The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-10
(chinesc Workers correspondence

(Chinese Workers CorrespOndence.)
MAY DAY of this year was welcomed by the
III Chinese toilers amid their bloody struggles
against the Kuomintang and imperialism. Thou
sands Of mill workers in Putting, as well as in
the western district in Shanghai, continue their
strikes The armed people in Manchuria are
developing their fight against the japanese in
vaders Red armies have not only gained new
victories In Kiangsi, Fulden, Hupeh, but also
extendede their activities into the frontier of
Kansu-Shensi, and the famine struggle inten-
SiSied along the Yangtze Valley. All these situa-
tons gave the masses a greater militancy for
celebrating the International Labor Day.
Devoting their full strength to breaking the
preparatory arrangement Of the Shanghai toilers
and revolutionary fighters for the May Day
demonstration, the imperialist and the Kuomin-
tang police in the city had very busy time
toward the end of April. Informed by the
British police the Kuomintang Bureau of Public
Safety raided house on April 81 off Ferry Road
and made two arrests. On April % the French
police in the presence of more than 200 armed
men, raided 300 housese in the French Conces-
sion and arrested some ten young men. On April
o. 19 arrests were effected by the French police
in the Y. NJ. G. A. building on Pashienchiao,
where meeting was held by a group of student
delegates Of Shanghai colleges and universities.
french ponce, d lew Gays ago, following Jne
bombing of the japanese highest officials in
Shanghai at Hongkew Park during the Japa-
nese Emperor's birthday ceremony, arrested over
SO Koreans and handed them over to the Japa-
nese authorities The French imperailists have
manifested most activity in assisting the Japa-
nese invasion of China.
AS its reactionary demonstration the Marking
Garrison headquarters of the Kuomntang gov
eminent on April 30 executed IS Communists in
Marking AL bourgeois daies in Marking and
Shanghai published, by order Of the Kuomin-
tang, this news on May l in order to terrorize
the masses. Those 25 fighters we're mostly con-
nected with the 18th Route Army, which fought
heroically the late Japanese invasion of Shang-
hal Contrary to the policy of capitulation Of
the Kuomintang militarists they intended to
convert the late anti-JapaneSe war into a ma
tional revolutionary war. This is the very
crime that led them to be arrested and mas
sacred by the Kuomntang authorities.
dispatch from Ninpo, the biggest seaport of
the province of Chekiang, dated April 49, stated
that 10 men, alleged to be Communists, had been
arrested by the local police within the last two
days
The whole city of Shanghai the Foreign Set
Element, the French Concession and the Kuo-
naintang-rlled town, was put under a garrison
of heavily armed police throughout the Inter
national Labor Day.
Riot vans Of the inperialst and the Kuomin-
tang authorities patroled increasingly on the
streets important points were posted with armed
detectives of both sexes and police, who were
instructed to make random search Of tn epedes-
TRANS
While bans we're placed by the Kuomintang
police on all meetings and professions intended
to be held by public bodies during the month,
the foreign authorities have announced state
of emergency in the city to begin from May l.
However vigilant the reactionary agents have
BEEN they could affect very little the activities
Of the Shanghai revolutionary masses on May
Day Onethat day, the Shanghai revolutionary
workers. particularly, the vanguard among the
masses skillfully performed their celebrations
by holding separate demonstrations in the indus
trial districts as well as in the central district
of the city.
At 10 a. m. some one hundrew workers Of both
sexes gathered at the intersection of Thorbun
End Yangt2epoo Roads in the industrial quar-
Il OF the eastern district Of Shanghai. They