The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-12


dents took possession of the Chinese
Municipal Building, imprisoning Gen
eral Chang Chun, the mayor, and
arresting police and detectives who
have been most active in the ter
roristic campaign against workers and
students engaging in protests against
the Japanese seizure of Manchuria
and the sell-out by the Kuomintang.
The arrested police and detectives
were given taste of their own mur-
derous Third Degree and forced to
reveal the names of others of their
tribe who were active in suppressing
the anti-imperialist struggles of the
masses. A Shanghai dispatch to the
New York Times reports:
Tonight the students demanded
the trial of the police chief, who
has absconded and whom they are
seeking, demanding his execution.
The judicial authorities are help
less"
The same dispatch reports that the
students have established their own
court and have "started trying OBJ
noxious police officials
Raid Police Headquarters, Release
Demonstrators
A group of workers and students
raided the police headquarters and
released workers and students ar
rested few days ago during an anti
imperialist demonstration. Another
group tore up tracks of the Shang-
hai-Nanking Railway at Chenju, five
miles from Shanghai. They burned
several sleeping cars, damaged the
bridge and kept. the station master
a prisoner in the railway office.
A Mukden dispatch admits that the
Japanese invaders are being consider
ably harassed-b by the guerilla war
fare of Chinese peasants and dis
banded soldiers
Canton TRAITORS Busy
The Canton wing of the traitorous
Kuomintang is desperately trying to
cash in on the mass anger against
the Marking wing. Canton delegates
. who arrived, yesterday in Shanghai
are attempting to narrow down the
mass fight to the demand for the
resignation OF Chang Kai-Shek.
The collapse of the japanese cabi-
net is admitted in a Tokyo dispatch
to be due to the sharpening economic
and financial crisis in Japan which
has been. aggravated by the Chinese
boycott of Japanese goods and the
growing resistance of the japanese
masses to the attempts of the Japa-
nese bosses to solve the crisis by fur
Their lowering Of the already starva-
ton conditions of the toiling masses,
The Japanese ruling class are now
attempting to create a coalition gov
ernnoat Of all the boss parties on
the line of the So-called British Ma
ticnel Party. The new government
will be headed by elements who have
been demanding a more aggressive
Japanese policy against China.
Stircson Gratified
Secretary Stimson has expressed
qualification over the adoption by the
League of Nations Council of the
resolution which legalizes the Japa
nese seizure of Manchuria and con-
verts Manchuria into an armed base
for military Intervention against the
Soviet Union. Under the pretext of
warning to both Japan and China,
Stimson has warned China that she
must respect thesstatus quo in Man
churia. .sss
George E. Sokolsky, writing in the
New York Times, admits that "from
no matter what standpoint the Lea
que Councils resolution is studied,
Japan has succeeded in gaining ev-
cry point. ;. :"
Sokolsky declares:
1.-THE factors in the resolution IA
vorable to Japan are as follows:
mo date is set Tor the withdrawal
of Japanese troops from Manchuria.
"The status quo on Dec. 9 is rec
ognized as basic and each side is
asked to refrain from further ag-
gravating the situation
1.-THE terms disappointment for the
Councils Commission Of Inquiry are
SO loosely worded as to indicate
clearly that there is no intention
that the commission should inves-
.igate the causes@of the conflict"
Sees Masses Turning to Communism
Sokolsky expresses the fear of the
.anperialists that their plans for the
partition of China will be defeated
by the growing power of the Chinese
Soviets and the Chinese Red Army
and the rapidly. spreading anti-impe-
rialist movement. In Kuomintang
China. He sees the Chinese masses
turning to the revolutionary way out