The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-18


Britain has an understanding with
them. England, we are told, exported
in 1881 munitions and other war ma
terila worth 3,5O00O0,OO0 pounds.
Chemical plants in Czecho- Sloyakia,
France, Germany, Poland and Eng
land are running full blast. The
French are carrying on military prep
arations for invasion Of Southern
China, conversion of the present
japanese fighting into a gen
eral war along the Pacific ocean and
an open attack on the Soviet Re-
publcs"
Most of these statements, obvious
Iy false, are broadcast over state
owned radio throughout Russia. The
peasant pays taxes more readily
when he knows how necessary it is
to have big army for protection Of
his ragged person against rapacious
capitalistic hordes." tOur emphasiS)
1t is quite evident that the eXtraor-
binary munition and armament ac-
tivity is not consistent with the
peace and disarmament policy put
forward by the imperialist powers,
Capitalists, including armament man
ufacturers, do not run factories unless
there is market for their products;
witness the present strangulation OF
industrial production, with the ex-
ception of ornaments, throughout the
world, and the largest masses OF I'M
employed in all history.
Munitions and ornaments are made
for war. War against whom?
1t is the Communist answer to this
question which inks the capitalist
press and its masters, it is the vital
need for counter acting before the
worlds working class the exposure of
their war plans by Litvinoff at &C.
neva, and by the revolutionary press
throughout the imperiaiist and colo
NAL countries, that determines the
tone of the capitalist press.
War is already being made on q
huge scale on the Chinese masses in
their struggle for liberation from i'm.
perialism This liberation will be won
by Soviet China, by the Chinese
masses led by the Communist Party.
Tremendous victories, still carefully
concealed from the masses Of the i'm
perialiSt nations by the capitalist
press, have already been won. Be-
tween sixty and eighty million Chi
nese workers and peasants live in So
Wet territory and the Red Army, sup
ported by the irregular forces which
are "bandits" in the capitalist press,
win new victories daily. They are now
carrying through an enveloping move
ment around Hankow-the heavy in
dustrial district of north central
China.
Why does not the capitalist press
prove that munition factories are not
running full blast" if it wants to
show the peaceful intentions of the
imperialist powers?
Because it cannot.
QUESTIONS THEY DARE NOT
ANSWER.
Why do the imperialist powers not
adopt the complete disarmament pro-
pogaIs made by Litvinoff at Geneva
if they have no intention of making
war on the Chinese revolution and
the Soviet Union?
Why do they ALL continue to in
crease their armies and navies, spend
ing billions of dollars for war NUM-
tons while millions upon millions Of
workers and farmerS-men, women
and children suffer unSpeakable
misery from unemployment, hunger,
exposure disease and starvation, if
they have no intention of carrying
through a war for the dismemberment
Of China, the destruction of the So
Wet Union and a re-division of the
world among the most powerful rob
Der nations?
These are the questions put to
world imperialism by the peace policy
of the Soviet Union, by Litvinoff's
speech in Geneva, by the revolution
airy working class the world over.
The Answer.
These questions American imperial
ism and its press-from the highly
moral Times to the undiscovered
Mirror, do not dare to answer truth
fully. They can reply only by lies,
SANDER and ridicule while capitalists
and their politicians and governments
interfere with the Japanese imperial
list maSsacres only enough TO protect
their own imperialist interests.
Imperialist war is going on. The
answer as to whether war has begun
is not TO be found in the hypocritical
statements Of the league of nations
and the, mouthings of diplomats with
tongues in their cheeks, but in the
graves and mounds not even covered
by the red earth which contain the
bodies of Chinese men, women and
children slaughtered in the most cruel
and cold-blooded atrocity of modern
times.
The answer to further extension Of
the slaughter is being prepared, the
answer to whether an armed invasion
of the Soviet Union is the main line