The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-10

underground into which we have
been driven by the united counter
revolution of the Chinese capitalist
landlords and militarists, and the
iperialist robbers, we address to you
our ardent appeal for aid.
We realize that all measures will
be taken by our government and
your to prevent our groans and cries
Of anguish from reaching you. They
understand that you would not be
likely to look on calmly at the pain
and suffering Of your Chinese
brothers. We know that this appeal
will also reach you with considerable
delay and with great difficulty.
Ask Aid.
Nevertheless we address ourselves
to you because you are our only re-
liable ally and friend, and we are
convinced that having heard our
voice you will pronounce your firm
fiat to your government: Hands
off the Chinese Revolution We
appeal to you because we are
strangled, not only by our own
counter-revolution, but also by your
governments.
We address ourselves to you be-
cause we wish to tell you about our
conditions. You know that the Chi
nese workers, in common with allstAe
toiling masses in China, have al
ways suffered from imperialist
powers which send warships and
airforces and arms of every kind to
fight against the Chinese people.
Shanghai Massacre.
On May 80, 1925, the workers of
Shanghai arose against this yoke;
the Hongkong- Canton strike which
lasted 16 months was directed
against the same yoke, and it was
in the fight to throw off this double
yoke that we undertook the Northern
Expedition upon a united front. 1t
was for this struggle that we have
borne great sacrifices. We expected
our emancipation; we built up our
trade union organization, and we
helped the peasants form their pea
SAINTS unions.
We have been cruelty deceived by
our bourgeoisie; having disposed of
the Northern militarists with our
aid, having captured the Yangste
region, having occupied Shanghai
and Hankow, they decided to put an
end to us. They betrayed the COM
mon struggle of the Chinese people
and offered their services to your
governments, and together with
them they have been destroying and
drowning in rivers of blood the
workers and peasants movement
during these last months.
1t is already Is months that the
abundant waters of the Chinese
rivers are dyed more and more
thickly with the red color of the
blood of workers and peasants.
Mass Murders.
Do you know that in April of last
year Chang Kai-shek in Shanghai
and Ii Ti-sing in Canton murdered
over 1000 workers because they
wished to "reorganize" the unions,
i. e., to dissolve them. Do you know
that since the April coup d'etat in
Kwangtung there have been over
1000 workers killed.
Do you know that in Human and
Hupeh 10000 peasants have been
shot for the sole offence that they
did not wish any longer to die from
starvation upon their little plots
of land and to give up the last cup
full Of rice to the militarists?
Do you know how cruelty the
Canton rebellion of the workers,
directed against the yoke of the i'm
perialist murderers, has been sup
pressed? Do you know that over
5000 workers corpses were thrown
upon the streets of Canton? Do
you know that working women were
tied together in patches of five and
burned alive?
Do you know that about 600 rick
shamen-those human horses whose
existence is possible only in an OPP
pressed semi-colonial country like
China-have been shot down upon
the public square in Canton for the
sole offence that they preserved the
red badges in memory of the revolt
Behead Thousands.
Do you know that in Changsha
and Hankow where no revolts have
taken place, nevertheless Pei Sun
chin and other generals have shot
down over 1000 people solely be-
cause they had work-soiled hands?
Do you know that Feng Yuehsiang
has beheaded 300 workers of the
textile mills for the sole offence of
striking to secure higher wages, and
had their heads exhibited on poles
outside of the factory?
Dear brothers, we have our heads
chopped off, our trade unions have
been dissolved over a year now, and
we are forbidden on pain of death,