The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23


ton along with wage cuts,
The same trend is observable in the
wool manufacturing industry here,
where wage cutting has been in prog
ress for several years.
dispatch to the New York Times ad-
mitS:
"The stream of reports from
Mukden, which sound suspiciously
like an overture to new military
action, grows stronger. One sent
by the Rengo News Agency to-
night suggests that the new bril-
gade from Japan. which arrived at
Mukden yesterday, is to be used
with two other regiments of ar
tilIery as the Chinese soldiers at
Chinchow now number 50,444."
The same dispatch reports that the
Japanese have consolidated their hold
on northern Manchuria, which is
outside of the zone of influence they
formerly claimed. Hardin is on the
Chinest Eastern Railway, which is
jointly operated by China and the
Soviet Union. Through their pup
pets, the Japanese are securing con-
troll of the Chinese share in the rail-
| road.
us. Sees Further JAPANESE Advance.
The United States government.
which heads the anti-Soviet front, is
| generally well informed Of Japanese
intentions. A dispatch from Wash
ington gives as official opinion in
that city that:
Further important military de-
velopments in Manchuria shortly
would come as no surprise, and
eyes are now turned toward Har-
bin. Should Japan decide to press
westward into inner Mongolia, as
was forecast here early this week,
she would, in informed opinion
here, first remove any menace to
her rear from Hardin, which lies
SuOtReaSt oil ISltSlnar.
1T has long been evident that
Japan, in pressing her occupation,
would find the least resistance by
swinging west from Tsitsihar, with
her ultimate objective Inner Mon
| golia, a region potentially impor-
tant economically. Reports from
Mukden of 'pr0fuse indications that
the JapaneGe forces are preparing
to head from the Great Wall of
China and announcements from
japanese army headquarters in
Mukden and from Tokyo today that
Chinese forces are concentrating
west Of Chengchiatun and Chin
chow in Southwest ManchuTia,
aer accepted as tending to con-
firm these forecasts. Whether the
Chinese concentration is real or
imaginary. IL would give pretext
for a Japanese advance TO the
Great WALL
Soviet Union Sends Japan Protest.
Walter Duranty, New York Times
Moscow correspondent, reports that
Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff,
has sent note to Japan, declaring,
in part:
Il must, however, take note, not
withstanding the first declaration
made by you regarding the in
structiOns given for utmost limita-
tons of Japanese military opera
tons, that these operations since
then have widened to great ex-
tent beyond the borders of the
first intended zones.
This situation makes it possible
that the interests of the Soviet Re-
public would be affected, which
cannot but call for serious alarm
on te side of The Soviet Union.'
The Soviet Foreign Commissar re-
jected the parallel which the inn
perialists have tried to draw beteWeen
the defensive action of the Soviet
Union, in 1929 against the White
Guards in Manchuria and the pres
ent seizure of Manchuria by Japan.
Comrade Litvinoff pointed out that
the Soviet Union has never abused
the weakness of China" or occupied
any etrritory belonging to China or
any other nation. He reiterated that
the Soviet Union continues to pur-
sue policy of peace.
In his dispatch in the Sunday New
York Times, Duranty expresses his
personal opinion that "SoViet Russia
does not want war. and viii not have
war If she can avoid it-Rtth Japan
or any other country"
The French innpefialists who have
been helping IN the work OF trying
to provoke the Soviet Union to war,
are forced TO make the same admits
sion. a Paris dispatch declares.
Paris is convinced that the gov
eminent of Soviet Russia will
firmly resist being led by almost
any provocation into war with