The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
The War Against the
USSR ON Eastern Front

| Japan's puppet, repeatedly trying to
get an excuse to allow Chang to
seize the c. E. R. for "China"-but
of course, in reality, for Japan. The
Soviet Union abided by the treaty
of 1924 and no excuse could be man
ufactured. The Chinese masses
were passionately friendly toward
the Soviet Union and themselves
rose in revolution against imperial
ism.
Imperialist Wisdom"
But the Chinese bourgeoisie and
feudal military elements betrayed
and suppressed the Chinese masses,
and the Marking government" of
Chang Kai-shek was inflated with
the credit backing of American i'm
perialism. With Markings formal
authority acknowledged in Manchu-
ria, American imperialists thought
it had another chance to assert it's
ambitions in Manchuria at the ex-
pense of Japan, and since both
Britain and Japan thoroughly agreed
with America that an attack on the
Soviet Union was always in order,
America, England and Japan mo-
bilized their various Chinese mill
tarists to seize the c. E. R. But
Americas idea that its Marking
puppet could gain prestige for it
self and imperialist advantage for
America by attacking the Soviet
Union was an imperialist wisdom
that turned out to be a stupidity.
America miscalculated it's clever
ness in maneuyre against the in
terests of British and Japanese i'm
perialisms-and all three underesti-
mated the Indignation Of the Chinese
masses az the attack on the Soviet
Union-the only world power friend
ly to peoples oppressed by imperial
ism. And all together the imperial
lists were COMPOUNDED by the Soviet
policy of armed peace. The Red
Army, backed by the Soviet millions,
stands like rock wall along the
frontier, and against it vainly hurled
and still hurls the savage czarist
white guards and Chinese mercen-
aries-agents of Imperialism.
Chinese Masses Aroused
And inside China from north to
south wave of resentment of AGO.
100000 people upset the calculations
of the imperialists and their Chi
nese tools. Marking, with all its
backing of Wall Street, was half
paralyzed.
The mass resentment at Marking
was seized upon by Britain and
Japan, who summoned Chang Fa-
kwei in the south, Feng Yu-hsiang
in the north-center, and then Chang
Hsueh-liang in Manchuria itself to
rebel against American hegemony
expressed through Marking, mean
while the London and Toxic diplo-
mats coldly rejected Washington's
proposal for "internaticnalizing" the
C. E. R. with America guilelessly
playing the role of Neutrality. The
Soviet Union also, knowing how
neutral" any robber imperialism is,
firmly rejected the proposal of such
neutral" to arbitrate, as proposed
by Washington.
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Japan's Manchurian puppet, ac-
tually controlling the c. E. r.,
turned cold shoulder on emissaries
Marking sent north, while British
and Japanese imperialisms set their
Chinese militarist puppets into a
war thrust at Marking SO that 1T
could send no troops north to weaker
Mukden, and could only give advice
to which nobody listened.
| The fairy tale of "red imperial
ism" awoke no alarm in the Chinese
masses, despite loud walls of Chang
Kai-shek-for what have the Chi
nese workers and peasants to lose
from Communist propaganda"
They know the Soviet Union is q
friend of all toilers. They know
that on the G. II. r.; under Soviet
administration, Chinese and Russian
railway workers alike enjoyed rising
wages, strong unions, short hours
cultural education, social insurance
and all benefits Soviet labor enjoys
while since the seizure of the C
4 e. r. all this is taken away; men
women and children are being herd
ed into prison camps, tortured
starved and killed, and the railwa.
itself becoming wreck.
| American Workers Duty
As you read these lines the situa
ton remains as described, and it il
the duty Of American workers tt
protest, and in. actionz-to prevent
war supplies and white guard re
cruits from reaching Manchuria tt
be used against the Soviet Union
the only nation which befriends OPP
pressed peoples; the beacon ,ligh
for the toilers Of all the world.