The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17

ard the United States
To support these contentious the
protest cites the movement Of Eng
llsh French, italian and American
troops into China and news dis
patches announcing the japanese Of
fensive against the Soviet Union for
the spring
The protest, cop.es of which the
bling sent to the japanese Ambassa-
&C in The United States and to
CO.. reecmen, calls for the hnmedi
ate removal Of American and Japa-
nc3e troops and naval forces from
Chinese territory and waters.
Among the signers are; Theodore
DreiGar. Arthur Casssr. motion pic
tute director; Arthur Garfield Hays
liberal lawyer; Rev John L. Hady,
Philadelphia minister; Waldo Frank,
Sherwood Anderson, Jim Tully and
Charles Yale Harrison, author,
The statement in full follows:
For many years China has been
a. the marcy Of every imperialist ma
ton and Of Chinese war lords. They,
paid and encouraged by the United
States, England, pre-war Germany
and japan, have aided in the i'm
poverishment, degradation and IN
Gpeakable exploitation of Chinese
workers and peasants. Now, Japa-
nese armies have boldly penetrated
China itself. They have set up
dummy state, roughly comprising the
territory Of Manchuria, but with its
borders. according to press reports,
purpossly left indefinite on the side
that faces the Soviet Union. The
whole war in China We regard as
one of conquest and malappropris-
ton. 1t has been distinguished by
brutality and terror against the Chi
nese poor. 1t has been accompanied
by the slaughter of women and chill
dren, the burning Of homes and the
destruction of the entire workers
quarter of the city Of Shanghai, But,
above all, we regard the war in
China not only as being against that
country, but also against the Soviet
Union; and we see it as a movement
undertaken not by Japan alone, but
by Japan as the forerunner of the
financiers and capitalists of France,
Italy, Great Britain and the United
States, of every country with i'm
perialist aims. 1t was financial aid
of the type already given by Amer
lean capitalists TO Japan that in
volved this country in the last Euro
pean war.
we do not make our deductions
alone from the significantly vague
borders of the new Manchurian
State" nor from the seizure of Har-
bin and the massing of troops against
the Soviet border, nor even only from
the reputed secret Anglo French
treaty for the division of South Rus
sia into spheres of influence Though
this latetr is vouched for by no less
an authority than the British states
man, Winston ChurchllD.
we are conscious, beside all this,
Of the movement of English, Italian,
French and American troops into
China: of news dispatches actually
sent from Toxic and the affected
areas in China predictind--even an
nouncins-a japanese offensive
against the Soviet Union for the
spring. We know, too that even
while monotonously Intellectual peace
moves are undertaken by the gov
eminent of the United States, Amer
lean financiers and manufacturers
are profitins from the sale Of war
supplies to Japan.
AS this statement Is written, the
newspapers carry the suggestion that
truce may be concluded between
Chinese and Japanese forces. This,
ne recognize is in part the result OF
stubborn resistance made by the Chi
nese against the japanese. An an
a1ysis of the reported terms of the
arnistice and of other news from the
war areas, however, leads us to be-
lieve that more may be behind this
latest move than appears on the sur
face. In the first place, so far as
we can determine, peace, If it is con-
cluded, is to be with the reactionary
Marking government. Apparently it
does not at all effect the Chinese
workers troops. Then, news, which
comes simultaneously with that Of a
possible peace, informs us that Chi
neso leaders are negotiating a huge
loan with American interests" and
that "one Of the largest makers OF
airplanes in the United States is ne
gotiating for the sale of aviation
equipment both TO China and japan.
These things give us the right
at the very least, to wonder II Chi
nese warlords, who before this have
acted in behalf Of the inperialist
Sowers, are not now again preparing