The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-03-04

Attempts by the police to ar
rest some of the workers were
defeated by the militancy of the
demonstrators.
The mass anti-war movement
IN Germany lis growing rapidly.
! Harbor workers and seamen In
this city are militantly taking
up the question of preventing
the shipment of arms to the
Japanese imperialists.
The Soviet Union has issued a
stern warning to the japanese i'm
perialists in connection with the
movement of Japanese troops to-
wards the Soviet frontier and the
mobilization by the Japanese of
the Tsarist White Guards in Man
churia for a joint attack on the
Soviet Union. Maintaining it's
firm peace policy, the Soviet Union
has warned the Japanese and 9th
er imperialists that the Soviet
masses, coveting not an inch of
the soil of others, will grimly de-
fend their own soil against the
sinister plots of the imperialists
for armed intervention against
the Soviet Union and its success
full Socialist construction.
L. M. Karakhan, Assistant For
eign Commissar, accompanied this
warning with some trenchant ques-
tons to the Japanese Government
through its ambassador at Mos
cow, Kiok Hirota. A cable to the
New York Times from its Moscow
correspondent declares the follow
ing points were raised:
Demand Explanation from Japan
csc Imperialists
1. The japanese command at
Hardin requested the Chinese
Eastern Railway to put at its dis
pOsal seventeen trains for trans
porting Japanese troops to Imien.
. pc and Pogranichnaya, points neal
the Siberian frontier of the Soviet
Union. The request was made
under the pretext of protecting the
lives of Japanese residents. Kar
akhan informed the japanese am
bassador that this was not in the
nature of the usual troop move
: ments, but that it appeared as i
the troops were intended for tn
. Soviet border. 1t was asket
: whether the Japanese government
! was aware of this request. If Sc
! an explanation was demanded.
! 2. Karakhan took up with Hir
ota the request of the Japanes
: command at Hardin on the Chin
csc Eastern Railway to draw Vi
an agreement to transport Japan
csc troops over all the lines o
the Chinese Eastern at so per cen
. reduction and to transport Japan
= csc troops necessary to guard tn
Eastern free.
Karakhan also demanded an ex
: PLANTATION of this request, declar
s ing it to be of a political nature
: affecting agreements existing be
! tween the Soviet Union and Japa
= on the one hand and between tn
= Soviet Union and China on tn
: other.
r DenOunce Japanese Support of
+ White Guards
+ 8. M. Kahakhan pointed to tn
: activities of White Guards i
s Mancnuria "under the sovereign
e and directly aided by japanese.
e He declared this to be in violatio
i of Mr.. Hirota's assurance /
It Litvinoff and Karakhan that tn
e Japanese would not encourag
d White Guard activities agains
i the Soviet Union. He demande
v an explanation of these activitie.
Q a. Information regarding tn
e new puppet Manchurian govern
Y ment set up by the japanese an
It their Chinese militarist tools wa
4 requested.
War Aimed at Working Class, an
: SObiet World
, Workers. The Wall Street goy
= eminent is supporting the Japar
. csc in their butchery of the CHR
: csc masses and war provocatio
against the Soviet Union. TIL
Wall Street imperialists who hay
: thrown over twelve million worI
:. ers on the streets to starve al
= now trying to throw the workin
y class into a new and bloodie
world slaughter. This war is ain
! ed at the working class at hon
= and abroad, and especially at tn
!, = victories of the working class j
! the Soviet Union and in the CHR
y csc Soviet districts.
! The robber war in China an
= the war plots of the imperialist
against the Soviet Union, al
= aimed at your interests, worker
: at your living standards at HON,
: at your class victories in the St
!, Wet Union.
! War means not only the sIaugI
:. tering of millions and the main
- ing of other millions. It NEAR
:" the most intense hunger, starv;
ton, destruction of living stanC
ards, increased terror against II
working class and murderous d,
struction of life, both at Il
front and in the cities thousand
of miles from the front, by Il
modern devices of slaughte
= Workersl Rally to the fiol
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