The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 11

AN OPEN LETTER-- To Members of U.S. Senate Protesting Against the Silver Loan and the Proposed International Silver Conference. N behalf of the militant Chinese workers, farmers, and other anti-imperialist Chinese residents in the U. S. A. and the Latin American countries, the Alliance of Chinese Anti-imperialists in Amer- ica strongly protests against the proposal for a silver loan to the Nationalist Government of China, as embodied in the Senate resolu- tion of February 11, 1931, and against any such loans, gold or sil- ver, from one imperialist power alone or from an international body of imperialist bankers or govern- ments. We also declare our opposi- tion to any international silver con- ference which, in the name of sta- bilizing the value of silver, is ac- tually a means of providing the imperialist powers concerned with an instrument of realizing their scheme of forcing a silver loan on China and thus further ensalving the Chinese people. This is not only the opinion of the members and supporiers of the League, but it also definitely re- flects the firm and determined stand of-the toiling masses in China who are now heroically fighting to overthrow the oppressive, tyranical and white terrorist Nanking re- gime of imperialist agents, and who, when victorious, will unhesi- tatingly repudiate all such loans made to their oppressors to tighten the chain of oppression and ex- ploitation. Characteristic of the representa- tives of a class which has made the calculation and piling up of profits its purpose in life and has perfect- ed the cheap trickery of salesman- ship to an art, you have cleverly sought in your resolution to make Uncle Shylock appear as a bene- factor and friend of the Chinese people whom you “admire and re- spect.” You are so considerate and fatherly that you even have thought of such trifles as that “the people of oriental countries are sus- picious of paper money,” because it is subject to destruction when placed in loin cloths, and that “the wages are so low in China that a laborer would be compelled to work for months before he could save a gold piece sufficiently large to con- veniently preserve.” Under the cir- cumstances, therefore, you argue touchingly, China requires silver coins, and since there are standard silver dollars now lying idle in the U.S. Treasury, they might be “util- ized” to accommodate the Chinese people! Of course, such trifles are merely put in to show your fatherly con- sideration for a friendly “neighbor.” You have even more lofty motives, that of “seeking to give moral, in- tellectual and financial aid to the National Government of China.” In order to prove that this government of China is worthy of your support, you cited the “unanimous testimony submitted to the Senate,” which endorsed the government of China as “a good government and is sat- isfactory to our citizens engaged in trade and commerce with China.” Thus you have put your official stamp on the Nanking government of Chiang Kai-Shek, a government that has tortured and murdered more than half a million workers and peasants in cold blood since 1927, a government that has de- prived the workers and peasants of China of every vestige of the civil rights of citizenship, a government that is now desperately engaged in suppressing the revolt of millions of workers and peasants organized in soviets throughout South China, a white terrorist, anti-worker-peas- ant government of the worst and most brutal kind! Yes, we know you and the Chi- nese people know you. We know that you are not ignorant of the true nature of the Nanking govern- ment. You endorse it not despite its anti-worker-peasant and _ its white terrorist character, but pre- cisely because of it. It is not for no reason that your “citizens engaged in trade and commerce with China” are satisfied with the Nanking gov- ernment. Ever since its inception in 1927, the Nanking government has been acting under — “advice and supervision.” The exploits of the Kemmerer Commission are known to the world. The repeated shipments of bombing planes and ammunition to Chiang Kai-shek, with the consent of the State De- partment of your government, are not of little benefit to your “citi- zens engaged in trade and com- merce with China.” You are pursu- ing an active policy of tightening your financial, economic and po- litical contrel over China, and you have found in the Nanking govern- ment of Chiang Kai-shek a willing tool both for beating off your impe- rialist rivals and for suppressing the heroic resistance offered by the workers and peasants under the de- termined and invincible leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Your agents in China are at- tempting to deceive the Chinese workers and peasants by spreading the false rumor that you do not re- quire any securities for the loan. But your resolution betrays the truth. It clearly states that the “internal developments for which the advanced silver will be used for “minting into small coins to pay for labor and buy materials,” is “to be approved by those supplying the silver.’ In the deceptive legal sense this is certainly no security in the sense that no definite property or fund is assigned as guarantee for payment of the debt. But both po- litically and economically, the se- curity is of infinitely greater value and significance. The silver loan, according to the Senate Resolution, is not to be secured by any paltry sum of money or the limited value of any property but by the mort- gage thus created on the already much impaired sovereignty and in- dependence of China, and the boundless resources and unlimited labor power of a great country with a large and industrious population! Your petty silver loan scheme has met the opposition of your rival imperialist powers of Great Britain and Japan. Therefore you seek to achieve your aim by a round-about way. Instead of espousing the scheme yourself, you have decided to use your colonial lackeys from Indid and China, while you remain behind, in the person of Senator William H. King, of Utah, directing the puppet show. In the recent Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce, you pushed through the resolution for the call- ing of an international silvér con- ference, nominally proposed by the Chinese delegate, Tsuyee Pei, the emissary of the militarist Chiang Kai-shek, and supported by the In- dian delegate, S. R. Bomanji, friend of Ghandi, the traitor of the In- dian people. However, the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce reso- lution, due to British opposition, left the question of who is to call the conference in the dark. Now, you have let the cat out ot the bag! In an officially inspired dispatch from Washington dated May 14, the New York Times re- ported that “the Nanking Govern- ment might issue a call” for the conference, that “authoritative cir- cles (in Washington) indicated to- night the United States would ac- cept such an invitation,” that there are “indications . from official sources here that. the United States would cooperate with the Chinese government in such a conference,” and that “the United States would be willing to lend assistance in the preliminary preparations if a con- ference is called by another na- tion.” If the puppets at Nanking are really worthy of the trust of those who pull the strings in Wash- ington, the long agitated silver con- ference may actually be convened, though, due to imperialist contra- dictions and strong opposition from the Chinese workers and peasants, the prospects of the conference are by no means good for the imperial- ists and their lackeys in China, The official aim of the confer- ence, of course, is to “rehabilitate silver.” But the scheme of “dump- ing” surplus silver to China in the form of a silver loan really lies at the bottom of the whole thing. The political implications of this move, 2 In the Nationalist army machine-gunners, led Now these soldiers are engaged in militarist warfare. DAILY WUOKKEK, Niy YORK, SATUKDAY, MAY 30, 1931 Pay of Wall Street * Page Seven Pe Army on many occasions has defeated Nationalist troops. by Chiang Kai Shek, supported by American imperialism. In spite of their superior equipment the Red as frankly stated by Senator King, is worthy of serious attention. He said, “it (the rehabilitation of sil- ver) would fortify China against Communism and strengthen the hands of those who are seeking to bring stable government and eco- nomic development to China.” (New York Times, May 15, 1931). This confession clearly reveals the real purpose of the silver confer- ence. To get rid of surplus silver; using that silver to attempt to sup- press the revolt of the workers and peasants, and to prop up the tot- tering Nanking regime of the butcher and militarist Chiang Kai- shek; thus trying to strengthen the regime that carries out orders from Wall Street and Washington and pave the way to Cathay for the ex- ploiters! What a nicely calculated scheme! The question is: will it succeed? No! The toiling masses of China are determined to accomplish this historical mission of throwing this and other imperialist schemes to the rubbish heap of history! The workers and peasants of the United States who are also oppressed and exploited by you and your masters in Wall Street and whose bitter ex- periences of starvation and police clubs, especially during the present depression, are. making them more conscious of their interests. They see more and more clearly their solidarity of interest with the Chi- nese masses as you and your mas- ters in Wall Street stubbornly re- fuses to bulge a step in the face of mass demand for unemployment ininsurance while scheming to lend millions to the butcher Chiang Kai-shek to enable him to carry on his grim campaign to slaughter the Chinese workers and _ peasants. They are rallying to the support of their working class and peasant brothers and sisters in China in their struggle against native semi- feudal and capitalist oppression and imperialist domination. Even if your petty silver loan scheme is successful temporarily, it will soon be repudiated by the new regime that is bound to succeed the semi- feudal bourgeois order. The red flag of the Soviet Revolution is al- ready flying in many provinces in South China and a Soviet Repub- lic of Chinese workers,’ peasants’ and soldiers’ deputies is clearly on the horizon! Your little plan for the enslaving of the Chinese peo- ple, gentlemen of the U. S. Senate, is historically doomed to fail and will be swept away by the mighty tide of the Chinese Revolution! Alliance of Chinese Anti-Imperi- alists in America. May 25, 1931 New York City. To Foreign Sailors In China INCE the fifteenth of March many slogans, quite attractive in form, were discovered on the walls of the streets as well as on the telegraph poles in Shanghai, all commemorating the Paris Com- mune and the uprising of Shang- hai on March 21, 1927. Among the principal slogans are: “Keep to the spirit of the Paris Commune and further it,” “Against the imperialist and Kuomintang at- tack upon the Soviet districts and Red army,” “Against the white ter- ror of the Kuomintang which is a hundred times more cruel than the massacre of the Paris masses by the French bourgeoisie,” “The Paris Commune forever,” “Defend the Soviet Union,” “Defend the Chinese Soviet revolutionary movement,” etc. Concerning the commemoration of the Shanghai Uprising such slo- gans were to be observed as “Against the trade union and fac- tory laws designed to deceive and oppress the workers,” “Smash the Yellow unions,” “Against the impe- rialist loan to the Kuomintang for attacking the red army,” etc. Side by side with these slogans are oth- ers of an economic character as, “regular -benefits for the unem- ployed,” “improve the soldier's life,” “increase their monthly pay,” “higher wages and allowance for rent” On March 18 many leaflets were found in the vicinity of the French billets in which a battalion of An- namite soldiers had been housed. The handbills, published in the An- namite language, called on the sol- diers to rise against French impe- rialism, to defend the Chinese So- viets and red army, to oppose the imperialist attack upon the Chinese Soviet revolution, to commemorate the Paris Commune. As a result, the Annamite soldiers have become very restive, Chinese communists have like- wise agitated among American, English and French soldiers by ap- plying the same effective methods, a fact that made the various com- mands feel very uneasy. The writer succeeded recently in securing a copy of the English handbill distributed among the for- eign soldiers commemorating the the Paris Commune and Shanghai Uprising. It reads as follows: “Brotherly foreign soldiers and po- licemen! “Hundreds of millions of Chinese toilers, particularly those In the So- viet districts and the red soldiers, sincerely wish to convey the follow- ing message to you and request you to forward it to your brothers and workers and peasants. “Today is the 60th anniversary of the Paris Commune, which sixty years ago the Peris workers set up, in conjunction with the poor peo- ple, by the method of armed revolt after crushing the bourgeois rule and its state machinery. This is the government of the worker, by the worker, for the worker, practically identical with the Soviet regime. “Destroyed by the French bour- geoisie through relentless murder and massacre, the Paris Commune never died in spirit, that is to say, in the mind of the toilers, In fact, the broad masses of Chinese work- ers and peasants, in furtherance of that spirit, are just fighting hard against the Chinese landlords and bourgeoisie and for the establish. ment of a larger Soviet government. At present Chinese Soviet Hsicns number over 300... é “The Kuomintang representing the landlords and bourgeoisie, is making desperate efforts to smash the Soviets and the red army. To this end it dispatched 300,000 troops together with numerous aeroplanes to Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi. British, American, French, Japan- ese and German imperialism assist the Kuomintang in such a drive not only by lending money for offering a@ host of military advisers, but also by making use of you and forcing you to shoot down the masses in the Soviet districts. “No doubt you come from the ranks of workers and peasants, But your bourgeois government and your superiors (your oppressors) compelled you to open fire upon Chinse workers and peasants who are your class brothers, viz., in the same class as you. “The vast masses in China, espe- cially the masses of people in the Soviet districts and red soldiers, are quite willing to join hands with you, in the spirit of the Paris Com- mune, to carry on the struggle against imperialism and for the realization of the Soviet govern- ment. You should tell your com- rades in arms, all of them, not to fire at the masses in Soviet dis- tricts and red soldiers, to demand the withdrawal of warships in China as well as of yourselves, to ask for the recall of military ad- visers with the National Govern- ment, to press for the abrogation of imperialist privileges, unequal treaties as well as the rendition of concessions, settlements, etc.” Similar handbills but in larger numbers are said to have passed into the hands of soldiers and sail- ors aboard foreign warships along the Yangtze River. In the opinion of many of those who are on the spot, this propa- ganda represents a very serious menace to the foreign imperiali;t naval forces stationed in China,