Man SOCIALIST APPEAL September 25, 1937 Save Business in China, IsC. Appeal New Masses Ask Roosevelt to Yes, Yes, But What About His Friends?
Intervenefor American Capital NEW MASSES Hugo Black A Man with the Right Kind of Enemies the gap between promise and By Li Fu jen chievement (it has warned Japan, ROBERT FORSYTHE ARCHIBALD MacLEISH To meet the situation created you see, but has never really by Japan assault, a revolution themselves are keenly aware of acted. The Japanese ary workers party would place in the demonstrations of proletarian our unsatisfactory role solidarity with the Chinese work Far East and they are counting ers and peasants, and efforts to upon it to continue. The Rooseorganize workers sanctions velt administration, however, is AUGUST 24 1937 FIFTEEN CENTS against the robber imperialists, probably faced with a choice far graver than that confronted by at the center of its activity, previous administrations. The The Stalinists, however, paly only lip service to revolutionary question arises: how much longer is it possible to postpone concprinciples. Actually they have emerged as the social patriotic rete action to restore peace and China sovereignty in the Far defenders of American imperialist East?
interests in China and they appeal to the Washington governPoisoned Pill ment in thinly veiled terms to defend those interests against The references to peace and Japan in concert with other China sovereignty are the peace loving imperialist powers. sugar coating for the poisoned In some cases, as we shall show, pill of social patriotism. The the appeal for war is not even traitors of the Second Internaformatly based on defense of the tional employed in 1914 such Chinese masses against the Ja phrases as freedom and demopanese imperialists, but upon the cracy and defense of the fatherpreservation of Wall Street profits land. The Stalinists know full and investments. Indeed, the well, however, that American Roosevelt government has not imperialism cannot be driven to voiced anything like the concern fight a war to preserve peace over American interests in the and China sovereignty. They Far East that the Stalinists ex must prod Washington with more Listen to press. As always, the flunkey is telling arguments.
more vociferous than the master. Draper. It is good business for the Collective Security United States to keep China The Daily Worker, as the of vast but undeveloped resources ficial mouthpiece of the Stalin out of Japanese control, despite ists, still finds it necessary to the short eighted attitude, from nse rather guarded language in the viewpoint of their own selfexpounding its betrayal of the interest, of some big business principles of revolutionary inter men in this country.
nationalism. Its editorial com Secondly, China remains the ments on the Sino Japanese war greatest potential market and consist in the main of vague source of capital investment in mumblings about the necessity for the world. Our present stake in applying a system of collective China is but a tiny fraction of security in the Pacific.
our potential stake in a unified It has been left to such unof and revivified China. Political ficial organs as the New Masses friendship would be a first rate and China Today to unfold the business asset.
full social patriotic line in all its Flunkeys in Line vulgar splendor. This is part of the Stalinist system of double China as a business asset to bookkeeping. Should need arise, American imperialism! The Chithese journals can always be nese workers as fit subjects for pudiated.
exploitation by the money bags of Wall Street! Surely enough, Jingoes At Work American imperialism is girding Reprinted withont permission from the cover page of the New Masses of August 24, 1937.
In a featured article by Theo the march to its goal of world dore Draper on September 14, domination. The Stalinist flunkeys the New Masses devotes two full of imperailism have fallen into Japan, also makes groveling ap Stalinists (as we do not) is puttNew York Workers: pages to the most blatant pro line even before the first bugle peals for imperialist intervention. ing up a fight to finish paganda for imperialist war that has sounded the call to arms. Wang Cheng hui, Nanking against Japanese imperialism!
Attention!
has ever disgraced a journal pre The magazine China Today, published in the New York Times foreign minister, in an interview All In Together tending to serve the interests of which describes itself as an organ September 18, emphasized China the exploited and oppressed. The of the Friends of the Chinese regret over the American isola Kuomintang government, united front the bourgeoisRegistration of voters for the writer, well known the New York elections will be held member, copies the style and patroitie poison. In the September tionist attitude toward the Chino peace loving imperialists, and the week of October 4th. If you ideas of such bourgeois comment issue, Howell calls for an the Stalinists! It remains only do not register you cannot voto ators on Far Eastern affairs as all in. imperialist war against Real Intervention for the workers to recognize the Nathaniel Peffer, notorious as an Japan. Like Draper (perhaps fact of this united front and its in the elections. Be sure to regis advocate of war by American they are one and the the same Marines went into action against of the workers and oppressed vote for the independent working Only four days earlier inevitable consequences betrayal ter so that you will be able to imperialism against Japan. We, says Draper (the we perialism to go to war with Japan striking Chinese flour mill work everywhere.
class candidates!
meaning Draper, the New Masses to protect its business interests erg at Shanghai, as a result of and the imperialist government in China and, also like Draper, suffering from the effects of tear which 25 were sent to hospital at Washington. have continually he wants the true aims camoufpostponed coming to grips with laged so that the support of the gas and scalp wounds. This inthe real issues. He is complain masses for the imperialist war bourgeois minister no more than Chinese ing that the robber barons of may be assured. Listen again: it did the Daily Worker, which Wall Street have allowed the The Fall Semester of the Marx Socialism and War Japanese imperialists to get away Plan to Deceive published the report without a ist School, organized by the Max Shachtman with too much in China and that single word in condemnation of Local of the Socialist Party Tuesday, 8:45 10:15 it is time to call a halt. Resistance to aggressors will the use of forces of American not be effective if it is limited imperialism for strike breaking (Left Wing) will open the week Recruiting Officer Draper to defense of lives and property, in China. The American Trade Unions of October 18th. There will be for the broadest support of the Movement.
Wang echoed recent Chinese five four week lecture courses The pronouns we and our peoples cannot be mobilized be arguments for intervention saying and a weekly Sunday open forum. Friday, 7:00 8:30 James Cannon.
waver just as they might be used imperialists themselves the Stal tic, not to mention moral, consiby any bourgeois writer. Not so insists have learned how neces derations demanded such a step. Elementary Marxism Registration fee will be sevenmuch 18 a hint is given that the sary it is to drug the masses with He professed his inability to de: Monday, 7:00 8:30 course or twenty five cents adJohn Wright.
Roosevelt government is a go false ideals and specious promises cide whether powers such as Great ty five cents in each lecturevernment of the bourgeoisie and in order to get them to fight the Britain and the United States that the workers must therefore dirty battles of their explooiters. were reconciled China and the Far East mission for each session.
to abandoning Rob Graves.
Decessarily be hostile to all its Meanwhile the bourgeois their trade, investments and int. Monday, 8:45 10:15 Party headquarters 116 UniverThe school will be held at th sims. Class lines are completely Kuomintang government of China, luence in China, which he said bliterated.
facing certain defeat in the would certainly result from a Political Currents in Amersity Place, where registration is The Roosevelt administration, military struggle because it fears Japanese victory. This from the ican Labor Movement. now open.
Hike its predecessors, Draper to arouse the masses and draw representative of a government Maurice Spector.
Watch the APPEAL for further continues, is stil hamstrung by them actively into the war against which, if we were to believe the Tuesday, 7:00 8:30 details.
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