The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
By HARRISON GEORGE.

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Like wall of steel the Red Army
watches the Siberian border along
Manchuria as the reader peruses
thesee lines, while across the border
in Manchuria thousands of Soviet
citizens are interned, imprisoned
I in vile prison camps, suffering
unspeakable atrocities from the
Chinese militarists and their
Czarist white guard bloodhounds,
starving, freezing, racked by illness.
But across the border also smould-
ers the volcanic force of the Chinese
revolution, loyal ally of the Soviet
workers and peasants who are to-
day celebrating the birthday of
their victory over just such mill
tarists and imperialists as have
seized the Chinese Eastern Railway
and attacked the Soviet Union.
Long before the imperialist worlc
war, the Russian czar threw a thou
sand miles of railway across the
Chinese province of Manchuria from
the west. Again entering Russian
territory of the narrow maritime
province, it terminated at the port
of Vladivostok. From the Manchu-
rian town of Hardin a branch was
built south to Port Arthur. The
Chinese Eastern Railway saved time
used in the all-Russian route around
the northward bend of the Amur
River and the whole line served the
imperialist ambitions of the czar
who himself owned great timber and
mineral resources and meant tc
extend them against the rising sur
of Japan. The c. E. Ry. was able
to transport troops rapidly to the
east-to war.
The war came and Japan won
1mperialist Russia lost a big part
of the southern branch to Port Ar.
thur to Japanese imperialism, which
has steadily penetrated Manchuria
a province Japan now speaks of as
"Japan's daughter and "the apple
of her eye" But imperialist Russia
still held the 1000 miles of the
main line of the c. E. R., and ruled
the entire region with an iron hand
China had nothing to say about it
received nothing of itc profits, and
along the railway the Chinese work
ers were beaten and brutalized by
minions of the ear.
i Came the Revolution!
The world war came: in Russia
it turned into civil war and from
this there emerged the worlds First
Workers and Peasants Republic
But, weak in its infancy, the world
imperialists attacked revolutionary
Russia, invading it on all sides,
among others on the eastern front
Siberia was one great battlefield
and in Manchuria and Mongolia
czarist counter-reyolutionists, en-
couraged and paid chiefly by Japan
ruled and robbed in a veritable
ocean of workers and peasants
blood.
Japan encouraged disorder" as
it gave her an excuse to occupy
Manchuria with troops to restore
order" The C. E. R. belonged" to
anybody that took it-according tc
| the imperialists. But the Soviet
Power in Moscow, speaking owe,
their heads, declared to the Chinese
people that it renowned the ezar's
imperialist conquests in China, re
serving the right to treat with China
directly as an equal for recession Of
all czarist claims, denying all i'm
perialist claims. Yet Japan's troops
held the G. E. r.
| American imperialism, however
ever jealous of Japan's advance il
the East, claimed tn e"right" of co
occupation, and Yankee and Jap
anese troops together guarded" the
| G. q. Rand watched each other
for over two years after the wal
while the American engineer Steven
with Russian czarist assistants, was
boss Of the railway until the Rec
army, clearing Siberia of whit,
guards and invaders, and seeing tn,
G. E, r, was by no means in tn,
hands of China but was a prey o.
imperialists and a constant threa
of being used to move troops agains
the Soviet Union, negotiated a treat.
with both the Mukden and Picking
governments for joint Chinese-So
Wet operation, joint sharing O.
profits, and . provision that Chin
might. when it wished, acquire full
ownership by purchase. Mr.. Ste
vens, and the troops Of both Ameri
Ice and Japan were forced to retire
A joint Chinese Soviet COMMITTEE
took control Of the G. Z. r.
But Japan kept provoking troubl
in administration through corrup
officials of he Mukden govern
linen" of Chang Tso-lin, who wa