The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27

The cnocera with which the United
States imperialists view the japanese
threat at Wall Street hegemony in
Kuomintang China is clearly indi-
Gated by the fact that yesterday Hoo
yer held a secret conference with
Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary
of the Navy Adams and Admiral
Pratt, chief of naval operations
The U. s. has several warships and
gunboats in Chinese waters and
rivers. The destroyer Truxon is at
Shanghai The bulk Of the U. S.
Asiatic fleet is at Manila, only three
days sail from Shanghai The battle
force OF the U. S. fleet is nov i'll the
San Pedro-San Diego california;
area, in preparation for the joint
army and navy maneuvers in the Pa
cific. This force will be joined short
ly by units Of the scouting force, now
at Guantanamo, Cuba. The combined
force will leave on Feb. ! for Hawaii.
The joint army and navy maneuvers
will bring together the largest naval
force ever assembled in the Pacific.
That the Japanese threat to seize
Shanghai is interpreted by the Wall
Street government as direct threat
against United States hegemony over
Kuomintang China and as creating a
changed situation in the Far East,
bringing Japan into direct conflict
with United States pretensions In
China, is clearly stated in the follow
ing dispatch from Washington:
"The developments at Shanghai
were characterized in administra-
ton circles today as constituting a
new and serious shift in the Sino-
Japanese controversy and present
ing an entirely different aspect
from the standpoint of the United
States than did the Manchurian oc-
cupation."
The United States and the League
Of Nations had approved and sup
ported the Japanese seizure of Man
churia on the basis that Japan would
convert Manchuria into a military
base against the Soviet Union and
would act as a spearhead in the arm
ed attack against Workers Russia.
The Chinese Communist Party has
pointed out that all the elements
exist for a joint direct military in
tervention OF the imperialists against
the Chinese Revolution. While their
gunboats stand silently by waiting for
the signal to begin dealing death, the
imperialists are engaged in diplomatic
struggle which threatens at any mo-
n1ent now to flare out into bloody
war of determination against the rev.
dictionary Chinese masses.
With the crumbling OF the Nam
king government and the tremendous
growth Of Communist influence thru
out China and the victories of the
Chinese Red Army, the irnperialists
are more and more turning to direct
attacks against the Chinese masses.
Communists in Shanghai and other
Chinese cities are energetically push
ing the work of organizing mass re-
sistance to the inperialists and their
Marking tools. The Chinese comrades
are warning the masses that theU.
S., Great Britain and other inper-
ialist powers will not stand by idly
while Japan is grabbing the Yangtze
Valley, but will make every effort to
carry out q joint intervention with
the Japanese.
William Philip Sirnns, foreign
editor of the Scripps- Howard news
paper chain, warns the inperislists
that the Chinese masses, betrayed by
the Marking government and the
League Of Nations, are turning to
Communism.
He pretends that the Chinese
masses are still pinning their faith
on the League Of Nations, with the
result, he says, that China will go
Communist.
Helping japan Attack Mass
Movement
The Marking government and the
Shanghai Chinese authorities are re-
ported to be acceding to the demands
Of the japanese for the crushing Of
the spti-Japanese boycott and the
breaking up Of the anti-imperialist
organizations Of the Chinese workers.
Marking troops have bene sent to
Shanghai not to defend the city
against the Japanese but to attack
the mass revolutionary organizations.
In tbs meantime, Eugene Chen,
Sun 70 and other elements in the
Marking government, fearing q mass
upsurge against the i,nperialists and
their Marking government are man
euvering in the attempt TO divert the
masses from q revolutionary struggle.
Chen and Sun 70 yesterday re-
signed from the Marking govern
rnent, charging that Chang Kat-shek
has assumed dictatorial power since
his return to Marking and Is hope
lessly committed to passive policy
toward the Japanese invasion. Chen
further charges that Chiang's policy
'Sis tantamount to an open invita-
ton to Japanese nilitarists to do as
they please, since no resistance will
offered"
This Is absolutely correct, but it
also has been Cfen's policy, and the
policy Of both the Canton and the
Marking cliques who have not only
prepared the Wav for the innperialists