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at Shanghi in 1932 provided for in North China! Moreover, there quite well that Nanking is playthe demilitarization of a 12 mile is nothing to show that Japan ing Japan game by restricting preserve the unity and fortitude zone around Shanghai. Japan has has embarked or ever intended the Chinese defense to military of our armies. Our people refuse made it clear that at the conclu to embark on any such suicidal action by professional armies and That the Scottsboro defense to make peace on any terms, but sion of the latest undeclared war venture as the attempted con preventing that enlargement of made a deal with the prosecuwill continue fighting until the Chinese troops are to be excluded quest of all China by a single, the campaign by which alone tion, involving cessation of all atenemy is compelled to realize the from a zone of much wider radius. continuous military campaign. victory can be assured.
tempts to release four of the futility of attempting such a Practically all of the Hongkew, Japan policy has been, and recolossa task as the conquest of Yangtzepoo and Chapei districts mains, the gradual carving of a Britain, Tied prisoners, was the assertion made by Judge Callahan in reChina and the subjugation of the which form northeastern Shanghai continental empire from the live Chinese people.
are now held by Japan forces ing body Asia, theory of Nanking acceptance of Wash fusing new trials to three defenRecord of Surrender and it is not unlikely that these the Japanese imperialists being ington proposal to settle Sino dants on August 28. hard and fast agreement will become a Japanese conces that each suctessive territorial Japanese issues peacably on the both made in July provided release of The strategic motive advanced Chahar, inevitably to be followed and ultimately will make impos Tapanese and Chinese troops from four men and waiving capital as justification for the Chinese by seizure of the Inner Mongolian sible, any serious resistance. Yet for The Shanghai area, coinciding with punishment others further appeals of some weight it it had not come provinces of Suiyuan and Ningh it is precisely on the theory that Nanking announcement of the and sia, will provide Japan with an Japan is now trying, at one fell conclusion of a non aggression the ninety. nine year senfrom the Nanking government, which has a record for miserable important flanking base for futu swoop, as it were, to subjugate pact with Moscow, and Chiang tences of Heywood Patterson rding to the Mongolian all China, that Nanking predi Kai shek appeal for imperial and Charlie Weems, capitulation before Japanese im. People Republic and, ultimately, cates its policy of long time, ist intervention perialism stretching back over a Soviet Siberis.
against the judge. This is the first of long distance resistance, in other Japan is fresh indica ficial disclosure that such a deal period of six years to the JapaNanking resistance nese seizure of Mukden on SepJapan latest empire push is attrition! Here we have the lack of confidence in its ability to words, long drawn out war of tion of the Chinese bourgeoisie was made.
When Samuel Liebowite, chiet tember 18, 1981. When the armies calculated, not as serious war unmistakable formula of capitala Japanese imperialists. In line Powell to plead guilty to that defense attorney, advised Ozie of Japanese imperialism for the preservation or assertion tien completing their conquest of Manchuria (quite a sizeable ter the minimum necessary to retain of China independence, but as Nanking not Serious years, it naively hopes for inter Powell was sentenced by Judge ritorial dent. Nanking an the leadership of the Chinese vention by Japan imperialist Callahan to serve twenty years, nounced a policy of long time bourgeoisie, to stall oft mass op Viewing from afar the struggle rivals, by Soviet Russia, or both. and the prosecution immediately resistance but did not lift position to the treachery of the now being waged in China one But Washington, pending comple thereafter quashed the four refinger to defend the vast north uomintang regime, and to justify cannot help being struck by the tion of its armament program, is (maining indictments. It looked eastern territory.
struck at Shanghai in the opening imperialism to the end that a forces. Backward China faces with Japan, while Britain, despite had been maltreated by a deputy weeks of. 1932, the Nanking new deal may be struck with imperialist Japan. But even more the shooting up of its Ambassador sheriff and, provoked unbearably, government fled in indecent haste Japan at. propitious moment. striking is the fact that the by Japanese machine gunners, is had defended himself with a to Loyang, capital of Honan pro The mood of surrender has ani fighting in China is taking place too preoccupied with preserving knife; at the time the Scottsboro of a staged its domination in the Mediterra Defense Committee had promised fury of Japanese artillery and mated Nanking from the very after the fashion outset of the hostilities, which drama, with the vast Chinese nean to challange Japan latest to defend him uncompromisingly; bombing planes. The theory of began in North China and only populace long time resistance was twist Der nextended to Shanghai. It is tors moreover, who are not in government, counter revolution him spectators specta onslaughts in China. The Stalin but when Liebowitz abandoned Alabama justice the ed into the theory of long underlined by the declaration of frequentely drawn into the role ary to the core, will never aid Scottsboro committee gave Liebdistance resistance with the the Nanking spokesman, in par of passive victims of the contend China in her struggle for national owitz a clean bill of health, orfight Japan even if it had to re ticular the statement that Japan ers.
Here we get the measure of liberation unless such aid should ganizing a monster mass meetin the happen to coincide with inte ing at which he was chief speaktreat to Kansu and Shensi in outº her lines for a costly and conduct of the war. If Nanking, rests of the Soviet bureaucracy. ery order to do it! The heroic resis possibly disastrous campaign in governing a country militarily Moscow conclusion of a nonMorris Shapiro, secretary of and tance of the 19th Route Army to land. government seriously superior to imperialist. Japan aggression pact with Nanking is the Scottsboro committee the Japanese invaders at Shanghai bent on defense would never dis only in the sheer weight of its merely a diplomatic move de Norman Thomas representative was spiked by Nanking from the close its strategy to the enemy vast population, intended serious signed to hinder bourgeois China on it, published an article in The rear and ended in tragic defeat. Intended to deceive? But it coin to fight for China liberation from becoming the ally of impeNation admitting that LiebShanghai was demilitarized.
owitz had made deal with cides with the actual retreat trom imperialism, it would ex. rialist Japan in a future the prosecution whereby three Resistance of Chinese troops from the tend the struggle to all possible against Soviet Russia.
It becomes ever Shanghai area and the weakening fronts and systematically draw clearer that defendants would plead guilty to In February, 1933 Nanking of Chinese opposition to Japan the civilian masses into the battle, only a revolutionary government simple assault but claimed that long time, long distance resistanArming the for the of the Chinese proletariat, sup Judge Callahan had refused to ce policy, which meant leaving struggle, it would answer the ported by the poor peasants and sanction the agreement. Shapiro thousands of poorly farmed, illattacks of Japanese imperialism all the oppressed, and assisted by flat acceptance of the original fed and unclothed masses of not only by military measures, the international working class, agreement method of deprovincial soldiers in the path of but by severance of diplomatic can win China freedom from fense which violates the most the Japanese advance, enabled Front relations with Tokyo, following imperialist rape and domination. elementary principles of class Japanese imperialism to add this up by decrees confiscating Unless the exploited Chinese struggle defense policy, gives Jehol to the empire it had seized wall Japanese concessions, banks, masses, rallying to the demand credence to Judge Callahan in Manchuria. Despite topogra France Peoples Front Govern factories, real estate and other for arms to repulse the imperial present assertion.
phical factors which added to the ment last week decreed higher properties in China in word, by ist invaders, succeed in intervenSoon after the mass meeting difficulties of the attackers, prices for wheat and bread, the a real defensive and offensive ing in the present struggle, Japan at which Liebowitz revealed deJapan armies conquered thereby increasing the cost of liv war. Measures such as these will emerge from the war with tails of the first deal, persons active in early phases of the province in a campaign which ing of the masses. countless others could be sug new territorial conquests.
lasted barely eight days. The With price control vested in gested) would evoke tremendous case called upon the Scottsboro Jehol campaign was followed in the government, the cost of bread mass enthusiasm and call forth Defense Committee to comment May of the same year by the has always been an important international proletarian solidupon Liebowitz handling of the case and to indicate the comJapanese seizure of the Luan political issue since, even more arity for China cause. strugRiver region in Hopei province. than in America, bread is the gle along the lines indicated, mittee future stand. The ComThe sporadic fighting in that area basic workers food. The Social with all available forces brought mittee remained silent, but was for concluded by the ist and Communist parties have into action, would almost certainly Tangku Truce, signed May 9, the traditionally fought against rais spell defeat for the imperialists (Continued from page 1)
appeal the case of Norris, Weems full terms of which have never ing the price.
of Dai Nippon.
and Andy Wright. No appeal apconditional reinstatement of the pears to have been filed yet on been disclosed to this day. This The present raise, however, is truce resulted in the demilita made by a cabinet in which cocked for a compromise with comrades, the repudiation of the Since he pleaded guilty under But Nanking, keeping one eye expelled branches and indivdual behalf of Heywood Patterson.
rization of 24 districts, comp. Socialists sit, and under blanket Japan, has carefully refrained illegal Altman Central Commit Liebowitz rising a region of roughly 1, 500 emergency powers voted to the from taking any of those irrevoc tee, and the immediate convoca Powell has no further legal roinstruction. Ozie square miles, in the region of government by the Chamber able measures which a state of tion of city convention on course.
the Great Wall. Japanese impe Deputies on June 30, with the war demands and which pose fair, democratic, and proportional rialism continued to press for Communist Party deputics voting inescapably the alternatives of basis.
The labor movement will not ward and in June, 1935 engineered for these powers.
either complete victory or defeat be satisfied with a flat denial We call upon all Party bodies of Judge Callahan assertion. It the Ho Umetsu Agreement where The dominating figure in the with no middle course of. com and all Party members to soli is time to take the lid off the by al Nanking government troops cabinet, Minister of Finance and promise. left open. Nanking darize themselves with us and Scottsboro case and let us have were to be excluded from Hopei National Economy, George Bon fears the Chinese masses more with our action, and to join with the truth and the whole truth.
province. Although Ho Ying. net, has embarked on a bold than it does the hosts of imperial us in our determination to carry Norman Thomas is directly inching, the Chinese signatory, was reactionary program to wipe out Japan. With latter comMinister of War in the Nanking all benefits gained by the workers promise is always possible; the ing in this country a revolution National Executive of the Socialthrough the great task of build volved, and through him the government and Nanking offi from the Forty Hour Week Law. Chinese masses might want to go ary socialist party.
cial deputy in North China, Thirteen employer employee too far. and confiscate all its Party. Did they approve the Nanking declared it did not re committees established The Conference adopted a se original deal? What do they by him bourgeois property, foreign and cognizo the agreement but let are scheduled to report to the native. Tokyo has been equally ries of organizational proposals know about the July deal? The it go at that. Ho was not repu forthcoming parliamentary ses. careful to avoid a formal war to be executed by the provisonal party membership has a right to nor excluded from the sions program of speed up in declaration. The Japanese impe mong them, registration of memA know.
government.
uncontested the factories.
Japanese seizure of Manchuria. What Bonnet is setting out of the advantages of andeclared bership and reorganization of Socialist Appeal as its official the surrender the miserable, defense of Jehol, spirit and temper of the worker mal war declaration would give union and unemployed comrades campaign for subscriptions. Each to organize Socialist leagues, member must be a subscriber to agreements all these shorter hours and paid holidays, in kind. In a real war, with the city and local mass meetings on the Appeal. In addition each paved the way for Japan latest of which he has been taking tuli entire Chinese nation mobilized Spain, Moscow Trials, and the member is to get at least one military campaign in North China advantage, cannot be maintained for the struggle, Nanking would Committee was also instructed to one month.
within and at Shanghai.
unless he puts all his strength be risking its own existence, but work out plans for an indepenThe agreement which brought into his job while he is working. defeat for Japan would be pract det Socialist mayoralty campaign is to be Local New York, SocialThe name of the organization to a format close the hostilities (New York Times, August 29). ically certain. Tokyo understands The Conference endorsed the list Party (Left Wing Branches. masses French Peoples Meeting The of Umetsu