The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

| 10 ~AoOOSA0NNO COD III
L Shanghai has just discov-
cred there is "acute want and
widespread privation among
China's crowded 400,000,O0O
people" But what this imper-
lalist news agency is worried
about is not the distress among the
Chinese workers and peasants un-
der Kuomintang- inperialist rule,
but the undeniable fact that condi-
lions now are reaching catastrophe
heights with the perspective of tens
OF millions starving to death-and
tens of millions more refusing to
Starve by joining the forces of So
Wet China.
What the japanese newspaper.
the Osaka Mainichi, some time ago
predicted for China after the an
nouncement of the capture of
Juikin, capital of the central Soviet
district in Kiangsi province, is now
admitted by the Associated Press.
Butcher Chang Kai-shek, instead
OF consolidating his rule, instead of
destroying the Soviets and the Red
Army, has plunged China into
deeper chaos, has brought greater
starvation TO the millions of Chi
nese workers and peasants.
Under imperialist and native
landlord bourgeois rule China has
always been a country of chronic
starvation. But the past few years
have plunged the majority of the
population into the danger of i'm
minent starvation. The rice crop
last year was failure. All of the
reserves have been gobbled up by
Chang Kai-shek and his class of
landowners, usurers and native
capitalists. Not only that. the peas
ants are head over heels in debt
and cannot pay for the imported
rice. On top of this, the Roosevelt
government, which readily sent
bombing planes to help Chang
Kai-shek kill off the population in
the Soviet areas, did Chang Kali
shek dirty turn by raising the
price of silver.
THE inflated price of silver in the
- U. S. is draining China of its
silver, despite embargo. This has
caused run on the Chinese
banks, because the business men
haven't much confidence in the
paper money. The result is a vir-
tusl money panic all over China.
with disastrous consequences on the
badly shattered economy of the
country.
What with the usual high prices
due to scarcity of food the hoard.
ing of silver is driving prices to i'm
possible levels. With the banks en-
dangered throughout China, the
badly shattered entire economic
system is still further endangered.
The Spectators, and the imperialist
bankers. of course, reap their usual
fortunes out of this unheard of mis-
cry of the Chinese masses. They
smuggle silver out of the country
to get the benefit of Roosevelt's in
flated prices.
Conditions are so frightfully bad
for the Chinese masses, that the
Associated Press gives estimates Of
unemployment" as high as 1851
100000, or about a little less than
half of the Chinese population. The
only hope of the Chinese masses is
the Chinese Soviets and the Red
Army. Only a destruction of native
landlord bourgeois rule in China
and the death grip of imperialism
can save millions of Chinese from
death by starvation and 10000, 900
from imperialist slavery.
WE have Just received the follow
W ing letter from our brother
Party in Mexico;
THE Communist Party of Mexico
has struggled to liquidate all weak
nesses in its work, following the
line drawn by the Communist IN
ternational of becoming a mass
party, able to lead the economic
and political struggles of the toll
ing masses of the country and pre-
pairing them for the final struggles
for power and the establishment in
Mexico of Workers and Peasants
Government. But to achieve this it
is urgent for our Party to broaden
its work. For a number of years,
as you must be aware, our Party
! has worked Illegally, condition
which frequently impedes broader
activities.
ITO achieve our above stated aim,
we have decided that, at the same
time we carry on our work on all
tasks, to increasingly utilize the
paper Ell Machete,' the central or
gan of our Party, that owing to our
| financial situation comes out only
every ten days with great sacrifices
being made. The possibilities of
our paper are thus limited, as the
VOICE VI Uur EdIGy, III every llSIlG,
reaches the struggling masses
greatly delayed. This makes it i'm
possible to broaden and much less
! to consolidate our influence among
the masses.
I'VE have, therefore, decided to
strive in making our paper a
weekly, which will already be a
step forward and above everything
to assure its issuance. With this
aim in mind we are trying to raise
the necessary funds to buy print
ing press and are thus calling for
help from all Mexican Communists
but also from all revolutionary
Mexicans in the United States.