The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-26

mperialist war. (Britain VS.. q. S.,
US. VS.. Japan, etc0. The Japanese,
in addition, are using the conference
to gain more time to perfect their
present tremendous war preparations
Biggest War Budget
While the irnperialists are engag-
ing in sham peace" moves, the jap
anese Cabinet yesterday further voted
acceptance of the biggest military
budget in the history of Japan, de-
spite the fact that it involves huge
deficit and terrific strain on Jap
anese economy, already shattered by
che world crisis of capitalism. The
budget calls for an outlay for 1888
1884 Of the huge sum of two billion
two hundred and thirty nine million
yen ($447, 100000 at current low yen
exchange). 1t involves deficit for
the year beginning April l, 1888, of
897,000,000 yen ($l79, 100000.
Massacre 2,7O0 Peasants.
Within the past few days, the
entire populations of three North
Manchurian villages, numbering
2,700 peasants, have been ruthlessly
nassacred by the Japanese imperial
lists in an attempt to crush the rising
anti-Japanese natioal revolutionary
struggles which have recently wrested
one third of Manchuria from the
Japanese invaders. These imperial
ist butchers are thus copying from
the well known practices Of U. S..
imperialism in the PHILIPPINES, Haiti,
Nicaragua, eUc.
Inhabitants Of the three villages
were assembled in ditch and de-
liberately shot down by machine gun
fire. Infants, children and others
not killed by bullets were bayoneted.
Try Provoking USSR.
The request of the Soviet authori-
ties that the japanese mission shall
leave Siberia is being used by the
Japanese imperialists as pretext for
new provocations against the USSR.
The antagonisms between u. S.
and Japanese imperialisnls have been
greatly intensified by the efforts of
japanese imperialism to strengthen
its position on the Asiatic continent.
The Washington Government has
deliberately tried to pit Japan
against the Soviet Union, in an at
tempt to weaken Japanese imperial
ism and at the same time prepare
the way for joint attack by the i'm
perialiSt powers on the Soviet Union
The entire battle fleet of the U. S.
was ordered last Spring to the Pa
cific and is still there. The inper-
ialist struggle for supremacy in the
Pacific and control over China is
also reflected in the Generals war
now going on in Central and South
China.
British-U. S. Rivalry.
IN South America also the war sit
uation has intensified. The unde-
clared war between Bolivia and Para
quay is now in it's seventh moth.
10000 troops are facing each other
in a new battle in the Gran Chaco
region. Argentina is already mobil-
izing troops on the border. In the
northern section Of the contingent,
Columbia and peru are engaged in
another undeclared war. The govern
ments Of Brazil and Chile, also seek
IN ga capitalist "way out" of the cri-
sis, are preparing to actively par
ticipate in that war. These armed
conflicts between the South Ameri-
can puppet states of U. S. and Brit
ish imperialism further emphasize
the sharpening Of the danger of the
world war.
Fight Pacifism.
The present flood of pacifist dema-
gosy emanating from Geneva. Wash
ington and other capitals is designed
to cover up these war developments,
to trap the toiling masses into new
and more frightful world slaughter.
General Pershing on his return yes
terday from Europe declared that a
lew war is unlikely. In 1914 the
workers of the world heard similar
pacifist lies before they were plunged
into the world slaughter.
The Amsterdam Anti-War Con-
gress warned the peoples Of the world
OF the war schemes of the imperial
lists and called on all workers and
intellectuals for a vigorous mass
struggle against the war-makers,