The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-08

Kuomintang traitors. The fury OF
the masses Is resulting in constant
outbursts, however. The inper1aIists
are becoming more and more
alarmed. A Shanghai dispatch to
the New York Times reflects this
alarm and shows the real cause Of
this alarm. 1t says:
"StilI others believe Shanghars
crucirixion will make China see
red and turn the whole country
over TO the Communists"
Another opinion expressed by a
section Of the imperialists in Shang-
hal is stated as follows:
"others cynicalIy declare China
had a beating coming and that
both Chinese soldiers and civilian
sufferers are so vehemently anti
foreign at present that the lesson
will be salutary, although portion
of this school regrets that it is
Japan which is welding the dis
ciplinary rod"
Expose Chang Kai-shek.
The British imperialist murderers
also attempt to condone the present
slaughter of tens of thousands of
Chinese workers in the mfortified,
densely populated Chapel section by
pointing to the butchery of Chinese
masses by the notorious Chang Kali
shek and other Chinese tools of i'm
perialism. The dispatch referring to
the fake protests Of these traitors.
says.
Those Chinese political and
military leaders, as well as civil
ians, who most violently denounee
Japan are those who have cOnsis-
tently condoned China's cotinuous
series of civil war or who have at
tempted to excuse the Marking
governments own ruthless use of
airplanes against thickIy populated
walled cities in the interior Occu-
pied by rebellious forces"
Why the War on the Chinese
Masses!
washington officials admitted on
Saturday that the war on the Chi
nese masses is struggle for markets
and that the japanese started the
war in a desperate attempt to solve
the terrific economic and financial
crisis of Japanese capitalism. The
crisis in Japan is part of the world
economic and financial crisis of dying
capitalism.
The Daily Worker has repeatedly
pointed out to the working class that
world capitalism was attempting to
solve its crisis at the expense of the
blood of the toiling masses. The
Washington government, while try
ing to hide its own bloody role in
this attempt, now admits that this
is what the Japanese imperialists are
doing. The Washington dispatch
states:
'If the views Of majority of the
government officials here are cor
rect, the economic crisis which now
confronts Japan was the force
which drove her, in desperation, to
attempt the invasion of Manchuria.
If economists are right, the eco
nomic strength or weakness OF
Japan is the factor which will de-
eide the ultimate success or failure
of that military venture. Both agree
that should Japan insur the efilnity
of America and Great Britain she
will have virtually committed sui
eide
The last sentence Of the above dis
match is in the nature of q warning
to the Japanese of what they can ex-
pect If they carry out their present
attempt to take more than their
share of the loot in dividing up
China. Pressure to this effect is be-
ing exerted against the japanese in
the stock exchanges of New York
and London, where japanese bonds
have suffered q catastrophe fall in
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erted through the concentration OF
the fleets of he United States, Eng
land, France and Italy at Shanghai.
These fleets are there primarily
against the Chinese masses but also
to restrain the Japanese from taking
the desired loot of these powers.
Crisis Grows in Japan.
The dispatch admits that the crisis
is deepening at a tremendous pace
in Japan, partly as result of the
tightening economic boycott by the
Chinese masses against Japanese
goods The silk exchange was forced
to close down for two days last week.
Sugar mills at Osaka have shut their
doors. Initiation of the currency is
proceeding rapidly with increasing
misery to the Japanese masses.
Strikes and peasant struggles have
increased during the past year,
In the United States, the Specu-
lators are reaping a rich harvest as
q result of the war in the Far East.
Prices for wheat and cotton went up
last week. This was balanced, how
ever, by a drastic decline in several
other raw materials, including rub