The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-06

PSooeS1AVO VIAOuS4lOuU OIuIld anu
bringing new sections Of the toiling
masses into the revolutionary strug-
gle against Imperialism.
This alarm is reflected in q con-
fidentisl letter sent to American
financiers on Feb. by the Valley
Eaton Service. The letter states, in
part:
Il. Japanese aggression may
readily drive all China into the
arms of Communism. Moreover,
should Japan encounter some real
setbacks in her military operations,
Toxic itself might not be safe
from Conmunistic elements"
japanese Crisis Gets Worse.
The letter admits that the eco
nomic and financial crisis in Japan
is constantly deepening. 1t says:
SC. The economic position of
Japan has been very grave for some
time. All of the bad conditions
that are evident In the United
States, for instance, have taken
even more rlinous form in Japan.
Farms have been unable to endure
the fall in prices and many of
them have been taken over under
mortgage. Intervention by the gov
eminent has not sufficed to pre-
vent bank failures and mergers
have been resorted to on a some
what lavish scale. The British
went off gold and were able to
undersell Japan in Asian markets
and the Chinese boycott hurt. The
government found it impossible to
continue its policy OF rationaliza-
ton and sterilization and specula-
ton for the fall in yen exchange
proved too heavy n burden to
carry"
Admitting the mWderous device OF
the imperialists of seeking a way out
OF the crisis at the expense Of the
blood Of the toiling masses, the let
ter further states:
1T is an old device, in the face
Of such unsatisfactory domestic
conditions, to divert the public at
tention to foreign fields, to give
employment in the army to the
idle, to depend on foreign exploita-
ton to pay the cost and actually
enrich the treasury. The oppor-
tunity offered, therefore, for Japan
to kill two birds with one stone,
easing her domestic difficulties
and at the same time realizing her
great ambition on the mainland"
Other ImperiaIists In Same Murder
Gus Gamble.
1t Is not only the Japanese imper-
ialists who are seeking to solve the
world crisis Of dying capitalism at
the expense Of the masses. The
United States, British, French and
italian tmperiahsts are engaged in
the same murderous plan. The i'm
pertalists are jointly pushing the
war against the Chinese masses,
against the Chinese Soviet Republic
and the Chinese Red Army. The
imperialist governments Of the United
States, France, England and Italy
are supporting the war provocations
against the Soviet Union that the
Japanese are at this moment carry
Ing out around Hardin and on the
Chinese Eastern Railway. That all
Of the in1perialists are frantically
arming while conducting their farce
Of disarmament at Geneva is ad-
mitted by the Whaley Eaton Service
letter:
WAR MATERIALS Events
Gin China are considered as def
nitely ending whatever chance
there may have been for a COM
prehensiYe program of interna-
tional disarmament. Accordingly,
the preparedness programs of inn
portant governments are likely to
be expanded. 1t is believed in
Europe, for instance, that the
United States will now certainly
bring her navy UP to treaty limits.
The British have already an
nounced that the naval base at
Singapore will be finished. The
American Congress has abandoned
the design to reduce the enlisted
strength of the army"
Only the Workers Can Abolish War.
There never was and never will be
any chance of disarmament under
capitalism. Only the Soviet Union
offered concrete proposals for dis
armament at the various "disarma-
ment" conferences, and the Soviet
proposals were repeatedly rejected by
the imperialist war mongers. The
Soviet Union offered q plan for COM
plete disarmament. This was re-
jected. The Soviet Union offered
another plan for cutting down arma-
ments fifty per cent. This was also
rejected. Only the working class can
abolish war. Against the upholders
of war only the proletarian reyolu-
ton will bring peace.
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