The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 4

isth &t., Address and mai! Published by the Comprodatiy Publishing Co. inc. daily except Sunday, at 60 East New York City, N. Telephone ALgonauin 4-7956. Cable e Datly Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, Ne “DAIWORK* w York, N. ¥. Dail rker Jn Porty U.S.A. COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO By JAMES W. FORD. QOLICITED by the editor eee, » The Crisis Ne- all Proposed Candidate of the Communist Party for Vice-Presi- | | | dent, | | S and their alarm over this un- | studied these statements. I itting that (1), the Commu- | relentless struggle not | = interests of the whole full and unconditional gro masses; (2) that the itely turning to the lead- Party. e] en all admit the op- the capitalist system. They ro people are brutally op- under the capitalist system. th: ese gentlemen, with 2 of Mr. Carl Murphy, of the er 2 with whose article I in detail, openly state their op- ) imunist Party, openly expose | nature of Ne | Negro masses. their suport of the very caitalist system whose oppressive nature they themselves are forced to admit. None of these editors are workers. They are all representatives of the Negro bourgeoisie (the boss class). And they all suffer in varying de- grees from its ghetto ideology, They all are under the influence of the various imperialist theories, including that of the “inherent infer- jority” of Negroes and the supposed “superior- ity” of the so-called white race. They all look upon capitalism, and especially capitalist jim- crowism as offering them a career, a chance to build personal fortunes at the expense of the ‘These factors determine the ob- jective role of these gentlemen. Despite the fact of difference within their general policy, that general policy definitely is to block the growing struggles of the Negro mass- es against imperialism. These struggles they ad- mit ate led by the Communist Party, And why this so-called symposium on Com- munism in the Crisis? In the Crisis of all the organs of the Negro bourgeoisie? The Crisis which violently attacks the Communist Party, denies the independent role of the Negro pro- letariat, scoffs at the growing solidarity of the» Negro and white toiling masses in the fight against starvation and national oppression, and shamelessly defends the capitalist oppressors of | the white and Negro toilers? The so-called symposium is an attempt to block the growing influence of the Communist Party among the Negro masses. It is no accident that this attempt is led by the Crisis, the official or- gan of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. The top leader- ship of the NAACP is notoriously composed of Shipments By Labor Research Association r c and Dye Corporation, one hemical’ companies in the ion plant in Hope- as been making shipments France, paid $6'a share 1931, paid 7 per cent on and, in addition, declared a per cent. Its profits last year o for this chemical colossus 000,000 in its surplus account s over $165,000,000. In addi- n ital of this compnay, of ic Nitrogen Co., operating 0 to its various reserves for is a subsidiary, now amounts its current assets are jabilities. Both in 1930 le to pay an extra stock in 1931 alone it paid out ‘Ss 14,574,235 in dividends ferrred stock holders. al and Dye Corp. is the largest manufacturing synthetic nitrates | reputed secret process, and ve the lowest production costs of d in this line of manufacturing. eet Journal refers to it as “one of etive companies in the country” never made its list of stockholders general inspection.” t in Hopewell for the manufacture n from the air represents an invest- of at least $50,000,000 all of which of the large profits of the com- t few years. The plan already of from 600,000 to 700,000 tons, y this year was reported to be cent of capacity. How- new government contracts from France | are said to have sinc egreatly stim- uutput of the enormous payments to stock- e Wall Street Journal observes that y “has never shown its true earnings. is have been ploughed back into the rous reserves always have been policy.” Poor’s Analytical s Business and Markets bulletin, is that the company is gaining at in France—Japan’s chief ally in the on the Soviet Union—and says that with a “bright future in store for the indusry, earnings applicable to common stock should increase.” It he purchase of common stock of the com- he basis of its dividend record and the prospect for more profits in the future. And the Standard Statistics Co. specifies the i ry as one of the first that is ay “recovery” from the crisis. spects for the sale of chemicals war prer ons have something very di- © do with these predictions. ~ World Production of Coal in 1931 By Labor Research Association World production of coal had fallen in 1931 by 19 per cent below the 1929 figures: for Oby for rec! Year Total (in metric tons) 1931 1,256,000,000 1930 1,413,000,000 1929 1,560,000,000 Outpue in the United States and Canada has fallen more sharply during the crisis than output in any other countries, declining in these two years by 28 per cent and 31 per cent respectively. But the German and Czechoslovakia coal in- dustries are also hard hit, with a drop in. out- The Briish drop of 15 pe cenurilxeragedye— put that is shaper than the world average. ‘The British drop of 15 per cent since 1929 fol- lowed a steady decline in earlier years, so that the 1931 output was approximately down to the Jevel of 1901. In the United States, the sharp drop of these two crisis years brought output down to the 1908 figure. Some of the smaller coal-producing countries had maintained their coal production through 1931—Belgium, Netherlands, Spain (coal, but not lignit), India. A few others lost less than 10 (per cent these two years of crisis; France, Japan ‘and possibly New Zealand. The 1923 figures, thus far, indicate a further drop in production throughout the capitalist jworld. For bituminous mines in the United ‘States the output of the first 85 working days of 1932 is 17 per cent below last year and 38 per cent below 1929 for the corresponding period. Only in the Soviet Union has output con- | tinued a steady rise, increasing by 37 per cent | m 36,384,000 tons in 1929 to 49,700,000 tons in 931, Behind the Nitrate'The A.F.L. and the War Machine By LABOR RESEARCH ASSN. HAT is the American Federation of Labor's attitude toward the war machine that is now being prepared for the attack on the Soviet Union? Workers who ask his question will be interested in the following quotations from articles and , speeches of high officials of the A. F. of L. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L. and president of the most active and best financed anti-Soviet agency in the United States —the National Civic Federation—made a confi- dential address called “Labor in War” to the Army War College at the Washington Barracks two years ago. In it he told the officers that “American organized labor is a patriotic, loyal and nationalistic institution,” and pledged the full support of labor to carry on the next war “so aggressively that it may be terminated speed- ily and victoriously.” In the same address Woll referred to “the great regard organized labor has forthe military forces of our government, the great respect in which it holds those in charge of the military division of our nation.” He added that, “American labor has always looked in a most kindly and friendly way upon the military arm of our government. It has always demon- strated its willingness to cooperate with that branch of the government in every way possible. « + « The American Federation of Labor has only words of kindness for the Army. It is ever willing to cooperate with it in any way it can.” (Labor Fact Book, p. 128.) ‘William Green was likewise represented before the Army War College in a speech made by his agent, John B. Colpoys, a Washington Demo-+ cratic politician and editor of the “Trades Union- ist.” Colpoys, representing Green in an address made to the War College last fall, took for his subject, “Labor in War: Measures to Insure Its Most Effective Employment.” He urged the army Officers to “establish" proper contacts with the organization that speaks for the hopes and as- pirations of the working people of this country— the American Federation of Labor, and if our country should be embroiled in war you will find that labor will do its full duty with no consid- eration for slackers. They (the labor leaders) will lend their whole-hearted, loyal and patri- otic assistance to their country to the end that every skilled craftsmen within their member- ship will make any sacrifice necessary for the success, the honor and the perpetuity of the institutions of our country.” And by the “institutoins of our country,” Col- poys meant, as explained by Green in many of his other speeches, “the right of private owner- ship and the right of private property,” in other words, Capitalism. In the same address Colpoys continued: “I will state that the most insuring results for success (in the next war) will be best achieved through the proper co-operation of our military forces working in close harmony with the representa- tives of the working class through the American Federation of Labor.” In 1929 the A. F. of L. went on record in favor of bigger pay for army officers, and Peter J. Brady, president of the Federation Bank and a prominent democratic politician, also active in the anti-Soviet work of the National Civic Fed- eration stated that this move “demonstrates the warm and friendly feeling of labor toward the defensive forces of the nation.” In the same year Green and five vice-presi- dents of the A. F. of L. were given a special review and all military honors at West Point, the government’s military school. In his speech on that occasion Green stated that “We believe it is inconceivable that our country should ever engage in an aggressive war.” (He never heard, of course, of the Mexican War, the Spanish War, the conquest of the Philippines, or the wars on the masses of Nicaragua, Haiti, Colombia or Santo Domingo, not to mention intervention against the Russian Reyolution in 1919.) He supported enthusiastically. the Citizen’s Military Training Camps, saying that labor would con- tinue “to give this patriotic movement a full measure of support.” Some years before at Plattsburg, N. Y., the whole Executive Council of the A. F. of L. was royally entertained and gave its blessing to the military training camps and urged A F. of L. members to attend them. In the last war scores of labor officials par- ticipated in swivel chair and other jobs. The A. F. of L, bureaucrats, at that time, sold liberty bonds, sat on draft boards, speeded up produc- tion, acted as spies on militant workers and otherwise demonstrated their abject loyalty to imperialism, Since the war every convention of the A. F. of L, has been addressed by War Department chiefs, and army officers, all ex- pressing their love for the labor leaders who are to act as recruiting sergeants in the next world slaughter, ; 4 bourgeois Negroes and white imperialists, like Spingarn, the gentleman who advocated Jim- Crow training camps for Negro soldiers during the World War and now heads the NAACP as his reward. The NAACP leadership Tepresents the highest expression of the united front of the Negro bourgeoisie with the imperialist enemies of the Negro masses. Its leaders have completely exposed themselves in the Scotsboro case, in the Orphan Jones (Maryland), Willie Peterson (Bir- mingham), Willie Brown (Philadelphia), and oth- er cases of frame-ups and attempted legal lynch- ings of Negro workers, as assistant hangmen of the imperialists. Nor is it an accident that this attack on the Communist Party occurs at this time when the workers are confronted with the election strug- gle. The real issues of the election campaign Coining Blood Money from Munitions for the Anti-Soviet Wat What the Bosses Are Doing for Unemployment Relief By-L-AMTER, zg. at Rar for the unemployed is completely break- ing down in the United States. Not only are the unemployed going hungry, but more workers are being thrown out of the factories, shops and offices, wages are being reduced and more taxes are being piled on the shoulders of the workers and poor farmers. Hoover wants to balance the budget. To do so, he proposes a month's furlough without pay for all government employes, except those re- ceiving $1,000 a year or less, five days a week with corresponding reduction in pay. The House Committee composed of democrats and repub- | licans, proposed a straight cut of 11 per cent in pay except for the lowest paid workers. This would in addition mean the laying off of about ‘75,000 government workers.. Hoover says nothing more about the government “building rogram,” which was to “help over the depression.” This means ‘government outlay, and the government refuses to do anything either in work of relief for the unemployed. All the governors have forgotten their “build- ing programs,” being compelled by Wall Street to “retrench.” The mayors.of the cities yield- ing to the dictates of Wall Street bankers, cut. out building and cut down everything except: their own salaries and the graft, which blooms as never béfore. In New York City the building program of $213,000,000 was cut out at one stroke, because Walker, as a tool of Wall Street, accepted the bankers’ decrees. . ‘The governors say “there, is no. starvation” in their states, Certainly not in the state cap- itols! These governors LIE and think that by these statements of “confidence” they will be able to “improve the” situation” and “set the country on. the way to prospertiy once more.” ‘With this bunk they will feed uo hungry chil- dren—and they have no intention of doing so. Let us look at some of the projects of these governors. Roosevelt refused to advocate un- employment insurance for all workers, or any kind of adequate relief. Instead, he had the state legislature put forward a bond issue of $30,000,000 for relief—to be voted on in New Jer- sey. The six governors meeting in Albany pro- pose unemployment insurance—to be introduced as a starvation measure only as propaganda for the election campaign. Ritchie, the Negro lynch- er, also approves unemployment insurance, al- though he insists that “no one is starving in this state (Maryland).” But this does not help the situation Refus- ing to provide unemployment relief, the various cities have turned to plundering the workers through “block aid,” “block to block” schemes. What hav the unemployed got out of these drives? In New York City, which boasts of being the richest city in the world, and which has the highest number of unemployed, the amount spent for relief is near the lowest in the country, $2 per head during a period of six months. “Tihrty- three thousand family heads employed by the City Welfare Commission who were working three days a week at $5 to $5.50 a day, have been reduced to two days work. Immediate relief amounts to $2.67 per week per family, and now the plan is to “reduce it to $2.03 per week, or 29 cents a day for food, rent, fuel and the other necessities of life,” as the Welfare Council re- ports. Emergency work will be cut in half, which | means that instead of earning $10 a week, the family heads will be reduced: to $5 a week. The immediate outlook is that 8,000 of the 36,000 on the rolls of the Emergency Work Bureau will be fired immediately, with an uncertain fate for- the remaining 28,000. Facing this tragic situation, and determined not to do anything for the unemployed except club and pail them when they fight for bread, Proposals are made in New York City for $20,- 000,000, $40,000,000 and $60,000,000 plans as covers for the refusal to provide anything adequate for the more thani 1,000,600 unemployed in the city. “Real programs” of relief are proposed but the only method of raising the money is to fleece the workers. Not a penny in taxes is suggested—for “business men are complaining about the impos- sible taxation.” But’an increase in subway fares is brought forward as a matter of course—for this will’ come out of the pockets of the workers. Mayor Murphy, the murderer of the Ford | workers, declares that he will veto the cut in pay of the teachers, but advises the city council to: pass the bill over his veto! Not able to stem’ the tide of discontent, the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and American Legion started their drive for 1,000,000 jobs Up to date (April 23), they report 594,102 jobs procured. WE CHALLENGE THEM TO PROVE THAT THESE 594,000 ARE AT WORK. We declare that not even a fraction of these men are working, or if they are, they have merely taken the work away from other workers. When the figure had reached 220,000, the American Legion admitted that a like number had been fired, and many of these jobs were only TEHPORARY. The A. F. of L. officials and the American Legion, as allies of big business, are putting up the same bluff as the bosses themselves. The Block Aid reports up to April 18 $441,367 in cash collected and pledges of $315,822, Most of this money came out of the pockets of work- ers in factories, stores, offices, for the workers of New York in the neighborhoods have given these highway robbers the proper answer: THEY HAVE SLAMMED THE DOOR IN THEIR FACES, This will not suffice: The workers must or- ganize into the Unemployed Councils and fight, for the bosses are resolved to let the workers starve rather than provide relief, Not only are they cutting wages systematically, but are re- ducing the level of relief so low, where they grant it, that a man and his family cannot live. And with the discrimination against particularly Ne- | Bro workers, foreign born and single workers, it is obvious that the bosses are storing up DYNA- MITE which will explode, for the workers will not go on starving for the next “five or six years” that Schwab predicts the crisis will last. $ Against starvation and for unemployment re- lief and the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill—that is the struggle of the unemployed and employed workers todr~ ment and social insurance, emergency relief for the small farmers, exemption of poor farmers jirom taxes and forced collection of debts, equal rights for the Negro masses and the right of self determination for the Black Belt. In the fight for these working class demands it is neces- sary to build a firm working class unity in re- sistance against the capitalist hunger and war offensives, against Hoover’s wage slashing cam- paign, against terror, against all forms of sup- pression of the political rights of the workers, against imperialist war and for the defense of ‘ ‘ al oi SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mati everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $8; two months, $2; excepting Buroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New Yovk City. Foreign: one year, $8: six months $4.50 a ve ee a are the fight against starvation, for unemploy- = the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Only the. Communist Party is leading this struggle. “Only the Communist Party can lead such a struggle. And the Communist Party is gaining in influence among the toiling Negro and white masses, The imperialists and their agents, black ana white, therefore consider it necessary to intensify their offensive against the Communist Party. The Crisis “symposium” om Communism is part of that offensive. Beginning tomorrow I will take up the ine dividual statements of these seven gentlemen in detail. THE STRUGGLE OF THE FAR EASTERN TOILERS AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST WAR (Chinese Workers Correspondence) NE of the Japanese militarists said: “The 19th Route Army at Shanghai toes not seem to know the prestige of the Imperial Force; that accounts for their stubborn resistance.” For five weeks since January 28th all events transpiring at Shanghai have told us fully what the ‘prestige’ of the force of the Japaxese Empire is, The ‘prestige’ manifested through the most inhuman massacres by means of the most scien- tific ano up-to-hate arms! On Feb. 22nd ,two days before the Japanese Military headquarters at Shanghai prohibited foreign newspaper men to visit the war zone, there appeared in the Shanghai Evening Post anu Murcury an article with the headline of “Gruesome Sights Mark Race Track.” In the article the observer said: “I visited Kiangwan Race Course today. The entrances to my favorite stand are blocked with corpses, fresh corpses newly made before my eyes «+ There are women and children among them women shot through the back, their padded coats run through with military sabres, children whose bodies are riddled with bullets, men garbed as peasant farmers heaped grotesquely about, their wounds soaking the ground. ... The houses are burned, I saw them burned with neat precision not a wasted match, nor a nextra piece of kind- ling. And they? Their corpes sweeten the ground beneath the judges, stand, one whose body was soaked in onl and now lies charred beneath the officials, tower will till no crops again. ... ‘The flames from burning farmhuts throw a curtain of red behind new captive groups of those who fled the fire. An officer turns one of the peasant-garbed group away, to face the sun. His shining sabre flashes, up to its hilt in the human sheath the body falls, a second takes its place and once again the sabre finds its pulsing scabbard. And now a diversion, the next, a tall and likely lad, is flung unbound face down, upon the two who clutch the panting earth in death, and as he falls, a volley from six officers’ revolvers makes a minor outline on his back and courses up his spine. The volley dies the pistols now are empty, the jerking figure on the ground now is still and another takes his turn.” So far as time and space are concerned the description is exceedingly brief. It is just the observation of the writer over a small area, scarcely more than one-square mile, during the course of a few minutes. As a matter of fact, the Japanese artillery and bombtrs completely ruined Chapie, Woosung, Kiangwan and other towns along the Shdnghai-Soosung Railway which districts were homes of five hundred thousand just a few weeks ago.» 4 . Revolutionary Ferment Among Japanese Troops In sharp contrast with the imperialist ‘prestige’ in plain words, with the brutal massacre of col- onial masses, however, there has been now breeding a different power,.a power whose mis- sion it is to do away with the ‘prestige’, in the Japanese troops at Shanghai. The,power has | gained a strong foothold in the imperialist army and made important displays of itself during the past few weeks, The China Evening News at Shanghai on Feb. 8. reported: “Day before yesterday, again, @ group of 600 Japanese soldiers mutinied and turned their rifles backward. But they were soon disarmed with over one hundred exceuted immediately and the rest sent back to Japan. It was told the latter were also killed on the way with their bodies all thrown into the sea.” On the same day, similar néws also appeared in other papers at Shanghai, ‘This mutiny of the Japanese troops at ‘Shang- hai, however, was not the first one. According to press reports, early on January 29, there was a mutiny of some 200 soldiers of the Japanese landing force on the front at Chapei and’ on Feb. 12 another of some 300 at Hongkew. ‘The ‘motive ‘for these mutinies is one and the same for in each case propaganda articles issued by the Japanese Revolutionary Soldiers’ Com- mittee were distributed by the mutineers. The writter happened to have obtained two kinds of the literature: 1.. (distributed in the Hongkew district on Feb, 12) “Japanese soldier masses at Shanghai and at Home! Unconsciously we have been dis- patched to Shanghai! What for? We had been once ordered to Siberia and during another in- stance, to Korea and Formosa. Now Manchuria also becomes ‘the territory under the dominion of the Japanese Empire. But after all what is the improvement of our own living conditions? Let us just think. Are noi those killed during the present war toilers of éither Japan or China? The Japanese and the Chinese ruling classes are still enjoying advantages and privileges! Let us liberate ourselves from their deceptions and never fight our own brothers again... .” 2. (found scattered near the line of the Japanese troops at -Yongtzopoo) “Dear Japariese | soldiers: Look! Are we not here fighting our Chinese soldier brother exclusively for the in- terests of the capitalists? Let us be bold to unmask the deceptions of our officers! They are nothing more than hunting dogs of the cap- italists and landlords! Let us be determined to act as the vanguard of the Japanese Red Army fighting against the Japanese capitalists and landlords for the interest of our own class of all worker-péasant toiling masses! Let us join hands’ with the Chinese soldiers!: Defend the Chinese Revolution and set up the worker-peasant gov- ernment of Japan! Our slogans: Against attack ing China! Unite with the Chinese soldier brothers! Defend the Chinese Revolution! Defend the Soviet Union! Build the worker-peasant- | tionary waves. soldier Government and Red Army of Japant_ Celebrate the 14th anniversary of the establishe ment of the Red Army!” Other kinds of literature of the same revolue tionary nature are abundant. The Japanese revolutionary elements are so active that on Feb. 21, one of their members connecied with the Japanese air force at Shanghai even utilized one of the Japanese fighting rianes as the in- strument of their publicity work and distributed a great many leaflets bearing the seal of the Young Japanese Communists urging the Japanese soldiers on the front to fight against the im- Perialist war to defend the Chinese revolution and to defend the Soviet Union. ‘The same kihd of anti-war literature has been also frequently distributed among the Japanese Plain clothes corps organized by the petty mer- chants and students of Japanese nationality at Shanghai. On Feb. 14, many women and children of the Japanese poor at Shanghai organized as Father-husband-son Demanding Corps’ for their fathers, husbands or sons were nabbed away by the war, distributed various sorts of antiwar literature in the garrison district of the Japanese force, Workers of Other Nationalities Join Struggle More concrete and enlarged anti-war move- ments have been proceeding now among the re- volutionary masses of various nationalities at Shanghai. In their enlarged Representative Meeting on Feb. 6 members of the Anti-Im- perialist League of Koreans at Shanghai decided to appeal to the anti-imperialist masses of all nationalities in the city for a united front against the invasion of Shanghai by Japanese imperialism. Under the auspices of the Shanghai Anti-Imperialism League and the A. I. L. of the Koreans at Shanghai, the Representative Meeting of the Chinese, Japanese, Formosan Korean, Indian, ete anti-imperialist masses is now under positive preparation. This certainly will promise the formation of {he united front against im- perialism by the suppressed nations in the Far East. , The anti-imperialist waves now on the up- surge throughout China that manifested as anti< war struggle at Shanghai, undoubtedly have organically united with the anti-war movement, in Japan and Korea which have been ever on the increase since Japanese imperialism forcibly occupied Manchuria and later shifted a part of its guns toward Shanghai. Right after the Shanghai war occurred, according to press re- “ports on Feb. 6, two regiments of the Japanese army mutinied at Kobe opposing attacking China; toiling women at Yokohama have or- ganized “Father-husband-son Demanding Corps” and'workers in Tokio, Kioto, Osaka, etc., together with revolutionary students have repeatedly demonstrated against war, each time having serious clashes with the police of the ruling class. It was told that early on November 20 last year some 300 Japanese soldiers on the front at Dahusan in Manchuria suddenly mutinied against massacreing the Chinese masses and attacking the Soviet Union, but {hey were outnumbered and killed en bloc by Japanese imperialism. This fact tells us, that the ‘prestige’ of the Imperial force is carrying with itself anti-war seeds ana scattering them everywhere. Korean Masses in Revolutionary Fights In Korea, the struggle against attacking China “and that for national emancipation have been well co-ordinated assuming very high revolu- ) Owing to the blockade willfully laid by the, Japanese news agencies, the reports concerning their activities can leak out to us only through the revolutionary. Koreans at Shanghai. From what we have been occasionally informed the demonstrations and revolts of workers, peasants and revolutionary students against imperialist war are universally spreading over Korea, In the latter half of September last year, the plan of the workers of Taku (in the north part of Keung Sang Province in South Korea) to wreck the Japanese military trains was detected by Japanese police with many of the revolu- tionary . workers slaughtered. Demonstrations having each time over’ 5,000 participants were waged one after the other to demand land and to oppose. military occupation of Manchuria by peasants in Hamheung, Youngsheung, Hong- Seung, etc., in the province of Hamheung toward /the. end .of last year. Early in January,’ this year peasants in Chungchen were active again in planning to wreck the Japanese military ‘As to the students, their anti-imperialist struggle with the Imperial. University at Seoul as the Headquarters -has been growing so vio- Jently that many of them fell victims under the suppression of Japanese imperialism, Toward the end of last year ,students of the Agricultural School at Chungchen (in Chungeheung province in Central Dorea) of the High School of Peng- yang (in Pengyan:province in North Korea) and of the High’ School of Chenchu have held anti« imperialist and anti-war demonstrations sep- arately, and the strikes and sabotages of the workers against the industrial rationalization that constitutes a part of the miliary plan of Japanese’ imperialism are spreading throughout the whole territory of Korea: Evidently, all these have considerably affected the military action of Japanese imperialism in, Manchuria. i Before the heroic struggles of the Far Eastern toiling masses, it is not the ‘prestige’ of the force of the Japanese Empire alone but also that of the troops of other imperialists, who are now bent on suppressing colonial revolutions and invading the Soviet Union, which will meet the inwitable fate of annihilation °