‘Party Hands Off China Rally Success’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 4 No. 122. June 6, 1927.

RECOGNITION OF HANKOW CRY OF 3,000 WORKERS

Hands Off China was the slogan of the 3,000 workers who jammed Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., at a mass meeting Friday evening arranged by the New York organization of the Workers (Communist) Party.

When told by Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School, the principal speaker, that the most effective way of fighting for the protection of the Chinese Nationalist revolution and against imperialist intervention was by joining the Workers (Communist) Party, 47 workers signed application blanks for membership.

The meeting amid wild cheering and applause adopted a resolution demanding the withdrawal of American marines from China and the recognition of the Soviet Union and the People’s government at Hankow. Wolfe pointed out the divisions in the imperialist ranks in relation to their policy towards China and why America is now following the same path in that country as England.

“America is not in favor of a policy of complete intervention at the present time,” asserted Wolfe, “but if the Chinese masses continue to go to the left and gain control of the entire country, endangering imperialism, then the United States will reverse its policy and come out in favor of complete intervention.”

The steady advance of the armies of the Hankow government was mentioned by Wolfe. He told the assembled workers that Chiang Kai-shek was only pretending to fight against the northern warlords at the present time.

Wolfe emphasized the importance of the Peking and London raids as reflecting the policy of England to isolate the Soviet Union.

Other speaker included H.M Wicks, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Charles Krumbein and Rebecca Grecht. Alexander Trachtenberg presided.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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