The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1932, Page 3

| | | i | DAILY WORKER, WLW Yomi, TUG vA , MARCH 1, 1202 Page Three Kuomintang Pushes Betrayal of Shanghai Defense, War on Soviets Kuomintang Trying to Call Off Defense at Shanghai, But Fears Fury of Chinese Masses : | U.S. Imperialists Reported Furnishing Huge | Loan for Murderous War On Chinese Revolution Moving jointly against the Soviet districts and the heroic resistance of the Chinese workers nad soldiers fighting at Shanghai in defiance of Nanking orders, the Nanking govern- ment yesterday appointed Gen. Chen Chia-tang to command the large armies gathering in Kwantung and Kwangi Province. ‘These armies are to be used, note- against the Japanese invaders and the other imperialists, but against the revolutionary masses }of Central China and their Soviet districts and Red Armies. On the same day, Nanking offi- cials at Shanghai participated in a “peace” conference engineered by United States and British imperialists as a face saving measure for the Japanese and a brake on the armed people's national revolutionary struggle. Canton Leaders Attack Mass Anti- Imperialist Movement Canton leaders, co-operating with Chiang Kai-shek in this latest drive against the Chinese Revolution, yes- terday gave out the ridiculous “ex- planation” that the anti-Communist drive was being undertaken in order to “free” troops for use “in the de- fense of Shanghai.” The nature of the Canton leaders opposition to the Japanese is unwittingly exposed in an imperialist dispatch from Hong- kong, which states: “The Canton authorities are especially endeavoring to avoid anti-Japanese incidents now, and are according special police pro- tection to Japanese residents and shops in the Canton area.” Refusing to use their large air fleets against the Japanese invaders, the Kuomintang traitors are sending large numbers of bombing planes against the Soviet districts. Refusing to appropriate funds for the defense of Shanghai and China, the Kuomin- tang Nanking government has made Special appropriations for the war against the Chinese masses. Refusing to declare war against the Japanese invaders in Kuomintang betrayers of China have declared war against the revolutionary Chinese masses. A Tokio dispatch to the New York Graphic reports that the United States is making a loan of $50,000,- 000 to the Kuomintang . This means that the Wall Street imperialists are again going to finance the Kuomin- tang war against the Chinese Re- yolution. This is further proof of the participation of the United States in the looting and partition of China. Workers of the United States! Defend the Chinese masses from the Defend the Chinesemasses from the Perialism which is shooting down Chinese workers in china and has sentenced to starvation over 12,000,000 unemployed workers and their families in this country. The fight against American imperialism is your fight! Take up a militant struggle against American im- perialism, for unemployment relief, for the use of all war funds for the unemployed, against wage cuts and lock-outs, against the lynch terror against Negr oand white workers, Demand the withdrawal of Am- erican troops and warships from China! Prevent the shipment of troops and munitions to the Far East. Demand Hands off China! Hands off the Soviet Union! Drive out the diplomatic agents of Jap- anese imperialism which is acting as the spearhead in the butchery of the Chinese workers and the war Provocation against the Soviet Union! Kuomintang Air Fleets Could Have Harassed Japanese The failure of the Kuomintang to use its air fleets against the Jap- anese is referred to as a “mystery” in a Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times: “An inexplicable mystery in the Shanghai campaign is China's fail- ure to use airplanes when General Chiang Kai-shek and Canton pos- sess abundant numbers of them, Had Chinese airplanes been used Japan’s plight today probably would be extremely serious, but China’s expenditures of millions of dollars for aircraft seems to have been as futile as a similar expendi- ture by Marshall Chang Hsiao- liang, whose fleet of more than 200 planes at Mukden was confiscated by the Japanese before they ever left the ground.” There is no mystery at all in the refusal of the Kuomintang to use its large airfleets to deefnd the Chinese masses at Shanghai. Marshall Chang betrayed Manchuria to the Japanese. Chiang Kai-shek and the Canton leaders are performing the same service for imperialism at Shanghai. Their <'r fleets are freely used to murder the revolutionary Chinese masses, but are not used against the Japanese invaders. Chang Suppresses Anti-Japanese Paper, ‘The following imperialist dispatch from Tokio gives further evidence of the shameful role of the Kuomintang traitors in carrying out the orders of Japanese imperialism and sup- pressing the anti-Japanese move- qaent and those papers meeting the disapproval of the Japanese: “The Navy Office today issued the following account of the demise Mom newspaper onco 4 Grover Clark and Edward Hunter, Americans, which illustrates how far Chang Hsia-liang, former Gov- ernor of Manchuria, is ready to go to ingratiate himself with the Japanese despite their ousting of him from office.” The dispatch tells of the suppres- sion of the Pieping Leader by Mar- shal Chang for the publication of articles “disrespectful” to the Japa~ nese. The dispatch says: “Chang Hsiao-liang not only apologized but personally called at the Japanese Legation and ex- pressed regrets.” Chinese Masses Push Fight Against Traitors. ‘The Chinese masses are answering the treachery of the Kuomintang with rising resistance against the Kuomintang and their imperialist masters, and with a steady leftward trend toward Communist leadership. At Shanghai, the rising revolutionary wave is so great that the foreign im- perialists are forced to consider the removal of their nationals from that city. In scores of cities in the Yangtze aViley the missionary and commercial agents of imperialism have been already removed. In Han- kow, Ichang and other cities the rev- olutionary mood of the masses is so strong that the Kuomintang mili- tarists have been forced into open alliance with the apanese and other imperialists in attacking the anti- imperialist struggles of the masses. This is serving further to undermine the influence of the uomintang trait- ors. Chinese workers in Shanghai went. on strike yesterday against the Mark Moody Federal, Inc., an American company, in protest against the sale by the company of automobiles and trucks to the Japanese army. U.S. British Lead Fake “Peace” Moye, A “peace” move was engineered yesterday by the United States, Brit- ish and French ministers to China, who met with Japanese officials and the Kuomintang gang in Shanghai. ‘The move was initiated at the re- quest of the Japanese. It is plainly intended to save the face of the Japanese, whose military prestige has suffered severely at the hands of the embattled masses of Shanghai. The move is aimed to help the Japanese extricate themselves from an increas- ingly difficult position and to head off the rising revolutionary struggles of the Chinese masses, which have gained tremendous impetus as a re- sult of the Japanese invasion. If successful, the move will also free Japanese forces for use against the revolutionary masses in Manchuria and for the planned attack on the Soviet Union. Moreover, United States and British’ imperialists have been greatly concerned over the tre- mendous number of Japanese troops within their “sphere of influence,” endangering their own loot. The Japanese demand the with- drawal of the Shanghai defense forces to 1242 miles from the Inter- national Settlement, which has been used by the Japanese as a military base for their attacks on the Chi- nese masses. The Japanese promise in return to withdraw their forces “a certain distance.” The Japanese de- mands raise once more the question of putting Shanghai and a large sur- rounding district, including several nearby Chinese towns, under inter- national control of the imperialist brigands. Sees Kuomintang Unable to Deliver. A Shanghai imperialist dispatch expresses grave doubt of the ability of the Kuomintang leaders to deliver the goods in this brazen betrayal of China “in view of the excited condi- tion of Chinese public opinion.” ‘The League of Nations is taking a hand in supervising the new sell-out of China. A Geneva dispatch states: “Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, today assumed leader- ship of a League of Nations Move- ment to induce China to accept Japan's latest terms for a truce at Shanghai.” Chinese bankers and merchants are supporting the movement to be- tray the defense of Shanghai and turn over the city to the interna- tional imperialist bandits, Indicating the “sincerity” of the “peace” terms put forth at their in- stigation, the Japanese are continu- ing to land thousands of troops at Shanghai, These troops are being Janded in the International Settle- ment, inder the protection of United States and British troops. The Shan ai defenders are still holding at bay the combined forces of the Japanese navy and army, “Y.2 are pronouncing in good faith the words ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’ and we shall make them ® reals" LENIN. ~ aint ‘ New Tactics in the Hunger Offensive (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) upon the unemployed should be en- |dorsed by the leadership of the Am- erican Federation of Labor which has from the first supported the Hoover Hunger program beginning with its united front with the govern- ment, the bankers and industrial lords for a policy of wage-cuts under the guise of no wage-cuts, through the period of the Vancouver con- vention and its opposition to federal unemployment insurance, down to its present endorsement of and active participation in this latest attempt to disrupt the ranks of the unemploy- ed. and employed workers and prevent successful struggle for unemployment insurance and cash relief at the ex- pense of the bosses and their gov- ernment. It is likewise fitting that involved in this nation-wide scheme to throttle the struggle for federal unemploy- ment insurance, and aiding to foster the illusions created by the inflation program of Wall Street, are all those ritualistic orders and secret societies with middle class—and actual fascist leadership—which have as their main purpose the perpetuation of the fakery of democracy in a country run by the most powerful capitalist dictatorship in the world, and to tie the working class to the chariot of its exploiters and their agents. Listed among them are the Elks, Moose, Owls, Masons, Knights of the various categories, Redmen, Ju- nior Order of American Mechanics, Knights of Columbus, etc—the whole heterogenous collection of “fraternal” eordrs, protestant and cathlic, thru which American imperialism works to dominate the minds of the workers, farmers and professional and intel- lectual groups. The campaign is being conducted with the aid of the capitalist press proper and of the various special publications of the organizations in- vilved, Its methods are those of the well-known “high-pressure” sales manship used in putting over the world war and the numberless sub- sidiary propaganda campaigns to which it gave birth. The “give a job” idea is the so- called “public appeal.” But it is only a selling point. The campaign will not and cannot create employment— except for its sponsors. More jobs are dependent upon an upward swing in the production of commodities for which markets must be found. There is not the slightest sign of such development. On the contrary, production still continues to decrease. Where one worker is hired, two are fired. On this basis some eighty thousand “new” jobs have been found, according to the latest figures of the capitalist press. This is a long way from a million. These jobs consist of everything from a few hours work repairing a front fence to a few days work in a res- taurant washing dishes—and even these at starvation wages, There is not a single instance, and there will be no single instance, of workers by the thousand returned to the basic industries for steady em- ployment as a result of this cam- paign. Capitalism does not work that way. Outside of a negligible number of jobs given by kindhearted bosses who find this method of aiding the unemployed cheaper than cash con- tributions, there will be no change— except that mass unemployment will continue to increase. It is the campaign itself that mat- ters. It is the massing of the propa- ganda ‘forces of American capitalism to create new,but cruel and unrealiz- able hopes among the hungry milli- ons, and to check in this way the growing struggle for Workers Unem- ployment Insurance at full wages, paid for by the capitalists and their government, and administered by committees of workers — the bill placed before Congress by the Na- tional Hunger March and the Unem- ployed Councils—this is what matters. This a major purpose of the present “give a job” drive headed by the American Legion and the leadership of the American Federation of Labor —partners in the enterprise of pre- venting the victorious mass struggles of the unemployed millions for Work- ers Unemployment Insurance, It is betrayal of the interests of the American working class on a scale seldom attempted, It can and must be exposed and defeated by mass agitation and struggle and in this the Communist Party must take a leading part. i There is a still more sinister side to this drive, It will be dealt with later. Not the least of the purposes of these two campaigns, therefore, with the prominence given to the Ameri- can Legion, the American Federation of Labor leadership and their patrio- tic appeal for the “war” against un- employment and the “depression,” is the putting of the unemployment “relief” and the unemployed them- selves on a war basis, ‘The exposure of this phase of the scheme and the struggle against it is especially the task of th Communist Party in every district. (The next article will be: “Block- Aiding” System for Unemployed Is War Scheme.) Hunger Marchers Ar- rive in Mexico City MEXICO CITY.—A hunger march consisting of 250 unemployed who had. marched 75 miles, arrived at Puebla to present the demands of the job- Jess to the federal authorities. At the head of the march was a stretcher where one of the marchers lay who mat hi coment that they will fight against the bosses war and calling upon workers to smash the war plots of the bosses and defend the Soviet China and the Soviet Union, Over a hun- dred banners were carried in the demonstration, denouncing the Jap- anese, American, British and other imperialist powers and exposing their joint responsibility for the slaughter- ing of the Chinese masses, Right behind the ex-service men, a group of working women marched. Throw- ing fear into the city politicians and the Negro petty bourgeoisie a big number of Negro men and women marched in the demonstration, side by side with the white workers. ‘The demonstration stopped before the City Hall where a huge mass meeting has been held under the chairmanship of Comrade J. Munuck, section organizer of the Communist Party. Comrade Richard Ruffini, Communist candidate for city coyn- cil was the first speaker. Next came Comrade Cass Baily, a Negro worker, also a candidate for city council on the Communist Party ticket. Com- rade Eugene Macks, a Young Com- munist League member and can- didate for city clerk spoke in the name of the young workers, A re- solution was unanimously adopted demanding withdrawal of all im- perlalist warships and troops from China, explusion of the diplomatic agents of Japanese imperialism which is enacting the role of spearhead of world imperialism in the butchery of Chinese men, women and children, stoppage of shipment of troops and munitions and the use of all war funds. for the relief of unemployed workers in America, The resolution demands the city council go on record supporting the 3,000 Hamtramck Workers Protest Against Robber War HAMTRAMCK, Mich.—Over three thousand workers, Ne- | gro and white, marched the main street of this city for more than four miles in an anti-war demonstration called by Com- | munist Party, Section C, Friday, Feb. 26th. At the head of the marchers a group of ex-servicemen marched with their banners declaring »— workers present pledge their support to the Communist Party candidates in the coming municipal elections as | they are the only one who are lead- ing the struggle against imperialist war, This resolution was handled to the city clerk by a delegation elected by the masses present and tramck Ex-service Men's League. Comrade George Kristalsky, Com- munist candidate for mayor, was wildly cheered by the workers. Com- Kristalsky pointed out whose war it ig and against whom it is directed. He pointe dout that the war in the Far East is aimed against Soviet China and the Soviet Union. He showed the workers that this war although far from America, in its result, will bring more starvation and misery to the working-class here. He was followed by Comrade J. Kowal- ski who spoke in Polish, and then read the following resolution: “We the 3,000 workers, Negro and white, of Hamtramck, gathered at an Anit-War demonstration before the City Hall, greet the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of America and its Central Organ the Daily Worker fo rwaging a cour- ageous struggle against imperialist war and for leading the working masses in the fight against a new imperialist world war, and for unem- ployment insurance, against wage cuts, lynching and discrimination against the Negro masses, against deportation of foreign-born workers. “We pledge full hearted support to the Daily Worke rin its struggle and declare our willingness to fight under the banner of the Communist Inter- national and the Communist Party of the United States.” Comrade Mike Webb spoke in the name of the Young Communist above demands and stresses that the League. TORONTO, Canada.—The arrest and subsequent conviction of eight Communist leaders in Canada under the notorious Section 98 of the crim- inal code law, which made illegal the Communist Party, started a broad protest movement among the workers, poor farmers and sympathetic or- ganizations for the repeal of this law and the right of the workers and farmers to organize. It is the same kind of infamous law that the Am- erican ruling class uses against the workers, it is the same law that jailed the miners and strike leaders in Ken- tucky, The wide movement culminated in @ united front conference at Hamil- ton, on February 6 and 7 known as the Eastern Canada Conference for repeal of Section 98 of the Criminal Code and was organized by the Canadian masses. ‘The Conference was composed of over 400 persons, from 23 cities in Eastern Canada, representing 166 workers’ organizations and trade unions and all local Repeal Con- ‘Rally Canadian Masses for Fight on Criminal Code Law ferences. A delegation was named by the conference to carry the demands to the Dominion government. The delegation will also present the de- mands for the repeal of Section 98 by 750 organizations with a total membership of 140,000. It will also present a petition signed by 70,000 workers for an Anti-Deportation Bill and Workers Rights Bill and will demand a repeal of deportation and all anti-labor Jaws and the release of the 8 Communist leaders and of all class war prisoners. At the end of the conference a manifesto was issued, calling upon every worker and farmer, upon every liberal minded person to give imme- diate and sympathetic attention to the situation. The manifesto points out that the outlawing of the Communist Party, the leader of the workers, is the dramatic center for the rising terror in Canada by which the ruling class are endeavoring to supress the activities of the workers. During 1931 over 1720 workers |murderous attacks headed by the secretary of the Ham- |‘/@red: “The Lapuan Army will be in | has felt the main brunt of the fas- Finnish Fascists Start Bloody At- tack For Power {CONTINUED FROM AGE ONE) Lapuan fascists, In many instances, the socialists supported the fascist | on members of | the Communist Party, of: Finiand, That a serious, bloody struggle is opening up in Finland is very clear | from capitalist news reports. The fascists are patrolling the leading | roads to Helsingfors. Their leaders declare here is war. Only arms will speak.” One member of the Lapuan Army staff, in a telephone call to Copenhagen, Denmark, de-| Helsingfoxs within a week.” The Fiunish government declares it is mobilizing the army to “stop” the fascist advance, but it is well known that the officers of the army in large part are sympathetic to the fascist murderers. The only effective resist- ance to the fascist threat will come from the workingclass, led by the Communist Party of Finland, which cist fury. . The fascists are well armed, with machine guns and other modern war | equipment, and are manned by form~ er leading army officers, The Lapuan movement has been able to entice | many ex-servicemen in their ranks. It is reported by the New York Times that “high officers of the Civic Guard | were among the attacking forces (of | the fascists).” zi The demands of the Lapuan moye- ment to the present government are very vague, the main one being the resignation of Baron yon Born, Min- ister of the Interior, The real cause of the march is the depth of the present crisis which is leading many workers and peasants into the ranks of the revolutionary struggle of the workingclass. The fascists are taking advantage of the imperialist war preparations against the Soviet Union in the Far East, and are counting on the support of British and American imperialism in their purported ef- fort to smash down the working- class movement in Finland as a prelude to war against the Soviet Union, Build Harry Simms Branch of Workers International Relief CHICAGO, Tl—A Harry Simms branch of the Workers International Relief has just been established here in answer to the brutal murder of Harry Hirsh Simms by coal operators’ thugs in Kentucky. The members pledge immediate activity in spurring the relief campaign for the Ken- tucky-Tennessee striking - starving miners. Workers International Relief branch will be formed at a “Can Goods” Party on Division street and another is being formed at the New Jewish Workers Club. were arrested for activity in the labor movement; 155 were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment totaling 199 years and 3 months; 98 meetings of workers were smashed by the police; 78 cases of wounding and beatings took place; 3 miners were murdered at Estevan; over 4,000 were deported from this coun- try, nearly half of whom for being unemployed.” every worker, Already, the United States War Depart- ment has ordered a rush printing of thirty- three million draft blanks in preparation for the drafting of American workers to fight for the interests and loot in China of Wall Street. Every worker should read this serjes of short articles. Order your copy of the Daily Worker in advance, Contribute your share to save the Daily Worker, to guarantee that the Daily froced to suspend.—Editor. Worker will not be . By HARRISON GEORGE. HE Japanese premier, aBron Tanaka, in the pre- amble to his infamous war plans known as the “Ta~ naka Memorandum” of 1927, spoke feelingly about his life being saved from assassins, and go nseoto Z etaoin life being saved from assassins, and goes on to tell the emperor of Japan: pire.” old scoundrel to rest with the “spirits perors,” whopr® thanked for his anese imperialists. West, is granting huge credits. But still there are difficulties. As the Chinese people is also a war against the workers and peasants of Japan, the government increased the budget for “the detective department” Tt had need to do so. For the anti-war demon- stratino of the Tokio students followed soon after strikes by workers who entirely overlooked the “pa- triotic reason” that workers should not strike while 8 “It is obvious that sacred Providence wished me to help Your Imperial Majesty to open up a new era in the Far East and to develop our continental Em- Although “sacred Providence” has since taken this plans of Tanaka are being carried out by other Jap- But not without difficulties’ Already early in Jan- uary, the budget appropriated for the war in China was exhausted, though it was supposed to last till March 31, And Tokio was losing no less than $1,000,000 a day in gold in New York, partly, of. course, for supplies for war, but still lost, However, France, openly anxious to keep Japan prepared to attack the Soviet ni the Far East while France and her vassals attack in the Japanese press. invading army. of his dead Em- rescue, the war the war against in Mukden.” to 1,500,000 Yen. Far East! China! Army of China! HARD SLEDDING FOR “SACRED PROVIDENCE” This is the last of a series of six articles by Harrison George on the Japanese seizure of Manchuria in its robber war against China and provocation against the Soviet Union. The war in the Far East is of vital concern to victory, if we rae to judge by the silence of the Jap- anese press on exactly what terms they agreed to go back ot work. All the press says is that the strike was “settled amicably.” Then, the same week, one hundred workers of the Mori Veneer Company in Osaka “refused to be dis- missed” and “sent back their dismissal slips” which were given by the company “because of the depres- sion,” and went on what amounts to a strike, alleging that the real reason for their dismissal wos to “re- place them with lower paid workmenb.” are only part of. the strikes daily admitted in the So in spite of the supposed patriotism of the masses of Japan, the strike wave does not cease to rise. And no wonder, since the price of rice is being raised con- tinually and the war in China has brought nothing of the expected rise in employment. ernment is “alarmed” at the growth of unemployment among the “educated” people. stood by backward American workers who think that “war will solve the unemployment problem.” But, worst of all to the “sacred Providence” of Baron Tanaka, the toiling masses of Manchuria and China proper are, with a revolutionary daring en- tirely unforseen by the “spirit of Tanaka’s dead Em- perors.” making no end of trouble for the Japanese Not noly has the revolutionary anti-imperialist spirit infected the regular troops of the Nanking government (the Japanese press quotes government officials as saying that Japan can make peace with the Chinese generals, but that “the soldiers keep on fighting us”), which explains the heavy price that Japan paid for its capture of Shanghai—being made as these lines are written; but in addition to all this, the whole mil- lion mass of Chinese workers and peasants are haras- sing the Japanese invaders at every opportunity, Thus we read in the Osaka “Mainichi” of Jan. 13: “The provincial Chinese authorities (in Manchuria) are exerting all efforts to convert ban- dits and soldiers into policemen, but of Uttle avail. Those who refuse ot submit, the authorities are en- deavoring to exterminate in cooperation with the Japanese authoriteis. A similar task has been started American workers! and the Japanese workers as well are doing their revo- lutionary duty to stop this imperialist war! do yours? Then refuse to transport munitions to the Demand the expulsion of the diplomatic representatives of Japanese imperialism! withdrawal of U. S. armed forces from China! mand hands off the Soviet: Union and revolutionary All aid to the heroic fighters of the Red And these Indeed the goy- Let this be under- Kirin, The toiling masses of all China Will you Demand the De- | Preparing tor Inter national omen’s Day ‘ ARCH 8 of each year is set aside by the Communist International to bring sharply to the attention of the working class of the world—- and especially to its own sections—the ever growing need for the sys- tematic conduct of agitation, propaganda and organization work in the ranks of proletarian women. In the third year of the crisi intense éfforts of the capitalists ¢ and the trade union bureaucracy to production with less workers, women were brought by the hundreds of thousands. class are women workers. preceded by the period of the most their allies of the socialist parties peed up workers and secure greater into basic industry A huge section of the industrial working In this the third year of the worst crisis in the history of American capitalism with its more than 12,000,000 unemployed and its universal part time work at wages reduced from 30 to 70 per cent, the crisis bears with especial weight upon both women industrial workers and the women dependents of male workers. Imperialist war is going on. the most strenuous efforts. The American capitalist class is making directed especially to the women workers, to win them for the imperialist war program. In contrast to the growing mass misery in the capitalist world, the conditions of the workers of the Soviet Union, and notably those of the women, stand out in bold relief. The resolution of the 13th Plenum of our Party called the attention of every member to the neglect of work among women and gave instruc- tions for correcting this glaring shortcoming. These decisions have not been carried out by our Party—in spite of increased activity and more direction by the center. In the preparations for the mass meetings and demonstrations for March §, it is possible to lay the basis for the speedy correction of smany: of these weaknesses—in particular in the ranks of those trade unions in industries where large numbers of women are employed—metal, textile, the garment trades, etc. International Womenis Day this year can and must be made into a day of real mobilization of our Party and its sympathetic organizations for a great improvement in the work among women, for the exposure of the capitalist schemes for tying women to the bloody wheel of American imperialism’s war chariot, for the extension of the work among women in every district. U. S. ORDERS NEARLY ENTIRE NAVY have ousted Russia from manage- ment, control and one-half owner- ship of the Chinese Eastern.” Japanese War Plans No Secret ‘The Japanese war plans against the Soviet Union are no secret, They are openly admitted in imperialist circles, including Japanese. They are cold-bloodedly outlined in the secret Tanaka document presented to the Japanese Emperor in 1927. They are embodied in the secret memorandum sent a few months ago to the Jap- anese War Office by the Japanese Commander in Manchuria, General Honjo. Both documents brutally express the aims of Japanese im- Pperialism to crush the Chinese Re- volution, loot and divide China along with the other imperialist powers, and to launch a robber war against the Soviet Union, aimed at crushing the successful Socialist construction in the Soviet Union and enslaving the Soviet masses, In the present robber war against China, in the war provocations against the Soviet Union, the Japanese imperialists and their White Guard allies are sup- ported by United States, French and British imperialism. The plot of the imperialists to throw the world into another bloody slaughter is of vital concern to every worker. Already, working-class blood is flowing in rivers in China. Over ten thousand Chinese workers have been massacred in Shanghai by the Japanese imperialists, supported by Wall Street and other imperialists. nited States, British and French warships and troops are at Shanghai to intimidate the revolutionary Chinese masses of that South China city. United States, British, French and Japanese warships are up the Yangtze Valley attacking hte Soviet districts and the Chinese Red Army. ‘The war has been prepared at the expense of the working-class, at the expense of starvation and denial of relief to the unemployed, destitute masses in the imperialist countries and in the colonies. It is being fought at the expense of the workers: It threatens to engulf the entire work- ing-class in a welter of slaughter. It threatens the achievements of the working-class in the Soviet Union and in Soviet China, War means increased starvation, increased misery, increased terrorism against the workers and their revolu- tionary organizations. No worker will be free from its menace. Cities thousands of miles behind the front can be wiped out by the murderous weapons of modern imperialist war- fare. Workers Defend Your Class Interests against Imperialist War Plotters! The workers of the United States must fight against the imperialist war plots! Workers! Defend your class interests against the attack of W orker permanent sustaining fund. Get your pledge cards and contribute now as much as you can to Save the Workers’ Paper. TO PACIFIC OCEAN the bosses! Defend your lives ané your loved ones against the con- spiracy of the bosses to throw you into a new world slaughter to protect their investments and capital in China to try to destroy the vittories of your class in the Soviet Union and in Soviet China. Smash the im- perialist war plots. Prevent the ship- ment of troops and munitions to the Far East, Demand the withdrawal of American and other imperialist troops and warships from: China. Demand Hands off the Soviet Union! Hands off China! Drive out the diplomatic agents of Japanese im- perialism which is butchering the Chinese masses and attempting to provoke the Soviet Union into war! Force their expulsion! Demonstrate against them! Support the revolu- tionary struggles of the Japanese masses! Admit Japanese War Moves Against Soviet Union ‘The Japanese seizure of Manchuria was openly supported by the United States, French and British im- perialists on the understanding that Japan would convert Manchuria inot a military base against the Soviet Union, in the same way that French imperialism has converted Poland, Rumania, Czechoslavia and other European border states into m@ ary bases against the Soviet Union. That Japan is now accomplishing this pur- pose is admitted by the imperialists. A Shanghai dispatch reports: “That Japan is extending her frontiers many undreds of miles from home in preparation for any conflict with Russia is obvious, observers say.” ‘The Japanese Consul at Viadivos- tok has stated that war between Japan and the Soviet Union is in- evitable. In the face of the mon- strous provocation of Japanese im- perialism against the Soviet Union, he attempts to interpret as a war move on the part of the Soviet Union the strengthening of the Soviet gar- risons on the Siberian borders. He spreads a canard that during the past month the Soviet Union has miraculously erected three new forts on the Siberian border. The French imperialists are con- tinuing their demand for an inter- national armed force, to be used against the Soviet Union. Joseph Paul-Boncour, vice chairman of the French “disarmament” delegation yesterday told a meeting of French war veterans at Bourg, France, that it was necessary to put an interna- tional force at the disposal of the League of Nations. The League is controlled by French imperialism. An international armed force could have no other use but against the Sqviet Union, Soviet China and the revoly- tionary struggles of the colonial masses in India, Africa, the Philip- pines, Haiti, ete, and against the re~ yolutionary struggles of the working- classes in the imperialist countries... | : | Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition to save Daily Worker, A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West | RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 BUILD Name . City 26 Issues $1 Iv! SUBSCRIBE NOW! + Street ., Herccecreieeseceersesses SUMO sscssecareeeepaasees Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Cattf,