The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1932, Page 3

__DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 Lenin and the International Trade Union Movement PART V. I, Lenin, theoretician and lead- er of the Proletarian Revolution, in- terested himself in trade union questions during the whole of his revolutionary activities. His literary legacy gives a completed theory. fin- ished formulations, on questions of theory and tactics. Nol a single rev- olutionary, working in tthe T U movement in capitalist countries, can afford to be without the Leninist theory for the trade union move- ment, just as it is impossible to be without it in the conditions of the Proletarian Dictatorship. Lenin’s teachings and the entire practice of Bolshevism in the trade union movement differs fundameni- ally trom the theory and tactics of | reformism, or present-day social- fascism. As far back as in 1899, in the struggle against the Russian reform- ists, Lenin pointed out that the tre- mendous significance of the working class economic struggles and the need for this struggle was admitted by Marxism from the very outset, and that Marx and Engels as long ago as in the forties polemised against the Utopian socialists, who denied the importance of this struggle. Lenin, however, in com- plete accord with Marxism, stated that the objects of the trade unions should not be narrow, restricted, “the trade unions should strive for the general emancipation of the op- pressed millions of working people. Marxism bound able whole the economic and polit- ical struggle of the working class.” (See protest of the Russian Social- democracy, Collected Works, vol. II.) We must not ignore tne workers Struggle for their interests of to- day, and it is impermissible to re- strict the tasks of the trade unions to this overthrow of the capitalist order. Such was the drift of Lenin’s polemics ayainst the opportunists, against tic refermisis, as far back as in the laie nineties. into one insepar- | I and liberal trade unions.” (See his articles “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart” and “Trade ed. Vol. XII). After the Revolution of 1905-1906 the Mensheviks endeavoured to as- sert that Lenin had changed his at- titude towards the question of trade union neutrality, that prev- ious to 1907, so they said, he was in favor of trade uniow neutrality, i. e., against the leading role of the Party in the trade union movement, against the connections between the Party and the trade unions. With the help of this invention the Men- sheviks wanted to reinforce their struggle for neutrality. But it is hopeless to rely on Bolshevism in the struggle against the Bolsheviks. This is what Lenin said in his ar- ticle “Trade Union Neutrality,” (Vol. XII): “Of course, at the beginning of the political and trade union movement in Europe it was neces- sary to advocate the neutrality of the unions, as a means to extend the original basis of the proletarian struggle in the epoch of its relatively slight development and absence of systematic bourgeois influence on the unions. In the epoch of a more or less developed labour movement, when the bourgeoisie endeavour to subordinate it to their influence, em- ploying all means of pressure to keep the trade unions from coming out on the path of the revolutionary struggle, in such conditions, there cannot be any talk about any neut- rality whatever.” The agents of the bourgeoisie in the labour movement |—the reformists, mensheviks, social- } fascists now, and the so-called “left” social democrats, under various dress- ings doped, and still dope, the class- | consciusness of the workers with | bourgeois ideology.“The class interests {of the bourgeoisie inevitably give | rise to the desire to restrict the | unions to petty and narrow activ- | ities based on the existing order, to Union Neutrality,” Col. Works, Rus. | [Small Powers Let War Out of Geneva “Peace” Bag NEW YORK., Feb. 18.—A cloud of pessimism gathered jover the Geneva “disarmament” conference Tuesday. Admis- | sions of the utter collapse of east, the large scale military offen- sives of the Japanese against the Chinese masses, are more than ever exposing the futile hypocrisy of the speeches of the imperialist delegates at Geneva, The delegates from the large im- | perialist powers having all spoken in |the opening sessions, the floor was |given over to representatives of the |smaller nations, Tuesday, chief among |whom was President Giuseppi Motta lof the Swiss Confederation and Sir Thomas Wilford of New Zealand. Both of these speakers spoke with the previous imperialist speakers at- tempted to point out did not exist. “If the present conflict is not set- tled”, said M. Motta, “our confer- ence will be condemned to carry out \its work in an atmosphere of pro- |found depression.” Sir Thomas was even more em- phatic. In speaking of the role of the League of Nations Council, in which he still admitted he had hopes, the New Zealand representative said: “The League Council is showing it- self incompetent.” Foreign Minister Ernesto Bosch of Argentina, speaking for the grain growers of his country, disclosed the fact that the capitalists of his coun- try were itching for a War as a way out of the deepening agrarian and economic crisis. The theme of Dr. Bosch’s speech throughout was not disarmament, but rather a plea for the uninterruption of trade routs dur- ing the time of imperialist war. Speaking with hypocritical senti- mentality of civil populati0ons starv- ing for food during a period of war but saying nothing about starvation to Fight Aga: {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Relation of Party to Trade Unions| banish them from all connections|an appeal to the workers of the A second point is inseparably con- nected with this rule in the Lenin- isi teaching on the trade union movement; the relations between the working class Party and the trade unions. The revolutionary working class Party is the highest form of class organization. The Party is the ciosely welded vanguard. of -the working class in its struggle against capitalism, armed with revolution- ary theory. It unites the most mili- tent workers, who have fully real- ized the historical revolutionary role of their class, the need to fight for socialism, which can be achieved by the working class only under the leadership of its revolutionary Party. The trade unions, on the other hand unite the broad working masses, who come together on the basis of their industrial needs and demands. The task of the revolutionary Party is to yaise the masses of workers to real- ize the contradictory nature be- tween their interests and the in- terests of the capitalist class, to or- ganize and lead them in the struggle against capitalism, for the Proleta- rian Dictatorship. Hence the lead- ing role of the Party in the trade unions. Only in this way is it pos- sible to prevent the T. U. movement from falling into the rut of ‘trade- unionism,’ bringing it out onto the broad field of the revolutionary struggle. ‘The revolutionary social-democracy | (now they are the Communist Par- ties) “lead the working class strug- gle not for advantageous conditions in selling their labour power, but for the abolition of that social or- der which compels the unpropertied to sell themselves to the rich . . We must actively undertake,” said Lenin, “the political education of political class-consciousness.” “The struggle for economic demands and for reforms must be subordinated, as a part of the whole, to the revolu- tionary struggle for socialism.” (Le- nin, Collecter Works, Rus. ed. vol. IV. “What is to be Done?”), Moreover, “The ideologist’ only deserves to be called an ideologist if he marches ahead of the spontaneous move~ ment, pointing out the way, if he is able sooner than others to solve all theoretical, political, tactical, and organizational questions .. . It is necessary to be able to point out the dangers and shortcomings of the spontaneous movement, it is neces- sary to be able to raise spontaneity to class-consciousness.” (Lenin, “A Chat with the Defenders of Econo- mism,” Collected Works, Russ. ed. Vol, TV, page 341). Hence Lenin’s repudiation of the “neutrality” of trade unions. The advocators of trade union neutral- ity (reformists in the West, Men- sheviks in Russia) endeavoured to wrest the trade union movement from Party leadership, to estabilsh the equality between the Party and the trade unions. In other words, the reformists advocated reformist lead- ership of the trade unions. As the result of several reasons, which we cannot go into at present, previous to the war the reformists succeed- ed elther entirely, or else to a con- siderable extent, in seizing the lead- ership of the trade unions. More than once Lenin said that the neut- rality policy in Germany played “in- to the hands of opportunism and the social democracy” and “streng- thened opportunism in the trade unions, not in the least preventing the formation of mane oat | with socialism, and the neutrality | theory is the ideological cloak of | these bourgeois desires.” (Lenin, vol. XII, article “Trade Union Neutral- | ity.”). (To be Continwed) | Simms Protest Meets | in Leading Cities | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) coming to this meeting. We call upon all working-class organizations and trade unions that have meetings on Friday night to call them off and participate in the memorial meeting for our dead Comrade Simms. Similar meetings will be arranged in all cities throughout the distrcit where masses of workers will be or- ganized to struggle against this brutal attack on our Party and the workers in Kentucky. ue, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. 17.— The brutal murder of Harry Simms will be answered by the workers of the City of Philadelphia in a big Frday, Feb. 19th at 8 p. m. at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Chris- tian Streets, This meeting is. being held under the joint auspices of the Young Com- must League, Communist Party and Trade Union Unity ‘League. The main speaker of this meeting will be William Z. Foster, national secretary |of the Trade Union Unity League. Ce aa Dayenport Jobless Protest DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 17.—The Davenport Unemployed Council at its last meeting decided unanimously ,| to write the governor of Kentucky emphatically protesting the brutal attacks made on the striking miners and against the murder of Harry Simms. The telegram demanded the immediate release of all miners and their leaders now under arrest for their activity in the mine strike. ’ Gace « NEW YORK.—Resolutions of pro- test are pouring in to the Daily ‘Worker office from workers’ organi- zations all over the country. The re- solutions all show a determination to speed the fight against hunger and terrorism, to build the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. “We serve notice on the rul- ing class,” says the resolution of the Young Communist League of the Chicago district, “the Wall Street and Hoover government that the cold-blooded murder of Comrade Simms, leade rof the striking Ken- tucky young miners will not go unchallenged. We will increase our efforts tenfold in the struggle against capitalism and recruit hundreds of young fighters into the ranks of the ‘Young Communist League, the leader and organizer of the American work~ ing youth.” Caan AS | Tn Pittsburgh, the Kentucky Strik- ing Miners Relief Committee of the W. LR, the International Labor Defense and the National Miners Union issued a statement protesting the murder of Harry Simms and condemning the City Council for refusing a permit to hold a demon- stration before the office of the Pittsburgh Coal Co on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 3 p. m., to protest the coal operators’ terror in Kentucky. Miners of Ironwood, Michigan, at & mass meeting of the, Cooperatives passed @ resolution in demonstraton and memoral meeting ¢ | whole world against the terrible dan- ger of a new imperialist world war conjured up by the Japanese crimes in the Far East. The appeal refers first of all to the appeal which was adopted at the session of the Exec- utive Bureau of the R.I'L.U. on the | 15th of December last year at the | proposal of the Japanese delegation. |The appeal drew the attention of | the workers of the world to the dan- ger of imperialist war and in par- ticular of ® war against the Soviet Union arising out of the Japanese drive into Manchuria, ‘The new appeal points out that in the meantime Japanese imperial- ism has occupied almost the whole of Manchuria and has extended the field of its operations to Shanghai | where by a bombardment of a de- | fenseless town thousands: of Chinese j toilers, »men, women and children, were butchered. At the same time the Japanese were continuing their drive towards the North and were ; bombarding Harbin, the centre of | the administration of the, Chinese j Eastern Railway, which is under joint Soviet-Chinese control. The {Japanese aim is to attack Soviet China and to prepare for an attack on the Soviet Union, French Communist Party Leads Struggle Against War ‘The appeal calls upon the work- ers to form a revolutionary united front against imperialist war, against capitalism, against fascism and a- gainst the treacherous social demo- cracy. It calls for meetings in all factories and organizations to deal with the urgent danger of war. A special appeal calls on the munition and transport workers to prevent the supply of war munitions to impe- rialist Japan. The French Communist newspaper \“Humanite” published an appeal of | the Central Committee of the Com~ | munist Party of France calling on | the French workers to hold meetings in the factories and in the open air | to protest against the crimes of Jap- |anese imperialism in the Par East, jand in particular against the dan- |ger threatening the Soviet Union. The group newspapers, the party newspapers and leaflets are to deal | in detail with events in the Far East- All Party committees have been | given urgent instructions to meet im- | mediatély and work out a plan of action against the imperialist war danger. The Communist deputies in the French Chamber and in all other parliamentary and municipal bodies have been instructed to place them- selves at the head of the struggle egainst war, \ Workers Demonstrate At Geneva ‘The whole party is straining every effort to expose the capitalist ‘“dis- | armament” farce at Geneva and to spread the Leninist teachings of the struggle against war, The campaign against the imperiallst war tn the Far East and the danger of an at- tack on the Soviet Union will be conducted in close connection with which they declared, “We pledge to support the strike of the Kentucky miners by sending them relief from to recruit new members into the Communist Party and the Young Communist League.” The Detroit W. I. R. wired pro- tests to Governor Lafoon of Ken- tucky, i ginning to crop out in the foreign capitalist news dispatches. The events in China and Manchuria, the rushing of troops and| guns by the big powers to the fare@— ————-——~—____— an air of distrust and suspicion, which | R.LL.U: Calls on World Working Class the W. I. R., and also pledge ourelves | Cat the conference are already be- in peacetime, Bosch put forward an anti-food blockade proposal, designed obviously not to relieve the suffering masses but to open avenues through which to ship for dumping Argentina's |surplus grain product. ‘The French world imperialist police force plan gained two more support- ers during this session of the confer- ence. Mirza Hussein Kahn Ala, the Persian delegate, after a long recital jof war atrocities performed in Persia |during the last war, declared that he was in favor of the French super army plan. 3 Foreign Minister Marinkovitek of | Yugoslavia supported the French plan of an imperialist army to be used | jagainst: the Soviet Union in the fol- |lowing hypocritical manner: “By diminishing the chances of success of any agressive war in any measure whatsoever you automatic- | ally diminish in the same proportion its probability.” Shelving the Soviet proposals for total disarmament, the conference moves on with the delegates in a gloomy mood, the thunder of the cannon in the far east. The only proposals for world peace, the proposals of the Soviet workers |and peasants for immediate and total disarmament, are being shelved by the imperialists. The thunder of the cannon in the Far East, however, is shaking the smugness of the capital- ist conferees. It is exposing the hy- pocrisy of the conference and the League of Nations. ‘The collapse of the Geneva confer- ence is bringing closer to the work- ing men and women throughout the world the revolutionary way is the only way for them to smash impe- | Tialist war. inst Imperialist War the economic struggles and with the | coming French elections. At Geneva, thousands of revolu- tionary workers demonstrated Feb. 2 against the “disarmament” farce. The demonstration was lead by the Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Switzerland. The police several times charged the workers, but the workers reformed repeatedly. The streets resounded with shouts of “Hands Off the Sov- iet Union! Hands off Soviet China! Free Ruegg!” In Japan, the “socialists” are en- acting the shameful role of the world Social Democracy.in support of the crimes of the imperialists against the toiling masses. The Japanese “So- cialist” Party has come out openly in defense of Japanese imperialism. In @ statement, the Japanese “So- cialists” declare, among other things: ‘That it will undertake all possible steps to clarify to all Japan that the Japanese Social Democratic party protects and supports the fundamen- tal principles of Japanese imperial- ism. It categorically rejects “the the- ory” which states “that the (capit- | alist) state is an instrument for the | suppression of one class by thej| ACONTINUED FROM ON huge French credits to Japan, mili- tary activity on a wide scale by French forces on the southern Chin- ese frontiers, and the obvious fact that Japan would never have dared to seize Manchuria and consolidate her own puppet government on the Southeastern frontier of the Soviet Union without some sort of an un- @erstanding with the other imperial- ist powers—especially America. That new imperialist conflicts arise and old ones sharpen over new | problems of balances of power, defi- nition of spheres of influence, etc.,| all flowing out of the basic problem of the distribution of the loot of land, natural resources, markets and the exploitable population—is inevitable. But these contradictions and an- tagonisms have been kept well within | the bounds of the main antagonism— that between the robber imperialist | nations, with their millions of unem- | ployed, and the proletarian state of | the Soviet Union with its socialist construction, express train advance- ment on the economic and social fronts and its complete abolition of | unemployment. The imperialist con- | Mlicts create great difficulties but the Japanese invasion goes on. This is the high card in the hand of Japanese imperialism and she is playing it for all it is worth—that she has taken the military initiative against the Chinese revolution and the Soviet Union. The Mirror Does Its Bit, The Daily Mirror speaks editorially in a similar vein—one of ridicule of the concrete and easily proven’ facts emphasized by the Soviet press and the revolutionary press of other coun- tries: “What the Soviet Army Red Star prints is believed implicitly from one end of the country to the other. (How strange that Soviet workers | should believe “implicitly” what the | official organ of the Red Army says! | How envious the general staffs of | the imperialist countries. must be—| Ed.) This paper informs its readers a second world war is imminent. A sure sign, the article asserts, is enor- mous activity of armament manufac- HITLER ATTACKS SOVIET UNION. Communists Enter the | German Elections | (Cable by Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Feb. 17. — ‘The Reichstag meets on the 23 in order to decide on ‘dates for the presidential elections. |The Minister of Interior, Groener, | proposes March 13 for the first elec- |tion and April 10 for the second, if necessary. The Reichstag will pro- | bably agree. ‘The Communist Party opened its} |election campaign over the week-end, naming Thaelmann, presidential can- didate. A mass meeting of 12,000 took place in Rhineland Hall, Cologne. Hundreds of other meetings through- out the country are taking place. A rebelion is growing within the | socialist party as a result of its ob- |vious intention to support Hinden- burg. Masses of socialist workers are supporting Thaelmann. Last night Hitler addressed a big fascist meeting at Duesseldorf. Fas- other.” It declares that the Japanese “socialist” party has only in mind to democratize the capitalist state ap- paratus, Carrying their betrayal of the working-class still further, the Ja) anese “socialists” declare that “Marx- ist Internationalism is an objective error.” ‘This, the Japanese “social- ists” attempt to prove on the ground that, Marxist Internationalism ne- glects the interests “of the nations” and sees only the interests of the proletariat. The Social Democratic party, they declare, will take steps to show clearly the national attitude of “real internationalism.” ‘The Japanese imperialist press publishes the whole statement as a direct support of the imperialist war on the Chinese masses and praises the statement as “the turning of the Socialists in Japan towards ‘National Socialism’.” The papers also refer to the fact that the general secretary of the Japanese Social Democracy took par tin the discussion on the foundation of the fascist party in Japan under the name of “National Socialist Party.” ‘The world social democracy which betrayed the workingelass into the jJast World War, is repeating its crime. In Japan, the socialists are supporting Japanese imperialism. In the United States, England, France, the socialists are supporting the crimes of their respective imperialists against the Chinese masses and the preparations for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. Only the Communist parties are leading the working-class in the struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of victorious Social- ism in the Soviet Union. Workers! Join the Communist Party, which leads the struggle against war! Build & powerful Communist Party to lead you in this struggle, as only the totl- ers of the world can stop the new imperialist, slaughter, oe . ‘The Japanese have submitted « plan to the Amerisan, British, French and Italian imperialists to increase the size of the “foreign zone” at Shanghai and set up an “independ- ent” State of Shanghai, The plan calls for the inclusion of the Chin- ere cities of Liuho, Paoshan and Quinvan and Chenju on the Shang- hai-Nanking Redlway and territory a6 Woosung on the Yangtze River, | | cisé storm detachments were sur- rounding the countryside to protect | Hitler. Fierce collisions occured on the streets with Communists. Five | fascists were taken to the hospital. The police arrested nver one hundred persons. | Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, | reproaching those industrialists who | cooperated indirectly in securing | the success of the Five Year Plan | which, according to Hitler, repre- sents Germany's ruin. Referring to the presidency, he declared the fas- | cists could not support Hindenburg, and would list their own candidate. |_ Yesterday the Supreme Court in | Leipzig sentenced the Communist | Huver and Coblenz to a year's impri- | sonment on the charge of posssssing propaganda literature for the army. Communists climbed the walls of the Reichswehr artillery barracks Itzehoe last night and pasted posters and distributed anti-militarist leaf- lets. Later armed centries shot dead an artillery lieutenant by mistake. [> ‘Two workers were arrested in con- nection with this today, but little | evidence is available. \far as Sunkiang on the Shanghai- | Hangchow railway. | _ Japanese officials revealed yester- | day that “from the beginning of the \present Sino-Japanese conflict in Shanghai, a tacit understanding has | existed between the settlement (for- \eign) Officials and the Japanese di- |plomats that any new terrain an- | jnexed as a result of the Japanese | | military operations carried out ad- | jacent. to the present foreign con- | cessions must necessarily come under | the joint administration of Chinese, | Japanese and Occidentals.” | A Shanghai dispatch reports the Japanese Admiral Nomura as stating | that the Japanese “are not on speak» ing terms with the Chinese” in the 'Chapei district “but at Nanking, the | Chinese and Japanese are able to! talk it through.” ‘The same dispatch reports that Chiang Kai-shek is on his way to Shanghai and explains his purpose as follows: | “This indicated to some that he was Willing to risk the power he now holds in an effort to persuade the THE CAMPAIGN TO COVER UP turers in capitalistic countrics. This view is backed by Premiere Molotoff. “France and Japan are allies in the warfare against China. Great Britain has an understanding with them. England, we are told, exported in 1931 munitions and other war ma- terila worth 3,500,000,000 _ pounds. Chemical plants in Czecho-Slovakia, land are running full blast. The French are carrying on military prep- arations for invasion of Southern China, conversion of the present Sino-Japanese fighting into a gen~- eral war along the Pacific Ocean and @n open attack on the Soviet Re- publics.” “Most of these rents, obvious- ly false, are | + over state- owned radio th: out Russia, The peasant ss more readily when he kne how necessary it is to have a big army for protection of his ragged person against rapacious ie hordes.” (Our emphasis.) dent that the extraor- dinary munition and armament ac- tivity is not consistent with the “peace and disarm ” policy put forward by the imperialist powers. Capitalists, including armament man- ufacturers, do not run factories unless there is a market for their products; |witness the present strangulation of industrial production, with the ex- ception of armaments, throughout the world, and the largest masses of un- employed in all history. Munitions and armaments are made ‘for war. War against whom? It is the Communist answer to this question which irks the capitalist need for counter-acting before the world’s working class the exposure of their war plans by Litvinoff at Ge- neva, and by the revolutionary press throughout the imperialist and colo- nial countries, that determines the tone of the capitalist press. War is already being made on a huge scale on the Chinese masses in their struggle for liberation from ime by a Soviet China, by the Chinese masses led by the Communist Party. Tremendous victories, still carefully concealed from the masses of the im- perialist nations by the capitalist press, have already been won. Be- tween sixty and eighty million Chi- nese workers and peasants live in So- viet territory and the Red Army, sup- ported by the irregular forces which are “bandits” in the capitalist press, win new victories dally. They are now carrying through an enveloping move- ment around Hankow—the heavy in- dustrial district of north central | China. Why does not the capitalist press prove that munition factories are not “running full blast” if it wants to show the peaceful intentions of the imperialist powers? Because it cannot. QUESTIONS THEY DARE NOT ANSWER. Why do the imperialist powers not adopt the complete disarmament pro- posals made by Litvinoff at Geneva if they have no intention of making war on the Chinese revolution and the Soviet Union? Why do they ALL continue to in- crease their armies and navies, spend- ing billions of dollars for war muni- tions while millions upon millions of workers and farmers—men, women and children — suffer unspeakable misery from unemployment, hunger, exposure disease and starvation, if they have no intention of carrying through a war for the dismemberment of China, the destruction of the So- viet Union and a re-division of the world among the most powerful rob- ber nations? These are the questions put to world imperialism by the peace policy of the Soviet Union, by Litvinoff’s speech in Geneva, by the revolution- ary working class the world over. The Answer, These questions American imperial- ism and its press—from the highly moral Times to the muck-covered Mirror, do not dare to answer truth- fully. They can reply only by lies, slander and ridicule while capitalists and their politicians and governments interfere with the Japanese imperial- ist massacres only enough to protect their own imperialist interests. Imperialist war is going on. The answer as to whether war has begun is not to be found in the hypocritica) jstatements of the league of nations and the. mouthings of diplomats with tongues in their cheeks, but in the graves and mounds not even covered by the red earth which contain tho bodies of Chinese men, women and children slaughtered in the most cruel and cold-blooded atrocity of modern times, The answer to further extension of the slaughter is being prepared, the answer to whether an armed invasion of the Soviet Union is the main line of imperialist policy of all the great powers and their lackey governments is to be found not in the editorial comment of the capitalist press or the lying statements of the foreign of- |fices and state departments, but in the smoking stacks of the munition factories, the gigantic naval and mili- tary maneuvers; the threat of the breaking off of relations with the So- viet Union by British imperialism; by the military conferences and par- tial military mobilizations on the | Western frontier of the Soviet Union; by credits to Japan; by the exceed- ingly polite and cautious ‘‘protests” to Japan by other imperialist. powers in the face of the massacres of the Chinese civilian population in a war of conquest, 1914-1932 Nineteenth Chinese route army to ‘ ha | Tithdraw, and cease hostilities, a lll tla How different it was when Ger- mapy invaded Belgium! Then there France, Germany, Poland and Eng-| perialism. This liberation will be won | Japanese Call on Powers IMPERIALISTWARPREPARATIONS. for Joint Seizure of Lower Yangtze Valley Kuomintang In New Betrayal of China; Chiang Kai-Shek | hai to Sto on Way to Shang-. p Defense | Shanghai dispatches report that the Japan- ese have delayed their in that city. A “peace” this Thursday between der and city. This follows British and the United States, |to restrain the Japanesc | move the in | | perialists in the Yangtze Vall imperialists had become so tense at*® Shanghai it was feared that the slightest. spark et off an ex- the under- an “orderly” of China and precipitating an armed struggle over the division of the spoils. Two British sailors were killed yes- terdey during an artillery duel be- tween the Japanese invaders and the Chinese. This incident has caused | great excitement among the foreign- | ers in Shanghai. It was feared that more such incidents would result in| the European and American troops - projected big offensive conference is to be held the Japanese comman- Chinese Kuomintang leaders in the new pressure exerted by the through the League of Nations, heir present challenge of the “interests” and desired loot of the American and British im- ey. The relations between the getting out of hand. The expected results of the con- ference on Thursday are already re- vealed in a Shanghai dispatch which states that “the conference will dis- cuss the possibility of the Nineteenth Army withdrawing from the contest- ed Chapei sector.” Thi sis wholly in line with the Japenese demand that the Chinese defenders of the Chinese city of Shanghai withdraw from the city. The conference will set the stage for another shameless betrayal of the Chinese masses by | the traitorous Kuomintang running | dogs of imperialism. . Capitalism is in its greatest crisis, Karl A. Bickel, presi- pire Chamber of Commerce in | East at a luncheon yesterday weeks are critical to the history of | (capitalist) civilization,” Bickel sadly {told his hearers in an appeal for | Closer co-operation between American | and British imperialists in the Far | East. Bickel’s speech was filled with | hypocritical pacifist phrases. He pre- | tended the greatest horror at the | aetial bombardment by the Japanese |of the unfortified Chapei section of | | Shanghai. A representative of Am-| | erican imperialism, Bickel made no | |mention of the crimes of the Wall | Street imperialists who at this very moment ar ewaging a furious lynch- ing terror against the oppressed Negro masses in this country, have sentenced millions of Negro and white workers to starvation through unemployment and cold- blooded denial of relief, and are using war- Ships to bombard unfortified Chinese towns in the Soviet districts of | China and to crush the revolutionary | movements of the masses of El Sal- vador, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Phil- lipines. Bickel similarly covered up the crimes of the British imperialists who |at this moment are shooting down | the revolutionary workers of India and Africa. Bickel’s speech, stripped of its pacifist camouflage, is a call for a united front of the United States and British imperialists against the Chinese Revolution and its advancing Red Army, against the onial masses and against the Soviet Union, where unemployment has been abolished and the working-class is constantly advancing to higher levels of cultural and economic well- { being precisely at the time when tens | |of millions of workers and ruined | farmers are sentenced to starvation in the capitalist world. Increased Danger of Armed Clash Over Loot ‘The presence of a huge Japanese army in Shanghai and the Japanese plans for an offensive up the Yang- tze Valley are causing grave concern to the nited States and British im- perialists, who see no way of re- straining the Japanese, short of the use of armed force, from taking more than their share of the loot in China, Within the past few days the danger | of an imperialist war over the divi- | sion of the spoils in China has been | greatly increased ‘The Japanese imperialists are in Jan even more desperate situation as | the result of the world crisis which | is engulfing capitalism than even the | test of the imperialist world. They have temporized with the protests and warnings of the United States and England whose loot in the Yang- | tze Valley they are now threatening. ‘These powers now threaten to take sharper measures against the Jap- lanese. Yesterday the League of | Nations Council, acting on the de- |mand of England and the United | States, sent its first sharp note to the Japanese. ports: |was no Sovigt Union building social- ism and showing by example to the | world’s working class and the colo- must take to be freed from the-hor- | rors of imperialism—there was in 1914 |no proletarian power protecting 160,- cal point for dying imperialism to con- centrate its hatred against The Major Task. Tt is the major task of the Gom munist pross to pierce through the lof lies and half-truths by which the Imperialist press tries to cover up the main line of imperialist poliey and carry through its political and technical preparations for the defeat (of the Chinese revolution, the partition jof China and the destruction of the Soviet Union—and to organize the masses for the defeat of imperialist war by turning it into a war of the working class and its allies against imperialism in all countries, | recognize Japan’s seizure of revolutionary struggles of the col-/ A Geneva dispateh re- | jnial peoples the path of struggle it | | 000,000 people from capitalist robbery | jand oppression, and serving as a fo- | press and its masters, it is the vital) dent of the United Press, warned members of the British Em- a talk on the war in the Far pire Chamber of Commerce in a tolk on the war in the Far in New York. “The next few “The Council of Twelve of the League of Nations met at the cross- | roads today and took the road they thought dangerous | Ceasing to put China upon the same moral turned for the first conflict began to Japan alone.” ‘The League Council attemtped bring pressure to bear against Japanese by the threat to refuse territory. The threat applied not to Shanghai, but for hte first time | northeastern provinces of China. The | Previously supported and endorsed | the Japanese seizure of Manchuria | realizing that Japan would convert Manchuria into a military base against the Soviet Union. Tie pressure of the imperialist powers is aimed to prevent Japan from seiz- ing their “spheres of influence” and from occupying strategic economic and military positions in the Shang- hai area, But at the same time, the threat of raising the question of Japan's seizure of Manchuria is in- | tended to hold the Japanese to their role as spearhead against the Soviet Union in the North. | The United States was not offi- | cially represented at the League Council meeting where this action was taken. A Washington dispatch reports, however, that the United States is backing the attempt of the League Council to restrain the Japanese. ‘The British cabinet has cabled a Special; meeting to dea lexclusively with the Far East situation. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, | yesterday visited the king, He was j also again in communication with | Secretary of State Stimson, and with Premier MacDonald who is still con- fined to a nursing home. He had conferences, too, with J. H. Thomas, Minister of Dominions, and with the heads of the Admiralty and the War Office, and with Stanley Baldwin, acting head of the “national” govern- | ment. Japanese Push Puppet State in Manchuria In the meantime, the Japanese are rushing forward their plans for the | creation of an “independent” state |in Manchuria, to be headed by | Chinese militarist tools of the Jap- anese. This state is to serve as a | base for operations against the Soviet | Union. A Tokyo dispatch says that | the “independent” state is to include Pose provinces of Mukden, Kirin, | Heilungkiang and Johol. Johol ts « | Province of Inner Mongolia, A Muir | den dispatch to the New York Times reports: “A group of Chinese leaders, watched over by many Japanese advisers, continued their negotia- tions for the formation of a sep- arate Manchurian State today at a secret meeting in the Fengtien Provincial Government Building.” The dispatch adds, significantly: “The negotiations were condacted | in such seerecy it was impossible | to determine whether the Chinese | leaders had been assembled merely | to accept and prociaim plans al- | ready worked out by their Japanese advisers,” The Chinese “leaders” tnetuded | Gon. Ma Chen-shan, who eatly in | the Japanese invasion of Manchuria calously sacrificed the lives of thous- ands of Japanese soldiers in a fake resistanee to the Japanese, designed |to afford them the pretext for ad~ ; vancing toward the frontiers of the Soviet Union. Others were ‘Tsang _Nsi-yl, Tia Hela, Chang Ching-hut, Chao Bsin-po and Yu Ching-han. ‘The Japanese War Minister de- clared at Tokyo that the Japanese government was “supporting” the new “independent” state. In his re- marks, he reminded the Amertean