The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES :

Oll Flows In lrak
A Bit of Democracy"
China Loans
WHAT German Imperialism
w sowed in it's Berlin-to-
Bagdad scheme, British,
French, American and Dutch
oil magnates are now reaping..
The final piece of pipe in the
MosuI oil field line has been
laid in Irak to suit the needs Of
the conflicting powers. and the
black gold now flows as copiously
as the workers blood spilled on the
battlefield to achieve it for the
masters.
More than 20 years ago, the
Kaiser obtained lease on the fab
ulously rich oil fields in Mesopo-
tamia. After the war, those who
sent 100000 to their death to
fight for democracy" began to
squabble over the control of this
tangible bit Of democracy. Stand
ard Oil demanded its share and got
it. The main battle was between
the French and the British. The
french wanted the oil pipe line to
terminate at Tripoli, Syria. The
British insisted on Haifa, Jerusalem.
Each Of these powers had prepared
the road for the line beforehand,
The French with their bombing
planes had pacified the Syrian vii.
lagos by bombing the route of the
prospective oil line. The British,
with the assistance of the misled
zionists, had taught the Arabs A
lesson that pipe lines come before
the right Of the Arab peasant to
to his land.
m TOP of it all, to safeguard the
v oil fields and the pipe line for
British imperialism, his Majesty's
dlSlomatic service and air forces
have been active for Is years shack
ling Irak with treaty which makes
1t a dependency Of Great Britain,
dooting the whole country With sta
lions of the Imperial Aid Force.
Irak is now entirely patrolled by
British bombers.
The opening of the pipe line means
a concentration of greater imperial
list forces in this vital spot of the
Near East, forecasting more inten-
sive drives against the Arab,
Egyptian, Syrian, Turkish and other
Near Eastern people. Then, too,
Irak has always been looked upon
by the British military experts as
an admirable air war base for at
tack on the Soviet southeast.
SIxTH-MONTH bitterly fought
a trade conference between the
japanese and Dutch at Bavaria,
Dutch East Indies has come to an
end. The Dutch, fearing the flood
ing of the D. E. I. with Japanese
products called halt. The jap
aneSe threatened reprisals against
Indies sugar. Hot words passed
back and forth. At one time a
japanese naval fleet demonstrated
In the D. E. 1. waters. Now the jap
anese representatives have sailed
back to Toxic without arriving at
any agreement. just another small
but potent war spot in the Far East.
WALL STREET has been unusually
=" active in the Chinese invest
ment market lately, seeking for vast
outlets, at huge rates of profits, for
It's great stores of capital gathering
moss in Morgan g. Co. vaults.
The All-America Trade Council,
which is cooperating with the
Sino-American Trade Council at
Shanghai, has decided to send a
mission to study trade and invest
nent conditions in China.
The Canton government is nego-
tiating with American capitalists
for the construction of an iron
foundry in the locality of Juichi to
cost 100000 yuan, or about
$S5, 100000. The news comes from
Hongkong via the special CORE
spondent of the Osaka Mainichi.
General Chen Chi Tangs agents
approached representatives of the
U. S. Steel Corporation and got
their approval of the scheme. Now
Canton is comforting with Nan
king. 1T is reliably learned that
the Marking government has agreed
to the plan with certain reserva-
TONS says the same correspondent.
Marking itself, through its ex-
finance minister, T. v. Soong. of
the famous Soong dynasty, who,
through its great banking house
I and its women (the wives of Chang
! Kai-shek and other leading min
isters), actually rules China. has
approached the Roosevelt govern
ment for loan.
Marking says it wants to estab-
lish an automobile assembling plant
in China, in cooperation with
American capitalists, and asks the
sum of 100000.
HAVING learned from the Com
Al munist Party of Germany how
to organize ana circulate its revolu-
tionary press, the Communist Party
OF Spain has shown remarkable
speed in flooding the country with
a mass of literature. Almost the
day after the armed battles of Oc-
tober were ended, the revolutionary
press began to circulate. Since
then, the Daily Worker has received
scores Of copies of the Communist
publications. A reproduction Of
some of them appears on another
page today