The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-01


the Japanese advance upon Shanghai, will to
any real extent seriously weaken the danger
of Japanese intervention against the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics is oppOrtuniSt.
There is not the slightest doubt that the con-
tradictons between Japan and the United
Stats are very deep, and that they will sooner
or later lead to a war between them (if revo-
luton does not forestall it,"
"ByT THESE CONTRADICTIONS DO NOT
IN ANY WAY PREVENT THE UNITED
STATES FROM TRYING TO URGE JAPAN
INTO WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION
in the hope that war of this kind will weaken
a. the same time both Japan-its i'm
peria'is. rival and the Soviet Union-the class
enemy in principle both of Japan and the
United States"
The above quotation is from the leading article
on War and the Immediate Tasks of the Com
nlunist PARTIES published in Number Six OF the
Communist International magazine, printed in
England-whch has been seized by the U. S.
Customs, acting on orders from the State De-
PARTNER
1t is clear that Wall Street government, carry
ing on its coalition" tactic in order to strengthen
the two-party dictatorship against the working
class and the rising tide of mass resentment
series of peace" n1aneuvers wishes to deprive
American workers Of the opportunity Of reading
the clear and searching analysis of imperialist
relations and the war preparations against the
Soviet Union from which the above extract is
taken.
Force and Violence
The magazine has been seized on the grounds
that it advocates political changes by force and
violence" But what force and violence" can
compare with or hold such menace to the mil
lions of workers and colonial peoples as the sup
port of the japanese imperialist attack on the
Chinese people the seizure Of Manchuria as a
base of military operations against the Soviet
Union and the worldwide preparations for i'm
perianst war?
We believe that every American worker who
studies The rapid developments taking place in
the United States and throughout the world, in
politics. in the shops and factories, in the rapid
downward plunge of the crisis and the continual
lowering of the conditions Of the workers by
unemployment and Wage-cuts, as contrasted to
the upward development in the Soviet Union
will agree with the estimate made in the leading
article of the Communist International Of the
form of the struggle against imperialist war:
r s"Our struggle against war takes the form
Of the unmaSking of all the small facts of the
preparations for war; it is the mobilization
of the against war; it is the strength
ening of the revolutionary struggle against the
imperialiSt bourgeOiSie all along the line
American imperialism is proceeding very skill
fully in its war preparations Only the more
stupid and outspoken Of the agents of Wall
Street government are openly calling for war as
the way out of the crisis. There is even cam
paign in sections Of the capitalist press for rec
ignition of the Soviet Union, designed to put
the working class off guard.
The Peace" Tactic.
Especially important for American workers is
that portion of the leading article which points
out the way in which the peace" tactic is being
utilized as cover for war preparations:
"The ruling classes, with the most active as
sistance of the sociaI-fascst leaders, are adopt
ing the tactic of a peculiar peaceful transit
ton to war. 1t is in this way that the tran
sition TO war of France, Czechoslovakia and
other western European countries is taking
place at the present time. This transition be-
gins with the reconstruction of industry to
serve war purposes and the systematic dis
patch of munitions to Japan. 1t is further
expressed in the increased dispatch of troops
TO the Far East"
This is Of far greater significance even than the
troops sent to the Far East by European powers
The Daily Worker has published list after list
OF American munition shipments to Japan
American industry has been for considerable
time organized Ito serve war purposes"
Armed terrorism and mass arrests, actual
nasSacres of workers, murderous attacks on Ne
groes on huge scale-all are part of war prep
arations conveniently fitting into the general
drive against the living standards and the Or
ganizations Of the working class
"AI' Steps to the Front.
1t is not only the drop OF production, which
. in the United States business charts resembles
nothing so much plunge over a high cliff
from which project few short upward jutting
slivers Of rock that inspires the frantic efforts
being made under the direction of the House
OF Morgan to smooth out differences within
capitalist circles and present an iron front to
the working class.
1t is the part of the war preparations, as well
as attempt to patch up the weaker spots in
the capitalist leadership under pressure of the
crisis, when Alfred E. Smith, who polled 150o0,-
900 votes against Hoover four years ago comes
out with TRADE against even the feeble middle
class opposition in congress against taxes on
articles OF mas consumption, and calls for Sup
port Of the president"
1t Is not only the continued decline OF pro-