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then make terms with one Of the rival
bandit generals.
THUS would the present Picking gov
4 eminent be punished for ignoring
the threats of our bewhiskered secre-
tary of state and the puny strike
breaker who lends sanctions to his
schemes. The first act of the new
Chinese administration would be to
cancel the China-Russia treaty on
some pretext or other In the mean
time each of the capitalist powers that
have troops in China would find some
pretext for invading the country and
exact some well-worth-while conces-
sion as the price of evacuation.
DUT things may not turn out as
. planned. Soviet Russia cannot
be treated today with the same lack
of consideration as was shown by the
robber nations in 1919 when sundry
bandits were hired to invade her ter
ritory Today Soviet Russia has a
powerful Red Army and also the good
wishes of the masses Of the Orient
who have for the first time found a
country that is interested in their
welfare. The American workers may
have difficulty following the situation
in China owing to the pathological diff
/ fc
hard to figure out without the aid of
a map whether Hiangstu or Chekians
are persons, places or things, or
whether WI Pei Flu is general or the
name of new game But the capital
lists are not frightened away from the
profits to be derived from the exploita
ton of China by linguistic obstacles.
They can get a Chinese boss to swing
lash over a Chinese -coolie and the
money wrung out of the poor body OF
the coolies can be squandered where
some other language is spoken.
n MEXICAN warships are in China.
N They are in Honduras. They are
in Mexico. They are in Brazil They
are in Chile. They are wherever the
interests of the American capitalist
class demand their presence. This
boosted haven of the oppressed, the
United States has today become the
worlds Simon Legree, the big bully
that signs communications to weak
nations with sword. And the Ameri-
can workers who shrug their should
ers and joke about the war in China
may laugh with the wrong side of
their mouth some day when they are
called on to defend the oil wells of
the Standard Oil Company, of the
loans of the House of Morgan.
n
THERE is an old saying that "the
L eyes Of the fools are on the ends of
the earth" But like many old say
ings it is out of date. The eyes of the
capitalists are on the ends Of the
earth, but they don't want the work
ers to look beyond their own national
boundaries until it is necessary to
fight "for democracy" somewhere
else. Capitalism knows no country
1t is international. 1t will invest its
dollars wherever it can make profit
It knows no religion. 1t will hire the
labor power of the Mohammedan, the
Buddhist, the Bush Baptist or the
Holy Roller as we'll as that Of the
Catholic, Protestant and the 81 other
varieties of Christianity.
THE workers must take leaf out
| of the capitalists book. They
must look on the workers of all lands
and of all races as their brothers. AS
the capitalist system, has today en-
circled the globe, the workers must
build up an international organization
to wrest the reins of power from
capitalism and abolish the system of
exploitation that has turned this earth
into a veritable hell for the great
majority of it's inhabitants. The Com
munist International, with sections in
almost every country in the world is
the only international organization
having for it's object the overthrow of
the capitalist system. The class-con-
scious workers Of this country should
join the Workers (Communist) Party
and help to overthrow the American
capitalist system, the most brutal in
the whole world. In this way they
can make a real contribution to the