4 SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL. Pittsburgh Congress for Peace Pittsburgh Congress for Peace Nanking sFallEnds And Democracy Prepares War First Phase of War army.
at than it is Voi. No. 16. Saturday, Dec. 11, 1937 Published every week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASSN.
Published at 110 University Place, Subscriptions: 00 per year; 00 for Roosevelt policy of quaran change the pro war significance tine the aggressor was embodied of the Congress. During the last months. Foreign: 50 per year, Bundle order in the program of the American war, the labor and socialist By Li Fu jen cents per copy. Single copies cents. League for Democracy and Peace forces were mobilized behind All checks and money orders should be made (formerly Against War and Wilson through the American With the capture of Nanking, China capital, by out to the Socialist Appeal.
Fascism. at its fourth congress Alliance for Labor and Democ Japan invading legions, the first phase of the Entered as second class matter September 1, held in Pittsburgh week end, racy. The declaration of prin Sino Japanese war is drawing to a close. Through 1987 at the post office at New York, New York, Last year the Congress a ciples of the American Alliance five months of struggle, the Kuomintang governunder the Act of March 3, 1879.
whole did not accept the concept (adopted at its first congressment and Chinese bourgeoisie have demonstrated, of aggressor and defender na September 7, 1917) clearly re not for the first time, their utter incapacity to tions but instead adopted the pa veals the plagiarism of our pre conduct with any degree of success the liberating Jobless Must Be Roused Into Action cifist proposal: To demand that sent day social patriots: neutrality legislation effectively As labor unionists, social re campaign for China national independence against imperialism. ewhere in this issue as well as in previous cover all war supplies, loans and formers, and Socialists we pledge issues of the Socialist Appeal. facts and figures credits, and permit no discretion our loyal support and service to Already there is talk that Chiang Kai shek, have been cited to picture the frightful plight of the of the President. Though even the United States Government having fled from Nanking, is about to go into American workers as the economic crisis deepens. then it contradicted its own pro and its allies the present con retirement. According to a Shanghai dispatch The ominous sweep of the lay off campaign is gram the Communist party voted flict. The American League as to the New York Times, a reorganized governsuch is not so frank. But wait. ment will assume the task of negotiating matched by the equally disastrous sky rocketing of Today Roosevelt has helped fill have patience. the cost of living.
the best peace terms available. The same message the breach. The Communist parLaid off workers met the onrush of the great ty program, now more than shadowing issue is the preserva been approached with this plan, and it is under We declare that one over relates that the Japanese authorities have already crisi of 1929 with a wave of militancy and struggle ever in harmony with the inter tion of democracy. We declare stood they suggested that General Ho Ying ching that will long be an inspiration for American labor ests of American imperialism, that the great war must be (Minister of War in the Nanking government)
and for the working class throughout the world. was adopted by the fourth con fought to a decisive result that succeed General Chiang Kai shek in control of the It w: precisely this vigorous determination of gress: until the cizemployed wage slaves to stand up and fight can be no hope of an honorable that forced the concessions upon that system of Adopts War peace, and that to compromise There can be no illusions as to the terms which inhưl anity called capitalism, resulting in the setProgram the issue is to sow the seed for the Japanese imperialists will impose. The Kuoting up of the federal relief and agencies. Demand a foreign policy bas bloodier and more ce more, and even more acutely than before, ed upon. A) Distinction betwen wars in the future devastating mintang government will be obliged to abandon the military struggle and put its signature to an the spectre of starvation hovers over working class aggressor and victims. B) Deny We strongly denounce the agreement which will make it a pliant tool in the hou: holt. No one will drive it off, this time as ing markets to the aggressors words and actions of those ene hands of Japan. There will be the first fruits of at a times, except the workers themselves, orga. C) Concerted action to quaran mies of the Republic who, falsely the war as it has been conducted hitherto by the nize in fighting demonstrations, rallied to solid tine the aggressor. Daily Work assuming to speak in the name Kuomintang and Stalinists under the banner of arit: by militant organizations.
er. Nov. 29, 1987. of labor and democracy are now the People Anti Japanese Front.
To Workers Alliance, completely in the strangle The differences between the ceaselessly striving to obstruct of a Stalinist leadership which is more con liberal pacifists and the Stalinists the operations of the govern New Phase Opening cerned in helping United States capitalism prepare lis indicated by the odd formula ment purposes. Browder has The surrender and capitulation of Chiang Kaiobtaining the most element in point eight of the program: already before the war! used Seek to remore restrictions stronger language. ght for its rank and file, has issued no call on access of the Chinese and shek and the Kuomintang, however, will not mean arsights for ction. This alleged organization the end of China struggle against imperialism.
emp sed ha organized no campaign and sent out Spanish governments to the pur. Beware of Repetition of a new phase is opening, in which the exploited 1917 Fraud no directives to to arouse the unemployed and the he same time remove the risk of masses of China, held passivity by the Kuominwords who are constantly being laid off to plan. becoming involved in war. Our In the preparations for the tang and the Stalinists, will march to the front ned. concerte national demonstrations of struggle mphasis. new war not only do the arma: reads indicate the opening of guerrilla warfare of the war stage. Reports from North China alsuch as the seriousness of the situation requires.
What does this platonic reser ment programs outstrip the last leads Instead, the Stalinist leaders of the Alliance are vation mean? All supporters of pre war period but the social pa over a widespread area. This movement will grow dilly lallyink with the so called progressive the Spanish and Chinese people triqtism of the Social Democracy and extend throughout the country. Goaded by capit:slist politicians; lobbying endlessly while are in favor of removing the ob and Stalinism is far more bla the bestialities of the armies of Japanese imperiata hungr grows; lulling the unemployed into illusory stacles to their purchase of ma tant than could be found in the ism, the masses will arise everywhere against the rela: ce upon Roosevelt benevolence and La Guardia terial in the United States. Ob labor movement before the last invaders.
Muanimity.
stacles, by the way, which were war. In the American League itThe task of the Chinese revolutionists is to link created by the neutrality legis self the Stalinists still have to The Stalinist helpmates of the capitalist politi lation called for by the third keep in line with the pacifists. themselves to the masses by means of a practical cian cannot be expected to give the jobless that indir ensible leadership and spirit of struggle which congress of the League. Yesterday, the American im program of struggle based on revolutionary persThe American League program perialists wanted neutrality pectives, to organize and mobilize the workers the tour demands. Already, in spite of them, sit instead of removing the risk of so this was the program of the and peasants for the struggle, to blast the last over the country to force the administration to advocacy of concerted action to quarantine of the aggressor or the Kuomintang and the Stalinists, who stand the new needs. Resentment against the impending nine. aids the Roosevelt admin obliges. And tomorrow. The of defeat.
an adjustment in relief grants commensurate with quarantine the aggressor (point collective security, so the League exposed before the entire country as the organizers cuts on are mounting on every project. istration in mobilizing the masses experience of the American AlBut the as the actions are stiu for its imperialist aims. liance for Labor and Democracy Japanese Victories Episodic too scattered. The cohesion necessary for effective The fact that one third the will be duplicated by the Amerresults is still lacking.
delegates are reported to have lican League for Democracy and of Japan have only an episodic character. Japanese Military victories won so far by the armies Re:olutionists, militants in the unemployed come from trade unions does not War Against Fascism.
imperialism, in attempting to subdue all China, a hears responsibility and a great task in the coming months. It is incumbent upon NEW YORK DANCE TO AID CONVENTION will encounter difficulties a thousand times greater them to agitate for militant action on a national than it has encountered in Manchuria. The first Christmas Eve promises to be a first class band has been en serious reverses will set in train a series of social scale in the ranks of the Workers Alliance. Their a gala occasion for New Yorkers, gaged and attempts are being explosions in Japan, whose economic fabric has is the duty to provide the necessary leadership to All revolutionary socialists and made to secure a number of well. already been terribly strained by the war. Thirty the unemployed moveinent in the struggles ahead. their friends will converge on known professional entertainers. million Chinese in Manchuria, 21, 000, 000 inhabiNow is the time for the militants in the Irving Plaza for an evening of to oganize their forces in a challenge to the celebration before the New York over to the National Convention. tants of Korea and 5, 000, 000 inhabitants of For Stalirists, whom the fighting jobless men and delegation leaves for the National Tickets are 56c in advance and mosa will rise up against their Japanese oppres75c at the door. They may be sewomen will of necessity discard both inside and Convention in Chicago.
outside the present organization.
The Committee in charge of the cured from the Labor Book Shop, The activity of the Chinese Bolshevik Leninists dance assures us that every step 28 East 12th Street and at the in organizing the masses for struggle against The revolutionary socialists are needed in the has been taken to make this dance office of the Party, 116 University Japanese imperialism around revolutionary slogans van of the unemployed. It is up to them to put the outstanding affair of its kind. Place.
their shoulder to wheel if the laid off auto, rubber, must be linked with the struggles of the Japanese steel workers are to get jobs at prevailproletariat and peasantry and with the corresponding rates, if those now on A, are to ing struggles of Japan colonial slaves. Together, head off curtailment of work relief; if the latter these masses represent a force which all the hosts and those on direct relief are to prevent the cuts of imperialist Japan will not be able to vanquish in re ief appropriations now being planned cold provided they are armed, not only with guns, bloodedly by the Administration; if relief grants but with revolutionary objectives.
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