The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
Defend the u. S. S. R.


statement of the Central Committee, Communist
Party. U.s.A)
THE working class of this country, as
l we'll as every honest person who OPP
poses war; must today face the intense
seriousness of the present situation in the
Far East.
Yesterdays news dispatches reveal that
Japanese imperialism is now talking to the
Soviet Union in the undisguised, blunt language
of war
No longer the hypocrisies of diplomatic schen-
ing No longer the polite, fraudulent talk of peace
But the open, threat of military intervention.
Every concrete detail reported in the latest dis
patches indicates the ruthless organization of a
deliberate, widespread provocation along the whole
border of Soviet Siberia.
The brutal seizure of so Soviet citizens
the Chinese Eastern Railway the insolen forgeries
proving bomb plots the outrageous arrogance of
the demands for the Chinese Eastern Railway
terms which themselves are provocation and
threat the unprecedented violence of the jingosm
and anti-Soviet proyocation in the Japanese CAPT
tast press, and finally the latest direct threat of
war, all point to the enormous danger of the
plosion of imperiast war against the workers
tatherland
Though it is ready to defend itself against the
slightest encroachment of its borders, the Soviet
Union has shown the world an example of pa
tience and willingness to avoid any for war,
1t has pursued with answering frmnesS
lutionary policy of peace, 1t has offered the Jap
anese government every possible concession in the
negotiations on the Chinese Eastern Railway.
But the. japanese imperialists have deliberately
made all agreement on the Railway impossible.
They have brushed aside every proposal and have
pushed ruthlessly forward toward the armed seizure
of the railroad.
BACKED by deepening crisis menaced with the
approach Of proletaran revolution led by the heroic
Communist Party of Japan, and greedy for i'm
perialst loot to fill its bankrupt Golfers, japanese
imperialism prepares for last desperate lunge into
intervention assault against the Soviet Union
WHAT this attack will mean to the masses of the
world, including the toiling people of this coun-
try, can be easily surrised. The war plunge of
Japanese imperialism will drag the whole world
mo tco inC9goribable he'll Of second world i'm
pe~ 49,
And swiftly, American imperialism, with its ire
menG -us war machine geared to protect the Rookie
feler-Morgan investments in China and as eager
as the japanese itarists for the spoils of inter-
vention, will move its war machinery into action,
flinging the American masses once again into the
butchery Of mperalist war
Fascist Germany plungng toward catastrophe
leadership of the Fascist-mitarst servants of big
capital, awaits just such signal for intervention
attack by japanese imperialism in the Far
East. These two imperialist powers already have
understanding for a united intervention
sault. And this would be the signal for world
capitalist intervention against the Soviet Union,
with each imperialist wolf leapng for the spoils.
THE danger is real 1t menaces every worker,
4 every tolinc farmer everv honest nerSnr
The masses of America must act. The horrors
and mseries of another imperalist war can be
stopped by determined mass action, determined
mass protest.
The voices of opposition to the Japanese
provocations against the Soviet Union must rise to
such thunder that the war mongers of Toxic and
Wall Street will not be able to escape them.
Let there be immediate organization of pro-
test. Let every japanese consulate hear the pro-
tests of the masses in resolutions, kilograms and
street demonstrations Wire to the japanese En-
bassy at Washington demanding the immediate stop
to all threats and provocations against the Soviet
Union. In every seaport where vessels are loaded
with supplies for Japan, there must be the
organization of protest meetings and the refusal to
ship munitions to Japan.
Socialist workers. Workers in the A. F. of L.
unionsl The united front of the working class
must be welded against the menace of war! The
Second international has just issued manifesto
on the struggle against war. The Detroit Con-
vention also pledged to fight war. Only the united
action of the working class can put these resou-
tons into life.
The American working class extends its clasp
of solidarity to the working class of the Soviet
Union and the toling masses of Japan 1t pledges
its revolutionary solidarity in the common fight
against world Imperialism against the imperialists
of Wall Street and Toxic, for the defence of the
Soviet Union the Fatherland of the world pro-
letariat
For the defence of the Soviet Union Against
imperialist warl For international solidarity of
the working class against mperslist war and
fascism!