December 25, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL of Imperialism Layoffsand WageCuts Panay incident Unmasks hims Hit Living Standards; Unions Must Act Now as a means of The masses (Continued from page 1) United States. This percentage, Japan at arms, have been cbliged relatively insignificant, assumes to rely for the protection of their importance when it is remember stakes in the Far East on suched that in the foreign trade of opposition to the Japanese in China the leading place is occuvaders as the Kuomintang go pied by the United States. vernment was able to put up. steady increase of American trade with China over a period Tragic Rout at Nanking of years gave promise of a growingly profitable export market By James Casey Events, however, have ex for the throttled industries of posed the regime of Chiang Kai this country. As this prospect re(This is the concluding article of a series on the economic situation. shek as a frail reed for the edes before the advance of JapanThe wage cutting plan to check the new crisis already is in motion and soon British and American imperial: ese imperialism, it becomes more will reach nation wide proportions. This development is in accordance with the theory ruption, treachery, sts to lean on. Incompetence, cor and more apparent to the Amerand the ican ruling class that war, in the propounded during the last economic crash by Wall Street leading advisers. Kuomintang fear of mobilizing final analysis, is the only means Writing for the corporations in the Chinese masses, have con by which the positions of Amer.
1932, Prof.
Alvin Hansen in ones and for the prevailing union before the advent of the People verted China defense campaign icanº imperialism in the Far East his book Economic Stabilization scale on all such work. They will Front, the Stalinists said this of into a tragic series of retreats can be guaranteed and extended.
in an Unbalanced World, pro strive for the organization of the Roosevelt: and routs. Living forces have posed pay slashes either through unemployed by the o. and Pi Old Position been heedlessly sacrificed. The Plans for Future trade union agreements of or defense of Nanking became a shop committee plans (com Revolutionary Socialists will The Roosevelt program has sacrificial display of self immoAmerican investments in China, pany unions)
of mobilize the workers and call for had one aim increase profits of lation by thousands of brave totalling less than 200, 000, 000. tiding over the depression pe prompt action in all relief cases, the rich by cutting wages and Chinese soldiers who had been are only one tenth of British inriod. Similarly, Prof. Paul H: will intensify the campaign for raising prices. To increase prices, deserted by their officers. Re vestments in China and oneDouglas, another Wall Street ex adequate relief and will aim to the Roosevelt administration des sults of the fighting to date have tenth of American investment in pert, in his volume Controlling solidarize tenants and consumers troyed cotton, corn, wheat, etc. proved the Kuomintang to be in Mexico. China importance to Depression, urged reduction in against eviction, for lower rents (P. capable of defending itself, let Yankee imperialism, however, lies pay to prevent the disappear and cuts in the prices of food, And further: alone the interests of the British less in present investments than ance of profit margins.
clothing and other essentials. Roosevelt tries to hide his and American imperialists. in prospects for the future. The Wall Street most popular In rural communities they will refusal to establish unemployed the capitalist In London and in Washington maintenance spokesman, Walter Lippman, demand necessary government insurance and his relief cuts with there is a lively appreciation of system requires not only foreign wrote on September 24, 1931: torium on mortgages for small This social security of the New cago peace speech, told Japan jestment. In the period of capitala Lippman in 1931 these. After the stock market crash under the proposed crop control 50 truction of wheat, cotton, etc, Roosevelt proposes a wage of ican imperialism was preparing economie outlets assumes added of November, 1929, almost every program.
month on the much boasted to defend with more than words urgency. Apart from Soviet Ruspublic works. This means body from the President down not its position in the Far East. Brit sia, China is the one large unbelowed that there was not going crisis and the onslaughts of the ed. It is a vicious attack on the threat of a fresh Japanese mi yet become the colonial property In fighting the ravages of the only starvation of the unemploy ish imperialism, spurred by the developed country which has not the real depression and that bosses, militant workers cannot wages of all workers. This attack litary drive this time into South of one or several of the imperiale prices and business activity were expect any quarter from Wall upon the prevailing union wage China, nerve center of Britain ist powers: The world role of going to return within sixty For Street and they must be vigilant rates by the government is a Far Eastern interests is consi American imperialism is thereboom. On that assumption there by bureaucratic trade union lead low the government example. warships to China waters and is moves signal to private industry to fol dering the dispatch of additional fore closely linked with the fate of China.
was good sense in saying that ers. Moreover, they will have to (P. 87. since nothing else was going to cope with the most pernicious Revolutionary socialists seek feverishly building fortifications be deflated, employers ought to enemy within the ranks of the contrast to the Stalinists current against possible Japanese as problem involved in the SinoAnd yet again, in amazing to protect its Hongkong territories revolutionary solution of the bind themselves not to deflate working class, that is, the Com cry of a war for democracy. saults. The touch off of the new Japanese conflict. In China, they wages. assumption was munist Party with its People they said in 1935: wrong.
Front Program of class collabo The New Deal got the occur in the Far East, and that independent mobilization of the The real interest of a wage ration.
ready for war. The war budget in the not distant future.
order continue, om earner today is in the amount Having announced their inten for 1936 is 64. per cent over the plane of the revolutionary of money he has at the end of tion to side with the non reac the actual cash paid out in 1933 War Sentiment Created class struggle, the war for China the week. This is already drastictionary monopolists against the 34. The camps are for independence from imperialism, ally reduced and it cannot be reactionary ones, as discussed war. Plans are already made to In preparing for this event, In America and other strongrestored without a restoration of in a previous issue of the Social increase these semi military mass sentiment in the United holds of imperialism, they probusiness activity.
ist Appeal, the Stalinists will camps to train one million boys States is being created for war mote the class struggle of the Advice Utilized Today does not carry the stamp of ap tell us that we will not get mixed given the cue: America (meaning throwing the imperialist bourge.
combat every plan and act that for cannon fodder. The bosses against Japan. Roosevelt has workers with the aim of overThe manufacturers and indus proval from the New Deal wing up in a European war. Don be the American working class) must oisie and establishing workers trialists have taken this quick of the Wall Street oligarchy. lieve it. Wall Street is preparing prepare to go to the shambles to governments, which alone would course to maintain regular divid. What Can Be Expected not for peace, but for war. preserve democracy against be true friends and allies of the the fascist and militarist aggres. Chinese masses.
and increase their resources. At of All this from the pen of the sors. The time coming to the same time the epidemic of layoffs by large corporations has pudiated by the International his wage, relief and war prog old deceptive phrases are trotted Exposed, discredited and re moring for support of Roosevelt, from the Japanese bully. All the leaders, who now are cla save poor defenseless China Position of Revolutionists Scorning appeals to the imstarted, led in New York City Commission of Inquiry for the perialist government at Washby the with its dismissals frame ups beginning in Moscow Were the Stalinists deceiving the rams hook, line and announced on December, 14.
ington to save China from Japan All the liberals and pacifists which is the line of the Stalinand circling the globe, Commun workers in 1935, or are they are busy sowing illusions about To further strengthen their ist Party leaders can be expectlying today? They must be chal the peaceful role of American list traitors, serving only the inposition, the corporations are ed under orders from the Krem lenged and cornered on these imperialism. The editorial and driving ahead for legislation to lin to use the trade unions, more questions again and again.
terests of American imperialism the revolutionary socialiste abolish the profits tax other news columns of the bourgeois turn to the American workers than ever before, as pawns for levies Congress before the class collaboration, and the un treachery of the People Front chauvinistic drugging of working the Chinese masses. Such solidEffective exposure the press are given over to the with a plea for solidarity with final March payment date. Simul employed groups to build a bu will smash influence in the class opinion so that the masses arity will not only aid taneously they are standing firm reaucracy within the apparatus unions; strengthen the workers may be corraled into support of Chinese against Federal projects and reof government projects.
masses their struggle, but will fight against the crisis; aid in the coming imperialist war. Vile also advance the historic interests lief appropriations to meet the They can be expected also to the growth of militant trade atrocities committed in China by of the American workers. Every needs of the deepening crisis.
resort, more than ever Beginning now and within the past, to gangster tactics of in from the Kremlin; help in the wheels of the in the unionism, unhampered by orders Japan armies help grease the blow struck at imperialism adcoming months, the practical war propaganda leadership of Revolutionary So assaulting members of the military socialist organization, and oisie in the ranks of the working the interests of the American timidating workers and criminally building of a strong revolution machine. Agents of the bourge: tional proletariat, and therefore vances the cause of the interna.
cialists, as well as their energy ant opposition.
and devotion to the cause, will be broaden the movement against class, from the trade union bu workers as well. If the American severely tested. As a result of The counter revolutionary ac Reaction and for Socialism. reaucrats who sponsor consum imperialists should succeed in the bosses offensite, strikes, tions of the Stalinists must be ers boycotts of Japanese goods realizing their aims in China, large and small, will continue to revealed in trade union meeting JERSEY CITY, The while doing nothing ether to they will be able to fasten the spread through the land and it rooms, in shops, offices and in scored a signal victory prevent shipment of munitions shackles of wage slavery still is the task of Revolutionary the halls of unemployed organi over am the Law Mayor and supplies to Japan or to stop more firmly on the toilers of Labor must be rallied Frank Hague here last week when the landing of Japanese goods in this country.
Socialists to correctly guide the zations.
workers in all their struggles.
and placed on guard against the it obtained two contraets with this country, down to the Stalinwhole Stalinist set up for terror employers after a week ists who call on the Washington supplies for the Japanese imNot a shipload of munitions of Revolutionary Socialists ism, frame ups and class treach strike.
government to take collective Tasks ery.
perialists!
The Standard Cap and Seal security action against Japan in Refuse to unload Japanese Especially must the ties Corp. and the Fargo Cap Corp. the name of peace, are the They will insist on the main with the New Deal capitalists be signed up with the it was budding recruiting sergeants of merchandise, arriving at United States ports!
tenance of prevalling union rates constantly counterposed to the announced by Carney, American imperialism.
Unmask the imperialist aims and point out that reduced pur Stalinist position on Roosevelt and regional director.
chasing power could only tend to his administration before the Mayor Hague boasts that he Meaning of Panay of the Washington government!
hift more of the burdens of the inauguration the People would keep the out of Incident srisis on the For the fraternal international of the Front line. For instance, in a Jersey City and the widespread solidarity of all the exploited people. They will press demands May Day pamphlet entitled Day belief in his invincibility were American trade with China and oppressed!
for additional Federal projects, of Solidarity, published by the rudely shattered by these latest amounts to about per cent of Forward to the class struggle gainst dismissals on existing American Communist Party just developments.
the total foreign trade of the and the socialist revolfition!
sinker. out.
of one of masses