The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 9

The Kuomintang---- Hangman for Imperialism By WANG MEI HE rule of the Chinese Kuom- intang is a rule of terrorism. Under it the Wuhan area, in which Hankow, Wuchang, and Hanyang are located, is the district that has suffered the most. Thousands and tens of thousands of. revolutionary masses have been killed in groups, one after the other, in and around the district. All freedom of civil- ians in general, all freedom of res- idence, freedom of movement, of speech, of publication, of assembly — all has been destroyed by the white terror. Arrests and Tortures The torture of arrested revo- lutionary fighters is the most or- dinary occurrence. The torture employed is hideous. It includes searing the tongue with red hot irons; pumping petroleum -into the nose; forcing sharpened bam- _boo sticks into the fingers through the nail fissures; cutting off the nose, the ears, the sex organs of men and the breasts of women. Whenever the Red Armies threat- en the white control of a district, er on days prior to revolutionary anniversaries, the local Ktomin- tang authorities adopt the most savage methods of terrorization. They take political prisoners from jail, some of them whose prison terms have already been determ- ined and partly served, and ‘others whose terms have Iong since expired, and they chop off the heads of these victims in the public streets, in the presence of large crowds guarded by heavily “armed forces. It is no longer a “rare occurrence that dozens of revolutionary fighters are be- headed or shot to death in a single day in the Wuhan area, and their bodies left lying in the streets for days as a measure of terrorization. 349 In One Day It is quite a common thing to find 30 revolutionaries executed within a week in Hankow under the rule of the Chinese Kuomin- tang. On a certain day in the winter of 1930, a mass execution of 349 revolutionary fighters took place in Hankow. On December 27, 1930, another mass execution of 15 Communists took place in the same district. Among the 15, Com- rade Chang Tsai-tsen behaved with superhuman heroism. He had been brutally tortured right -after his arrest. The Kuomintang then tried to induce him to surrender. But during his trial Comrade Chang stood his ground, fiercely defied his torturers, and demanded an early execution of himself. Mass executions such as the above mentioned ,above in the Wu- han area also take place in Can- ton, Nanking, Shanghai, Hangchow, Tsinan and other cities. On Janu~ ary 17 of this year, in Shanghai, 24 Communists, two of them wo- men, were arrested in Shanghai by the British imperialist’ police, turn- ed over to the Chinese authorities, and on February 7 were put to death by the Kuomintang militar- ists in a manner that only bar- barians of the Middle Ages used. First they were forced to dig their own graves, then five of the vic- tims were buried alive, but the soldiers refused to proceed with the grewsome work, and the rest were mowed down with machine guns and their bodies thrown in on top of the five. Five of the 24 were young left-wing writers. Not a word of this savagery appears in the foreign or Chinese press in Shanghai, but it is known to all because executions often take place in the presence of large crowds of officials, militarists, and foreign police and officials from the for- eign concessions. On April 5, General Han Fu-Chu, one of the present props of the Nanking regime, took 22 Commun- ist prisoners from Tsinan, Shant- ung, prison, and shot them to death, No Complete Record - It is impossible to keep a com- plete record of the victims of the white terror in China these days. In Wuhan the executed range from the ages of 17 to 48, The Kuojnin- tang terrorists regarded their nost important find to be that of Gom- rade Liu Yung, who’entered the Communist Party in France in 1923, and had been trained in military affairs, especially in aviation, |in Soviet Russia for the few years previous to his return to China. He arrived in Chind in May, 1930, was at once sent by. his Party ‘to Han- |. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1931 Page Five The Task of the Kuomintang SSRRELISE = papers. (1) ang Kai hek. —~BRRRKHESRS Cartoons from Chinese revolutionary news- ing a bgnner which reads: Chiang Kai Shek murders the masses with the support of the imperialists who stand in the background and wave him their best wishes. In the foreground is shown the ad- vance of the Chinese Red Army. eign capitalist squeezes the blood of the Chi- nese masses into a pail obligingly held by Chi- (2) The for- (3) Workers’ demonstration bear- “SLong Live the World Revolution!” kow, and was caught within three weeks after his arrival, and butch- ered. During his trial he scoffed at his butchers, telling them that they caught him so soon that they could learn nothing of his activi- ties. It is no exaggeration to say that in no historical period of the world By EARL BROWDER. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) | considerably strengthened the pow- er of American imperialism in China against its rivals. With the rise of the revolution- ary mass movement in China in the past four years, however, this clever manoeuver of the United States has begun to fail. The Boxer Indem- nity students in America have be- gun to learn the true nature of American imperialism as well as that of other imperialist powers. More and more Chinese students in America have been turning to the Communist Party. The organ of the Chinese Students Alliance in America, the “Chinese Students Monthly,” which had been pub- lished for 26 years as a good ser- vant of American imperialism, be- gan to speak out very forcefully against imperialism as a whole, to expose the role of United States imperialism in China and to ex- plain the Communist program of anti-imperialist revolution in China. American imperialism was unable to stop this trend of developments among Chinese students. The most it was able to do was to destroy the “Chinese Students Monthly” and prevent its continued appear- ance in any form. Today imperial- ism is making a desperate effort to frighten the Chinese students back to servility by the deportation of Comrade T. H. Li into the hands of the butcher Chiang Kai-shek as a warning and lesson to the other Chinese students in America to re- has there been such a state of savagery as exists today in China under the Kuomintang terror. The Inquisition in the Middle . Ages killed a few thousands persons over a few decades. But in China, with- in four years of the Nanking re- gime, it has been variously estim- ated that from 200,009 to 300,000 main loyal to their imperialist mas- ters. It is very significant that Com- rade T. H. Li came to America as one of the Boxer Indemnity stu- dents and in spite of the unversi- ties of America learned to under- stand the true role of American imperialism. Many books could be written about the many murderous assaults against the Chinese people by the American imperialists as well as the other imperialist powers. The massacres in Shanghai on May 30, 1925, and June 13 of the same year in Canton had the active support and in one degree or another the participation of the American im- perialist forces. The bombardment of Nanking in March, 1927, was led by the warships of American im- perialism. The bloody suppression of the Canton Commune in Decem- ber, 1927, was assisted by American gunboats. The destruction of the Changsha Soviet Government in July, 1930, was accomplished by American and British gunboats acting in concert. The bombard- ment of the Soviet territories along the Yangtse and in Canton: prov- inces in South China as well as the most recent events at Hainan Is- land are further examples of the long history of mass-murder of im- perialism in China. The American working class must learn the lessons of these events, must understand their historical setting and significance and the in- timate connection they have with the daily problems of the work in America. The struggle against wage cuts and speed-up in the United States, the struggle for unemployment re- RALLY TO SAVE THE LIVES OF COMRADES LI AND SHETH! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2) tionaries. We must intensify our mass campaig nagainst the depor- tation, send telegrams and protest to Hoover and Doak demanding voluntary departure for Li and Sheih. Rush funds to the Inter- national Labor Defense for the de- fense of these comrades, hold mass meetings and demonstrations to our fighters without mass protest and mass action from the workers and toiling masses and we must join in the Communist Party, the revolutionary trade unions, the un- employed branches, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the League of Struggles for Negro Rights, and the Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, to launch a counter- offensive against American and in- ternational imperialism and its lackeve revolutionary workers, peasants and intellectuals have been put to death by the white terror. ‘Per- haps the number is much larger if we include the dozens of mass ex- ecutions of thousands who have been mowed down by machine guns. Imperialist Intervention in China lief and for social insurance, the struggle for Negro rights, all of the outstanding struggles of the Ameri- can working class are directed against pr-cisely the same po-er, the same enemy against which the Chinese people are fighting. That power is the power of finance cap- ital, of monopoly capital, of impe- rialism, which expresses itself in the ugly form of the United States government headed by Herbert Hoover in Washington, and being administered against the body of Comrade T. H. Li today by Secre- tary of Labor Doak. Every worker must raise the loudest possible protest against the deportation of Comrade Li. Every worker must help to organize the support for the Chinese Revolution. Support the Revolution In China In China the power of imperiale ism and its native agents, the Chie nese militarists, is being shaken by the rising revolutionary movement of the Chinese workers and peas- ants. For over a year the Chinese Soviet tricts have been success< Dist fully repulsing all of the attacks of reaction and have extended their territory to include a population o? 66 million people. The militarists themselves admit that the- entire population,—men, women and chil- dren—have joined the Soviet move- ment and under the leadership of the Communist Party of China are fighting unitedly for liberation from imperialist and militarist rule. This is the reason why the Unit- ed States government, one of the worst oppressors of the Chinese people is deporting Comrade T. H. Li from the United States to de- liver him into the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, the hangman of the Chi- nese people. In the past four years, Chiang Kai-shek has been directly respon- sible for the cold-blooded slaughter of hundreds of thousands of revo- lutionary Chinese workers, men, women and children on the charge of being Communists. The world has never witnessed such cold- blooded mass-murder as that per- petrated by the Kuomintang in China. It is into the hands of this bloody monster that the United States Secretary of Labor, Doak, demands that Comrade Li shall be delivered. Workers of the United States! You must understand that the vice torious advance of the Chinese Revolution is also a victory for the workers of the United States. You must understand that Chiang Kai- shek, the agent of American impe- rialism in China is your enemy the same as the enemy of the Chinese workers. You must understand that the protection of Comrade Li from the murderous intentions of Doak, representing the United States government, is the protection of your own interests. Raise a mighty protest against the deportation of Li to China! Send telegrams, demanding his release, to the Department of La- bor, to your local newspapers, and to the Daily Worker! Support the Chinese Revolution! Demand the release of Comrade Li! Fight against the brutal opprese sion of American Imperialism. COMMUNIST PARTY OF §& Communist Party of U. S. A. Central Committee, Pan-Pacific Trade Unionists Ss SE RwEH we * Wy = € se \\ & Re FE