The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02

WORKERS ana the NanKlng trOOpI
who, disobeying the orders of thu
Marking government, have joined
the workers in resisting the Japan.
csc invasion, but yesterday japanese
marines and civilian hoodlums spread
their reign of terror into the Inter.
national Settlement, hunting dowr
and numbering unarmed Chimes,
workers under the eyes of the troopl
and consuls of the other imperialist
powers. An idea of the wanton
wholesale slaughter of Chinese work.
ers in Shanghai is given in the fol.
lowing imperialist dispatch by P1oyc
Gibbons:
Savage Reign Of Terror Against th'
Workers.
Terror prevails in Shanghai
abJect, shivering, quaking. wild
eyed terror. It's maelstrom of
human misery, with murder, arson
and wanton destruction rampant.
"The slaughter of innocent cool
les in the streets of the japanese
sector Of the International Conces-
sion, continued night and day.
"The execution of confused sus-
poets Is taking place hourly In a
charnel house shack in the rear OF
the japanese naval landing party.
Truculent gangs Of armed Japa-
nese civilians are robbing, looting
and burning Chinese shops and
dwellings.
Ignorant, bewildered, panic
stricken Chinese, grouped at inter
sections Historically searching
passing crowds for faces Of lost
brothers and sisters and children,
were suddenly sprayed by machine
gun fire from Japanese posts on
rooftops ostensibIy huntin g
snipers."
Wall Street Government Shares
Responsibility.
For this frightful carnage agains
Chinese workers, women and chill
dren, all Of the imperialist power
are jointly responsible. The Unitet
States government, France and Eng
land are, with Japan, involved in thu
looting and partition Of China. While
proclaiming the neutrality of the In
ternational Settlement and thu
French concessions, the United Brit.
ish and French imperialists are per
mitting the Japanese forces to U.s.
these concessions for their opera,
tons against the Chinese masses
While rushing their armed forces tx
Shanghai and maneuvering agains
each other over the division of thu
spoils of China, they are nevertheless.
acting Jointly against the Chimes
masses. The movement of theil
armed forces to China is aimed no
against the Japanese, excepting as al
ultimate eventuality in struggle ovel
the division Of loot, but against the
revolutionary Chinese masses anC
their Chinese Soviet Republic ant
Chinese Red Army.
Rush Imperialist Warships Against
Chinese Red Army.
This is clearly shown by the state
ment of American Consul Genera,
Edward S. Cunningham at Shanghai
yesterday. The United Press quote!
the American Consul as stating:
with the arrival of additional
vessels, we shall be able to clean
out the snipers and control refu-
gees, Communist students and la
Dor unionists within the Settle
ment."
United States and British warshipS
are moving, together with japanese
warships against the Chinese Soyiet
Republic, against the Chinese Red
Army. Against the only force ir
China which can hberate the masses
from the slavery and oppression OF
the inperialists and their Kuomin-
tang lackeys. The attack on the
Chinese masses is being carried out
jointly by the same imperialist muir
derers who are shooting down the
starving workers in the home" coun-
tries, who are denying relief TO the
and their families and
children and are slashing the wages
of the unemployed. The Wall Street
who are shooting down
striking miners in Kentucky and
their lynch terror against
Negro and white workers are Jointly
responsible with the japanese and
other imperialists for the monstrous
mass murder of Shanghai workers
and the burning Of their homes.
These savage attacks on the Chinese
masses are part of the world wide
offensive of the imperialist murder
ers against the international working
class. against the white workers,
against the Negro and colonial
masses.
Defend the Chinese Masses Against
TmpcriaIist War!
Workers 81 AnseS&os. Negro asA