Red International Accuses Foreign Powers of Massacres a Fighting: Labour Parties Charged with Indifference The International of Red Trade Unions has issued two appeals. The firat addressed to the "workmen of all countries, state "The Congress of Profintern, comprising "the representatives of 4 countries of Europe, 'America, Africa, and Australia, in: froms the' labour classes of all' the! world that a bloody, unprecedented terror continues." in China, Thousands and tens of thousands of its best sons are being killed and mutilated, 'The cruel militarists and the Chinese bourgeoisie acting Pr9t inva fit of madness, are trying sword and fire to eradicate the Chinese labour and. peasant. movement, In the vast territory. of China, mass executions are taking place' with the direct assistance Britain, France, America, fand Japan." The object of these mass executions is to suppress and to destroy Inbour movements, and to throw Chinese proletariat and peasantry back into a state of poverty.
"While all vast China is overflow ing with the blood of innocent martyrs (workers and. peasants) while a mad terror is annihilating thousands and tens of thousands of workmen, peasants, and. wame while hecatombs of victims in China prove the existence of a bloc between Chinese reactionaries—and: work! imperialism; the offeial leaders of the labour movement in imperialistic countries "continue. to he silent upon the Chinese events, as if the life there is quite normal, Neither the Labour Party or the General Council in Great. Britain, the American Federation of Labour, the" Reformist Confederation of Labour in France, or the Jupanese Reformists have done anything to help the tiling masses in China, Not the slightest effort has been made to show and to prove the part at. imperi governments of counterrevolutionavies. If Reforme ists are'silent, the labour classes of all the world' must speak. It time to raise our voices against the Chinese counter-revolutionaries and against the unheard-of erucltiey and the execution of workmen and peasants, Tt is time to declare a st against that unheard-of cruelties and the execution of worke men and peasants, tis time to or anize everywhere—in every town, and in every factory—and to hold demonstrations against the Chinese counter-revolutionaries and their allies, the capitalists.
The second appeal the "indian Labour states:— addressed to class, "The Congress of Profintern, in which" the representatives of 45 countries are participating, sends greetings and expressions of its sympathy to the Indian proletariat and regrets that there ave no rep= presentatives of their trade unions in the present Congress, whose chief object is that organization of the toiling masses aguinst world im= penalism. The Congress belie that the "labouring class of India must stand on the side of those Who ave fighting against imperialism for independence of colonial and sem colonial propless. "The Congress hopeful that Indian" trade unions enter into" close relation with "the Red Trade Unions International, with the object of eo# operating against imperialism,"
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