Kuomintang to Working Class:
The Alleged Oppression Nanking, Apr. 27:
'A Labour-Day Message to the throughout the country was issued last night by the Publicity Department of the Central Parly Headquarters. It explains in detail the danger of class struggles and points out that the only profitable means of raising the status and promoting the welfare of all Chinese workers lies in the emancipation of the country from the woes of militarism and feudalism and from the exploitation and oppression of imperialism and com munism. The workers are advised to seek their own advancement by enhancing the well4ting ut the nation as a whole instead of creating trouble for themselves and causing inconvenience to the public. The following is a resume of the statement:—
Labour Day, the memorable casion on which, in the year 1886, American workmen in Chicago. first Started the struggle for their liberal tion and from which dated the emancipation of the Western labouring classes from the oppression of tthe capitalists, is indeed an acc wrelkdeserring" of our commemorn tion.
In commemoration of this occasion, it behoves all our workmen, how: ever, first to understand fully the speci find themselves in China to-day and secondly, to make sure of the direetion in' which they should con centrate their exertions, In the iron grip of imperialism und bowed down by poverty and weakness, China occupies today a Position not equal even to that of "of the Powers. son for this degrading posi be found in the contin existence of the unequal treaties and the entire masses of the country, especially the workers, should be cognizant of this humiliating position.
It is, therefore, obvious that in order to raise and elevate their own status, our workers must strive for} the elevation of the position of the entire nation. Not particularly for the welfare' of themselves, but rather, for that of the country as a whole, should our workers carry on their struggle.
We should also realize that, in. dusteially, our country is still" far behind. "Due to the competition and economic exploitation of foreign capitalists, the employers, no less than the employees of the handicraft industry have been experienc. ing great hardships. As regards the manufacturing. industry, even the so-called employers themselves are groaning under the oppression of foreign capitalism. Far diferent are our employers from the western capitalists. There <loes not exist in sleerly pointed out! 49 Leader (Dr. Sun), any class analogous to the capital ists in the West, Instead of caus. ing trouble for our so-called "capitalists" the workmen should give the fullest ce-operation and work with them for the promotion of native industries and for the betterment of our material wellbeing, Unless our workmen realize this and act accordingly, they, together with thei employers, wil fal presto the powerful foreign capi 'The. main object of the Chinese Commu in instigating and] inciting class-strugelet and indo-trial strife, far from promoting the well-being of the workmen, is to} utilize ignorant labourers to create a reign of terror'and to distur peace' and order in the country, Being servile tools of the foreign Bolshevil they are for ever rely te reap] advantages for themselves at the expense of the labourers.
is, indeed, needles to reiterate that the only way of emancipating our workmen is for then to promote the spirit of ce-operation between Capital aiid Labour for the éeliverance of the entire nation from €or eign economic and political servitode.
The Kuomintang has always championed the cause of the opprosed people. It has never neglected the welfare of the work ers. During the past few years, the Government has directed its efforts towards the abolition of unequal Mereaties, the: restoration of tariff
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