The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-26

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have appeared as far-fetched, as
an unbelievable exaggeratlon. TO-
day the subject discussed behind
the closed doors of secret diplom-
acy in Washington, London and
Toxic for a decade is being pre-
pared for popular consumption.
For this reason it is vital to get
the record straight and keep the
issues clear.
A number of pertinent and un-
deniable facts stand out IN the
present situation:
1. The Russian people and the
Soviet government desire peace.
They have indicated this fact not
alone by words but in deeds. AT
several conferences at Geneva, the
Representatives of the Bolshevlk
government have made proposals
for total and unconditional dlsarm-
ament. When these proposals
were not successful they offered
plans of disarmament to be carried
out over a period of years. The
Soviet government was the first
and only government to grant self
determination to some of its COM
ponent states such as Finland, Po-
land, Esthonia and others. The
Bolsheviks voluntarily renounced
the rights" of the previous Gar
list government in the Chinese
Eastern Railway now seized by
the war lords, and in 1924 an
agreement was drawn up for the
joint management of the road. The
pretext of Bolshevik propaganda
with which the Chinese militarists
now seek to justify their prOvoca-
tive acts is the same one used by
Great Britain in her similar raids
on Russian offices. 1t is signifl-
cant that in no case have these
representatives of Big Business
(Imperialist Powers) been able to
show their own peoples convincing
evidence of their charges. The
best refutation is the situation of
Great Britain having repudiated
its Tory government with the rec
ignition of the Russian govern
ment as one of the principal planks
in the Labor program.
! 2. The japanese government
has repeatedly indicated her hope
of obtaining control of the rich
Manchurian state. 1t had in fact
seized this and other Chinese ter
ritory following the world war
but was forced out through the OBJ
/ lection of the United States. So
fearful has Uncle Sam been of
Japan's aims in his field that ia
pan in the 1922 Washington con-
ference was forced to sign an
agreement to respect the sover-
eighty of China.
3. The seizure by the Manchu-
rian war lords of the jointly con-
trolled railroad is merely the cul-
mination of series of actions be
ginning with the betrayal by the
chief Chinese militarist, Chang
Kai Shek, of the will of the Chi
nese people early in 1927. In June
of the present year, the same mil
itarist ordered the raids and ar
rests of Russian officials in Har-
bin and Mukden (Manchuria) with
the obvious intention of provoking
Russian resistance. At the same
, time reports emanating in London
sought to make it appear that So
! Wet troops had invaded Chinese
territory, another fact indicating
!. that the British Tories were be
4 hind the Chinese militarists.
: A word about the larger back
; ground of the present situation.
h Manchuria, the north-e asterl!
: province of China, and probabl!
e the richest section of the country
extend into Siberia (Russian ter
e ritory) in a sort of hat-shape,
v peninsula. On three sides is Sow
: ct territory. Across the hat-shap
D ed, land formation, the Czaris
4 government in 1896 built the Fa
d Eastern Railway and forced tn
Q weak Chinese government to sig
. an agreement granting Russi
o control over the road. This agree
d ment the Soviet government vol
Y UNFAIRLY renowned in 1924 an
V drew up a plan for joint control @
e the road. Russia at the time wa
st the only power friendly to the riS
II ing Chinese Nationalist movement
i fact which should testify to tn
eminent fairness of the agreemer
r itself. The Chinese Eastern Raj
IN way as it is now called is part {
he the Russian Trans-Siberian systel
w which links Moscow with its cas-
le ern Pacific ports. The road hs
at been used to build up the econon
III ic life of the eastern section {
the workers and peasants repul
: lie. The japanese governmeI
/. owns similar railroad, the RICH
: of which it has refused to renount
r however. This, the South MAJ
t churian Railway, extends fro
5 Hardin, connecting there with Il
e Chinese Eastern Railway Il
e Mukden and Darien. The intere
0 of Japan is therefore obvious. TIL
t the British Tory government al
|. even the British Labor governme
: have been aware of the plans
r the Chinese militarists to seize Il
e road may be seen in the announc
: ment by officials of the McDona
/ ministry on July II that they ha
/ been fully aware of the aims
r the Marking government" but tn
? the suddenness and effectiveness
l. the Chinese action at Hardin W
l. surprising"
II Indication at Washington poi
n to the following Interpretation
W the whole procedure:
l. The British Tories recently ouI
(, ed from power had laid a W
is planned campaign for interventi
s. against the Soviet government
It ginning with the famous Arc
a. raid in 1927. They expected at I