The daily worker., 1932-11-19
THIS is A
DIFFERENT ARREST"


Whenever a Communist is arrest
ed in China, the imperialist press
either passes over it in silence or
pauSes only long enough to utter
sigh of relief or to praise the Kuo-
nintang. With Chen Du Shu it
was different. Chen Du Shu and
the Trotzkyites throughout the
world might try to palm off their
Communism on the proletariat,
but the imperialists in China know
friend or foe through long eX-
perience. The Trotzkyite press
throughout the world has lost no
occasion to malign the Chinese So
viets and to support the present
cleft" leaders of the Kuomintang
in their effort to give new lease
of life to the Marking butcher re-
gine by the slogan of a "Constitu-
ent Assembly" And this has not
been lost on the imperialistS in
China. The Lytton Commission in
its report stated that the Chinese
Soviets were formidable rival gov
ernment and represented revolu-
tionary threat to the very existence
of the Kuomintang. The common
ground of agreement of all the
bourgeois counter-revolution and
the Trotzkyite attacks in China, has
been against the Chinese Soviets.
1t is no wonder then that we read
the following estimation of the
Trotzkyite Chen Du Shu and his
followers in the very Shanghai
newspapers that most openly and
shamelessly supported the Japanese
imperialist butchery of the Shan
ghai proletariat. In leading edi-
torial, entitled Communism in
China" the Shanghai Times on
october 10Th declared:
"Chen and those with whom he
is standing trial here must be re-
garded as being in a totally diff
ferent category from the Commit
nists' of the interior against
whom, as Red Bandits General
Chang Kai Shek and the Cen
ing a military campaign with
successes here and failures there"
The organ of British and Jap
anese Imperialism correctly finds
it necessary to draw wide dis
tinction between the gentleman
Trotskyite, Chen Du Shu, and the
workers and peasants Soviets in
the interior under the leadership
of the Communist Party of China.
1t is this basic difference that
makes it necessary and advisable
for both Chang Kai Shek and
Chan Du Shu to arrange an in
terview, and to make mutual re-
ports.
The same sheet which called
for the blood of the Comrades
Ruegg, goes on in the defense
of the Trotzkyites, quite conver-
SAINT with their anti-Soviet at
tacks:
"The Reds against whom the
government has had to wage war
are not of the same kind as Chen
Du Shu and his fellow prisoners.
They (the 'despicable' Reds,-D.
L. H. are for the most part, the
people of the countryside. What
they have been denied they have
now seized
Together with the imperialist
press, the Chinese bourgeois news
papers follow the line of calling
for federation" of Chen Du Shu
and the other Trotzkyists; for the
Chinese Soviets and its leaders they
call for a war to the death, a war
of determination, with no quarter,
interviews or warm clothing given.
TO MEET BUTCHER
OF MASSES
We may well ask, what will be
the substance and result of this
famous interview between the Trot
zkyite Chen Du Shu and the chief
butcher Of the Kuomintang. Cen
eral Chang Kai Shek? The in
terview itself is to be held in Han
kow, in the military headquarters
of the Fourth Anti-C Communist
Campaign from which Chang is
leading 100000 men in an attempt
| to wipe out the SoWets.
Chen Du Shu will report on the