The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
The "Pacif1st" Incendiary Of the
War Fire

THE New York Times, one of the most boast
full of the bourgeois papers, which published
the other day deliberate false forgery and
provocative document ISSUED by the Comm
term" is now specializing in one of its recent
editions on the topic of "The Two Manchurian
Crises" The main idea of the editorial is that
Secretary Stimson had better luck with the
Manchurian note of last week than with the
Manchurian note of two years ago" In July
1929, he received from Litvinoff reply which
went even a bit beyond requesting Mr. Stimson
to mind his own business by contrast the
Japanese reply today makes pleasant reading"
It is correct that the policy of the United
States in 1929 was complete failure and that
BY contrast" events in Manchuria are now de-
veloping pleasantly" from the point of view of
the "pacifist" war makers. In fact what was
the policy of American Imperialism in Man
churia two years ago when the Chinese generals,
instigated by the innperialist powers violated
openly the agreement with the Soviet Union and
what is it now when Japan is taking Manchuria
away from China and beginning the division of
China before the eyes of the world?
Workers should remember that the attack of
Chang Kai-shek and his henchmen and the
seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway was
directed not only against the Soviet Union but
against the workers and peasants of China GEN
orally and of Manchurta especially The Chinese
militarists would never dare to carry through
such an insolent assault if they were not a tool
in the hands of the imperialists and open
traitors of China. The success of the imperialst
policy and first of all of the ploicy of Amer
lean imperialism under such conditions would
mean beginning OF new organized interview
ton against the Soviet Union and the utilizing
of the terrorstic enslavement of the Chinese
masses as cannon fodder for this intervention
This is why all the reactionary forces in China
up to the Russian white bandits hailed this i'm
perialist plot and the notorious note of Stimson
as a very important link In the plot This is
why not only the iron resistance of the Red
Army but also the support of the working
masses throughout the world, first of all the
support of the Chinese workers and peasants,
were united to defeat this provocation in 1929
in Manchuria.
And it is not an accident that whenever Amer
lean diplomacy receives the advice to keep its
hands off the Soviet Union, it remembers this
Manchurian1iesson: mind your own business
What is the policy of the American imper-
ialists in the second Manchurian crisis"
and what kind of peace and order" does it
strive to establish in Manchuria? 1t is suffi-
Gent to remember some facts to have clear
answer to this question. In the first days of the
occupation which, by the Japanese tactic of
sudden plumber, was of decisive Importance from
military point OF view, the League of Nations
represented the situation as II It were an acct
dent which can and would be settled by the
good will from both sides" within the next two
hours. Stirnson went still further in this base
hypocrisy by declaring that it is nothing to be
worried about. that the occupation of Manchuria
was merely 'mutiny of soldiers on both sides"
Stimson could permit himself to play with such
creased 74.9 per cent In the ensuing two years
wages increased 18 per cent. In February, 1881,
the miners received 20 per cent wage increase
and in September, 1891, another 80 per cent in
crease. And they will go higher yet.
The American delegation will have an oppor-
tunity to meet the Russian miners, to talk to
them and see for themselves the tremendous adj
vantages they enjoy. They will bring back
truthful. first-hand report 1t is therefore of
the utmost Importance that every possible sup
port be given this delegation. A wide campaign
among the miners and workers in other indus
tries must be carried out to make their trip
success.
Endorse the F. S. U. delegation which carries
with it a group of fighting American miners!
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