The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1934, Page 6

siblitise as ote Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1934 Daily RETRIAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 1.5.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 EF. 13th “America’s Only Street, New York, N. ¥ Algonquin 4-79 54 Telephone Subscription Rates: Manhattan and Bro! 1 year 3. months. t Oe mi 1934 WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 Trade and War HE open and bitter trade war between Britain and Japan is not an isolated matter. It is an ugly symptom of the sharpening of a whole maze of imperial- ist contradictions, presaging the rapid development to war as the attempted arbiter of these questions, which are gnawing at the heart of world imperialism. Nor are these two countries alone concerned in The diseased imperialist the conflict over markets. economy finds the world markets too small for | their self-preservation. The United States tries to | conquer British mark The sharpest struggles | develop in Latin Ameri and in the Far East. | The Japanese seek to wrest away the British colonial | markets. Neither do they overlook the U. S. Latin American markets | “Trade wars” are not just commercial battles. | ‘They are not just intensified struggles for markets, but with them goes the armed preparations for war to insure the seizure of markets, and along with them a re-distribution of colonies and control of sources of raw material. | The British action of decreeing a quota of 57 | per cent below the present Japanese exports in British crown colonies will have a tremendous effect in sharpening the antagonisms all around, leading ever closer to the next step—actual warfare. IN PREPARING for war against the Soviet Union, as well as to swallow as much of China as she can get away with, Japanese imperialism has been dumping its goods on the world markets. This has been made possible through driving down the living standards of the Japanese workers, just as Roose- velt is doing to the American workers through the NR.A. The capitalist governments are using the make in this way to swell their war ney machinery. Thereby the war danger sharpened all around —the conflict between Japan and Britain is greater; that between Britain and the United States, between the two largest imperialist powers is pulled a notch tighter; and the chief conflict in the Far East between the imperialists. between Wall Street and Japan is driven closer to the exploding point. As the Communist International pointed out, dying, rotten capitalism wants to preserve itself from doom by plunging the working class into a new, criminal imperialist war. Only the working class, by its every day resistance to its lowered standard of living, by persistent day to day fight for its rights, by revolutionary action for the over- throw of capitalism can prevent war. The task of fighting war becomes one of the most immediate and important ones facing the whole working class the pressing, immediate tasks is the mobilization for International Youth Day, May 30th, which will be a focus point in rallying the youth | for the struggle against imperialist war. Every effort should be made in all cities, by youth and adult workers, to make this day a powerful lever for speeding the fight against the looming imperial- ist war. Terror in the Philippines REPARING for war in the Far Kast, the Roosevelt government, together with the native Filipino lackey bourgeoi- sie, want to crush the struggles of the workers and peasants in the Philippines. To achieve this end they resort to the severest terror against the leader of the Filipino exploited masses, the Communist Party. Yesterday, we received the news that three Filipino taxicab strikers were sentenced to death on a framed-up charge of murdering a scab. The purpose of this penalty is to crush the increasing strike struggles of the Filipino workers. The leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines, together with outstanding fighters in the revolutionary peasants organizations, the red trade unions, and the Filipino Labor Defense, have either been banished to the Filipino counterpart of the Czarist “Siberia,” or are serving prison sen- tences up to 10 years. Their “crime” was fighting against Wall Street domination, and for the freedom of the Filipino people from all exploitation. Terror against the Filipino workers and peasants will increase now as the war danger grows sharper in the Far East. anhere must be the widest protest in the United States for the release of our brothers in this Yankee colony, Wires and letters demanding the revocation of the death penalty for the three Filipino taxi strikers should be sent to Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; to the American Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines, Manila, P, I. Demand the freedom of the 17 revolutionary leaders of the Filipino people! The MassesWill Not Forget! | HAT has happened to the high-sound- ing promises made by the Fusion Party during the last elections? Many of the workers of New York were tricked by LaGuardia’s slick phrases. Their sup- port, won by the most shameless lies, swept the Fusion gang into office. Five months have passed since LaGuardia be- came mayor, five months of continual attacks on the masses of New York. Under the vicious Econ- omy Bill, wages have been slashed, thousands of workers fired. Funds for educational and recrea- tional purposes have been cut to the minimum. The health of our children is menaced in crowded and unsanitary schools and classrooms. And no worker will ever forget the nightmare of over forty men, women and children trapped and burned alive nm tenement fires a few months ego. While these things continue. LaGuardia does all in his power to grease the palms which put up the dough for his election campaign. We refer to the big Wall Street banks—the Chase National and National City Banks—which rest secure, knowing ( that their puppet government in City Hall will turn over to them, regularly as clockwork, the $126,000,000 per year guaranteed to them for four years under the terms of the Untermyer agreement. N ORDER to make sure that the banks get their Fusion yesterday pulled a new card out Pusion Alderman Lambert Fairchild anounced his proposed bill for a 2-cent tax on all fares—on subways, elevated and street-car lines. The people will take it and like it,” Fairchild declared. “In ninety days they will have forgotten that they ever had a five-cent fare.” Forget in ninety days, Mr. Fairchild? Not on your life! Even now, as you prepare to introduce this bill, the workers of New York are rallying to fight any such move with all their strength, to defeat this as well as all other attempts to encroach money s sleeve. of ar further on their already-miserable standards of living. No, the masses of New York who inhabit the slum tenements, which you and your kind know only as an offensive odor as you pass by in your limousines, will not forget. We will not forget the Fusion wage cuts, the Pusion lay-offs, the forty graves of charred working class bones dug by the Fusion administration. Just as they did not forget Tammany’s long reign of terror and brutality and graft, the masses of New York will prove—and very soon!—that they will not forget this latest attack! Fight for the Communist Farm Relief Bill! HE nation-wide fight for the Bill giv- ing relief to the impoverished and ruined farm population has begun. The Bill, sponsored by the Commu- nist Party, called the Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill, has just been endorsed by the leading Committee of the United Farmers League of Minnesota. Now it is necessary to bring the Communist Party Farmers Emergency Relief Bill before every state organization of the U.F.L. for similar action. The Bill must be introduced and discussed on the floor of every farm organization in the country. Their action on this bill will be a sure test of where they stand in the fight to relieve the hun- dreds of thousands of small and middle farmers of mortgage slavery, evictions, high taxes, high costs, ete. The Communist Party Bill for the farmers rep- resents the immediate needs of the vast majority of the toiling farm population. Its provisions are directed to making the family of every toiling farmer in the country secure against hunger and the menace of eviction, and the yoke of the Wall Street money sharks, This Bill, of which millions of copies should be distributed all over the country, is to the farmers what H.R. 7598, the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, is to the city workers, Every organization of workers, of farmers, all organizations of unemployed women's councils, ete., should obtain copies of the Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill for endorsement and support. For solidarity with the fight for the impover- ished farmers against Wall Street! Support the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill! LaGuardia, Nazi Friend A ese about a year ago General O’Ryan, Police Commissioner of New York, was grand marshall in an anti-Nazi parade, arranged by local Jewish organ- izations. Marching at the head of the parade, he preceded more than 50,000 people. Only two months ago, on March 7, Mayor LaGuardia spoke at a Madison Square Gar- den ymeeting, arranged by right-wing labor unions and Jewish organizations called “The Case of Civili- zation Against Hitler.’ Bernard S. Deutsch, presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen, spoke on the same program, ‘Today, when Whe workers of New York are pre- paring for a mass anti-Nazi parade through the streets of Yorkville on May 10, a parade of protest against the imprisonment and torture of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, and thousands of other class-war victims of the Nazi scourge, these “liberal,” and “progressive” gentlemen show themselves in their true colors. They refuse a permit for the parade on the ground that the workers would be “inviting trouble” by marching in “the enemy’s territory.” Since when has Yorkville seceded from New York City? And since when has the Fusion admin- istration given this working class section of the city de facto recognition as a separate “territory?” Workers of New York, the streets of Yorkville belong to you, just as the streets of the East Side, of Red Hook, of the Bronx, are yours! You have a right to the streets of this city, where you live and work and struggle against the concerted attacks of your class enemies in every form! Demand the right to the streets of Yorkville on May 10! Members of trade unions and mass organizations: assign representatives to form a mass delegation to go to City Hall today to insist on your right to the streets in the struggle against fascism in New York! All such delegations should report at 10 a.m. today, at the office of the New York Committee to Aid Victims of Germah Fascism, 870 Broadway, and carry the demand for a permit for the May 10th demonstration directly to the Mayor's office! A Serious Error Yesterday, the Daily Worker carried a story from an auto worker correspondent on Matthew Smith, head of the Mechanics Educational Society, which pointed out that Smith was moving to the right and following in the footsteps of the American Federation of Labor officials. There is no doubt that Smith is aping the A. F. of L. tactics in expelling militants. His splitting of the union ranks, and his strike policies in the Michigan Stove and Tool and Die shops differed in no way from those of the A. F. of L. chiefs. While posing as a radical, his deeds are those of @ reactionary. The worker correspondent stated that Smith was formerly a General Motors agent who claimed he was a “safety man”—a stool pigeon. We disagree With this statement. As far as we know, Smith was a lay-out man for General Motors. Evidently our correspondent has confused Smith with Byrd, who was a safety man, and is at present a member of the N.R.A. Auto Labor Board. Smith is a member of the Detroit Regional Labor Board. His services on this board have not been in the interests of the workers, but his presence has tended to give prestige to the anti-union bodies. There is no need for our worker correspondents to make mis-statements. We caution them all to check carefully all concrete facts in dealing with labor officials. The consistent policy of the Daily Worker has always been to state the truth, We ask our corres- Ppondents to cooper: ‘China Soviets Make Economic Gains, Shanghai Reports, |Build Industry, Mines; Form Cooperatives; Sowing Successful (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, May 8 (By Cable).| —The newspaper “Shanzei” pub- lishes interesting informa‘icn on} the economic situation in Soviet China. Despite the severe economic blockade by the Kuomintang, the] Chinese Soviet. districts are success-| fully developing industry. They are widely using the natural resources, including the tungsten {seams of which those in Soviet) China, according to this paper, rep-| resent almost half of the world’s| supply. | The primitive coal mines which} were exploited _by the capitalists have now been converted into mod-| ern enterprises. | The same newspaper further] states that the government in So-| viet China pays great attention to} | the regulation of the food reserves. | | To prevent speculation in foodstuffs | by kulak elements (rich peasants), | a special bureau has been organized | for the regulaiton of supplies, hav-| ing considerable reserves at its com-| | mand. | | Many productive and credit co-/ | operative societies have been formed | as well as active retail cooperatives, the newspaper declares. All widely) used commodities in the Soviet ter-| ritories are much cheaper than in|} other parts of China. | Thanks to the good work of the} cooperative societies, the Spring) | sowing campaign has been ex- tremely successful. Serious atten-| tion is being paid to the cultivation! of cotton. To improve the cotton] crop and production, the Soviet dis- | tricts have established experimental | scientific farms. | BRITAIN Fosdick Confesses War Sins 18 Years. ‘After Mass Murder Hypocritical | Statement of New | “Pacifism” NEW YORK.—Pastor to the rich jexploiters, Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson | Fosdick. of Riverside Drive Church, | declared, from now on “I will never again or indirectly sanction another | war,” in a speech at Broadway Tab- ernacle Monday night. The reverend’s pacifist gesture, in- dulged in by four other clergymen, while admitting his villainous duties | in the last imperialist war, was care- ful not to mention capitalism as the| cause of war. | “T renounce war,” he said, “because of what it does to our men. I've seen it. I renounce it because of what it forces us to do to the enemy. I yenounce and will not sanction it| because of its consequences and the) undying hatred it nourishes. I re- nounce it, and never again will I be | in another war.” The skypilot forgot to mention | that while he and many others may | | preach pacifism, without at the same \time disturbing capitalism, or the Roosevelt government's pacifist mask | for its war preparations, the church | |always under pacifist guise drives! |Issues (Continued from Page 1) Kerensky's agent, and Mr. Serge | Ughet, the liquidating agent; and what became of the money?” Yes, what became of the money? That is the question we are now] |going to answer. The money that the Roosevelt government wants the Soviet workers to pay out of their toil, out of their socialist construc- tion, went to American financiers. It went to financing the counter- revolutionary scum that was de- feated by the revolutionary work- ers and peasants in the Soviet Union. It went in graft to Ameri- can businessmen, to white guards, jto Czarist agents. We shall name ;some of them. And the United States govern- ment, under Wilson, during the graft-ridden Harding outfit, under |the Hoover regime, assisted the Bakhmetiev - Czarist —- Kerensky clique in financing the enemies of the proletarian revolution. Mr. Bakhmetiev himself, testify- ing before the Senate hearings, ; Said: “After consultation with the U, S. government and banking insti- tutions, it was decided to amalga- mate the different funds available | on Russian government accounts, ivrespective of their previous dis- tribution, into a special sogre- gated set of accounts with the National City Bank of New York.” The United States government | itself took over the responsibility ifor the disposition of what was left of the balance at the time of the amalgamation of the funds in the National City Bank. In other words, the government of the United States jtook over authority for helping to finance the hell-hounds of Czarism, the forces of black reaction. We must now turn to the situa- tion in Russia after the downfall of the Kerensky regime in order to know how the residue of the Kerensky funds, that Roosevelt wants the Soviet Government to pay, were employed. The allied powers, which included the United States, disappointed at the failure of the expected rapid collapse of the Soviet Government, began to organize and buttress the counter-revolution. A Cz2cho- ‘Slovakian corps, 60,000 strong, pre- vious war prisoners of the Haps— burg army, well eauipped, were sent on their way to France throuth Russia. via Viadivostok. They hadj Scientists Attend USSR Medical Meet: Foreign Phycicians Hail Soviet Health Advance | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 8 (By P| “We foreign delegates are aston-| ished and delighted by the grea achievements of the proletarian country,” said the delegate from ports of the meeting did not state) ion of the) whether the colonel included strike- | Belgium at the final anti-rheumatic congress which took place here yesterday. | The Congress was held in the} Palace of Culture in the Moscow! decision of the Soviet Government Many workers from|to mark the opening of the con-| sub-district. Moscow were present at the ses- sion. | The general secretary of the In-| | ternational Anti-Rheumatic League is Danishevsky (Moscow). Dr. Van Breeman represented Holland, and there were delegates from Belgium Sweden, Germany, Britain and) other countries who spoke at the) session on the successes of Soviet) vance of medical science. Dr. Van Breeman welcomed the the masses to war in the interest of imperialism. Many of the preachers who like United States entered the war ren-| Army Must Fight Peace Moves, States Officer NEW YORK.—Army officers must fight the peace propaganda now being spread, declared Colonel H. P. Hobbes, Chief of Staff of the First Division, at a meeting of the Government Club at the Hotel Astor. The colonel stated that tators” preaching anti-war senti- ents failed to mention the peace- time services of the army. The re- “agi- breaking among these “services.” gress by inaugurating a museum on rheumatism, and a children’s rheu- matism clinic. The speaker called for three cheers for the Soviet Gov- ernment. “We are personally convinced,” said the Belgian delegate, “how in- dustry here has increased; how the high growth of culture, especially; protection of health and the ad-|the protection of public health, has) gone forward. “The great working class is cre- ating a new life, opening up enor- mous possibilities of scientific work.” Bight hundred persons partici- pated in the congress, including a} | Dr. Fosdick spouted pacifist phrases) number | before the last world war, when the} from 19 capitalist countries. Thirty- of prominent scientists nine scientific reports were given ‘Murray to Speak On the World Front | By HARRY GANNES News from China Selling Manchuria - if “Le Matin” on China ia. Through Mongolia OMEWHERE in Chins there is the office of the | “Chinese Workers’ Co: ae pondence,” where workeri and intellectuals risk the lives to provide news on #é@ revolutionary struggles #n, China and of the Soviet diss. I have just received their latest! 7 bulletin. I have on hand also the speech of Comrade Mao Tse Tung, chairman of the Central Soviet) government of China, delivered at the recent Second Congress of the’ Soviet Government. Besides, we have the most exhaustive economic ” analysis of the catastrophic crisis ~ in China and the conditions of the workers and peasants I have yet seen. In future columns I will publish some of the most salient facts and Statements in this column. Just now Chiang Kai-Shek is striving to come to an agreement with the Japanese guaranteeing their domination in Manchuria, and opening the way for their further penetration in North China. The chairman of the Piep- ing (North China) political coun- cil, Huang Fu is the go-between for Chiang Kai-Shek and the Japanese invaders. Chiang Kai-Shek recently held a conference in Nanchang in order to satisfy Japan and yet at the same time arousing the minimum of anti-imperialist struggles among the Chinese masses. “In anticipation of the storm of protests from the masses,” says the Chinese Workers’ correspondence, Nanking has to proceed cautiously. is dis- In 4 More Cities citi tie teasuresto've stoped Meetings in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit | NEW YORK—Sean Murray, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, will speak in four more cities in the United States before his farewell banquet in New York |City on May 30. May 10 and 12 | Comrade Murray will speak on the |struggles of the Irish workers in Cleveland: May 14 and 15 he will be in Detroit; May 17 and 20, in Chicago; May 22 and 23, in St. Louis. 87 German Miners Die in Potash Mine Fire MUELLHEIM, Baden, Germany.— Abandoning hope that the 87 miners trapped in the potash mines here could be rescued, the authorities yesterday ordered that the mines be sealed to prevent the further spread of the fire that has raged here since Monday. The fire, caused by a short-circut, was not announced until the trapped miners were given up for dead and the rescue work stopped. The mine dered yeoman service to the Wall! at the congress, of which half were! will be sealed for two weeks, it was Street war-makers. by Soviet scientists, announced. Rocwcok Rakes the Cesspool of Kerensky Loans In the Don, with the help of the | Kaiser's bayonets, General Krasnov | formed his army of wealthy Cos- sacks with over 100,000 men. The. British landed troops at Archangel. The Japanese kept a) firm hold on Vladivostok. Admiral Koltchak, with the help of the’ English General Knox, had seized supreme command of Si- beria, at the head of an army of 300,000 men. Counter-Revolutionary Civil War Besides Koltchak in Siberia there was the sadistic Ataman Semenov, whose greatest pleasure consisted in murdering whole villages where one of the inhabitants was suspected of Bolshevism. To the south, besides General Krasnov and his Don army, there was the army of Denikin. He was supported by tens of thousands of Czarist officers, who by pillage, rapine, fiendish murder and whole- | sale massacre, sought to drown the dictatorship of the proletariat in a sea of blood. In the Ukraine there was the brutal murderer, the Ataman Grigo- riev Petlura, representing the big peasants and kulaks, financed by British and the U. S.-Kerensky loans. The fighting in the south was especially severe. Army soldiers, factories, poor peasants, hastily mo- bilized to defend the revolution, losi their lives, shot down with bullets supplied by the U. S.-Kerensky gold. Only the most heroic, steeled leadership of the Communist Party was able to defeat this horde of Czarist dregs, despite all their allied financing and support. The tesk of Bakhmetiev, and his Czarist agents in the United States, was to use the Kerensky loan to ship war supplies to Kolichak, Deni- kin, Wrangel, Krasnov, Semenov and others who wanted to re-seat the Czar on his throne. We shail now hear from one of the Czarist agents, still in the United States, how the Kerensky money was used to help the counter-revolution. Czarist Agent Mishtowt The scene is in the United States Court of Claims in the mat-er ef | Ughet, Bakhmetiev’s agent at the) the Russian Volunteer Fleet ageinst the United States, for payment of certain claims. On the witness stand Many brave Red | workers from the towt was still carrying on counter- revolutionary _ activities, actually conducting business as Russian na- val attache, in July of 1932. “As a matter of fact,” he said in his testi- mony, ‘I am still getting from time to time some business with my former office.” Mishtowt, while under cross-ex- amination, unwillingly recounted some interesting facts about what was done with the Kerensky loans. We quote from the testimony: “Q. You had made some pur- chases after the 7th of Novem- ber, 1917? “A, Yes. Rifles. “Q. You fitted out vessels of war and sent them to Vladivo- stok? “A. Yes, I did. [Remember the White Guardist General Koltchak was in control of Viadivostok.] “Q. Why did you send these | armed vessels across the Pacific? “A. It was my duty. “Q. You fitted out the steam- ship Rogdai. “A. I did. And I placed guns and ammunitions on it.” The testimony goes on to show | paid out of Kerensky loan money. The Czarist naval attache met Prince Lvoy in the United States, | Who was mobilizing American sup- |port for the overthrow of the So- | viet. government. As these facts developed, repre- sentatives of the Department of Justice tried to cut them off on the ground that “they besmirch the State Department of the United States.” Tons and tons of munitions, ex- plosives, dynamite, guns, were shipped by Naval Attache Mishtowt to Vladivostok, Novorossisk and to Sebastopol, with money from the Kerensky $187,000,000 loan, in an ef- fort to shoot down workers support- ing the Soviet power. Kolchak, “Supreme Ruler” Mishtowt was asked if he fur- nished funds to support Kolchak’s forces, and the Czarist naval at- tache answered: “I furnished funds, jyes.” He said he did not know if | Bakhmetievy knew about it, but Mr. ‘embassy, did know about it. | In the testimony there is a very ‘interesting’ document, which Mish- | j United States; and that all their dirty swindling transactions were |made in behalf of Czarist Kolchak. This document gives an insight to the people who handled the Keren- sky loans that the Roosevelt gov- ernment now wants the | Soviet Union to pay. The communication, signed by Serge Ughet, Russian Charge d’Affaires, reads: “To the Military-Naval Agent of the Russian Embassy in Wash- ington, dated July 17, 1919. “S, D. Szonov has notified me by telegram from Paris that the Su- preme Ruler, Admiral Kolchak, has instructed him, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to confirm the full powers of B. A. Bakhmetiev as Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government in the United States of America, of which fact I deem it necessary to inform you.” , Mishtowt said that though he did not take a pledge of allegiance to Kolchak, “I remember I sent a tele- gram to Admiral Kolchak to be the godfather of my son.” White Guard Mishtowt was fur- ther asked: “Is it correct to say that you knew that the financial that these ships and supplies were | attache shipped munitions and arms} | to Denikine [another Czarist White | Guard General]?” To which he re- plied: “I understood they did, yes.” The United States State Depart- ment also aided the passage of Russian Czarist officers through this country to Siberia to fight against the Russian people and their Soviet government. Mishtowt tells of “a gentleman in the State Department who secured the visas,” and “some intelligence officers of the Department of Justice” who as- sisted. Not one single penny of the $187,- 729,750 ever reached the Soviet Union or was given to the Soviet Government. It came to them only in the form of bullets showered on the Red Army, in the form of ex- plesives that des:royed whole vil- lages, in the form of shells, that tore whole companies of the revo- lutionary proletariat into . bleeding corpses. Cine ee (In future articles more details will be published on the use of the Kerensky loans in aiding the | Czarist parasites in their attempt io overthrow the Soviet power, is I. V. Mishtowt, appointed by Czar tow’ acknowledged he signed. The and how Messrs. Bakhmetiey and Nicholas II as naval at'ache in Washington in 1915, and retained by the whole Siberian railroad in their power, Bekhmetiev in the same post for the Kerensky government. Mish- |document fully proves that Keroncky ambassador, Bakhmetiev, and his aide, Ughet, were the agents \for the butcher Kolchak in the the | Ushet tried to destroy evidence of their misuse and swindling of the proceeds of the loan. Do not miss tomorrow’s article.) against the growing anti-Japanese, anti-imperialist, anti-Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) move- ment led by the Communist Party of China, which receive fresh im- petus from the new sale of the K. M. T.” Res te IN “LE MATIN,” the leading or- gan of French imperialism, or as a Russian writer put it, “the bour- geoisie turned newspaper,” there ap- peared an item recently from one of its correspondents in Chunking, Szechuan Province, declaring that the imperialists were seeking to es- tablish international control over China; and that Roosevelt had sent 2 representative to discuss the ques- ion. 5 “England sent Cadogan, Amer- ica Smith, and France me,” writes M. Paloi, “to make investi- gations in the Yangtze Valley, in the Huangho Valley, and in Yunnan - Kweichow-Kwangtung - Kwangsi, respectively, with a view ‘ of instituting international con- trol over China. I finished my survey in Yunnan, Wangtung and Kwangsi.” oe IN NORTH CHINA, the Japanese are strongly entrenching them- selves, wresting the land, mines and industry away from the Chinese _ people. The Japanese control over. i one quarter of the largest norther% province, Hopei. They own th é mines in Tsinhua, Hsinglung, Mih sien. They control the important Peiping-Mukden railway. Imperialism controls 70 per cent of all industrial investments in North China, with the British and Japanese battling nip and tuck for domination. The strongest British position is in the Kailan mines, with an annual production of 4,800,000 tons, or 37 per cent of the entire Chinese output. Ninety per cent of the 20,000 miners in Kailan are indentured slaves, working under contract. The iron mines in Chahar and North Hope, in the so-called de- militarized zone (that is, the zone from which Chiang Kai-Shek with- drew all troops to make it easy for the Japanese to seize everything) have fallen to the Japanese im- perialists, * 8 8 ‘EVERISH anti-Soviet war prep- arations are being carried on by Japan in North China. The mat- ter is discussed quite openly in the Chinese press. On April 8, the Shanghei Shun Pao, the leading Chinese newspaper in that city, de- clared that the Japanese were pre- paring their first, second and third line of attack. The first is in Sin- an-lin, in Manchuria, the second in the province of Helunkiang, and the third at the Great Wall. The Tientsin newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, tells of military activities |in Chahar Province, Inner Mon- golia, directed against the Soviet Union. The Japanese aim, through this province, is to cut the Trans-~° | Siberian railway, blocking military {connections in the Far East along |the border of Manchuria. The , Japanese, also, are aiming at China through Eastern Mongolia. In prep- aration, the Japanese troops have built a wireless station at Shilin- gorek, and have advanced to Dolonor and Kuyan in Eastern Mongolia. To facilitate her miiltary op- erations against the Soviet Union, the Japanese have built a net- work of military roads and air- dromes in Chahar and Suiyan, recruiting 40,090 to 50,000 Chinese workers in the Nerth for “con- struction work.” Some of the workers. are. compelled,. under threat of death, to work with the Japanese army. ‘ * The latest news we received | China tells of a militant strike of the Kailan miners, in the very path of Japanese aggression, and in the British stronghold in North China. “The Kailan strikers smashed the yellow unions,” says the report, “or- ganized themselves in the form of regular troops, arrested the special functionary of the Chinese police, drove away the yellow union lead- ers, and forced police to release the arrested. The strike has Mot ended,” ———— ee