The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-17

economic situation rs very tense
and Communism Is stronger than
appears on the surface"
The above Is from the latest con-
hdentiaI letter sent by the Whsiey
Eaton Service to American bank"
ers ard executives.
News Of the capture
Of Nanchang and the
enveloping of Hankow
by the Chinese Red Ar
mics has caused con-
sternation among the imperial
lists and their Kuomintang
watc h-dogs, and jubilation
among the Chinese toilers. The
in1perialists are rushing the re-
noval of their missionary and ner-
camille agents from the Yangtze VAL
ley In preparation for a war Of des-
peration against the revolutionary
Chinese masses and their advancing
Red Armies,
In Shanghai the workers Storned
the offices of the Citizens Energen-
cy Committee in Shanghai Road,
threatening to wreck the headquar-
ters The workers demanded food
and shelter from the severe cold for
the hundreds of thousands of des-
titute, starving workers in Shanghai
who have been rendered homeless by
the savage Japanese aerial bombing
of the working-class districts of the
city. The demonstration was lead
by the Chinese Communist Party
which is successfully rallying the
masses to the national revolutionary
struggle. The workers we're viciously
attacked by United States and Brit
isl1 troops and police in the Inter
national Settlement.
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Times reports:
aid, but the authorities are still ap-
prehensive. Besides the problem of
countless refugees, that of unemploy-
ment and hunger is becoming acute"
Workers. Demand Hands Off Re-
evolutionary China
The Chinese workers are refuS-
ing to starve. They are heroically
resisting the imperialist footing
and partitionins Of China. The
workers of the United States, SEN
fenced to starvation and privation
by the same imperialists who are
making war on the Chinese mas
sss, must support the Chinese
workers Workers of Americal
Rally to the fight against impe-
rialist war! Defend the Chinese
Revolution! Defend the Soviet
Unionl Organize United Front
anti-war committees in your shops,
unions and other organizations!
Demand the withdrawal of Amer
can armed forces from Chinal
Demand Hands off China! Hands
off the Soviet Union
The American, British and Japan
sse imperiaiistsf are rushing warships
against the advancing Chinese Red
Army. They are removing their
agents from the Middle Yangtze VAL
ley. Wusih, Changchow, Kiangyin,
: Changshu, Soochow and other Chin
csc cities are being evacuated in pre-
paration for the bloodiest attack yet
launched against the Chinese masses.
The alarm and desperation of the
imperialists over the failure of their
Kuomintang tools to block the re-
volutionary mass movement is clear
ly reflected in the following Shang-
hal dispatch to the New York Times:
Red Army Controls Most Of Kiangsi
Province
'Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi
Province, has been captured by
Chinese Communists, which gives the
Reds virtual mastery of the entire
province except the Yangtze River
port OF Kiukiang and a small strip
of railway southwark to Nanchang.
(Nanchang is about 400 miles
southwest of Shanghai and little
more than 300 from Nanking.)
ut was in Kiangsi that Chang
Kai-shek's Government waged des-
perate Communist campaign
tnef Gu NJ Tf
soldier and civilian lives and more
than $250,000,000 The attempt to
defeat the Red Armies proved vain,
despite continuous deceptive official
announcements from Marking that
the government had been victorious,
Japan Hopes For Intervention
1.-The situation around Hankow and
Wuchang is growing increasingly
perilous as the Reds draw the sur
rounding net closer and closer. In
timations from high japanese Of
ficial circles indicated yesterday a
hope that this revival of a Com
munist threat of domination of the
interior Yangtze Valley might pro-
yoke intervention by the treaty pow
ers in an effort TO check the Red
menace, thus aligning the worlds
major powers on Japan's side and
supporting the adyisability of using
force in China. 1t is believed, how
ever. that this hope will certainly
prove vain, because Japan by hei
precipitate action in Shanghai has