The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-29
On the
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BY HARRY CANINE
Shanghai Incident
The Right to Break n
KuOmintang Cooperate
By HARRY CANINE;

A STREET. nc1d e. m
"A Shanghai, rio ting be-
tween various imperialist ma
tionalists, always assumes in-
ternational significance. This
arises from the fact that it is
in Shanghai where most Z
the foreign interests in China
centered and clash. Shanghai is. a
perpetual battlefield of the ID :
perialist bandits, and the center Of
their unity against the Chinese
revolutionary workers and peas
antry.
Yesterday in the Hongkew dis.
trict, which is controlled by the
japanese, British and japanese I'M
perialist interests collided when a
British policeman of the Shanghai
Municipal Council was arrested by
Japanese sailors. Four hundred
japanese civilians rioted when Po-
lice Sergeant j. w. Bellamy and a
Chinese constable tried to arrest a
japanese sailor who broke the nose
Of a Chinese woman.
The British police are not averss
to breaking noses of Chinese women
or shooting down Chinese workers
and students, as they did on MAY
80, 1925, or on dozens of other occa-
sions. But here is involved tbs
question: Which imperialist force
has the exclusive right to break
bones and shoot Chinese? That
concerns the question of which i'm
perlalist group has hegemony Of
colonial control.
CHANGHAI is the crux of i'm
y perialist domination over all Of
China and the vicious extra-terri-
toriality treaties. According to these
treaties every citizen of an inn
perialist country in China is exempt
from Chinese laws or jurisdiction.
Wherever he goes in China he car
ries on the soles of his feet the
territory Of the imperialist home
land. If he shoots or kills a Chi
nese, he is tried in courts ruled over
by imperialist henchmen.
Shanghai was blasted from China
during the opium wars and was
opened in 1843. Today there are
36,471 foreigners, small portion of
whom rule 100000 Chinese.
At present, Shanghai is divided
into what is known as the Inter-
national Settlement and the French
concession. The French imperial
lists reign supreme in the French
concession, but in the International
Settlement a Municipal Court rules
in which the British have the
hegemony, with constant conflicts
among the British, Japanese and
American invaders. The Hongkew
district is largely ruled by the jap
anese navy, though it is nominally
in the International Settlement.
THOUGH it is the most important
city in China, the Chinese masses
are treated as foreigners and chat
tells. THE Chinese are in Shanghai
on Sufferance," says the infamous
Feetham report, made by an Au-
Stralian magistrate to define the
position of Shanghai. "They must
be content to accept things as they
find them"
There is story current in
Shanghai of the old China hand.
an American imperiaIist who went
to the Bund to welcome friend
from America. "How do you like
China?" asked the visitor: II
haven't been there for ten years."
responded the old China hand,
meaning, of course, he had not
been outside of the International
Settlement.
just outside of the International
Settlement, in what is known as
Greater Shanghai, the Koumintang
rules in cooperation with all of tbs
imperialist bandits.
CHANGHAI as the leading indus
y trial center of China sees con-
slant strikes and struggles of the
oppressed workers against all of the
imperialist masters. For ordinary
crimes committed within the settle-
ment, the Shanghai courts MAIN
tain jurisdiction. But when a
worker is arrested on strike or is
charged with being a Communist,
all usual procedure is dropped. He
is Immediately eXtradited to Chi
nese territory. He is sent to the
Lunghai arsenal just outside Of
Shanghai, where he is tortured and
then shot. The Shanghai Municipal
police always cooperate with Chi
nese authorities outside of the set-
Element in arreSting Communists.
1t was the Municipal police who
arrested Paul and Gertrude Ruegg
in 1892 because they were the lead
ers of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Secretariat, AMI turned them over
| to Chang Kai 5hek. Both of these
comrades are now in prison, where
they are constantly harrassed and
tortured by the Kuomintanf
butchers.
The Kuomintang helps all of the
imperialists preserve their rights in
Shanghai and throughout China.
Only the Communist Party Of
China, with the support of the
Shanghai proletariat, is heroically.
daily struggling to drive the i'm
perialists and their colonial rule
into the sea.
Two young German workers, born
in the early DAYS of the last i'm