The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-30
SURVEY OF AREA
UNDER SovIETS
Red Armies Drive on
Major Cities
Continued from Page One)

ing Achievements OF Cne revolution
compels them to give more and more
space to the "Reds" in China. AS
for the renegade press, the emil.
itant," muzzled by Trotzky's theory
of the "Stolypin period of Chang
Kai-shek" and bourgeois stabilize,
ton, is conspicuous for its silence
on the triumphant progress of the
revolution in China, except printing
personal ISLANDERS, vicious lies, anc
letters from their Chinese fellow.
renegades, spreading the legend Of
the collapse of the Communist Party
of China, and vie with the Capitalist
press in calling the fighting Chinese
workers and peasants bandits.
The Revolutionary Age" while
lauding Gandhi as "the symbol Of
the revolutionary upsurge in India
(Vol. 1, No. 14), echoes it's half
,! brother, the Militant" by stigma
tizing the Communist Party of China
as "powerless" (Vol. 1, No. 14). But
of course, the real situation in China
cannot be covered up by counter
revolutionary lies and ISLANDERS.
The map of Soviet Districts in
China, printed above, which is the
result of a detailed study of the
Soviet area from several newspapers
from various parts of China, some
of which are semi-legal papers sup
porting the Revolution and also from
the official party press, shows the
great size of the territory under
Soviet rule and its significant loca-
ton. All the shaded areas on the
map are ruled by Soviets, which are
workers, peasants, and soldiers coun-
ellis set up by the revolving masses
as soon as a village or district is
taken either by local workers and
peasants uprisings or by the Red
guerilla troops in collaboration with
the local uprising. These shaded
areas are all worked out first on
detailed maps of the different pro-
vinces by marking the districts
(about the size Of an American
county, that have already establish
ed Soviets. The very process by
which the map is made guarantees
its accuracy, and makes it inevitably
present a picture of a very con-
sentative estimate. The Chinese
newspapers upon which a major part
of the information for compiling the
map is based, date only up to the
end of April, while the Soviet Move
ment advances quickest in May. The
rapid progress of the movement and
bad communication necessarily leave
many places under Soviet rule not
covered by press reports. For in
stance, in the province of Szechuen,
there are Is districts under Soviet
rule, according to the Inprecor1
MAY 81, but, due to the lack OF
information of these districts, only
the vicinity of one city, Chenkow,
which is known to have a Soviet
government, IS shaded in the map
1t is clear that, in the province of
Szechuen alone, the Soviet area is
actually much larger than the shaded
area on the map.
II Provinces Involved
The map indicates IL provinces
touched by the authority of the So
viets, although the various Soviet
areas are not yet connected into one
large stretch. A conservative es-
innate of the total area of the diff
ferent Soviet districts put together
will place the figure somewhere
around III, 900 square miles. If we
take the area of China Proper to be
l ,532,795 square miles which is the
official estimate of 1902 and gen.
orally considered a reliable figure,
then the Soviet areas in China oc-
cupies about one-eighth of the area
of China Proper. Of course, the
Soviet power has not yet reached
the sea coast and no big industrial
cities are yet in the hands of the
workers and peasants. This dis
proportion between the revolution
airy movement in the cities and the
agrarian revolution has been repeat
edly pointed out by the Comintern
and the Chinese Party and the solu-
ton of this problem is one of the
main tasks facing the Soviet Con-
gress today. But the disproportion
should not be exaggerated, because
the proletariat in the main cities, in
Shanghai, Hankow, Canton, Swallow,
and even Peiping, are rising in mill
fancy day by day. The offensive
strike of the Shanghai transport
workers on the eve of May Day this
year is a good example in point
| Take AGAIN the bip cities in the So.