The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

ed Chinese civilians have passed
through hospitals here"
The Daily News dispatch, which
reported the finding of the bodies
of 100 of the Chinese babies murder
ed by imperialism, adds:
although the war has rolled
away from Shanghai, the Interna-
tiOnal Settlement is not quite nor
NAL The temper of the Chinese
refugees is ugly
The imperialists not only murder
Chinese babies and unarmed civilian
men and women, but are preparing
to murder more Chinese workers to
make them like it.
Chinese Merchants In Fake Gesture
OF Resistance
The furious anger of the Chinese
masses over the betrayal of the
Shanghai defenders is forcing the
Chinese merchants to make gesture
Of aiding the resistance to the Jap
anese and Of condemning Chang
Kai-shek. A Shanghai dispatch re-
ports:
Merchants unions in the Nan
tao and Lunghua districts of Shang-
hal are considering declaration Of
general strike to evidence con-
domination of Chang Kai-shek's
failure to reinforce the Nineteenth
Route Army"
The same dispatch admits that the
heroic Shanghai defense had mass
base in thousands of working class
men and women who organized sup
plies and relief for the workers and
soldiers fighting at the front. 1t
says:
San air of blank establishment,
coupled with feelings of growing
indignation because the Nineteenth
Route Army was forced to retreat
because Of lack of promised rein
forcements, reigns today in nearly
all the great relief agencies or
ganized and maintained in Shang-
hal by thousands of patriotic Chin
csc men and women.
These organizations, supporting
the great emergency hospitals for
the wounded and other relief
agencies, now find themselves
abruptly cut off from the army
they were proudly serving, and are
facing developments in utter be-
wilderment and increduIity."
Canton Wing Tries To Deceive
Masses
The Canton wing of the Kuomin-
tang is frantically trying to capital
ize on the mass anger against Chang
Kai-shek. Eugene Chen and Sun Fo
| themselves traitors of the worst type,
have issued a joint statement de-
nouncing Chang Kai-Shek in an at
tempt to deceive the masses on the
traitorouS role of the Canton gang
At the same time, Chang Kai-Shek
has issued a statement from Loyang
calling for the "summoning of all
energies to be turned toward resist
ing japanese aggression" Both state
mentS are demagogic gestures in
tended to cover up the shameful be-
trayal of the Chinese masses by both
the Marking and the Canton wings
of the Kuomintang.
AT Geneva further demagogic mon-
ouvers are being carried on by the
imperialists and their Kuomintang
tools. DR.. Yen, Kuomintang delegate
to the robber League of Nations, has
placed China at the tender mercies
of the League. The Japanese dele
gates declare that hostilities have
ceased and that the assembly mo
longer need concern itself with the
Shanghai problem, while as for Man
churia, it can only be discussed after
The league commission reports its
findings"
William Philip Simms, Foreign
Editor of the Scripps- howard news
papers admits that the imperialists
look upon the Chinese population "as
just market and source of cheap
labor, and their nationaism is COCO
kiness, something to be put down. "
He further admits that behind the
fake peace talk at Geneva. the i'm
perialists are manouvering on the
basis of support for Japan in the
seizure OF Manchuria in exchange for
Japanese recognition of the looting
rights" of the other imperialist pow
ers in the Yangtze Valley. Attempt
ing to cover up the murderous role
of American imperialism in the rob-
Der war against China and the war
proVocations against the Soviet I'm
ion, Simms presents British and
French imperialisms as the chief
scoundrels supporting the Japanese.
He says:
Britain and France have sue
cessfully blocked effective anti-war
action by the Council of the League
from the start. Neither country
has any great material interest in
Manchuria or Mongolia, and il
Japan cares to take the Chinese
down peg or two they have no
objections.
when the japanese attacked
Shanghai, however, il was a differ