The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
BY SOU CHAO-JEN.


Chairman. All-China Labor Federation
The Kuomintang has become the
hangman of the bourgeoisie, the mil
itarists, the imperialists, and the land
lords. They have cancelled all agree
ments of the trade unions; suppressed
all the unions; denied all the so-called
freedoms to the workers. They say
that strikes, meetings, publications,
ETC., which have the previous permits
sion of the Kuomintang are permit
ted, but no permissions are granted
except for some reactionary maneuver
of their own, or to carry out some
matchmaking scheme. Workers live
under the worst white terror. The
Kuomintang has broken relations with
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies, although the proletariat of the
USSR has helped China for several
years. Workers of China recognize
the USSR as our closest friend, which
cannot be dispensed with.
The reaction uses the Kuomintang
to slaughter the communists. (Since
April no party in China has been re-
volutionary except the Communist
Party. They break up the trade
unions, arrest the leaders and kill
them; they appoint traitors or bourge-
els officials to "reorganize" the trade
unions, attempting to take them over
to be governed by the reactionary Ku-
omintang. These things happen all
over China.
Murder Labor Leaders.
They began the reaction in Febru-
airy in Kanchow, Kiangsi Province, by
assassinating the chairman Of the Pro-
vincial General Labor Union. In
Shanghai in March the workers made
resurrection against Sun Chuang-
fang, and helped the southern armies,
taking the city with the workers fore
es before the army arrived; but when
Chang Kai-shek arrived he killed hun
dreds of workers as his first act In
Shanghai the Kuomintang has never
stopped arresting and killing the trade
union leaders.
In Kwangtung in april, the milton
lists Ii Chi-san made a coup d'etat.
arrested 1900 workers in one night,
and shot 100 of them without an
nouncing their names. Among those
murdered was the chairman of the
Canton Workers Assembly. In Human
the Kuorlintang leaders killed thou
sands. In Hupeh they forced the
workers to accept worthless military
notes for wages; when the arsenal
workers demanded good money, they
Killed their leaders and suppressed the
strike with military force. They killed
the Ricksha Coolie union leaders, rs
| well as the officers of the Textile
Workers Union The railway workers
Of Wuhan made demonstration to de-
mand payment of back wages, of
which II mNnths arc owing, and were
suppressed by White Terror.
Feng Kills Workers.
In Honau. under the "Christian
General Feng Yu-hsiang. 900 textile
workers were SLAUGHTERED for strik-
ing; the Honan General Labor Union
was suppressed and the leaders killed
because they supported the railway
workers in the demend for back wog-
es. In Szechuan hundreds of workers
we're killed in the suppression of the
trade unions. In Annoy, when the
workers gathered to demand the re-
lease of their arrested leaders, the
troops fired into them, killing many.
In Anhui, the same events; the chair
man of the General Labor Union there
was arrested because of advancing
demand for wage increases, and he
has disappeared, his fate being un-