The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1932, Page 1

* \, large delegations from these states In the Day’s News REICHSTAG ELECTIONS NOV. 6 BERLIN, Sept. 18.—New elections will be held on Nov. 6 for the Reich- stag, it was decided by the Von Papen cabinet yesterday. COLOMBIA PREPARES FOR WAR BOGOTA, Colombia.—A total of 90,000 was voted for war pur- b ythe Colombian Senate, fol- VOTE COMMUNIST ployers. ers without restrictions by the ment and banks; exemption farmers from taxes, and no collection of rent or debts 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance + at the expense of the state and em- 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy, 8. Emergency relief for the poor farm- FOR: Dail Central Orga govern. of poor forced 4 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: selfe Equal rights for the Neg determination for the B = ell Against capitalist terror; again: politcal forms of suppression of the rights of workers. orker unist Porty U.S.A. . Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, (Section of the Communist International) the capture by Peruvian offi- ce.s of Leticia, a Colombian border | town. | ” . . | SUIP OFF SPANISH NOBLES | ADRID, Sept. 18.—Frightened by] growing strength shown by the| ‘3 of Spain, the government has | placed 105 members of the nobility} ‘s on board the steamship Cadiz harbor for exile at} » on the African coast. en are said to be pessi- the fact that the Cortes, in October, will be forced by | ‘sto pass some relief} 7 KILLED IN ARMY PLANES | SPEZIA, Italy, Sept. 18—Seven were killed yesterday in a collision| between tivo army seaplanes, se 8 PLAN CATHOLIC FILM_COMP4NY | DUBLIN, Sept. 18—An Insa > company, under Catholic auspices, is planned here, it was stated by the Rev. Father Bell, of the Society of| the Divine Word. Bell spoke of how the company could be used to “coun-)| teract the march of Bolshevism.” TO INTENSIFY TRADE FIGHT | CHERBOURG, France, Sept. 16.— Minister of Merchant Marine Leon Meyer says he is planning a decree to compel foreign importers to use | 50 per cent of ships bearing the French flag. rey fete BRAZIL REBELS CLAIM GAIN SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 16—The | spread of the rebellion to include an _important part of the state of Santa Catherina is claimed by Gertulio Vargas from rebel headquarters. He) stated the rebels have gained con-| trol of a section of the Porto Union} Railroad, near Ponta Grocsa, THIRD “POCKET BATTLESHIP” BERLIN, Sept, 18—In line with} the increased preparations ‘for war,| the construction of Germany's third | “pocket battleship” was announced | here. | Ben Kerr, postal clerk who was tired because he favored the bonus while Hoover didn’t, has been re- instated on account of an enormous amount of mass pressure that was brought to bear throughout the country, VET DELEGATES MERT INN. Y.C. Prepare for National Conference NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Thirty- three delegates to the Veterans’ Rank and File Conference, to be held in Cleveland Sept. 23, 24 and 25, met here today in the Stuyvesant Casino and worked out the plans to draw masses of veterans into a militant fight for the bonus. _ All posts of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League in the city of New York were represented at the local conference, which was addressed by S. J. Stember, who returned Friday from the Anti-War Congress held recently in Amsterdam. Emanual Leyin, national chairman of the W. E. S. L., made the main report, which urged a more intensified fight against the cutting off of veterans’ disability relief allowances. Among the delegates were six Ne- gro veterans, who were cheered when they called for a sharper fight against jim crowism and discrimina- tion against Negro ex-servicemen. A delegate representing a post of Spanish-American war veterans told the conference that his post was unanimously behind the fight for the bonus of the veterans of the last war. He urged a united struggle of al Ithe vets against the attempt of the government to cut off and re- duce pensions of the Spanish-Amer- ican vets. One of the delegates represented ® post of the American Legion. A demand for the increase in dis- ability allowances for veterans who served during peace time was also raised and adopted by the delegates. The New York delegation to the Cleveland Conference will leave for Cleveland Tuesday at 5 pm. from Union Sq. After a send-off meetine of unemployed and unemployed workers in solidarity with the veter- ans. Reports were received from Connecticut and New Jersey that will be present at the National Con- ference. og ee New W. E. 8, L, Post NEWARK, N, J—A new post of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League was formed here Saturday, and has 385 Spring- A mass meeting will be held under the auspices of the new post Monday, at 7 p.m,, at Military Park to elect delegates o the Cleveland Conference. ‘Two delegates have already been elected. _ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR | The Vol. IX, No. 224 p= Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ANACORTES JOBLESS CONVICTED Workers Demonstrate And Secure Release Pending Sentence JOBLESS TOOK FOOD Mill Strikers Mass at the Trial ANACORTES, Wash., Sept. 18— hunger raid defendants, Moe, Anderson, Trafton and Wollertz, were found guilty of grand larceny and riot late yesterday afternoon by a jury composed mostly of rich farmers, after six hours of delibera- tion. Marshall was found not guilty. Rows cf deputized thugs in front of the Judge’s bench were unable to prevent the most dramatic and big- gest demonsiration in the history of Skagit County as the verdict was read. Over a thousand farmers and workers militantly participated in it. After the demonstration in front of the court a mile-long parade with trucks and cars was held through} the town. The parade passed in| front of the judge’s home with the red flag flying atop the first truck. Released Pending Sentence. The trembling authorities released the convicted men on their own rec- ognizance pending the day of sen- tence when @ll Western Washington will march on Mount Vernon. The workers employed in the only two mills running in Anacortes struck for higher wages Friday at noon in order to attend the last two days of the trial. The workers on the county road job struck Saturday | morning to attend the trial and al-} most brought with them the county) trucks, -~ | The unprecedented mass resent- ment at the trial forced the county commisioners to call an emergency | meeting yesterday in order to fur- nish immediate relief to the starv-| ing workers, this being the first step for relief by the county . ‘The International Labor Defense is intensifying the fight for the rights of Moe, Trafton and Anderson, Com- munist candidates. A telegram demanding a new trial for the convicted workers was sent to Judge Joiner of Mount Vernon. Defend Themselves. The magnificent closing’ speeches of the defendants who fought their own case without counsel brought out the class isues submerged by the} judge during the trial when he de- nied that the starvation conditions or other contributing circumstances were admissible as evidence. The judge's charge to the jury was directed to obtain a verdict of guilt declared that’ anyone even passively | present when groceries were taken | must be considered guilty of grand | larceny and riot. Party on Ballot Today in Indiana INDIANOPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 18.— Petitions to put the state and na- tional candidates of the Communist Party on the ballot in Indiana will be filed tomorrow, What Is Your Unit Doing for | the Daily Worker Circulation 50,000 Workers Giving 50 Cents Each, Can Save ‘Daily’ WORKERS: Employed and unemployed workers! Do you or don’t:you want a daily newspaper to fight your battles, to help you fight-wage cuts and evictions, to help you fight the plans of the capitalist class for a new world slaughter? The Daily Worker, and only the Daily Worker has been doing this for the last eight years. Now the question is going to be decided in the next few days whether the Daily will keep on or whether it will be cut again to two pages, crippling its work, or, even, suspended altogether for a time. The paper needs $1,200 a day to get out each day’s issue and pay the most pressing bills. It was forced to go to two pages, a week ago, and only got back four pages through the sacrifices of workers of one or two big cities, especially New York and Chicago. But the bills are piling up again! And receipts are falling off! From Friday noon to Saturday only $287 came in! This makes the situation desperate. Here is our plan. The Daily Worker Management Committee calls on each of 50,000 workers to contribute half a dollar each to save their paper. Unemployed workers can collect their share of the half dollars. Rush the funds! Fifty Thousand Workers! Lineup behind your paper! Vote your confidence in our own fighting paper by giving your half dollar at the next meeting of your organization, whether it is a meeting of your party unit, your labor union local, your fraternal organization—what- ever organization you belong to. Rush your aid to save your paper! (Signed) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE DAILY WORKER. ROOSEVELT’S RAILROAD SPEECH IN SALT LAKE CITY PAVES WAY 10 20 PER CENT CUT FOR R. R. WORKERS | | Propose Raising Cost of Living by Limiting Bus and Truck Lines; Rationalization to Increase Unemployment; More Banker Control COMMUNISTS IN CALL 10 STRIKE "AGAINST PAY CUTS |Build Anti-Wage Cut Committees in Every Brotherhood Lodge | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 18. |The highest possible wages that WHAT ROOSEVELT’S R.R. PROGRAM MEANS Millions to Banker Owners, More Jobless, and Approval of the 20 Per Cent Pay Cut 1.—Actually the same as Hoover's present policy, in spite of Koose- velt’s attempt to make it look different. It means continued giving of millions of dollars, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from the treasury which “can’t find a penny” | | for unemployment relief. These millions will | the industry can afford to pay,” was be LOANED, for practical purposes DONATED, | Roosevelt's only comment on the 20 to avowdly bankrupt corporations, and will fall | par cent wage cut the 1,200,000 into the hands of the banks. | rxflroad workers follows on 2.—A free hand for mergers, in the interest | the heels of the repeated statements ' of the big capitalists, and to wipe out the smal- |of the Rail Road magn that ler stock owners. “they must have the cut be 3.—Taxes and regulations to raise the price | can’t afford to pay the present wages.” of fares and freight rates on bus linse and motor | Roosevelt. made this statement in trucks, to allow railroads to charge more, to raise | the course of a lengthy speech here Roosevelt the price of goods the worker buys, and increase | Saturday night devoted almost en- the cost of travel for workers who now patronize bus lines. tirely to schemes to rivet finance 4.—A scheme to reduce competition which will result in increased | capital tighter in control of, the rates and fares, |roads, to raise the cost of living bj 5.—More consolidation of ownership and power in the hands of big finance capital, reduced wages and increased rates, with more ra- tionalization, directed by government experts, and therefore more un- | raising fares and rates, and to loot |the national treasury of more mil- |lions for the roads. War Vet’s Child Dies) In Classroom of Star-, vation, Brother Dying RALLY TO FREE TAMPA PRISONERS Amter to Speak at) Meet Thurs day |demagogically speaking about the OWNERS WOULD Should Organize JAIL STRIKERS Ask New Law; Tenants | employment. | To Put Official Stamp on Cut. 6.—Seems to call for the holding companies to come under the In- | Monday and Tuesday the Inter- terstate Commerce Commission, but is so worded as to mean practically | state Commerce Commission will nothing. Eyen if carried out would result in no change for the Com- | meet to put the official stamp on the roads’ false insistence th they jean’t pay the present wages. An- jmouncements of the 20 per cent c are being mailed tomorrow to the | Railroad Brotherhoods by the com- | panies. |No Help from Brotherhood Chiefs. The proposed rail wage cut is part of Hoover's wage cutting campaign. Roosevelt's railroad mission is dictated to by the same financiers who run the holding com- panies. This point is just an attempt to appear as an enemy of preda- tory wealth, in an election campaign tactic, and a cover for the real help given the railroad owning millionaires in the other points. Roosevelt and Companies | the united front committee will be |“forgotten man”, a “forgotten” child died in his own state capital city. NEW YORK. — Twenty-one dele- gates representing 21 organizations, including three A..F. ofl. unions ™meet in united front conference yes- terday at the Harlem Casino to map out a campaign of mass action to force the release of the 14 workers who were jailed because they partici- pated in a demonstration against ter- ror last November in Tampa, Fla. The conference which was called under the auspices of the Harlem United Front Committee issued a call for a demonstration and parade to be held October 1 which will wind up at 110th Street and 5th Avenue. A permanent Tampa prisoners united front defense committee was elected. The conference urged all workers and workers’ organizations to send protests to the mayor of Tam- pa and the governor of Fliroda. The demonstration October 1 will also serve as a rallying point for the mas- ses of workers in Harlem to demand the release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. A mass protest meeting called by held Thursday, September 22, at 106th St. and 2nd Ave. I. Amter, Commu- nist candidate for governor of New York state, will speak for the com- mittee. Registration now going on for Fall Term of Workers’ Freeman J. Violette, Jr., nine year jold.son of & war veteran dropped -dead in his class room this week front starvation. One of his brcthers is re- |ported in the hospital, near death, also. The boys’ father has been out of work for two years. The child, just before he died from malnutrition, told the teacher he hadn't eaten in 24 hours. ‘COMMUNISTS ON ~ ILLINOIS BALLOT Socialists Lack Many | Thousands Signatures) CHICAGO, Ill, Sapt. 18.—'The workers’ delegation from the Chicago jmass meeting of September 10, filed jwith the secretary of the state in| Springfield, yesterday, 34,787 signa-| tures on petitions to place the Com- | munist ticket for state officials on | the ballot. The presidential and vice- presidential ticket was already on. The legal requirement for state ballot is 25,000, but the state officials were making trouble, and demanding more names, so the workers gave them more names. The Socialist Party has so far failed to file its state ticket, and Monday morning is ‘the latest date School, 35 E, 12th St., 3rd fl. (Editor's Note: The following article by Mrs. Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, was written during her imprisonment in Klodno, Czechoslovakia. It is the first extended article Mrs. | Wright has ever written. Mrs. | Wright's arrest and imprisonment — is part of the efforts instigated by | the United States government to | disrupt her European Scottsboro | Defense tour. These inspired at- tacks on the mass fight to free the nine innocent Negro boys are in- creasing as Oct. 10 nears, the date set by the U. S. Supreme Court for a rel of the infamous lynch verdicts against seven of the boys. The workers of the whole world must repel these attacks and build the mass defense which alone can stop the bloody hands of the boss- class lynchers and free the Scotts- boro boys.) ey Oe By MRS. ADA WRIGHT I never dreamed that I had the strength to make a seven months’ tour of the United States and then to cross the Atlantic and for more than four months now to “carry on” in the European Scottsboro campaign. There have been many difficulties. But my love for my two sons, the overwhelming desire and hope*to see them free again, with all the Scots- that I did not understand 17 months ago, to achieve something for my race and my class, have kept me "Against Hoovers wage-ouvung strong. I grew to understand the Police attacks upon our meetings. 1, boro boys, with the growing desire, || jcould even understand my being ex-| 1 pelled twice from Belgium, a coun- try which tyrannizes over so many at which it can be placed on file. NEW YORK.—The Bronx Land-| lords Protective Association met Sat- urday and-announced plans to-“have+' legislation introduced making rent strike agitation a misdemeanor, thereby subjecting the agitators to| arrest and imprisonment. ‘They also tried to make up a black list of those who engaged in rent | strikes, Rent strkes, led by tenants’ leagues and house committees, working with | the Unemployed Councils have forced | many a landlord to recognize the crisis, and cut his rents, and the landlords don't like it, Agree on Railroad Wage-Cut Roosevelt says: “It is clear to me that all the men and women who are employed in our great transportation systems are entitled to the highest possible wages THAT THE INDUSTRY CAN AFFORD TO PAY.” “The committee of nine, representing all railroad company ex- ecutives, declared Sept. 9 in Chicago: that a 20 per cent permanent reduction in the basic wage scale of all classes of employes, effective February 1, 1933, WAS NECESSARY.” (N. Y¥. Times, Sept. 10.) The R. R. executives say the “cut is necessary” because that is the highest wage “they can afford to pay.” Thus Roosevelt (though he tries to cover up his position) comes out definitely for the 20 per cent wage cut for the Rail Road workers, BOYCOTT BOSSES’ ~~ PRIMARIES, N. NEW YORK, — In a statement is sued today, the N. Y. State United Frent Communist Election Campaign | Committee urged all workers to boy- cctt the primaries on Tuesday, Sept. 20th, “These primary elections are screens for making the workers be- | lieve that they have a voice in the ing pool, |nominations of boss candidates”, the Workers are urged to elect dele- | committee stated. “Actually they are gates from their mass organizations, an attempt to display the strength fraternal orders or clubs, | of | the workers into voting for so-called The Daily Worker needs YOU | independent candidates who, like ¥ those they supposedly oppose, are its mass Circulation Drive— lee of Tammany and Wall Street,” Workers and unemployed workers ss ne should be on guard against this/ scheme to make something like serfs James A. Ford Defense Conference on Monday A special United Front Conference for the defense of James A. Ford, Negro worker of the Bronx, has been |called for Monday, tonight, Sept. 19, |8 pm., at Boston Road, Bronx, by the Bronx Section of the Internati- onal Labor Defense. Ford, was viciously railroaded to one year in jail by a Jim-Crow judge |for attempting to take a photograph of the Jim-Crow Bronxdale swimm- A big Communist vote this year will make the legislature pause before passing such laws. More resistance to high rents will bring them down. The landlords’ Association also at- tacked any scheme for tax-free build- ing of workers’ tenements, fearing these might lower rents, The socialist candidates lack thou- | sands of signatures. Signatures to put Communist can- didates in Cook county (inciuding the city of Chicago) on the county bal- lot will be filed Tuesday. VOTE COMMUNIST Against capitalist terror; against alt 1orms of suppression of te political rights of workers. in “I GO TO PRISON FOR THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS”--MRS. WRIGHT Build the Mass Defense! Stop the Lynchers! And, I will say now, that I am will- ing to go again, and for a longer ; time if it will help the cause in which millions of my people in the Congo,;so many millions of workers are in Africa, But I didn’t think that they would ever send me to jail and to prison, just for trying to save the lives of my two sons, Yet, I have been to prison in our struggle to save the Ccottsboro boys. MRS. ADA WRIGHT struggling. Same Workers. They arrested me at Klodno, in the coal fields near Prague, in Czecho- slovakia. I had never heard of | Czechoslovakia, or of Prague, or Klodno, before they were included in our European tour. But the work- ers here were just like the workers | that I saw in the twelve other coun- \tries I had visited. One woman} comrade who greeted me at Klodno had been a delegate to the Amster- dam Anti-War Congress. They told me that Klodno was the birthplace of Anthony J. Cermak, the democratic mayor of Chicago. He had been to Klodno only a few weeks previously. He had been ac- .tlaimed by the government and feasted by its officials, I remember Mayor Cermak’s police in Chicago murdered three of my people, shoot- | ‘ng them down in the streets during an unemployed demonstration against th eeviction from their homes of some jobless Negro workers. I have heard much more aboue the police | terror in Chicago. | That makes it easier for me to/ | understand why I should be arrested by the friends of Chicago’s mayor in Klodno, over here in Czechoslovakia in Europe. I was arrested before I ever spoke at or even reached the Klodno meet- ing. They dragged me off to the Police station and tried to terrorize | _}me into admitting that I was trying No Communist candidates are on | the ballot at these fake primaries, and workers are urged to stay away from them, and to vote only on No- vember 8th, and to Vote Communist on that day. Roosevelt’s to carry on Communist propaganda.|out of the country. Instead of re-| They tried to get me to say that leasing me, the interior minister, I intended talking “politics,” and| through his own paper, called me a that I was trying to interfere with “Bolshevik Negro Woman,” in big| the local conditions in Klodno, Ij headlines, and “A Black Communist.” | told them I didn’t know anything} Fight Is Not In Vain. | Contradictory Demagogy What Roosevelt said in Colum~ the boss parties and to mislead | | about conditions in Klodno, that I didn’t know enough yet to talk poli- | ties, ang that I felt I didn't know enough yet about Communism to be a good Communist. Arrested At 1 A. M. At first they said they would re- lease me after the meeting, which went on without me, was over, But | they lied. They announced instead | they would lock me up for the night. I demanded the right to go to a hotel and said I would pay for it with my own money. This they refused me. It was 1 o'clock in the morning when they | put me into a cell and locked me up. | Some of the comrades had re- mained close to me all this time. But they were forced to say at last “Good night!” At that moment I never felt so | much alone in all my life. I admit | that I nearly broke down and cried. But in that very moment I re- solved not to shed a single tear in’ ‘any boss-class jail or prison. And I didn’t, although the three nights fol- lowing were even worse than the | first. Sunday night I spent in the Prague police station fighting off the bugs and vermin. I shall never forget. | And the next day, Labor Day in the United States, Sept. 5, I was taken to the Fispann Prison, where depor- tees are interned before being sent 4 So on the fourth day they sent me out of the country with Comrade Engdahl, declaring we were “unde-| sirable foreigners.” They told me) that T. G. Masaryk, president of the | Czechoslovakian Republic, was at| fone time—when Hohenzollern and’ Hapsburg ruled in Germany and Au- | stria and there were no Ozechoslo- vakian Republic—professor in the University of Chicago, which I have heard called the Rockefeller Stand-| ard Oil University. , Everyone knows of the Ludlow| Massacre of women and children in| the strikers’ tent colony, when the/ coal miners went on strike against Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron; Company. | I was wondering if Masaryk was) preparing such a massacre for the coal miners of Klodno. Going to| prison for the first time has started | me thinking about many things. | The police accompanied us on the| train as far as the Austrian border, | to see that we were safely out of| the country. | ‘The Austrian comrades greeted us| on our arrival at Vienna and began | {arranging meetings to take the place | of those denied us in Czechoslovakia. | And I see that the newspapers} everywhere are discussing the action, of the Czechoslovakia government | and the Scotsboro campaign. Per- (haps I did not go to jail in vain. bus, August 20: | “Appraising the situation in the |! bitter dawn of a cold morning after, we find: | “Two-thirds of American in- dustry concentrated in a few hun- dred corporations and actually |) managed by no more than 5,000 men, “Fewer than three dozen pri- vate banking houses directing the flow of American capital within the country and to those ‘back- ward and crippled nations’ on which the President built so heav- ily.” Peas ed Bs What Roosevelt said in Salt Lake City, Sept. 17: | “It's (the railroad industry's) owners are not, as many suppose, great railway magnates sitting in luxurious offices and clubs. They are the people throughout the country who have a savings ac- count or an insurance policy, or in some measure, an ordinary checking account, .. . “Even railroad stocks are held in small units of a few shares here and there by school teachers, doctors, salesmen, thrifty work- men. Experts in railroad finance know that perhaps 30,000,000 peo- ple have a say in these great American enterprises.” Lake City shows that | workers need expect only wage cuts from bim. The Railroad Brotherhoods and A F. of L. unions on the roads do nothing to stop the wage cut. They accepted a ten per cent last Febru ary, without even consulting t road workers. Fight This Cut! Only the Communist Party, of all political parties shown by the call jof its Presidential candidate, Wil- jliam Z. Foster, in his B: jspeech and in special sta |the press, calls for struggle |this wage cut. The © |Party urges railroad workers to form rank and file committees of against wage cuts in e hood lodge and every uni prepare for strike and to yote Comm against this cut which has | proval of both Roosevelt and Hoover. Roads Have Money. | _Not once did Rooseve} it to t {$90,000 a year salaries of the r: lexecutives as proof that they wages. Instead he tri | sympathy for the Rail ering up the fact trolled by super tr ing that their stocks and bonds were divided among the workers and pro- | fessional classes, teachers, etc., which jis true only to a very limited extent. Roosevelt's six points are summar- ized by the capitalist press as fol- to rouse “First, announcement by the govern- ment of its intent to stand back of the railroads on condition of the readjustment of top-heavy finan- | lal structures through the scaling | down of fixed charges. “Second, an overhauling of the fed- | eral laws affecting railroad receiy- | erships, to prevent prolonged liti- gation and great expense by pay- | ments to receivers and committees. “Third, regulation by the Intefstate | Commerce Commission of compet- ing motor trucks and buses. \“Fourth, abandonment of enforced competition between railroads and encouragement of the elimination of non-paying mileage. |“Fifth, consolidation of railroads in the public interest. lawyers, | “Sixth, the placing of so-called rail- road holding companies definitely under the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission.” (The real meaning of these poli- cies, point by point, is indicated in another column of this issue of the Daily Worker—Editor.) A little later in his speech, Roose- velt brought out in a matter of 34 words, his policy for a wage cut, part of which is printed at the beginning of this article. + To this he added another indica- tion that he would raise rates (which means raising the cost of living) and increased rationalization (which. means more unemployed, added to the 700,000 railroad workers now job- less) Roosevelt. said: “We must pay the fair cost of transportation . . . the constant im- provement in the economy and effi- ciency of transportation is a matter of ever present national concern.” VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union.