The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-28
By HENRY PUR0

S the economic crisis Is deepening IN an cap
n italst countries the ruling capitalist class
looks more and more towards new wars as Uhe
most effective way out Of the crisis Even the
other measures that the capitalist governments
have resorted to, like initiation, setting up hlgn
tariff walls, ETC., are sharpening the conVraolc-
tions between different capitalist countries and
therefore are leading towards war. But first
Of all the mutual hatred Of all capitalist gov
ernments and capitalists Of all countries against
the Soviet Union and the gigantic growth or
socialism there, increases enormously the dan
GER OF war in the form Of a common attack OF
all capitalist powers against this workers ana
farmers republic.
The question Of the war danger is two-fold:
u the question OF the fight between Two sys-
tens; o the question Of the redistribution OF
the world between leading impertalist powers.
We do not need to speak any more about the
war danger only in abstract terms, Tor we nave
seen 1t already in concrete form. The war is
already here. We have seen it in the attack Of
Japanese imperialists, supported by leading I'M
uerialist powers, against Chinese masses in Man
churia and in Shanghai In this attack OF
Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people
both questions are involved. On the one hand
it involves the question Of the partition OF
China taking away its national independence
and bringing in sharp contradictions between
rival inperialst powers, especially between the
United States and Japan; on the other hand all
the imperalist powers, the United States, Japan,
England France and italy, are trying to come
to temporary agreements regarding the division
of China In order to prepare q common aCCack
against the Soviet Union.
The feverish negotiations between imperiaIsJ
powers on the spot Gin Shanghai and thru the
League Of Nations in Geneva to compel Japan
on the one hand, and Chang Kai-shek (the
betrayer Of the Chinese people, on the oCner
hand to agree to the terms Of irnperalist powers
regarding to division of China in order to turn the
attack against Chinese Soviets and Soviet Union,
points out very clearly the fact that the attack
Of japanese imperialism against the Chinese
people, is now being turned and extended 10
common attack Of all iI1perialist forces against
the Soviet Union. The tnperialst armed FORCES
of Japan in Manchuria are already advancing
towards the Soviet border, while preparations are
being made in Poland and other border states
in order to launch a simultaneous attack against
the Socialist Republic of Workers and Farmers
from the west
Alongside the feverish preparation Of arma-
mentS the imperialists all over the world are
conducting enormous propaganda among the
masses They are trying to convince the masses
that war is a good thing, that it would set
wheels of industry into motion which would
mean plenty OF work ana good wages for Che
workers, that it would do away with the agricul-
tural depression by opening up big markets for
agricultural products. thereby creating high
prices for farm commodities First of all, this
propaganda shows that capitalist exploiters and
robbers are not concerning themselves with the
question OF humanity. They are ready to launch
a murderous imperiaGst war on large scale
and Slaughter millions Of workers ana farmers
in order TO restore capitalist prosperity and to
make more money.
If we have forgotten what the last inperlaTst
World War meant for the masses, our memory
ought to have been refreshed by the present
japanese robber war against the Chinese people,
in which murderous bombs from airplanes, heavy
guns and ships have been directed, not only
against worker and peasant soldier defenders of
Chinese independence but also against defense
less Chinese workers, peasants, old folk, women
and children. These horrible scenes would be
repeated on a much larger scale If the imperial