The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01


Not one word
Harry Cannes of the news
from the Far
East can be read without remem-
bering what the Communist Inter.
national said at its 18th Plenum:
"The growing uncertainty Of
the bourgeOisie as TO the possibil-
ity of finding a way out of the
crisis only by the intensified ex-
ploitation Of the tOilers of their
own countries, has led the inn
perialists to put their main stake
on war. The international situa-
ton bears all the features of the
eve of a new world war"
The latest news from London
Tokyo and Washington add little
more light to the recent japanese
declaration that the rape of China
is its exclusive function. President
Roosevelt has been intensivel,
studying the problem of war ano
plumber as means of propelling
American capitalism out of it
crisis. In preparation, he has sane.
toned the arming of the butcher
Chang Kai-shek against the Chi
nese Soviets, making sure at the
same time that Wall Street military
bases were established throughout
China for an armed conflict with
Japan.
Increasing the power of the trusts
at home through the N.R.A., plum
dering the Anne rican workers,
Roosevelt has his eye on foreign
markets. At every turn he meets
japanese and British capitalism
bent on the same object.
DEHIND the diplomatic notes is
u the brutal drive Of the imperial
ist bandits for a redivision of the
colonies, markets and spheres OF
plumber.
"An aggressive, driving program
Of economic expansion is set under
way by Japan just at a time when
the United States is preparing tc
enter strongly into foreign competi-
tion,' declares the United States
News, a spokesman for the Rcose-
velt government.
A special report made to Roosc.
welt shows that Japan is making
great Roadway in Latin American !
markets. They are occurring in
field that this country hoped tc
win," complains the United States
News.
CIR JOHN SIMON, foreign min
y lister, speaking before the House
of Commons yesterday, somewhat
Illuminated the position of British
imperialism, regarding the latest
Japanese manifesto. Simon said
that Britain considered the incident
closed. In other words, the efforts
of American imperialism to arrive /,
at joint action with Britain against
the japanese policy breaks on the
rocks of Anglo-American conflicts i
Sir John Simon referred to Jap.
ans special rights in China, recog.
nized by the powers and not shared
by them" This, said the United
Press, mystified Far Eastern experts
who hold that the Nine-P Power
Treaty banned such exclusive rights.
The Nine-Power Treaty resulted
from the Washington Naval Con.
ference of 1922, when Wall
Street, militarily and economically
strengthened by its plumber in the
World War, was able to rupture the
then existing Anglo-J Japanese al
lance. The treaty opened the dooI
for plumber to all imperialist powers
but gave Wall Street an edge which
later events quickly blunted.
There is now a shifting of wal
alliances. All of the powers are dis
membering China. Japan has seized
Manchuria. Britain is driving into
Tibet and Szechuan provinces, in
Hong Kong to Hankow; French i'm
perialism is making rapid inroada
into Yunnan province, and Ameri-
can imperialism, through its all
forces is concentrating on the ter
ritory under the thumb of the Nam
king government, and in Fukien
province, near the British preserves
Nor can one overlook the Bit
ter conflict between Britain and the
United States in Latin America
over debts, world financial domina-
ton, and the new tariff war;
Sir John Simon's declarations are
not mystifying when these facts are
borne in mind.
While the imperialist conflicts
bubble over like volcano, ready
to burst, the greatest efforts are
made to direct the flow of the dead
ly war lava towards the Soviet
Union. For an example of this, we
have the article of Yosuke Matsu.f
Okla, Japanese diplomat, widely pub
lished in the American press. Mat
suoka points out to the imperialism
that the plumber of the world OF
| the rediviSion of colonies is an I'm.
| safe venture for any of the imper
ialists without first destroying then
common enemy, the Soviet Unior
and the Chinese Soyiets. At the
same time, Hitler refuses to sign the
Baltic states non-aggression pact
clearly showing the rapidly advanc.
ing war alliances against the Sovie,
Union in the East and the West.
Imperialist war is on the order
of the day, and only the revolu-
tionary action of the working
class can stop it. Only united
front of all workers against the
whole war policy of the Roose-
welt regime. against the N.R.A.
and its low wages, against the
huge war budget, and for unem.
ployment insurance, can stop
| Wall Strelst from plunging the
American toiling masses into
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