The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES
Hearst's Venom
Defending All Foes
of the Soviet Union

| COMING to the defense Of
" the Zinovie v-Kamenev
group who were arrested in
the Soviet Union, as well as
to the white guardist assas-
sins who were executed,
Hearst's fascis t scribbler.
Isaac don Levine, opens up one of
the vilest attacks on the workers
fatherland ever to appear in print
in the United States.
Levine is particularly happy over
the events in Manchuria, where the
Japanese militarists have long been
planning war against the Soviet
Union. In this war (for which he
blames Stain, very much in the
manner of the Trotskyites) he sees
the downfall Of the dictatorship of
the proletariat and the end of the
fortress of the world revolution.
Levine's special story which
Hearst publishes along with the news
that Japanese troops have sur
rounded small Soviet border guard,
is first rate publicity for the Jap
/ anese imperialists and their war
plans in Manchuria.
Imagine the putrid imagination
of the man when he declares that
Stain, and the leaders in the Soviet
Union, are planning war against
Japan in Manchuria in order to
avoid civil war in the Soviet Union,
pERHAPS Stain is responsible for
the transportation of $50 900 Jap
.anese troops into Manchuria to wrest
Manchuria away from China? I'm
doubtedly Stain caused the eco
nomic and financial crisis in Japan
which drove japanese militarism in
desperation to seek new conquests
by war. What is more, Stain is
responsible for the starvation of the
peasants in Japan, because the Jap
anese imperialists are spending bill
ions of yen for their war adventures
in Manchuria and against the Soviet
Union. If Stain would only be more
lax in the protection of the workers
revolutionary victory, if he would
only be less relentless in the con-
struction of Socialism, and the
building up of the mighty arm Of
the workers defence, if he would
only be less persistent in the Soviet
peace policy and it's victories, jan
anese imperialism wouldn't have to
use so much of its money and arms
to try to destroy the workers father
land. Everything would be much
simpler and easier = for japanese
imperialism.
The culprit and plotter is Stain
howl the Levines, the TrotskyiteS,
the Algernon Lees, the Abe Cahans,
and the Russian Fascists in this
country
The venomous attacks against
Stain and the other Communist
leaders in the Soviet Union are re-
verting to type of the earlier days
of the revolution when any lying
story, any diseased imagination, was
utilized against the bolsheviks.
WHAT is fundamental in the whole
W situation? The capitalist world
crisis is getting worse, its contradict
tons sharper, and new imperial
list war looms closer and closer. The
war incidents explode in Europe with
the regularity of roman candle.
Every imperialist antagonism is be-
ing pushed to the breaking point.
The conflict between American and
japanese imperialism has never been
so bitter, nor so dangerous. Further
more, German fascism is rapidly APP
preaching a new catastrophe, while
Japanese imperialism is also on the
verge of an inner explosion.
Every capitalist power feels ex-
ceedingly nervous in this situation.
They have the fear that their whole
system is on the edge of volcano.
And while they are driven to
daggers points against one another,
they see the Soviet Union growing
stronger, Socialism advancing more
rapidly, the conditions of the masses
in the Soviet Union improving.
In this situation, by major
stroke, by a drastic move, they try
to turn their mutual conflicts, their
dangerous antagonisms int to the
channel of common action against
the main world culprit for imperial
lists = the VIGOROUSLY advancing
workers and peasants in the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics.
ANY conflict working against the
IA Soviet Union is grist to the inn
perialist mill. Whether it is the
assassination plots of white guard
lists, Russian fascists, or spies Of
German fascism, Roumania, Poland,
or Finland, or the desperate and
corrupt dregs of the former Zinoviev
faction who resort to assassination Of
one of the best defenders of the So
Wet Union, like our Comrade Kirov,
makes no difference to the Japanese
imperialists. In the general con-
fusion, in the hub-bub of lies which
are rammed down the workers
Threats in the capitalist countries,
the imperialist robbers feel that they
can attacks with the workers thrown
off guard.
That is the purpose of Levine's
article. He wants to point out to
the American capitalists looking for
more blood money, that the best bet
is war against the Soviet Union. He
tells them that the destruction Of
the Soviet government is a push