The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01

. rifles we must kill them" In this,
as in countless other reports, we are informed
how the Red Army and the peasants are fighting
bloody war for their power-the Soviet power of
China.
Reports concerning the situation in the White
Army are many. The Shanghai Mainichi of
July IA says that the Kuomintang militarists
pay no attention to fighting the Reds because
they cannot hold the reconquered territory even
if the Reds are defeated on one hand and, on
the other because of conflicts among them.
The government troops have not been paid for
three months this is due to the financial crisis
of the Marking government and the corruption
Of the military officers and officials, further
more, the troops understand that fighting the
Reds has no meaning for them. Minutes of gov
eminent troops are repeatedly reported. Under.
the unparalleled exploitation of the Marking
government the masses in the White territories
sympathize and support the Red Army. Ger
tainly, under such conditions, Chang Kai-shek,
the head human butcher of the Chinese ruling
class, can maintain his power no longer not
withstanding the fact that he carried out the
most beastly White Terror against the toiling
masses.
Under the name of the Red Suppression
Fund" hundreds of kinds of new taxes have been
imposed, and using the name of "Enlisting Red
Suppression Troops" thousands of workers and
peasants have been captured and forced into the
White Army labor corps On the goth of July
the Takungpao reported: Because of failure
to get men by enlistment, the forced labor policy
is now used. The militarists have instructed the
magistrates in various districts to secure a GER
tain number of men within the appointed day.
Persons who wish to escape from such fate
must pay heavy sum. The masses call this
policy kidnapping coole", for the soldiers kid
the in the street in he
which the poor live. Again, the same paper of
June Is reported: THE Anhwei provincial gov
eminent was instructed to secure 5000 men to be
sent to Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, within
the period of one month" 1t is learned, accord
ing to the same source that 5000 peasants were
captured in Chengchow, large city in Honan
Province, and that hundreds died in the pris-
oners' car in which they were trapped. More
over, coolies who attempted to escape were shot
down by the White Guards. Similar stories
come from Hankow and other cities
The revolutionary movement in the White
Territories is developing from day to day. In
Shanghai for instance, revolutionary handbills
are often found in the street In north China
$500 troops in Pingting Shansi, mutinied on
July 4. According to a report in the Shanghai
Mainichi Of July 8, the mutineers killed two
company commanders, released all prisoners and
distributed handbills addressed Appeal to the
Soldiers, Workers, Peasants and Broad Masses"
They call themselves the oath Red Army of the
Communist Party.
The sudden appearance of the Red Army in
North China during the imperialist attack on
the Red Army in Kiangsi, is signal which tells
us that the Chinese Red Army will never be de-
defeated but will enlarge its activities until the
toiling masses are released from exploitation of
the imperialists and their tools, the Kuomin-
tang.
simultaneously, on the background of the
internal conflicts among the imperialst powers,
the rival Kuomintang militarsts have begun a
new war throughout the county In S~.t+n
China, according to a British owned daily in
Shanghai of July Il: "At meeting of the Can
toneSe and Kwangsi commanders it was decided
to present united front in view of the fact that
the Marking troops are very close to the Kwang-
tung border. The first group army (Kwang-
tung) and the fourth group army (Kwangsi)
have bought large consignments of arms, am
munition and bombing aeroplanes through sew
eral foreign firms in Hongkong." Regarding the
Northern part of the country, two ex-kuomin-
chon generals Shin Yu-San and Sun Tien-yin
have circulated an anti Chang Kai-shek and
Chang Ksuch-liang telegram. More than eighty
trains are held by General Shin Yu-san Mean
while the news relating Chang Kai-sheks pre-
paration of war against the southern and north
ern miltarists currently reported in the press
The failure of Chang Kai-shek's Anti-Red
campaign will be realized because the Red Army
is supported by the toiling masses of the country