The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1930, Page 2

Conquest of Ma U.S. A. Workingclass a TS Every Worker Feels His Conditions Worsening | 10 si COLLECTIN JANUARY } Yyau G THE GRAIN UNDER THE 5-YEAR PLAN 4 fter the “Victory” is of Chiang Kat-Shek Ef: | American Imperialism in China and What ft sicx And Seeks an Answer to His Questions By JAMES W. FORD : gro Department of the TUUL ar@. the conditions-ripe jus ethe working class of this coun now for winning the majority ) | ta i | plete eq the unions for in 4 omplete social é¢ondmic tice for the com- y of Negro workers in nd to make a struggle and} | Red wagon bringing in the harvest for the Soviet Govern- capitalist world was startled when recently Soviet grain ex- Means to Workers of China and the U. S. By R. DOONPING. I |THE sudden turn of events in the recent militarist war in Chin jeable interests operating in China before the end of the year.” most of China’s cable commu tions with the outside wor'd controlled by British interests, th a $ for ‘tevolu- politic Negroes as its | ment in the ‘hechen region. The workers and. peasants co- ports were offercd in England. This created a mild panic whieh seit nee generally Un-| significance of this announcement is b mary struggle’ [ia und: epaialag tac Sg sthe. been Tore “eoauASiN the siarke | on the world grain exchange. The capitalists had counted the jexpected “victory” of Chiang Kai evident. Shy is there je U. L. has laid down the . & “ x Soviet Union out as a grain exporting country. The rapid |Shek, is another e: sion of the! Jp view of the growing war dan z wing radical nly trade union program in. this pda acanon of Sorneretive farms under the Five-year bat strides of the Five-year Plan gave the capitalists a living increasingly _ ager ve policy of | ger and the intensified conflicts = tion: and mili untry that has as its aim and pur- | (Right.) Accepting and registering the grain collected... The example of its effectiveness insihe grain shipments. j American Imperialism in China. The | between the U. S, A. and the Anglo- csi in a grea: ose the winning of the maj of | 2 Sia |news of the report of the Kem-| Japanese bloc in China, its is not Section of th | PAmerican “work 408? To answer se questions ix “8: get down to 3th bottom of the Possibilities of C&@pturing the majority of the working class for evolutionary struggle, he Negro work: ry struggle of for joint ri white and bla asis of the cla America impey na series of small war: colonial peeples crushing the N ans and Haitian worke: rines while at the same home she is cr uggle. m: ck ers against capitalism upon the mis carrying | with By NAT KAPLAN Making War Under the Slogan of Peace HE so-called peaceful period of capitlist development ended with the ushering in of imperialism at ff No Ca pitalist Country Wants War, Why Do, All of Them Talk So Anxiously of Peace? our analysis of the evitability of opposing peace. Nothing can be |more vile than this legerdermain. imperialist war into a position of | merer Commis: in the Ameri y (Dec. 14, 1 ng’s “victory,” throws much light on the policy of American im- perialism in China. The Kemmerer Commission's ld ice ” re- port consists chiefly of a series of | proposed laws, some of which ha on which appeared n Press on the same | 29) as the news of | surprising that the latter will loose no time to oust the American pup- pet, Chiang Kai ‘Shek and put their own agent. at the helm of the “cen- j tral” goverment. The British Japanese imperialists have wi tools in the Northern sei landlords and trading-compradore- capitalists, whose antagonism to “ i By ae in Tiivot “and Raa The Soviet Union today is the only |already been enacted by the legis-| Nanking remains unchanged, whose Fe deep-going crisis in- Amer- i a? va an i ae: region of | the end of the * nation in the world that has really | lative Yuan. These laws “cover a/| leader, Yen Hsi Shan, now emerges : fapltalizm which “hes been go- | the | South {whose cpelione ste 19th century-| jeans a war for a new redivision |time at the Washington naval dis-/ fought for peace. ‘The Communists |wide range and are not confined! in the most recent mancuvreg ing for some time but which has Lik ny ayy n the exploited | : + Imperia-| of the world amongst the imperia- jarmament conference in 1 a|fight for peace, but we declare that | merely to fiscal affairs” (New York rkers in the been brought more sharply to the fopefront by the recent market thugs and milit lonies) with police “that is, capita- lism”, said Lenin, | list robbers. jeampaign for naval construction peace under capitalism is an illu- | Times, Dec. 14, 1929). The full re- against Chiang Kai Shek, | Recent developments and tende! i PE Rey : Gr to put it in the language of |was strated of an unprecedented na-| sion. It is a dangerous illusion be-| port is in the hands of Nanking and|cies in Chinese reactionary circ ay had Wal Sivas hag. pele oon Re Aggie UG BBR : lism of the ‘mo-| Wilbur, former Secretary of the /ture. “With the eapital ships fixed cause peace is the slogan thru which |the gist of it is still kept secret,| are rather correctly described by fects upon the working, | At the same time the Sovie nopolistic era | Nay |by treaty,” says French, “navy the bourgeoisie mobilizes the work-|Six members of the Commission | Jew York Ti class ef America. The foremost of | Union which in the first place has whieh has final- “4 y id 7 be aad y i © Commission | Hallett Abend, the New York Times | Our merchants and manufacturers | propagandists in Great Britain, the ers in support of imperialist war. | hav Thus the last war was igned contracts with “War to end/to remain as “ is rationalization. meant the loss of a tremendous king | correspondent in China in a dis ly matured in the must be able to. keep their hold on United States and Japan immedi- Ree ; 1 saivaliat trata ia | bi i | pert advisers” and/| patch dated December 28, 1929. He The effects of rationalization and parle tothe capitalist eystem is _ 5 entieth cen-| the foreign markets on which they|ately turned their attention to al all wars.” The recent efforts to|“assist in applying the sSeommen: | cays in part: the speed-up are at the bottom of | one of the main factors causing | Ker 28. tury, is in virtue] have firmly established themselves, /cam:paign for construction of ships| provoke a direct war of the big|dations of the commission.” \ the misery of the workers, Every| the hatred of the imperialists to- N. Kaplan of its fundamen-| s 4 and as a normal situation developes | tal economie traits, distinguished by| again in Europe we must seek new | least attachment to peace and free-| markets for our production. The| dom, and by the greatest develop-| display of the national flag stimu- | of the cruiser type.” Since the 1922 conference the U. S. has built 8 cruisers, Great Britain “Gradual reemergence of the old sphere of influence adminis- tered by semi-independent mili- imperialist powers against the Soviet Union was done under the slogan of “no violation of the peace pact.” | The American imperialists ‘have | vidently launched an_ elaborate | cheme to secure the control of the | wards the Soviet Union and for war on the Soviet Union. In this period of extreme crisis worker knowns that the speed-up system threatening. his job, that mounting unemployment is the out- Le, aon hae y 15, Japan 9, and France 5. Of All the present war preparations,| Chinese finances, to obtain more| ‘@tY leaders characterizes China's growth of the speed-up and ration- in the whole cap talist system the} ment ¢ militarism everywhere.” | lates considerably the struggle of|course, 1929 figures, which include| jokeying for allies, maneuvoring for! direct control of the machinery of internal situation at the approach alization. auccesstal sqcia list, canstragty | One of the chief features of the|our business men for new outlets,|the 15 cruiser program of Hoover,| the most favorable time to start the |the “Central” Government and thus| Of the year’s end. Today, Yen Asi Every worker knows, for example, | (ustrialization, and the carrying out | period we live in is war. Since the | | i Shs .....that when Henry Ford in the auto- | 0f the 5-year Plan of socialist re- ; mobile industry promises wage in- Construction is the main factor that creases that this increase will be at | is extending this crisis in capitalism _the expense of a large number of eT workers being let out and terr vot the Ford automobile industry, it #e typieal of the whole of American became acute and permanent is} basically brought about through the | “Swhole system sf rationalization. | “*e*It cannat se denied that the liv- | tng stanfatd of the American working class is being lowered and | worsened this in the face of the “In certain’ sections of the coun- | try the south in particular liv- ing conditions are not only ex- tremely deplorable but are worse than the living conditions of the poor exploited Chinese and Indian workers the pariahs of British exploitation. ‘The spontaneous wave of revolt | and strikes that has spread over | South is: the most vivid example | *<-of the reaction of the workers to the | rotten conditions existing in this country. Here in this “out of the “oway” section of America, compris- ing more than 40 millions of its popylation is a voleano rumbling. ‘At the time of these fierce class | battles and sharp class antagonism | the A, F, L. and the socialist party | are showing themselves the allies of | the eapitalist in beating down the owerkers disorgahizing and demoral- | “izing them. “This is unmistakable | to every worker inside the A. PF. L. | | | = i md to hundreds of thousands of ‘Workers outside the A. F. L. =~ Most of all the A.F.L. has since ita very inception carried on a “policy of jim-crowism and exclu- ~ “sien towards Negro workers. It > has done nothing to bring this “great section of workers into the (> organized labor movement. Negro Workers Negro workers are a most im- portant piiteritially revolutionary ‘section of the American working =- Class, comprising about one tenth of < the population and about one sev- | -enth of the working clas’ and) ‘situated~in strategic positions in| American industry. The winning of | -these workeys for revolutionary | struggle is a most important task. In those industries where there ig a eerious crisis—steel, auto- mobile, oil ete... . there are de- -fisive numbers of Negro workers. In the Gary (ind.) and the South Chicago” steel -district they com- “= &- prise 10% of the workers, in the ooo Birmingham ‘steel district 75%, in cree the Pittsburg district 21%. s¢<% In the automobile industry in De- a troit they are a great factor. In ~* Ford plants 10% of the forces are “© ~*Negroes}°Huppmobile 12%; Stude- ‘baker 10%; McCord Radiator 10%; Gadillac’6% and so.on down to 1% n the Paige-Detroit company. The oil fields of Oklahoma and asTexar veport- a large number of eas taltzation of the South is *bringing larger numbers of Negro _ workers isto the factories. “© Breakdown White Chauvinism cer The breaking down of white -7> © chaut4.’sm is the main task. ‘This & ust be carried on on the front. “- Success has been rei in the South in spite of betreved of the ALF. L. in ee x 3282) the Su gpite of thee vies of “he socialists. aie Pe camutcarion of che will of the __ Negro “workers for »¢"~7le has been by a nung, jon 0: ‘of examples in a, The Cleveland vie Trade Union y' August had the -mo significant gather- “Negro uilegates that have m assembled in such a con- in this country in spite of ties: in preparation. — “Negro workers were drown to T.U.U.L. Convention because and undermining its economy. Coupled with this-is the fact that| world. Only the most servile tools “spéed-up for those who are left, But the Soviet Union stands out as the|of the imperialists, the pacifist ~S@f-eourse this is not alone typical | beacon light to the workers and op-| phrase-mongers of the petty bour- the |geois. and social-facist stripe will | le against cap- | industry. Unemployment which has j italism. Capitalism is preparing war | masses. pressed peoples throughout world in their’ strugg! against the Soviet Union. Workers Alive to Issues mi! zation. These struggles are raising the tremendous height—the clashes with the police, the thugs of the bosses and the state militia; the murder of workers by hired gunmen are all ance, It is not significant when a southern delegate at a National Convention of Textile Workers moves a resolution for the with- drawal of the U. S. marines from Haiti and for unity and solidarity with the Negro workers of this is- land which is under. the heels of U. S. imperialism, when an Inter- national Labor Defense Confer- ence in the south does like wise, when thousands of workers throughout this country protest in mass demonstration against the Marines of U. S. imperialism in Haiti? The workers of this eoun- try are alive te the fact that-their pauperized conditions flow from the same cause that produce the pauperized conditions amongst the Negro workers of Haiti. We win the workers only by pick- ing up-the strings of militancy of the workers by fighting ruthlessly against the ‘bureaucrats of the F. L. by exposing their role at ry turn by taking the workers through the whole scope of the political significance of strikes, by being nism not only da: by day but at the most acute crisis duxjng a strike, by giving the greatest attention pos- sible to the unorganized workers, by drawing constantly new workers in- to leadership of strikes and unions, by takmg up a thousand current | problevas that are constantly agitat- ing the workers and utilizing them for carrying on struggle, under the | leadership ‘of the Trade Union Unity League. These tacties are necessary this period of acute crisis in capital- ism, Only by the new revolutionary systera of labor unionisin of the militant class forces of the workers against the brutal class forces of the bosses can the workers of this country in bitter class war meet the conditions of this period leading on to the capture and destruction of the capitalist system and the estab- lishment of a workers’ Government. Closest attention to the day to day needs of the Majority of the work- ing class is necessary in capturing it for revolutionary aims, The Daily Worker too in its 6th anniversary becomes a very im? portant organizer in the winning the majority of the workers. It enters this ‘period of keen and sharpening class struggles with tasks before it as great as the tasks of the whole of the past 6 years. ‘The working class cannot afford Daily Worker in these days of fierce class battles. It is an or- ganizer of the highest sort and character. Besides it has to com- batt and struggle against the combined financial forces and re- sources of the capitalist press which is organized to highest ex- proven determination to form Pay union center of struggle and treme to mould and to control the by admitting mistakes: and correct+ | | whole series of smaller and larger A series of spontaneous strikes} war collisions, from the struggle mainly against ‘rationalization es-|ef Germany and Poland for Upper pecially in the south and that pro- | Silesia, to the last imperialist at- to spread in’ éven greater pro-|tack of the Chinese portion a wave of struggle in the backed by world prosperity dope handed out by the | coal ficlds are the evidence of the ;against the Soviet Union. boosters of American conditions, | reaction of the workers to rationali- | | political level of the workers to a} 1 |factors of great political signific- | | | | | | | daring and ever more daring,|in the colonies and ing them by fighting white chau-|is already sharpening the in to under estimate the role of the © last world war, the Communists jhave ben pointing to the war danger as the most acute danger facing the exploited masses of the try to hide this danger from toiling Since 1918 there have been a war lords, | imperialism, | We have painted out the basis of this war danger. Capitalism is in a world erisis and the sharp and ever deepening economic erisis in the U. S. at present, will in turn sharpen the world crisis. The so- called solution to the crisis—the establishment of an equilibrium hetween production and consump- tion, means new markets for U. S. imperialism. But markets are not hanging around loose, they are already possessed by this or that country. Thus new markets means a struggle for markets—it and the success of this struggle | greatly depends, on the prestige which modern’ cruisers create for the state.” (Speech of Jan, 11, 1928. Our emphasis). Thus the race for armaments has kept pace with the race for mar- kets. Burton L. French, chairman in Current History (Jan, 1930): “During the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1929, the United States spent upon her navy, $374,- 608,054, or mare than three times azmuch as Germany spent in 1914. Great Britain, in her last fiscal year, spent $274,000,000. . The United States.h@$.300,000 tons of naval craft édersand ‘above awhat Germany had in 1914-ant, ‘meas- ured by the standards of fifteen years ago, a vastly superior fleet. Eighty-two per. cent of the rev- enues of the United States is ap- plied for expenses occasioned by past wars or. for military, purposes looking towards the future.” The disarmament sham, the so- called struggle for peace, which, in each ease, marks an important step in the war preparations of imper- ialism is unconsciously exposed by this same Mr. French. After “peace” was guaranteed for the hundredth of the House Navy Appropriation | even now built jin private yard: must not be included by bourgeo’ gentlemen in suth a list. on between them.” The nayal rivalry is a reflexion of the economic rivalry between Britain and the U. 8. for the con- trol of markets, colonies, sources of raw material, ete. “Marxists regard war as a continuation of polities conducted by certain gov- ernments representing certain classes,” said Lenin. The U. 8. | government, representing the cap- italist class, in their bloody. greed for more profits are preparing war. The crisis forces the govern- ment of the U. S. capitalists to hasten the war preparations. This is the sum total of American politics. today. “Capitalist flunkeys often distroy It may paint too black a picture for the latest London disarmament} serve of imperialism, their agents | farce. But facts are facts and what|in the labor movement, the social war, cruiser construction, ete., ete. | pacifist slogans of “outlawing war’ and “disarmament.” The. last {the bourgeoisie will not admit in| fascists and their new converts the jperiodicals read by the working | right wing and “left” orportunis masses they will sometimes admit| are sub-committee, declares in an article |among themselves. Thus Mr. French| pe: effective agents of the viet propaganda, character | Street policy. of the Wall {Union (Stimson’s note, ete.). Sec- jondly, prepare the war against Bri- |tain—in the East, the Near East Jand Latin America, ly for the exploiters. The existance of a mighty Communist Interna- tional in the next imperialist world war in place of collapsing social- |chauvinist Second International is ja mighty guarantee for the struggle jagainst imperialist war, Millions of |toilers will learn the lesson taught juss by Lenin: ‘Down’ with’ war’ does not mean to fling the bayonet | | away. It means the passing of pow- ler to another class.” The Communist Youth. Movement and the By JOHN HARVEY. | HE beginning of a deep-going | economic crisis in the United tes confronts us with the danger of war in aj sharper and more cencrete; form than ever) before. The U, S. rosses will try to ‘ome out of this crisis, first of all’ the expense of the American ‘lass, but also at the expense of ts imperialist ri- Sta i aes vals and the op- pressed masses semi-colonies, Thus the crisis in the U. S. general crisis of world capitalism, The fundamental antagonisms between the U. §. and Europe, especially between the two chief imperialist rivals, the United States and Great Britain, are greatly accentuated. A sharpened fight by the im- perialists for the colonies and eco- nomically weak countries is the out- growth with all that these new attacks will call forth in the form of sharpened revolutionary strug- gle by the colonial masses. Thus the tremendous growth of the con- tradictions between the capitalist world and the socialist soviet re- publics, contradictions which in no way diminish with the sharpened struggle between two bosses them-| selves—any more than competition pose of capitalism. In this two. fold role as an organizer and a fighter it must receive the fulliest support of the working class. “Hard Times” Begins as Militarism Tries to fight against their class enemy— the working class. All this means war, immediate war! War against the only coun- ‘try of the workers, the Soviet Union. World war between the imperialist power in which the two most powerful imperialist gangs, Great Britain ond the United States, will struggle for first place as chief robber of the world’s workers. Wars against the op- pressed masses in the colonie: ich already show themselves in one for mor ancther, in Hi: Palestine, in South Africa, etc. How are the imperialist powers preparing for this war which con- fronts the world today as a living reality? First of all, by throwing a smoke sereen over all their war prepara- tions and over all those powder magazines in the form of interna- tional antagonisms, .which, with only the slightest jar, will flare up into the next world war, The Naval Conference in London plays on important: part in the lay- ing of this smoke screen, as did the visit of MacDonald to Hoover. It is just when war is nearest that such conference beeomes most necessary as a means of hiding the otherwise open signs of war. Re- member the conference at. the ‘ague before the world war of 1914, But these and other pacifist smoke screens become less and less At the same time the Daily Work- ers as an organizer must from day. to day give concrete organizational | directives to the workers as how It must give clear and concise polis tical meaning to the daily eve of the workers. It must scan thi whole world arena where fierce’ class battles are’ going on that are of extreme political importance to the workers in America, it must break down the isolation from these significant events that the capital- ist, press, keeps from the workers. It must break through-the strict censorship of the capitalist news agencies and bring the news on the far flung class front and jointly with its new English labor daily contemporary m England keep the English speaking proletariat in the mind of the workers for the pur- |war and international events, forefront of the International class mobilize their forces for struggle,|: effective against those with good A POSITIVE ATTRACTION The alliance of the German “Socialist” Party with the Polish fascists has one single viewpoint: War against the Soviet Union, Fasten Yc 2g Workers to War Machine between two bosses lessens their ;eyesight as the struggle between) the imperialists breaks through their very pacifist talks. Even in thgir publicity for this conference, in the talks between Hoover and MacDonald—the imperialists show that they can only “talk” about fu- ture arms “limitations’—not even arms reductions, within which they can continue their struggle for arms supremac; ete;, while all their talk about pea jeannot hide their common hatred jand sharpened struggle against the U,.§. 3. R, The imperia are preparing for this war, not only with paci- fist lies, by strengthening the im- perialist army and navy—but by tremendously increasing their pressure, both iddeological and or- ganizational, upon the toiling youth in city and country who form ‘the human material with which the battlefields and armies are filled, Militarism today as- sumes tremendous proportions and atrives to: directly and indirectly embrace the entire population, to militarize everyone and every- thing, through a whole network of organizations. Militarism tries to shackle’ itself upon the youth from their earliest age: in the schools, through such organizations as the boy scouts, ete., in a whole series of bosses organiza- tions; company sport clubs, rifle clubs, military reserve organizations such as the C. M. T. C., N. G., ete.— in fact, in all those mass _organiza- tions of the capitalist clas% in which more than 50 per cent. of the work- ing youth are organized throughout the world, and an even greater per- centage in the United States, But, against all of these war preparations, against this mili- tarization of the toiling youth, there is another force rising, a force which is becoming ever stronger with the growing strug- gles of the young workers, against the attacks on their conditions which are such a vital part of the war preparations, ‘This force is the revolutionary youth movement under the leadership of the YOUNG COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL, This force is growing, but the developing crisis, the nearness of war—-set tremendous tasks before the Communist Youth Movement which demand much greater activ- ity on its part if it is to fill its but about ratios/ Coming War e | obligations. It is a primary task of | the YCI. and all its sections, that | they wage a tireless struggle against | militarism and deyelop energetic | anti-militarist activity among the masses of the toiling youth both in- side and outside the army... ..-. But in many respects the YCI. and especially the American section has only begun to fulfill this basic task. In almost every country the YCL’s are still very weak in felation to the demands and possibilities of the | Present situation. In almost every country the YCL’s are faced with the necessity of greatly intensifying | their activity if they are to keep up |with the growing struggles of the | young workers and play their part jin the winning of the majority of the working class, { The Comniunist Parties must play their part in the strengthening of the Communist Yout Movement. The Communist Parties which lead the YCL’s must help transform the League’s into real Bolshevik mass | organizations such as will be able to fill that tremendous role demanded in this situation when the struggle between the bosses and the revolu- tionary workers for the working youth is so greatly sharpened, when young workers are in such great de- mand by the bosses; as low-paid workers and soldiers, and by the working class; as among the most militant fighters against imperialist war and capitalist exploitation. — The Communist Party of the United States must give real leader- ship to the Young Communist League—USA which has such im- portant task to perform in these coming struggles—just as real lead- ership is being given by the CI and CP’s to the YCI and YCL’s in the other countries, In the United States, the YCL, with the Communist Party, must im- mediately bucle down to the follow- ing basic anti-militarists tasks which must be fulfilled in the short- est possible time together with its class-brothers in the other countries: “(a) Defense of the Seviet Union against the attacks of the capitalists, (b) Active pa liberation struggl gaa peoples against imperial- m1, (c) Revolutionary work in the bourgeois army through the or- ganization of nuclei, revolutionary circles and groups. ‘ (d) Struggle against the mili- tarization of the youth carried on by the bourgeoisie.” From the Program of the YCI. re-| im- | war preparations are the is forced to eqnelude: “the bald and| best spreaders of pacifist illusions junpleasant fact remains that naval|and ar jrivalry is going forward between| jthese two great English speaking|war preparations one can see the nations, and a navy -building war, is | two-fold Particularly in these preliminary Firstly, the effort to perfect the bloe against the Soviet But things will not work smooth- | whole economic life of i | China, Since, so far, Chiang Kai Shek has proved to be a good tool, and since much has already been staked on him and, for the time heing, no better tool can be found. American imperialism decided, not to abandon Chiang Kai Shek, but heavily provided him with “silver bullets,” “Vought” Cor- sairs two-seater new-type fight- ers (the same type of aeroplane as used by the American marines in Nicaragua), machine guns, am- munition, advisers and air .com- manders. Thus Chiang Kai Shek’ was “saved at the last moment, when he himself admitted that “the fate of Nanking was hang- ing on a single hair.” The cause for the growing agres- siveness of American imperialism in China is not difficult to find. Capitalist mass-production in Amer. ican industry with its ever-menac- ing companion, over-production, the shrinkage of the American internal market, due to rationalizaticn, wage-cuts, etc., jecompetitive power of the European imperialists, present ever-more dif- ficult problems to American im- perialism, One of the many desperate at- tempts of American imperialism ‘to solve this problem, this increasing- ly aggressive policy, is to enlarge its share in and secure more con- trol of the Far Eastern market. According to Mr. Julian Arnold, American commercial attache at Peiping, “American trade with China has developed to a greater extent than. the remainder of China’s foreign trade” (New York Times, Oct. 29, 1929). American capital is also seeking investment possibilities in the Chi- nese market and undoubtedly will be drawn there if American impe- }rialism sueceeds in stabilizing con- ditio} in China and making the Chinese market safe for Wall- \street’s investments. IL But is it possible for American imperialism to estabilize China? Can a semi-feudal-bourgeois regime which imperialism upholds in China bring about unity and peace in the country? Or, as the problem puts itself in the immediate future: doos Chiang Kai Shek’s new “victory” mean peace and unitye for China? Will it slow down the developing revolutionary mass movement or accelarate its growth? It is not difficult to see that the inherent contradictions of im- perialism and the semi-fuedal- bourgeois regime which imperial- ism nourishes and attempts to perpetuate in China are the un- derlying causes for the militarist wars in China. The last war, a militarist war like all the others, could not and has not solved the contradictions in China, but has greatly intensified them, Des- pite the talk of peace, the contra- dictions between the different im- perialist powers, are becoming worse. It has already been admitted by the capitalist press that “extreme hopes for the London Naval Con- ference probably will not be realiz- ed” (Editorial New York Telegram, Jan. 2, 1930). Four days after the “victory” of Chiang Kai Shek, Baron Okura, the new managing director of the South Manchurian Railroad, announced that “the South’ Manchurian Railroad is holding in abeyance all the plans it had an- nounced to attempt to interest American capital in South Man- churia by divorcing its coal mines and steel plants from the railway and floating separate companies” (New York Times, Dec, 18, 1929). The growing Anglo-American conflict in the Pacific is also ex- pressed in the recent announcement of the Nanking Government to “re- | | | to get a more and more deadly grip | are being accomplished ‘under the |o “the Bae ite te and the growing) Skan, while nominally supporting the Central Government, is real- ly the independent ruler of Shansi and Chihli Proyinees and has complete control of the vast area of North China to the hanks of the Yellow River Man- churia is today more independent of Nanking’s influence than at any time for more than a year ” ‘The same correspondent reports in the New York Times of January 38, 1930 that thé re- moval from Shansi to Chengchow Honan, of the staff headquar‘ers of General Yen Hsi Shan is be- lieved to be a prelude of IMPOR- TANT CIVIL WAR deyelop- ments” (My emphasis, R. D.).— Another militarist war in Chin} | is coming. Together with the agg vation of the world-wide impevialis | contradictions, the intervals between the regularly recurring civil wa: in China haye greatly shor Some predict that the next militarist war in China will come in March, which does not seem to be a bad | guess, | In the meantime, Chiang Kai Shek is trying his best to acccm- plish the impossible task of con- solidating his shattered regime, He is again using his time-hon yed tricks of deceit, in order to fool | the masses, Extra-territoriality was supposed to have been abolished by a declaration on January ist, but |the Minister of foreign affairs, C. 'T, Wang, in a statement says tha’ “the actual process of re-establish ing Chinese sovereignty by the abo ition of extra-tterritoriality begin! on January Ist.” (Emphasis mine, R.D.). No wonder that Secretary Stim- son of the U. S, State Department triumphantly says that “the latest statement, indicates that the Chinese government is taking the view of \the United States, namely that yes- |terday (Jan. 1st, 1930) marked the | beginning of a gradual process for |abandonment of extra-territoriality | privileges, rather than the end of |the process.” (New York Telegram, |Jan, 2, 1936 (My emphasis, R.D.). | When the end of the process will be, god or devil knows! But the Chinese masses cannot be easily fooled now. Bloody ex- periences long ago taught the masses the truly counter-revolu- tionary role of Chiang Kai Shek and all the other militarists, the landlords, gentry and the bourgeo- isie. Even the counter-revolution. ary role of the nationa) reform; ists, Wang Chin Wei and Co. is becoming more and more cleer to the masses. The general crisis in China is deepening and the mis- ery of the toiling masses of the Chinese people increases with each new militarist war. Each additional militarist war also contributes to destroy more the illusion of the masses in the Ku- omintang semi-tuedal bourgeois re- gime and, with the destruction of such illusions, the revolutionary mass movement among the workers and peasants will certainly be accel- erated, The workers in the cities as well as the peasants in the villages are growing increasingly militant and on’ many occasions a * places havg already started the offensive it their struggle against the force: of reaction, During the last re- actionary civil war, the slogan uf “Turn the militarist war into a revolutionary civil war” was al- ready raised by the Chinese -Com- munist Party. In the coming mil- itarist war this slogan will certain- ly become the slogan of action for the masses, But the Chinese masses do not wait for ‘the next militarist war to begin with revolutionary action. Even before the coming of the next militarist war, the rising revolution- ary wave in China may create a situation by which a revolutionary civil war will be brought about in adjust” its agreements with foreign place of a militarist war!