CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 28

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long as it helps them to prejudice our National Revolution.

The large number of documents found in the General Labour

Union in Shanghai has revealed to us their dangerous intrig-

ues. If what we have done is reckoned as oppressing our

masses, the only thing left for our national revolutionary

soldiers to do is to tie themselves up and ask our masses to

shoot them. What is the use of teaching them to fight for

the cause of our masses, if they have no heart for it?

After all the opposition of our Kuomintang to the

Communists is not opposition to the peasants and workmen;

on the contrary it is a good opportunity for true peasants and workmen to rouse and organize themselves. Wake up! Organisation is indispensable for you, if you want to seek your own benefit. If you now fail to organise, others will presently form organisations under your names and make you

their tools. Peasants and workmen who have interested

themselves in organisation before, should not be dishearten-

ed, but must realize the gloomy and deceitful work of others,

while those who have not before taken any interest in

organisation should not be frightened and refrain from it, but should know that, after the elimination of the Communists from the positions they have usurped, it will be opportune for them to form their own organisations in peace. Any

undue trouble that is caused, in the course of our suppress-

ion of the Communists, to bona-fide peasants and workmen in any place within the jurisdiction of our Nationalist Government and our National Revolutionary Armies, may be reported to the Generalissimo's Headquarters, and the perpetrators will be punished according to law. Their libel of me as a new militarist is wicked and ridiculous. How can

there be in the world a militarist who fights for sake of

any