaign of the workers
and farmers in this country against the sending of these
trouble Makers and the withdrawal Of the mperiaist
forces already in the Orient, continues and grows.
Thinking labor have sympathy for those who
lose their lives in the of the profit masters They
sell themselves for piece Of gold They all have a
price They get their pay.
Labor this country should be solely concerned with
the fate Of Chinese labor.
There is truth in the poster that is being dis
Chinese girl
1t may be taken for granted however, that prac-
ticaly every atrocty tale that thru, trying to
picture great numbers of Americans massacred, is an
empty lie. The faxed at Marking should live
for long time warning to workers in this country
to believe the nonsense that appears in the kept
press.
The DAILY WORKER has published the facts of
American atrocities in China. Readers will remember
that last year The DAILY WORKER gave considerable
space a letter from American soldier in Shanghai
who took great pride the bloody role that he played
in helping suppress the general strike in that city.
Remember the opening paragraph of his letter. writ
ten in the American Club, at Shanghai, to friend in
the United States follows
Dear Hank: Just before the battle fellah, I'll write
you few lines from Shanghai-Lrl Ole Shanghai,
where spend the morning designing bridges, the
noon fighting booze in the Aston House bar, and the
afternoons and evenings shooting bloodthrsty Chinese
YEAH even the widest of get tired of war; and
even the most cold-blooded of get tired of
seeing the streets CORY and vertable shambles"
The "blood-thrsty" Chinese men, women and
children who had gone strike at the Shanghai tex
tile mills refusing to work the IL and 14hour day at
starvation wage
Reminiscent of the Passac, New Jersey textile strike
this American writes of how death dealt out to
the Shanghai textile workers follows:
"This afternoon armed for a long campaign
had killed Chinese crippled many for life and had
spilled blood all Marking Roadto protect our in
terests.
well, when we were about to open fire again, and
this time to perhaps kill hundreds, two of armored
cars arrived each with onench steel walls, turrets
and machine guns mounted like in tanks-and these
drove full speed into the mobs
1.-The injury appalling two crushed to death, their
CUTS squirting all the streets, broken legs, ribs and
battered bodies caused by the mad rush for safety
At another point this soldier of Imperialism wrote:
1.-THE slaughter pretty, at the first ses
sion with the usual street full Of heathens crawling
oil fours bleeding and screaming, the usual