The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 5

IN TWO SECTIONS (SECTION TWO) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 30, orker ENO (Section of the Communist on ral Party U.S.A. 1931 DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION —By BURCK May 30th and the Chinese Revolution By M. J. AY 30 is an historical day in the Chinese Revolution. In 1925, May 30 marked the out- burst of the anti-imperialist na- tional revolution in China, the bru- tal massacre of hundreds of Chi- " mese in Shanghai, Canton, and else- where by world imperialism. It also -marked the tendency of betrayal of the Chinese Revolution by the mational bourgeoisie and the heroic struggle and independent leader- ship of the Chinese working class in - the National Liberation Movement. In the bitter struggle against im- - perialism in 1925 of the Chinese workers as recorded in the Shang- hai and Hong Kong strikes it is of |. importance to note that the Second and Amsterdam Internationals were fmert, in reality helping their “fa- therlands” in murdering the Chi- mese masses. Only the Communist Interna- tional, the Red International of Labor Unions, the Soviet Union, and its trade unions gave effective and direct help to the Chinese Na- tional Revolution. After the Chinese National bour- geoisie had turned its back against the Chinese Revolution and com- bined with the feudal and imperial- ist forces to crush the anti-impe- rialist agrarian revolution, May 30, 1930, recorded the intensification and advance of the Revolution in the form of the Chinese Soviets which were already established over a considerable territory in south- ern and central China. The Congress of the Soviet Dis- tricts which took place on May 30, 1930, proclaimed the revolutionary fundamental policies of the soviets to intensify the anti-imperialist agrarian revolution under the lead- ership of the Communist Party of China and the Communist Interna- tional. May 30 this year registers the complete defeat of the united front “Communism Suppression Cam- paign” of the feudal-bourgeois- militarist Kuomintang and world imperialism in their attempt to crush the Chinese Soviets, the Red Army and the revolution, thanks to the heroic struggle of the Chinese workers and peasants. The new militarist. war which is being pre- cipitated by the inevitable antagon- isms of the militarists and their imperialist masters will undoubted- ly provide favorable objective con- ditions for the further consolida- tion and extension of the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army, and the | further advance of the Chinese revolution. American and other imperialists, in addition to their super-exploita- tion of the Chinese masses, have drowned the Canton and Changsha Soviets in rivers of blood, have ren- dered direct aid to the Chinese militarists to crush the Chinese Revolution, The new upsurge of the revolu- tionary wave in China and the new victories of the Soviets and the Red Army will again be met on the part of the militarists and the impertal- ists by @ concentrated campaign By EARL BROWDER. UNBOATS flying the flags of United States, Japan and Great Britain are today shooting down Chinese workers and peasants along the Yangtse River, in the South of China, and on Hainan Is- land. This active warfare against the Chinese revolution is the latest phase of 100 years of imperialist in- tervention in China. It is well to see the present day events in their relation to the whole century-long oppression of the Chinese people by the capital- ist-imperialist powers. Western imperialists got their first footholds on the territory of China in the so-called Opium War of over 90 years ago. This war was waged by Great Britain in order to force open the doors of China to the admission of opium, of which Great Britain was the great inter- national peddler. British warships and armies carried on a crushing war until the Chinese government finally agreed to allow Britain to sell unlimited quantities of opium within her territory. After the admission of opium came the penetration of China with the more subtle opium of Christian missionaries, and after the mission- aries came the sacred imperialist principle of “extra-territoriality” under which imperialist invaders of China are exempt from Chinese laws. “Extra-territoriality” wrested from China by the opium war, was immediately seized upon by the United States which, forced the first formal treaty upon China embody- ing this imperialist principle. Since that time imperialist intervention a cnt SLANE SRR ee against the Chinese Soviets. Besides unleashing gheir running dogs to murder the Chinese work- ers and peasants, world imperial- ism also dictatesethe militarists to provoke, and attack the Soviet Un- nion, the citadel of World Revo- lution. The Chinese Eastern Rail- way provocation in 1929, the Stim- son Note following, were the most glaring evidences of the whole chain of imperialist intrigues against the Soviet Union on the Eastern front. One of the fundamental imme- diate tasks of the international re- volutionary working class, as set in China has steadily pressed for- ward until today every governmen- al institution in China, every mili- tary leader and army, is a direct agent of one or another of the for- eign imperialist powers. The only exception to this rule today is the Soviet Districts and the Red Army organized and led by the Communist Party of China. Following upon the first period of intervention after the Opium War, the next stage in the development of imperialist intervention occurred during the great Taiping Revolt (1851-1867). The Taiping Revolt was the first large-scale effort of the Chinese people to overthrow the antiquated “imperialist” gov- ernment of China and the semi- feudal organization of Chinese so- ciety. It was the first attempt of the Chinese people to modernize their social and political institu- tions under the influence of forces of the Western economic system with which they had been brought in contact. Curiously enough the Taiping Revolt was carried on un- der the banner of “Christianity” re- flecting the dim understanding of the masses that their’ movement was in some way in response to the new forces let loose in China by the imperialist penetration. The Taiping Revolt ewas for 14 years _ successfully advaneing against the ancient government of China, winning control of all Southern and Central China. Its victorious advance, however, was halted by military intervention from Great Britain and the United States. A British imperialist ad- venturer, by the name of Gordon, organized from the basis of the out by the XI Plenum of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Commun- ist International, is to “fight against imperialist war and military inter- vention in the U.S.S.R.: Exposure of the preparations for military in- tervention by the imperialist gov- ernments, fight against interven- tion in the Soviet Districts of China...” Workers in the United States and other capitalist countries, in our struggle against rationalization, unemployment, wage-cuts, lynching, deportation, must understand that the scoundrels in Wall Street Shanghai International Settlement, under the protection of foreign war ships, the first modern army to in- tervene actively in inner Chinese life, the arms and money for which were furnished by imperialist trad- ers in the “international settle- ment” and the rich Chinese com- pradore merchants working under their protection. “General” Gordon was succeeded in the leadership of this counter-revolutionary inter- vention by an American adventurer of the same stamp, “General” Ward. Ever since that time the ri- val historians of Great Britain and America have never been able to agree as to which of these bandits is entitled to the “glory” of smash- ing the Taiping Revolt, One thing is sure, that these imperialist mili- tary interventions which first or- ganized modern Chinese armies un- der foreign control had a decisive influence in maintaining the semi- feudal militarist regime in power in China for another 60 years, and laid the foundation for modern Chinese militarism. The next large scale military in- tervention in China was during the Boxer Uprising in 1900. The Boxer movement was a similar movement of the masses to overthrow their corrupt and decrepit government which had become hardly anything more than an agency for British and American imperialists. Because of the imperialist control of the na- tive Chinese government, the Boxer movement also took on the aspects of an “Anti-Foreign” movement. This furnished the imperialist pow- ers with a convenient pretext for large scale military intervention in China, This intervention was one who squeeze the sweat and blood of the American workers and farmers, also ruthlessly exploit the Chinese workers, murder the Chinese mass- es, fire on the Red Army and bomb the Soviet Districts in China. We must link up our struggle against capitalism at home with our struggle against imperialism abroad. We must defend the Soviet Union and give direct and effective support to the revolution- ary movements in Latin America, China, India, the Philippines and other colonial countries so that their success will be also our suc- cess, e Imperialist Intervention In China of the most disgraceful episodes in history. Armies of all of the civil- ized nations of the world rushed into China, in the most desperate tivalry with one another as ta which should first reach and secure for itself the rich booty of the city of Peking. The capture of Peking by these rival armies of imperialist bandits, the destruction of the city and the looting of its treasures by these armies which turned into howling mobs of loot-seekers, is a page of history which is conveni- ently left out of all the imperialist text-books. The indemnity pay- ments which were forced upon China as the price of the with- drawal of these armies are still be- ing paid by the toiling masses of China, whose entire customs service was placed under the control of the imperialist powers as the guarantee for the collection and distribution of the money for these indemnities, American imperialism, pursuing a more long-range policy of penetra- tion of China, and needing addi« tional native Chinese assistance in the struggle against British and Japanese rivals who were more strongly entrenched, made use of the Boxer indemnity payments coming to the United States for a clever manoeuver. The United States announced that it would not make use of these indemnity paye ments except on behalf of the Chi- nese people. It set them aside as a fund for the education of young middle-class Chinese boys and girls in the schools and universities of the United States. This policy was very successful for a long time, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE), an © —