The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-15
Current Events
By T. J. O'F1aherty

ESTIMATES of the number of peas
ants slaughtered by general Feng
of China, known as the christian
general" vary from 10000 20 $4,000.
No doubt the christian" monster will
find divine justification for this crime
against the Chinese masses and should
he lack ingenuity in the quest of
moral justification the inlperialist
missionaries will come to his aid. Feng
has betrayed every cause to which he
ever professed loyalty and every alli-
ance in which he ever participated.
THE Chinese revolution led by the
bourgeoisie and supported by the
workers and peasants has surrendered
to Imperialism. But out of the wreck
age of this side-tracked revolt there
is developing a mightier power, the
power that is historically destined to
free China from foreign imperialism
and the native tools of the foreign
ers. Revolutionary armies of work
ers and peasants are rising in south
ern China and they are sweeping on
to victory. Undoubtedly this move
ment will meet with reverses and its
progress may be slow at first, but it
is certain to succeed. The days of the
Fengs and Changs are numbered and
whether the heads of these mass-mur-
derers may adorn lamp-posts or not
depends on how soon the workers and
peasants will be able to establish their
hegemony over China.
pEPORTS of anti-Japanese demon
~ strations in Mukden, the capital of
Manchuria reach us. This is Chang
Tso-Lin's balliwick and Chang, at
least until recently, was on the Jap
anese. payroll. AS stated in this col
umn several months ago the over
throw of the liberal government in
TOXIC was due as much to differences
over Chinese policy as because of the
financial crisis which then shook the
island empire. The Japanese govern
ment recently made certain demands
on China which resembled the notori-
Gus 21 conditions of postwar days
This indicated a return to an aggres-
sive Chinese policy on the part cf
Toxic and the present anti-Japanese
movement is the result. We are in
formed that the movement is as much
against Chang as it is against Japan.
THERE are signs that the Chinese
revolution is entering 4 new stage
Since most of our best prophets in the
last year or two missed out in their
Chinese predictions l will refrain from
indulgence in this hazardous pastime
except in a general way to prognos-
ticate that when the present develop
ment, represented by the rising mill
tary power of the workers and peas
ants assumes formidable proportions
threatening the capitalist system in
China, all the imperialist buzzards
will unite against it and furthermore
unite against the Soviet Union, the
only country in the world that is Civ
ing encouragement to the Chinese
masses in their struggle for freedom.
THERE is reason to believe the re-
port that Charles G. Dawes stands
good chance of winning the G. o.
P. nomination for the presidency. AS
may be noted, Charles has not uttered
many frightful oaths recently. He
conveniently forgot his original en-
thusiasm for defending the constitu-
tion by an extra-legal force He has
not slept at the switch for almost two
years and in general his conduct has
been such as to warrant the belief
that he was in training for residence
in more civilized community than
Evanston, Illinois.
DAWES is popular with the patrons
~ of smoking cars and with Wall
Street. He is big banker in his own
right He has not made himself OBJ
noxious with the farmers, leaving
Coolidge to carry the alfalfa and bear
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