The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
On the
World Front
Red China
A British Spy Speaks
Why Roosevelt Aids
By HARRY CANNES

| why Roosevelt AldS
lard on the heels of new
IA from China that Chang
Kai Shek was emptying the
prisons of tens of thousands
of criminals in order to swell
his anti-Communist armies,
which already number over
100000, comes the report Of the
brilliant victories of the Red Army
in two sections of China.
Comrade Ho Long, commander d
the Red Army in the extreme west
ern province of China, crossed the
Yangtze River, entered Human Prov
ince, and then captured two of the
most important cities in the South
eastern portion of Szechuan Prov
ince. The Soviet district in Szech.
uan Province is growing by leaps
and bounds.
Further eastward, near HankoW,
the Red Army corp there captured
the city of Lotien; and with the
great recruitment among the work.
ers and peasants, is menacing the
North bank of the Yangt1e River
at one of its most strategic points.
The movements Of the Red Army.
combined with peasant and worker
upriSings, pass swiftly through ter
ritories where Communist activity
and organization has been going on
for a long time, and achieve VIC
tories that are startling to the inn
perialists and their running dogs in
the camp of the Kuomintang.
The secret of the rapid successes
of the Red Army lies in the fact
that in territories proximate to the
Soviet districts, despite the rule of
the Kuomintang, tremendous pre-
llminary work is going on.
From a British imperialist spy
who, in the guise of a missionary,
has traVersed Southern Flkien, near
the Central Soviet Districts, we
learn of the remarkable activities
carried on by our comrades under
the very nose of the Kuomintans
butchers.
In the "Hongkong Telegraph" this
correspondent" in a long article
entitled, Behind the Scenes al
Yungting; Communist Organization
Actively at Work." writes as fol.
lows:
Although Yungting is garri-
Soned by regular troops and the
district is proclaimed politically
white, One-quarter of the entire
population is definitely red, or in
close connection with the Reds
and amenable to their orders. =.
Within, therefore, the white count,
of Yungting there exists for the
Communists red county of
Yungting with its own governing
committees. The Red county com.
mittee is fully constituted and haA
its daily program of work, daily \
receiving communications from
the Communist headquarters al
Juikin capital of the Central So
Wet districtl and passing them
on, together with its own instruc.
tions, to the various smaller dis
trict committees under its con-
troll"
The British agent is impressed by
the widespread and persistent Com
mun1St organization in this Kuo-
rnintang territory, and the fact that
evne before the Red Army arrives
the problems of carrying out tho
agrarian, anti-imperialist revolutiora
as well as military action against
the landlord-capitalist native rulers
is discussed and prepared.
I'm district like Yungting," he
writes, with the enemy forces ever
around them, the first place in the
attention Of the Red Committee has
naturally to be given to military
affairs, for those would affect the
activities of the boards. But after
that, pride of place is given, as be-
hts true Communists, to questions
OF land reorganization and distribu-
ton. Wherever possible, that is, in
districts sufficiently removed from
the sphere of influence of white
troops-the land is re-divided among
! the peasants"
Women" he adds, "at least in
the Yungting district, are treated
with respect. No one is forced to
marry against her will, and poly
gamy is forbidden
TT is to help the rich landowners
retain their feudal hold over the
peasants, to insure imperialist DOM
nation in the industrial centers, to
permit the Chinese bourgeoisie to
continue to enslave women, that
Roosevelt loans $4,000, 900 to Chang
Kai-Shek. Nor does Roosevelt stop
there. He supplies the Kuomintang
butcher with bombing planes in or
der to slaughter Chinese workers
and peasants, in an effort to stop
the rapidly advancing agrarian,
anti-imperialist revolution in China,
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party of China.
DUT our heroic brother Party faces
y not only Chang Kai-Shek's
armies, but has to contend with the
support to him of all the imperialist
robbers, particularly U. S., japanese,
British and French scoundrels. AS
Chang Kai-Shek proves more ane
more incapable of stemming the ri4 /
ing red tide throughout China, TIL
imperialists go into action theni4
selves on the Yangtze River and
elsewhere. We must come to the
aid of our Chinese brothers in their
battles, by preventing our exploit