The daily worker., 1933-01-25
BUILDING SOVIETS
THRUOUT N. CHINA
4th Red Army Now
Has $4,000 Men
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

on Nov. %, destroying half OF Kuo-
mintang division which was sta
toned at this city.
On Nov. 26 the 4th and the 26th
Red Armies successfully effected a
junction at Hsien-Yang- -Hsien, driv-
ing out the Kuomintang White
troops. This successful action repre-
sents a tremendous setback for the
Kuomintang Nanking Government,
which strenuously tried to prevent
the junction of the two Red Armies
by rushing additional Kuomintang
troops to southern Shensi to reinforce
the White troops. In its desperation,
the Nanking government offered the
commander of the reinforcements
the governorship of Shensi Province
as a reward if he succeeded in de-
feating the Red Army forces. Yang
Fu-chen, governor of the province,
is naturally hostile to this PROPOSE
ton and is actively opposing the
Nanking government at the same
time that he carries on a white ter
ror against ths toiling masses of
ShenSi Province.
Province Governor Flees.
BY Nov. % the 4th Red Army was
only three miles from Sian, the capi-
tai of the province. 1t had occupied
four cities west of Sian. The masses
in Sian prepared tremendous well
come for the Red Army. Yang Fu-
chen launched a savage terror against
the toiling population, dissolving many
workers organizations and closing
most of the schools. A few days la
ter, however, Yang Fu-Chen was
forced to flee as the 4th Red Army
advanced on the capital.
The Shanghai Chinese bourgeois
papers have published claims that
the 4th Red Army had been reduced
to 1000 soldiers as a result of its re-
peated battles with the Kuomintang
Red Suppression" forces. The fact
is that the 4th Red Army now has
$4,000 men, having gained thousands
of new fighters from the workers and
peasants of North China and by de-
sertions of Kuomintang troops to the
Red Army. Its influence is rapidly
increasing among the toiling masses
Agrarian Fights Aid.
The brilliant successes of the Red
Armies in North China are aided by
the rapid development of local daily
struggles of the workers and the in
creasing partisan activities of the
peasants in the fight against the
landlords. These struggles involve
thousands of toilers. Under the lead
ership of the Communist Party of
China, the masses are struggling for
the demand for the arms, the land
and the political power to carry on
the national liberation struggle
against the Japanese invasion and
the proceeding imperialiSt partition of
China. They are raising their strug-
giles to the highest form, the Soviets,
with new Soviets being set up over
wide territories.
A North China conference held by
the Communist Party of China on
June "a, 1882, was participated in by
delegates from Hope, Shantung,
Shensi, Shansi, Honan, Manchuria
and other northern provinces. The
conference correctly estimated the
situation in North China and out
lined the following main tasks for the
Party in North China:
/. Intensification of the fight
against imperialist armed interven-
tion against the Soviet Union and
the imperialist partition of China;
2. A relentless fight against the
Kuomintang's Fourth RED Sup
preston" campaign. which is sup
ported by the United States and
other imperialist bandit powers;
3. Armed resistance against the
Japanese invasion of Jehol Prov
ince;
A. Overthrow of the rule of the
Kuomintang lackeys of imperial
ism;
5. Spreading Of the guerilla war
fare of the workers and peasants in
Manchuris, JehoI and Hopei Prov
ince against the Japanese invaders;
8. Establishment of the Soviet
Power in North China.
The effect of this conference is al
ready to be noted in the developing
revolutionary struggles in North
China. While at the beginning of
1882, only few hundred partisan
soldiers were operating in small
number of Hsiens in North China,
today the revolutionary struggle has
spread all over North China.
Increased Strike Struggles.
The sharpening revolutionary
crisis in North China is also indi-
Gated by the increasing strike strug-
giles, the strike of street car work
ers in Tientsin, of miners at Tang
shan, at Tse-hsien and at the Brit
ish-owned Kaiping mine.
In southern Hopei Province. the
impoverished salt peddIers have
driven out the Ku0mintang Super
intendent, dhe rickshaw coolies have
carried out an energetic struggle
against the new taxes imposed on
them by the Kuomintang militar-
lists. All of these struggles took on
the form of anti-imperialist, anti
Kuomintang actions. Strike strug-
giles have even extended to the gov
ernment enterprises, with the work
ers on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway
recently demanding an increase in
their starvation wages. They pre-
pared to strike to enforce their de-
mands.
The struggles of the peasants
against the landlords and usurers are
likewise increasing in all parts of
North China.
Soldiers Raise Demands.
FINALLY. the Kuomintanp regime iS