The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

American imperialism tried to steal
a march for itself by suggesting an
impartial" international commits
sion. But the dispute was a fight
between classes, and there can be
no Impartial arbitrators.
But, as Comrade Neumann points
out, not only the hangmen who have
tortured to death over half mil
lion Chinese workers and peasants,
not only the imperialist powers and
the bloody Russian white guards,
but the Socialists" of the second in
ternational excelled even their pre-
vious vileness in abuse and lies and
demands for war on the Soviet
Union. These social fascists, speak
ing in the name of the Executive
Committee of the Second Interna-
tional, stated right after the conflict
arose:
THAT it was the right of China
to demand the elimination of Rus
sian control ever the Chinese
Eastern Railway, as the Russians
themselves provided the pretext
for this persecution of the work.
ers by misusing labor organiza-
ton on Chinese territory as tools
for Russian politics"
This vile statement was signed by
Vandervelde and Sassenbach, and
as Neumann states was "declara-
ton of principles for the new world
war, pledge of the international
social democracy, of the government
parties of England and Germany to
promote, justify and support any
attack of bands, any war of inter-
vention upon the Soviet Union"
Bolshevist Strategy.
But the resistance of the Soviet
Union to attack was one of the most
superb examples of world revolu-
tionary strategy. We give the con-
else words of Comrade Neumann
"But the central committee of the
Bolshevist Party, which watched
over the fortunes of the Soviet
Power in the name of the trium-
plant proletariat, performed not
wonders of revolutionary energy but
also wonders of revolutionary cold
bloodedness. In accordance with
the feminist general line of their
policy, the Soviet Government did
not permit itself to be provoked
into war by threatening notes, by
rifle shots, by blackmail or by raids.
With cool deliberateness it declined
the impudent mediation proposals"
of the imperialists. And it repulsed
with shells and aeroplane bombs the
frontier raids Of the Russo-C Chinese
White bands.
1.-THE Soviet Union did not want
war. 1t avoided war. 1t prevented
war. But the Soviet Union is no
vassal stat of the imperialists. If
the Soviet Union had bowed down
before the Chinese militarists, the
same thing would happen tomorrow
on the European frontier as yester-
day happened on the Asiatic from
tier. Every Pilsudski, every little
fascist border state on the Baltic
would follow the example of the
Kuomintang government"
Defeat Attack by Defense.
The Soviet Government therefore
replied in Bolshevist manner. 1t
liquidated the war by defeating the
attackers. On the day of attack the
Soviet masses flew to arms. "Our
horses are saddled, our lances are
sharpened, our powder is dry" was
the cray. The $4,000 metal work
ers of the Putilov works at Lenin-
grad declared in assembly: "We are
ready at any time, rifle in hand, to
defend the October revolution"
The workers of Moscow factories
swept through the streets to meet
ings and resolved:
I'VE regard ourselves as modified
and are prepared to hasten to
arms" Tens and hundreds of thou
sands demanded as their right to
volunteer in the Red Army of the
East-and among them thousands
of working women, of youth of both
sexes. Offers of their wages, of
their products and of their lives
were poured out by the workers to
their government.
A Worldwide Battle.
And abroad, under the banner of
the Communist International the
world proletariat fought the police
in the streets of capitalism's great
cities on August 1, and again on
November Z, in defense of the So
Wet Union. The Red Army of the
Far East, took up the offensive. 1t
pursued the murderous bands which
had constantly invaded Soviet soil
across the border and smashed at
one blow the power of the tools of
imperialism in Manchuria. The
Mukden government, in spite of the
intrigues, notes" and threats Of
American and other imperialisms,
was compelled to surrender and
agree to every term of the Soviet
Power.
1t is a victory of the world revo-
luton. A victory for the starving,
martyred, but heroic revolutionary
workers and peasants of China, who
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