Montana labor news., 1938-12-08
'AMERI(AI IN The 5IN0.
JAPANESE WAR
(Radio Broadcast of Oliver Haskell,
National Director of China Aid
Council, over Station KGIR,
Nov. rs. 1881

tram tull OF japanese soldiers was
rafting down the tracks in the
Chinese province of Shansi. All
lights were out so that Chinese
guerilla fighters would have no tar
get to shoot at. Suddenly there was
a crash as the engine ran off the
tracks and the first three ears over-
turned. simultaneously machine
guns began to sputter on both sides
and another regiment of the "Son of
Heavens troops was no more.
But this time when reinforce
ments arrived with a repair train
they found no tracks left to repair.
The Chinese had walked away with
almost a mile of track. 1t has come
to the point where the japanese
army must bring its own tracks with
it if it wants to use the railroads.
This is just one example of the
very effective resistance that is
going on behind the lines of the in
vaders and of the trouble the Japa-
nese are having in hanging onto the
territory they have supposedly occu-
pied. Let no one claim that the war
is over in China. True, the Japa-
nese have been winning most of the
battles, but they are rapidly losing
the war. They r. spending more
than S million dollars a day and have
had more than 100000 killed and
wounded in trying to conquer about
one-tenth of China. At this rate it
would take ten years and 100000
casualties for them to conquer the
rest of the country. And that is a
much higher price than Japan can
possibly afford to pay.
American War Materials Kill
Chinese
AS a matter of a fact our military
experts claim Japan is in such a
weak position that the war would
end in three months if-and this is
an important "if'-if the U. S. would
refuse to supply Japan with any
more war materials. Few of us in
America realize that we are supply
ing Japan with 54.4 per cent of all
the materials which they are using
in their attempt to enslave the Chi
nese people. We have put wheels
under the Japanese army by supply
ing trucks and cars which they
couldn't buy from any other country,
We have made possible the destruc-
ton of cities and villages from the
air by supplying the gasoline fol
the japanese air force. AS a matter
of fact, when a Japanese plane flies
over a Chinese village and drops it'
cargo of death and destruction, the
only thing in the plane that coulc
be labeled Made in Japan" is The
aviator. The plane, the bombs anc
the fuel come from other countries
and mostly from the U. S.
American People Favor Chinese
Public opinion polls have showr
that the people of our country are
almost 100 per cent in sympathy
, with China's struggle to maintain The
freedom of her country from foreign
oppression. We have great com
, mercial interests in China which arr
( being destroyed by the japanese
} China is the greatest potential mar
f ket in the world because one-fiftl
of the earth's population, twenty on
of every hundred people in thu
a world, live within the borders 0
China. And yet Americans are arm
ing Japan and making it possible TO
America to be frozen out of thi
great market.
And the situation is even NOR,
, ridiculous than that. Americans ar
arming Japan, and then we lool
/, across the ocean and say, Look
a Japan has a tremendous army AM
I navy, America is in danger. w
must work fast to build up u arm,
and navy to meet this menace"
Y Cooperate to Stop War
Fortunately we live in a demo
s cracy, and we common people hav
. a lot to say about how we want GU
{ country to be run. It is up to u
: to let our congressman and senator
know that we don't want to b
. partners in Japan's aggressio
AGAINST our friendly Chinese nation
olive should let them know that W
want real peace legislation that wi
keep America out of war in the onl
sure way, by keeping war out {
the world. That we want legislatio
which will not make us partners i
aggression, as present neutralit
It act has done, but will make it POI
sible, rather, for America to CO
operate with the other peacefl
" peoples of the world in p%reventin
acts of aggression.
,o Japan's Horrors in China
III It is hard to imagine, or even
lie believe what a terrible thing moder
h warfare has become. I have hear
sc missionaries tell with tears of tt
sr horrors they have witnessed durir
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