November 27, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Shanghai Fall Shows Letters from Our headers, Urgent Need of Mass Action To To Stop Japan arms an. An Open Letter to the strength of a letter written Norman Thomas to Lipsig by James Brewer, Stalinist Liberal. Really BrowComrade Bennem, of Roch der could not have done a better ester, has sent to us for publijob.
cation, the following letter ad: Just to mention a few of the dressed to Norman Thomas.
acts of the New Old Guard. Ed.
At the Chicago Convention you By Li Fu jen ROCHESTER, assumed an arrogant attitude nearly equal to that of Neal November 15th, 1937 Nearly five months have elapsed since Japanese imperialism embarked on the Mr. Norman Thomas, and Lee at Buffalo, using threats. If you do not do as say, current phase of its military campaign to subjugate China and convert it into a 206 18th St.
Chairman Socialist Party will not be your leader. Autocolony of Japan. Assembling a mighty war machine, Japan has driven forward re City cratic mass expulsions of the oplentlessly to establish its control over the northern provinces of China and the vital position, without hearing. RevoDear Norman: cations of State charters, arresta area of the Yangtze. The oppressed Chinese masses have received innumerable fresh am writting you this open members, holding op of ap.
of officers, expulsions of lessons in imperialist frightletter, addressed to the Socialist fulness. Death and devasta demonstrated that a backward being united against the invaders, Appeal and the Socialist Call, plications, gerrymandering of tion on a fearful scale have country, with a feeble industry, there are already evidences that sincerely hope the call will see members and falsifications of. accompanied the Japanese cannot long prevail in a purely looked upon as lost and that the be necessary to give it to the trol the Convention poor in modern heavy armament, the struggle is beginning to be fit to print it, otherwise it will stamps records in order to concampaign to imbue the vic military defensive war against lack of any hopeful perspective Rochester Press and the Partiality toward such groups tims with Japan friendly a more powerful adversary. Re is engendering opposition to Times in order to set the public 15 Wisconsin, misuse of the parintentions.
volutionists have always contend further sacrifices. We learned, right on the misinformation bety press by presenting your faced, and the experiences of the for example, that the Chinese ing given out to them by the factional side and suppressing that In the path of the Japanese in Russian Revolution proved, that Dare to Die battalions who tion with which you are allied. of the opposition, printing innervaders, the Kuomintang govern the weaker side can make good fought rear guard actions in feel sure the public press will party affairs in the Capitalist ment of Chiang Kat shek has the technical deficiencies of its Nantao to cover the retreat of be glad publish it, in as much Press. Is this aiding Socialism strewn soldiers by the hundreds defense only by the development the Chinese army from Shanghai as it has been suppressed by our or feeding fuel to the fires of of thousands. On the North China of an all sided political campaign, were met by hostile Chinese de own party organ.
Fascism and Stalinism? Personfronts these troops have proved having immediate object monstrators at gates the Please understand am writ nal names are soon forgotten by totally incapable of even holding the disruption of the enemy forces. French Concession when they ing this letter, not with bitter the public, but the thoughts of up Japanese advance. Pro The Bolsheviks, pitting them turned over their disagreement and autocracy in and ness nor a feeling of revenge, vincial soldiery, ill trained and selves against the interventionist abandoned their two day struggle. but with a feeling of deep disap the Socialist Party remain. Oppoorly armed, proved no match forces, not of single imperial. The demonstrators, residents of pointment and amazement to position to the publishing of the foi Japan mechanized war ist power but of all the leading Nantao, had watched their homes think that persons who have Appeal, after failure to comply machine. After brief and sanguin. imperialist powers, were probably and possessions go up in smoke been known to the nation as So with convention orders in the inner party ary encounter, they usually fled no better supplied with arma and splinters as Japanese air cialists, and claim they are work publishing in disorder before the advancing ments than China is today. But planes bombed the positions taken ing for World Socialism will organ. Remember, Local Rochhosts of Japanese imperialism. the Bolsheviks knew how ap up by the Dare to Die men. If carry their inner party differ ester helped you to launch the Today the Japanese armies are peal to the class sentiments of you had withdrawn with the ences to the non Socialist public illegal Call. in possession of all Hopei pio the soldiers in the armies of their others, they were heard to say, in a red baiting and disgraceful Imitating Old Guard vince, all Chahar, most of Suic opponents. Revolutionary propa this disaster would have been manner instead of being sufficiyuan, a large part of Shansi, and ganda so weakened the interven pared us.
ently loyal to the most noble Methods a portion of Shantung. Military tionist forces that they could no movement in the world, if not to conquest of the latter province longer be relied upon to fight and Treachery And Where the Old Guard went to the party, to settle those differhas been delayed by the Japanese had to be withdrawn.
ences within the party in an hon Abe Cahan for financial assishope that they may be able to Corruption orable manner.
tance, you went to Valenti and backward, ill armed country buy over the provincial govern must pit against outside Communist sympathizers. well armed or, Gen. Han Fu chu, and thus enemy the superiority of its cause Shanghai hostilities, when such At the commencement of the Reorganizer Finds or rather you brought them to avoid a costly military campaign. La cause which must serve as Branch Solid your house. Where the dubbed you Communist, you use Shanghai Falls, Too the basis for rallying the entire a move was still entirely possible, nation for defense, a cause which, Chiang failed to block the WhangAt last Friday meeting, Hans the cry of Trotskyites, by reason of its essential right poo River at its mouth. Such an Esters, who who had been in and Sectarians. You vielated At Shanghai, the Chinese reness and progressiveness, will act would have bottled up the town for several days interview party democracy; the Labor Par sistance to the invaders has been sustain the national morale, ins. Japanese naval units already at ing party members. and enjoy ty, the People Front, the Trade imately three months Chinese sacrifice, solidarity and unbound city. But it would also have in a long lost friend. He informed of the Spanish Workers. Read the masses to that self. further ships from reaching the ot Trotskyites. greeted me like tions. You defended the butchers Chiang Kai shek own armies has demonstrated over and over terfered, with the shipping of me he had been sent to perform the articles of Sam Baron. You prevented them from gaining a which would evoke actions of in protests from London, Washing removal of our charter and the peal Group told you this was gostrong foothold on the Shanghai ternational solidarity in the ene ton and other capitals. And since reorganization of local, but ing on, and by the way, no peninsula.
Trained by German ny country. TrotskyKuomintang government that he believed a new local was that Baron is military specialists, better armchose to repose its main hopes out of the question as every one ite style, aren you just ed than the provincial forces, Heads For Defeat in intervention by Japan rivals, he had contacted was solidly be a little afraid using that term de they fought with unmatched hethe river was left open to the hind the Appeal. told him loosely might act as a boomerroism and at tremendous sacrifice Five months of the Far East free movement of the Japanese fine. that as long as things ang?
to hold their defense lines. Butern conflict have shown, however, were that way and we were both You cry Sectarian. You told at Shanghai, too, the technical that the Kuomintang government working for Socialism, hoped me in 1986 your best meetings superiority of the Japanese forces, is totally incapable of conducting Truth Must Be Told he would go his way and would were in Rochester, Minneapoli go mine with Local Rochester in and Lynn, not rich in such telling armament as the war in this manner.
in Milwaukee, It is airplanes, tanks, armored cars, heading China cause to defeat.
There are those who will say the building for Socialism, that Buffalo, Boston or any of the heavy artillery not to speak of Revolutionists cannot be surpris that we are painting the situa any newspaper scandal would be ever come into Rochester in the warships which were able, un ed at Chiang Kai shek inability tion in too dark colors. Revolu harmful to the movement.
He was courteously granted have all the meetings you could last years when did not lines from the Whangpoo River to appeal to the revolutionary tionists, however, must never sentiments of the oppressed fear to face unpleasant truths. Hal Siegel a few weeks previous, why do we have in my files letthe floor several times as was cover, and if we are sectarian, had finally to prevail. Japanese soldiers, the vast majorFrom Shanghai, on November ity of whom are drawn from the Once again it must be said that the roll was called and with the ters from the four last state Sec national independence exception of Warren Atkinson, retaries and from Paul Porter 8, the Chinese commenced re poorest layers of Japan peasant China ry, any more than they were sur can be gained only by wresting (You may recall that his sym. and Clarence Senier commending treat many miles west of the prised at the inability of the the conduct of the struggle from pathies were with the old Guard Local Rochester on the good work city to fresh and supposedly Spanish bourgeois government the hands of the Kuomintang and in the last split. until through accomplished? We are the wely stronger defense positions desig bourgeois government can hardly the Stalinists, who can organize my insistance he attended the functioning upstate local today.
nated by Chiang Kai shek as issue revolutionary appeals. only defeats. The struggle against Buffalo meeting) and How about all the new locals China Hindenburg line. Latest imperialism must be combined aged James Oaks, every one prespress dispatchs indicate, however, traordinary in the fact that the of the exploited Chinese masses the Appeal Group. Comrade NieNeither is there anything ex with the emancipatory struggle fent voiced their solidarity with organized by the left wingers in Minnesota and California at several vital points. The city Kuomintang regime, through five against the bourgeoisie, against meyer moved that we not recogWho Wants the Split?
of Soochow, key point of the line, months of warfare against a the landlords, against the Kuo nize the authority of the State We all deplore the idea of was apparently surrendered to powerful foe, has kept the Chin mintang, against the Stalinists. committee until after the Chisplits. You will recall was the the Japanese without a shot being ese masses immobilized and has While participating in and sup cago. Convention next month.
fred in its defense. It is clear clamped down on any suggestion struggle against Japan, the resions and none of us have re of the leadership for a special present military Nothing was said about expul first to appeal to you and others that the retreat from Shanghai that the population be armed and volutionists will tirelessly expose ceived any notice of charges or Convention to settle the latter is in danger of developing into drawn into country wide guerilla all acts of treachery. In this way expulsions.
ences then arising. Instead of rout. The Japanese forces are warfare against the Japanese sweeping forward several en invaders. The Chinese bourgeoisie the masses, build a revolutionary looking at the morning paper tempting to get the different they will earn the confidence of Imagine my surprise when your sanctioning this idea or atcircling fronts towards Nanking, and its government feat the capital, from which the ed masses more than they do the party, and lead the masses to find that Brown, Jacobs. who is factions together, you ignored Kuomintang government has fled Japanese imperialists.
the conquest of power. Only a a member of Local Minneapolis) the flood of requests of the precipitately to remote points up revolutionary government of the and myself are expelled as Trot Locals throughout the country the Yangtze River.
With defeat piling on defeat. Chinese proletariat, leading bet skyites. plus a lot more scandal for a referendum on this and it is no wonder that the morale hind it the millions of exploited written up by a former Hearst other things and aligned yourself Several important conclusions of the population is wilting. Des and oppressed in city and country, reporter, quoting James Lipsig. with the reformist taction.
can be drawn from these developite the irresponsible chatter of will be able to conduct a war to On top of this find we have Yours Truly.
pments. It has been once more the Daily Worker about all China the finish against imperialism. been labeled as red baiters on BENNEM. navy.