The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
MONDAY. DECEMBER "a, 1884
The War Plot Against
the u. S. S. R.

ESE-MANCHURIAN troops have
j invaded Soviet territory. 1t is no sur
prise whatever that the Associated Press
dispatches, inspired by the Rengo Shimbun
agency, the official Japanese government
propaganda organ should try to twist the truth of
the course of events. The American capitalist
newspapers lyingly declare that Red Army troops
entered Manchurian territory
But this event near the Soviet lanchurian Dor
der in the vicinity Of Vladivostok is not a sudden
o. isolated incident. II is one Of the more serious
phases of the extremely rapid war preparations
against the Soviet Union on the part of Japanese
imperialism assuming dangerous proportions in con-
nection with the assassination of Comrade Kirov
and the discovery Of wholesale ant-Soviet plots
reaching into the anti-Party Vaccinations Of the
former zinovev-Xamenev-T rotzky counter revou-
tionary factions.
The immediate situation which should arouse
the workers of the entire world to the danger of
imperalist attack against the Soviet Union grows
out of the fact that the japanese militarists had
long plotted their first thrust to be the seizure
of Vladivostok.
Recently, the Soviet Union has shown that it
has well fortified Vladivostok and its approaches,
preparing to carry out Stains slogan that the
USSR. does not want single foot of foreign terri
tory but will not cede inch of Soviet land" Last
summer, the Wushekou River changed it's course
at critical point between the Soviet border and
Manchuia The result was that near the Soviet
side new island arose out Of the river bed The
Soviet Union Immediately took possession of this
territory, at this strategic point fortified it, to pro-
tect the approach to Vadivostok.
For months the Japanese mihtarists have been
trying to provoke some border incident in order to
speed their war plans. There have been a whole
series of shooting incidents at Soviet border guards
all along this critical and important sector.
Now the japanese attempt major stroke,
strangely timed to coincide with the assassination
of Comrade Kirov, and the ruthless drive of the
workers fatherland against the Czaris potters sent
into the U.SSR
This makes it crystal clear that the imperialist
war plotters have been sending their spies and
saooteus their assassns and fascist destroyers into
the Soviet Union to start their nefarous work pre-
cisely at a moment when the armies of the i'm
periasts set to march across the Soviet border
1t is not at all surprising that the Japanese i'm
perialists and the German fascists who have a
pact for simultaneous war action against the
USSR0 should feel it most opportune to utilize the
murder Of Kirov inspired by the counter revou-
tonary activities Of the former zinoviev antParty
faction to begin their most dangerous and most
ominous war moves.
In previous critical situation Trotzky himself
attempted to preciptate counter-revoutonary
civil war IN the Soviet Union against the workers
government.
The chief slogan of the Trotzkyites, of which the
zinoyev- Kamenev faction was vile offshoot crawl
ing in and out of the party. has always been di-
rected towards smashing the leadership of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union and proletarian
dictatorship.
No white guard assassin ever breathed more bitter
hatred against Comrade Stain and the other
staunch leaders of the VIGOROUSLY advancing work
ers fatherland than the Trotzkyte-zinovie CLIQUE
While the whole pack of white-guard fascist
fends howl for war against the Soviet Union while
the Japanese army poises for a thrust over the
Soviet border as signal for war against the work
ers fatherland the counter-revolutionary chorus
from every open and concealed foe of the prole-
tartan revolution is heard, encouraging the war
makers, giving them heart and hope in their threat
ening against the land of Socialism the fortress
of the world revolution