The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-26
China In the Fight for Its Unity.

Editorial Reprinted from the Pravda of June s. 1929
A short time ago the defeat of Chang Tso
Lin and the capture of Picking by the Southern
troops was-according to the official Kuomin-
tang Presto bring about the unity of China
and would mean almost the completion of the
national revolution.
The long-desired moment seemed to have
come.
Chang Tso-Lin fled into Manchuria and
Peking appeared red under the Kuomintang
flags How is it, however, with the notorious
unity, with the ''unification' of China?
For the present one only hears that the
Marking government has extended it's power
to the provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang, Kiangsi,
Anhwei; the Kwangsi group rules the provinces
OF Hupel, Human, Kwangtung and Kwangsi;
Feng Yu Hslang obtains possession of the prov
lnces OF Klangsu, Shensi and Honan, with the
prospect of obtaining Shantung the Yen ST.
Shan group will, it is assumed control the
provinces of Shansi, Chill and the adjoining
districts of Mongolia; for the Mukden group
there remain only three Eastern provinces or
Manchura.
In the official declaration Of the Kuomintang
this lack of unity is masked as "the division of
China in six political areas with the towns of
Marking, Canton, Picking, Hankow, Kaifeng
and Mukden as centres, which recognize the
power of the Supreme Council of Marking
which is the capital of China"
Such a masking is hardly likely to mislead
anybody
Between the existence of Supreme Coun-
Gil in the capital of China, Marking" and the
recognition of this Council by the political
areas and the unity" of the China there lies
a vast difference. 1t is generally known that the
existence of the League of Nations at Geneva
and It's recognition by various European powers
does not by any means signify the unity of
Europe
To bring proofs of this would be irving to
force an open door; for many Kuomintang
people already openly recognize the failure of
their unity policy" One of these Kuomintang
people, in his article on the lessons of the
japanese intervention, cites the example of
America, Germany and Japan herself, and
maintains that only a victorious foreign war
could accelerate the unification of China and
help the cause of national defense to victory.
I'VE are convinced that only after a new peace
treaty will all the present problems of the relations
between Japan and the nationalists be solved and
peace in the Far East be secured The Chinese
have now learned that foreign war not only can
expedite the unification of China but is also the
only means in order to better the international
situation of China"
Thus the nationalist-m Kuomintang see
the only means of salvation in foreign war.
as is to be seen from the above quotation. To
orlng about foreign war is of course not diff
cult; the only question is how to lead if to
victory.
The victorious fight for the real unification
OF China was begun, but not by the Kuomintanq
people who betrayed the Chinese Resolution
who capitulated to the imperalsts and, along
with the latter, shot down the working and
peasant masses. The real unification of China
means modifying the million-fold masses of
workers and peasants who will in the first place
settle with the agents Of the imperialists and
drive out the imperiasts themselves. These
tasks will be solved by the workers and peas
ants of China under the leadership of the Com
munist Party and against the Kuomintanp
which has become the flag of counter-revolu-
+ion