The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-25


a cruiser and four destroyers. Other
japanese warships are being rushed
to Shanghai. A large crowd of
japanese national chauvinists turned
out to welcome the invasion Of
Shanghai by the Japanese imperial
ist forces.
The recent riots in Shanghai, adj
mittedly melted by Japanese resi-
dants and marines, are used as the
pretext for the further extension of
the japanese aggressions into Inner
China That the japanese action is
aimed directly at the revolutionary
organizations of the Chinese masses,
and does not even take into consid-
Grafton the bankrupt counter-revolu-
tionary government Of Marking, is
clearly shown by the japanese de-
mand that the revolutionary organ
izations and all anti-Japanese Or
CARNATIONS be dlsbanded, They also
demand that the anti-Japanese boy
colt be abandoned. The boycott
movement, originally started by the
Chinese bourgeoisie, has been taken
out of their hands by the workers
who have blocked the recent attempts
of the Chinese bourgeoisie to curtail
the boycott movement, in line with
the promises to Japan by Eugene
Chen and other Kuomintang betray~
ers of the Chinese masses, that the
boycott would be abandoned.
Japanese Stepping On Toes of
Other Imperialists,
The Japanese action in Shanghai
has brought them crowding onto the
toes Of the other inperialist looters
Of China, with the result that an
extremely tense situation has devei-
oped. The United States imperial
lists who have large investments in
Shanghai and in this section of
China have expressed their concern
to the japanese. The Japanese naval
commander at Shanghai, Admiral
Shiosawa is said to have met repre-
sensations by the United States Con-
sui with the promise that no action
would be taken involving the Inter-
national Settlement without first
forewarning the foreigners there"
Shanghai sadivided into three Sec
ttons-the native city with a popula-
ton Of 100000, the French conces-
sion with 100000 and the Interna-
tienal Settlement with 100000. The
last two are practically colonies of
the inaperialist powers.
The United States has a perna-
nent force Of 1,19o troops III Shang-
hal. United States warships are con-
stantly stationed at Shanghai. The
destroyer Truston is at present in
the river AT various points along
the Yangtze River, up to 1900 miles
into the heart of China, are three
more U, s. destroyers and seven gum
boats. The main part Of the U. $.
Astatic fleet is stationed at Manila,
three days sail from Shanghai. AS
a result of the preparations for the
Joint army and navy spring war
maneuvers in the Pacific, the United
States now has in the Far East, or
EN- route, the largest military and
naval force ever assembled in that
part of the world. This concentra-
ton is primarily aimed against the
Chinese masses and the Soviet
Union, for armed intervention to
forward the partition of China among
the imperialists and for war against
the Soviet Union, whose solution Of
unemployment and the national
question, pointing the revolutionary
way out of the capitalist crisis, has
accelerated the revolutionary Strug-
giles OF the working class and the
colonial masses throughout the world.
British Want Joint Partition Move.
The concern of the United States
and European inlperialists over the
CHke~4lSDC TCuAC,- - ECIlllGCJCu
only with the threat to their own in.
terests involved in the Japanese &C.
ton, but with the fear that the jana
nese seizure Of Shanghai will arouse
the Chinese masses to further fury
against the inperialists and their
lackey Marking government. a Lon
don dispatch clearly expresses this
fear
st Is notorious that the author
ity Of China (the Marking govern
r,ert) is at 2 discount and that
the governments power to control
irresponsible elements IS limited.
Action calculated to aggrsvate the
situation and weaken the govern
r,ert, Il Is urged, should, therefore
not be undertaken without general
International approval"
The same dispatch reminds Japan
the defense of the Soviet Union,
the workers fatherlaId! Down with