The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

that practically the whole province of Kiangsi
ing the gates OF Nanchang, the capital Of the
province The Kuonlintang newspaper "Mingo-
Sllibao", admitted in its issue of December II
is in he hands OF the Reds and is completely
independent Of the Marking government" In the
province OF hupeh, the ring of Red Armies is
drawing closer round Wuchang, and red air.
men are flying over the district where the three
provinces of Hupeh, Honan and Anwl1ei adjoin
each other, and scattering proclamations.
The kulaks, in alliance with the landowners
epdeaYor TO set up their counter-revolutionar
organizations in the Soviet districts, IN a Soviet
district in West Fukien the kulak- landoWntng
elements have established an association under
the, name of International Socialist Party and
have issued the slogan Long live the II. INTER-
national down with the Conintern!'a They call
upon the masses to fight against the ComElu-
nists, demand the dissolution of the Communist
Party the Soviets. the Kopsolnol, the Red
Guards and other revolutionary organizations,
and advocate the formation of peasant leagues,
which would naturally be led by the kuaks and
landowners in the International Socialist Par
ty". In order to delude the peasants they set up
the following platform /, Land and peace (peace
with the landowners. 2 Cease the fight against
the big peasants. g. Pay no land taxes (onIy the
kulaks have to pay land taxes). 4. DO not serve
in the Red Army. 5. The peasants shall defend
themselves lie, down with the workers and
Communists). Following revolt which they had
organized they openly entered the service Of
the Kuornintang clique, and the leader OF this
band Of iunkers and kuaks was appointed chief
OF the Mintuan, lie, the junkers' militia. Here
again the poor and middle peasants had an OPP
portunity of realising The true meaning of these
Socialist" slogans The workers and agricultural
laborers of West Fukien succeeded under the
leadership of the Communist Party, in rallying
round them the poor and middle peasants for
the fight against the kulaks and the miserable
remnants of the landowners, for the conSoida-
ton OF the Soviet Power and she strengthening
OF the leading role of the proletariat, for the
extension of the agrarian revolution, for the
mass organizations OF the workers, agricultural
laborers and poor peasants. Whilst formerly as
aresult Of the diversion uaaneuVers of the agents
OF the landowners and kulaks who had worked
their way into the Soyiets, distortions were COM
mitted in solving the. agrariaR question, now
thanks to the consistent fight against the XII
laks and the remnants of the landowners, these
distortions are being overcome. The Party organ
izations have increased their activity in drawing
together the proletariat and the poor elements OF
the populations Trade unions of the town workers
and agricultural workers, as we'll as groups OF
village poor, are being formed everywhere. For
meTly, land was allotted to the families of the
big landowners and their property was not con-
fiscated In some Soviets they did not know
who, in q given village, were landowners and ku-
laks; and when, finally, workers, agricultural
workers ard poor peasants were summoned to
'Sluidate all remnants of feudal landownersllip
and to take up the fight against the kuaks, it
transpired that those who did mot know the
landowners wereS themselves landowners kuaks,
agents Of the Socialist Party" who had Snug
gled into the Soviets. Thus the landowners and
kuaks were soon discovered and thrown out Of
the Soyiets by the landworkers and poor peas
ants.
p 1t further transpred that kulak counter-revo-
lutionary groupings had attempted in whole
number OF Soviet districts (here and there with
success to divert the fight of the Soviets against
the kulak to the middle peasants, and to make
use in their own interests of the discomfort
thereby evoked. Whilst the kuaks made use Of
the Right opportunities in the Party for the pir
pose OF retarding the agraran revolution, the
kulak- bunker counter revolution made use OF the
Cleft deviation in provoking the middle peas
ants against the Soviets. The counter-revolution-
airy Trotzky.sts too did not wish to lag behind
the kuak- junker bands in any way. Thus for
instance, the recently discovered Trotzkyist or
ganization in Fukien worked in close co-opera-
ton with the Socialist Party and was financed
by the landowners and kulaks
The danger Of the kulak- junker counter-revo-
luton was particularly great in the central So
Wet district Of Kiangsi. Here the kulaks and the
remnants Of the landowners had organized the
"Anti-Bolshevist League, which even succeeded