The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20

pan would hold the Chinese Easter
Railway partly responsible for tn
resistance Of the Chinese to Japanes
troops following Japanese armed in
vasion Of Manchuria. The Japanes
note is an attempt to justify the sci
zure Of the Chinese Eastern Railwa,
and the steady advance of Japanes
troops towards the Soviet frontier.
Washington Awaith with Keen In
terest" Soviet Reaction.
Under phrases such as League ant
Washington fear Soviet will act a
Chinese Eastern Railway is crossed,
the irnperiaIst bandits are expressing
their jubilation over developments
and their hope that at last the Sovie
Union might be forced to armed de
Tense. A Washington dispatch to tn
New York Times states:
1.-THE reaction Of Russia is await
cd here with keen interest. With
Japan astride the Chinese Easter
Railway, Russian interests are di-
rectly involved. ="
Another Washington dispatch t,
the same paper explains in its tea,
the strategic significance of Tsitsi
har.
''Tsitsihar is Center Of Vital Rail
Lines.
Dominates the Chinese Eastern
and Also a New Road Into Fertile
Region"
A Paris dispatch to the New Yorl
Daily News is headed:
Japan Admits Aim to Grab Man
churia'"
The dispatch declares:
Japan abandoned all talk Of com
promise tonight in the ManchuriaI
conflict.
AT secret session Of the Counci
Of the League Of Nations, Kenkich
Hoshizawa, the Japanese delegate
laid down a program of peace condi
tons described in some League circle
as tantamount to turning Manchuri
into a political and economic protec
torate Of Japan"
SEQ Soviet Drawn Into War.
A dispatch from Toxic to the sam
paper says some quarters here to
night expressed apprehension tina
Russia might be drawn into the dis
pute."
Further proof that the imperialist
are trying to push the Soviet Union
into the war in Manchuria is con
tanned in the following statement il
the same dispatch:
The Japanese were fully aware
Of the danger entailed in moving
into the district, since General
HOMO. Japanese commander-in-
chief In Manchuria, few days ago
said he might be forced to stab
ish his line at Tsitsihar, regardless
Of the danger Of embroiling Rus
sia.'"
Gen. Organ Admits World War
Being Prepared
General John F. Organ, speaking
Wednesday night before the Worle
Affairs Institute admitted that thu
world is drifting steadily but surely
into bigger and more evil war thar
the last" He attributed the movements
toward war to economic conditions
Those economic conditions revolve
around the cntrast the gigantic
achievements of socialist construction
and the abolition Of unemployment ir
the Soviet Union, on the one hand
and on the other the ever deepening
crisis Of decaying capitalism. This
was clearly brought out in the fear
expressed at the same meeting by DR..
Kirk that the workers were turning
TO Communism. DR.. Kirk said:
IF the world becomes Commu-
nistic 1t will be largely because the
wealth Of the world has been di-
verted from the constructive enter
prises Of peace into the non-pro-
ductive enterprises of war and
preparations for war"
DR.. Kirk also declared that $500
100000 Is spent yearly on ornaments
OF which the United States is spend
ing one-sixth."
Says International Conflict Under
Way"
Major General E. Ely, speaking
Wednesday at a luncheon at the
Army and Navy Club. also admitted
that a World War is in the making.
He said:
"Since the war, until recently, we
have heard lot about no more
wars. but lately, we don't hear so
much about 1t. Even with an In
ternational conflict under way, they
don't call 1t war any more, but q
clash OF arms"
He further declared that right
must be backed up by might in this
generation"
Japan "Defies" League.
Secretly assured by the United
States, France and other imperialist
governments of support in the war on
the Chinese masses and the provoca-
ton Of the Soviet Union, the Japan
ese yesterday openly "defied" the
League Of Nations Council. A dis
patch from Paris to the New York
Times was summarized by that raner