The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

TODAY at one o'clock, in the
Chinese Theatre, 48 Bowery, the
All-American Anti-I m p e + i is
League, together with Chinese, Jap
anese, Indian and other organiza-
tions of Far Eastern peoples suffer
ing from imperialist domination, will
observe the 4th anniversary of the
Shanghai massacre, May 80, 1925.
Let all class conscious workers today
spend their capitalist Decoration
Day" holiday to come to Chinatown
to demonstrate their solidarity with
Chinese as we'll as other oppressed
peoples of the East, in supporting
the Chinese worker-peasant revolu-
ton and the oncoming great Indian
Revolution!
The Shanghai massacre signified
the most brutal imperialist oppres-
sion on the one hand and the out
break of the internationally signif-
icant Chinese revolution of 1925-'27
on the other. simultaneously with
the partial and temporary stabiliza-
ton of postwar capitalism arose the
stubborn struggle against imperial
ism on the part of the oppressed
peoples in the East, especially in
China which intensifies the contra
dictions of world capitalism and its
partial sterilization.
Inspired by October Revolution.
The Shanghai Massacre was the
result of the acuteness of antagon-
isms between the Chinese masses
and the imperialists, due primarily
to the increased militancy of the
Chinese proletariat. The message of
the victorious October revolution in
Russia gave great inspiration to the
Chinese masses. The labor move
ment developed rapidly. The Hong
Kong seamen's strike in 1921, the
great Picking Hankow railway mems
strike in 1924 and other strikes in
large cities like Tientsin, Changsha,
ETC., took place. In the beginning of
May, 1925, many economic conflicts
took place in several Japanese tex
tile factories. Sympathetic strikes
were declared, and demonstrations
followed.
On May 80, big crowd of work
ers and students protested the ar
rest and shooting of the strikers at
the police station where their COM
rades were held. Officers of the
British troops gave the order to fire.
About fifty persons were made vic
tins of the bullets of British imper-
ialism. Then followed a general
strike which involved more than
100000 workers, of which 100000
were textile workers. Strikes and
boycots occurred in every large city
throughout the country, resulting in
the Hankow massacre on June II,
Shamien massacre on June % which
was followed by the great general
anton-Hongkong strike which last
ed for sixteen months and shook the
foothold of British imperialism in
the Far East. A national anti-im-
perialist united front was built out
of the result of this movement and
further strengthened by the active
participation of the Chinese workers
who also drew their working broth
ers in the village to their common
cause land thus the first Chinese
revolution of 1925-27 began.
The development of the first
phase of the Chinese revolution was
very rapid and sharp. The success
full Northern expedition, the stub
born offensive of foreign imperial
ism in the form of armed interven-
ton, and finally the deepening and
the broadening of the class struggle
both in the city and the village
which was tied up with the anti
imperialist struggle, drove first the
national bourgeoisie latter 1927 led
by Chang Kai Shek and the upper
strata of the petty bourgeoisie
(June 1920 led by Wang Chin Wei
to abandon the united front and 90
over to the counter-revolutionary
camp of the imperialist, landlords,
militarists, and the bourgeoisie. The
heroic struggle of the Chinese pro-
letariat to defend the victory of the
Revolution by armed insurreetion
was ended in the final defeat of the
stage and opened new phase of
the revolution = Soviet revolution
and which is the first time in the
history of colonial revolutions, point
ing the correct road for Chinese
revolution and for the colonial rev.
olution in general.
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