The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-13
By M. N. ROY (Moscow).

pressed with lnhuman feroclty
Even the imperialist news agencies
which have no sympathy with the
workers and peasants occupying
Canton, report 5000 killed on the
first day the counter-revolutionary
troops occupied the city. The COM
munists, even those suspected of hav-
ing communist sympathy, were mas
sacred wholesale.
Dead bodies of revolutionary work
ers and peasants were carried in
carts to be dumped in the river. The
streets were strewn with murdered
communists.
A good one-fourth of the city has
been totally destroyed, not by the
workers and peasants, but by the
counter-revolutionar army. Thou
sands of houses are burnt down as
result of the bombardment of the city,
The Soviet consulate was raided all
the inmates arrested and five, includ
ing the vice-consul and woman en-
ployee, shot.
This gruesome terror of death and
destruction was let loose because a
government of the workers and peas
ants was established in Canton. The
bourgeoisie would demolish the city
rather than see it in the possession of
and governed by the workers. For
four years the workers and peasants
had defended the nationalist Canton
against imperialist aggression. But
for the heroic efforts of the workers
the nationalist government of Canton
would have been overthrown. Now
the nationalist bourgeoisie have made
united front with imperialism
against the workers and peasants. AS
soon as the establishment of Soviet
Government was declared British bat
tleships rushed to the scene and
American field guns were levelled
the counter-revolutionar army in its
bloody undertaking.
Complete surrender of the national
st bourgeoisie to imperialism is tes-
titled by the decision to break off
relations with the U. S. S. r. While
issuing the order for the closure of
the Soviet consulates, trade missions
and the Far Eastern Bank, Chang
Kai-Shek stated:
"In the early stage of the revolu-
tion Soviet assistance was beneficial
but during the past few months com
munist intrigues have created class
dissension that has disrupted the
kuomintang and threatened to destroy
its work in China"
This is a very significant state
nent. 1t means that as long as the
Chinese bourgeoisie were carrying on
s revolutionary struggle they needed
and appreciated the assistance of the
Soviet Republic; but since they have
abandoned the revolution and seek the
support of Imperialism in the counter
revolutionary struggle against the
workers and peasants, they must turn
back upon the former benefactor.
Glass dissension indeed disrupted
The Kuomintang. To defend feudal
and capitalist interests the Kuomin-
rang betrayed its revolutionary tradi-
ton. The disruption of the Kuomin-
tang began as soon as it turned
against the working class. Chang
hai-Shek. who accuses the commun-
lists of having disrupted the Kuomin-
tang, was the first to deal a blow to
it. Until the Kuomintang won the
confidence and secured the active sup
port of the workers ana peasants, it
could not organize an effective strug-
gle against imperialism. 1t was with
the help of the communists that the
Kuomintang found it's way to the
masses and succeeded in organizing
them in a gigantic struggle against
Imperialism. Under the pressure of
the masses the Kuomintang became
q revolutionary democratic party.
Chang Kai-Shek began the destruc-
tion of the Kuomintang when he
raised the banner of anti-communism
AS the majority of the Kuomintang
would not accept his counter-revolu7
tionary lead, Chang Kai-Shek split
he party and made a united front
with imperialism.
The work of disruption thus begun
is complete today. The Kuomintang
does not exist except as a flag of
counter-revolution. 1t is broken up
into warning factions who are. how
ever, united in their hatred for the
communists, determination to drown
the workers and peasants movement
in blood and their willingness to sur
render before imperialism.
Hostility to the workers and peas
ants movement and servility to i'm
perialism are the two sides of the
same policy. Experience has demon
strated that an effective struggle
against Imperialism can only be car
ried on by the working class. 1t
has also been experienced at the same
time that a revolutionary anti-im-
perialist struggle unavoidably quick
ems the social struggle. The workers
and peasants demand son,at bipo con