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PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.
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"Leniency" of Minn.
Rural Credits Means
Increased Misery
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Demand Aged Farmer Mortgage 1932 Crop and Pay
7% on Delinquencies.
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Recently, when the Minnesota j
Rural Credits
pant the destitute farmers of the j
moartcrium on their in- i
Bureau refused to
state a
Urfst and principal which they
could not pay, the Bureau promis- j
. ed that it would show them "kn
Just what this leniency
iency*'.
of the Farmer-Labor Rural Cred
it# Bureau is can be seen from the
following ktkr sent us by a
farmer;
STATE OF MINNESOTA
Department of Rural Credit
St. Paul, Jan. 25, 1932.
Mr. George Baumann,
Route 2, Box 54,
Bagley, Minn,
Dear Sir:
Your letter of January 18th re
ceived and we note what you
state in regard to making pay
ment of your tax item and the
November 22, 1931 installment.
If we are carry you
will be necessary that you give
»dditional and collateral security
in the form of a first crop mort
gage on the 1932 crop to secure
payment of this tax item as well
as the November 22, 1931 install
ment and the May 22, 1932 in
stallment.
We have taken the liberty to
draw notes and crop mortgage in
connection with your loan and if
you 'wJr to be carried until next
fall on these amounts then we
kindly ask that you and your wife
sign the enclosed notes and crop
mortgage in triplicate before a
Notary Public. When these pa
pers have been properly signed,
witnessed and acknowledged you
will retain the triplicate, or yel
low copy, and return the notes
and all other papers to this office.
This crop mortgage is taken
with the distinct understanding
that it is a first crop mortgage on
the 1932 crop and this Depart
ment reserves the right to return
the same to the borrower in case
it is found not to be such.
We ask that you kindly give
this matter immediate attention so
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Itot thfse papers mil be returned
«Um a few days.
On he ether hand, if you msh
to make payment of amounts due,
at this time, you can do so, and.
if «0 we ask that you kindly
turn the papers to us .unsigned.
Yours very truly,
WILHELM MICHELET,
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Manager, Collection Division.
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demand
Their "leniency" is to
of the farmer who cannot pay
?EVICTION
BHîtïTJ?
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mounts to $74.31, THE
Reau is to get a mort
GAGE ON THE LAST CLEAR
THING THE FARMER HAS
TH1S YEAR'S CROP, WHICH
HAS NOT YET BEEN PLANT
ED—AT SEVEN PER CENT.
"This crop mortgage is taken
with the distinct understanding
that it is a first crop mortgage
•n the 1932 crop and this Depart
®aent reserves the right to return
the same to the borrower in case
k k found not to be such." THIS
IS THE "LENIENCY" OF THE
PARMER-LABOR PARTY TO
THE SMALL FARMERS.
This farmer, George Baumann,
homesteaded this land in 1900. He
*s now 70 years of age and his
is 72. Aft« thirty year, ol
^remitting toil the capitalist
riass, thru the »armer-l>aber par
ty, now demands of him a mort
gage on his 1932 crop, ki return
S* t* right to stay on the land.
lf he mortgages this crop they
J 111 grab everything he gets at
^est time. If he does not they
attempt to evict him,
This is not an individual case,
The Rural Credits Bureau is car
SJ®» through the same Wall
fit r, P0lic * against thousands of
9*1 tanners. The Federal Land
®* nk8 are doing the same. The
^tire capitalist class is demand
g the small and middle farm
* the last drop of . blood.
thf. t* &gainBt th*s plunder crew,
, S . horrible oppression and ex
^Aation of the small and middle
ttat w, must organize.'
farm«, of Qu,water county
'WORKERS' WAGES
SLASHED VICIOUSLY
MILLIONS HUNGER DESPITE
FALL IN LIVING COSTS
The figures which the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of the Depart
ment of Labor has recently made
public show that the drop in wag
es of the industrial workers has
been so sharp in the past two
years as to offset manyfold the
the decrease in the cost of living
about which the capitalist press
talks so much. During 1931 the
cost of living as figured out by
the Bureau cf Labor Statistics,
whose figures are just about
what they wish to make them,
dropped 9.3%. During the last
year, however, the decline in in
dustrial employment amounted to
13.1% and the decline in industri
al earnings to 24.5%.
Since December 1929 the cost of
living as reported by the Bureau
has declined 14.9 per cent. The
workers Oar whom this cost of liv
ing is figured suffered a decline
in employment of 29 per cent
while their earnings fell 44.5 per
cent. The attack that has been
levied against the living standards
of the working class is even woroe
than is here admitted by the Bu
reau. At the time these figures
were taken, December 1929, there
were already millions of unem
ployed due to the crisis which
first began to show itself in the
summer of 1929, several months
before the Wall Street crash in
October of that year.
Of the twelve million unemploy
ed many millions and their fami
lies are totally destitute and have
to buy the necessities of
life tha t the Department of La
bor figures say have deduced so
many per cent in price. The oov
,« government has said that they
can starve.
! The value of the farmers crops
decline
no means
many
the rices the ds they
.have t0 buy . For millions of the
tofli (arm
masses this crisis
* di , € priva ti on ,
The mUUons ol workers and
farmers must forC e relief out of
this hunger system, must force the
capitalist class to disgorge mill
lions of its bloody booty for the
lmmediate relief o( the poverty
stricken masses
of the United
States.
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OF AGED f ARMER IS
THREAT OF FEDERAL LAND BANK
Fanner Owes Spokane Und Bank More ( Than Original
Debt After Paying Off Practically All.
Bv HANS RASMUSSEN j
Federal Land Bank is
an institution in which our federal
government has no actual shares!
something we know, but we can |
not g e t around the fact that it is i
a government institution just the |
?ame . We can no get away from (
^he f ac ^ that it was created by the
government and is under control.
At t he time of its creation wc
were to ld that its purpose was to
avo id pa nics and depressions. U
served that purpose
^e direct blame can be put on
our ^all Street government, which
crea ted and controls it and OK's
^
j* th © spring of 1907 Jorgen
j orge n 8 en with wife and children
located on Montana's prairies and
took up a homestead in what is
PO w known as the Dagmar colony,
At t h a t time it was nothing but
Dra ine as far aad wide as o»e
Prame _ _
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under the leadership of the Unit
e d Farmers League, must deter
m ine that this fanner shall not be
evicted from his land. The threat
eviction against him is a threat
Against every destitute fanner
the county. „ .
Organize a solid front of all the
farm masses of the county that
will throw back this hunger pack,
WE CAN PREVENT THE EVIG
TIQN OF ANY FARMER ^ROM
HIS LANDW 1 WS OKGaY«».
OUR RANKS SOLIDLY.
Stock Starved While
Agriculture Department
"Saved" $12,000,000
Out of the $60,000,444 that
gress appropriated last year for
feed loans the Department of Ag
riculture held back over $12,000,
000 from the farmers. This a
mount was held back from the
farmers thru rejection of loans
and thru sharp cuts in those which
were granted. While thousands
of head of stock in the drouth area
are starving and hundreds of head
have already died the Department
of Agriculture under the direction
of Soviet - wheat-dumping Hyde,
secretary of the department, kept
back $12,000,000 of funds which
had been appropriated by congress
for the very purpose of feeding
the stock of farmers in the drouth
stricken areas.
This is the Hunger policy of the
Hoover Hunger government —
starving the farmers' stock even
after congress had appropriated a
miserable sum to keep them alive.
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GREAT FAUS MONT
JOBLESS PROTEST
SALVATION SLOPS
SALVATION ARMY HANDS
OUT POISONED STEW TO
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
This organization has been in
operation since January 18th and
has done a great many things for
the unemployed in the short time
that it has been in existence. The
first week we collected all of the
used clothing that we could and
gave H to the unemployed. One
hundred and twelve people were
supplied with 370 articles of cloth
ing, in the first six days. This
is one part of our program that
wo will keep in operation all of
tbe time. People are starting
to contribute clothing, food and
coal to the organization, for they
have found that we do not do this
for profit. Everything that we
get is given away to people that
are in need, we keep a record of
everything that is given away and
the person's name that gets the
articles.
The Salvation Army has been
getting a lot of clothing given to
them that is supposed to be given
which is not true for the
away,
Salvation Army does nqt do any
for.
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thing that they do not get paid
They are neither charitable
or a religious organization. They
are JUNK DEALERS and regis
tered under the laws of Delaware
as junk dealers.
The Community Chest is anoth
rseket and I think that there
is only one better racket in
country and Billy Sunday has
that.
er
this
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could see, with a few range nors
es qjid a lone coyote roaming here
and there.
As so many of the rest of us,
this family had come here to make
Montana their home, to get a
piece of land they could call their
own, where they could live witn
their children in their old days,
There was never a better ana
more honest family stepped on
the virgin soil of Montana, ai
ways there with a helping hand
and taking an active part m what
good work there was g° *
Their house was open night an
day for young and old and their
last bit« they vnlltagly ahared
with their guests,
Changing ®^ on ^ t , pra ^ dta p
producing fields .with ^ building
and fences is hard work-butthe
whole family worked. The girls
donned overalls and sa
plow from morning till night. I
between they milked a lot of cows
and the milk was made into but
ter and cheese. .
When you start from J* e
there are so many thing? >ou
need. Like so many o e
0 f us they fell the^hands of
loan sharks, ttien thoy heard
about their Uncle Sam
to the loan business or P
pose of helping his peopj •
they applied for a loan to
Federal Land Bank in ^ 7 „ Ienti .
At that time »oney was plenti
M and th. loan ™*f
(ConUnood oe Pago Two,
on the
FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATIONS PUSH
ON STRUGGLE FOR RELIEF
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Mass Pressure of Millions Must Be Organized Against ]
Bankers' Hunger Program
The demonstrations of the work-the
ers thruout the country on Febtu
ary 4th, were a mobilization for
the intensified struggle against i
the starvation that faces tens of
millions of the working class in
the coming months. The capitalist
class still refuses to give the un
employed workers relief. The only*
force between the working masses
and the privation they now suf
fer and the worse misery that the
bankers have decreed for them is
the iron bound ranks that will
force the capitalist class to grant
immediate relief to the toiling
masses and unemployment insur
ance.
February 4 must stand as a step
on the road to a broader and suc
cessful struggle aeainst privation
for the masses. We must bring
the masses of the toiling farmers
to fight in this struggle with the
city workers. Against the attack
of the bankers must be the united
front *f the toilers.
NEW YORK.—Despite a heavy
downfall of rain over 18,000 work
ers packed Union Square on Na
tional Unemployment Insurance
Day.
After a spirited meeting, twen
ty thousand workers swung out of
the square with a thunderous roar,
shouting slogans and carrying
high their placards bearing the de
mand of the working clqss for
Unemployment Insurance at full
wages, for immediate relief, for
thc defense of the Soviet Union,
for cessation of the slaughter of
the Chinese masses, a tremendous
o\ avion rose from the tightly
packed ranks of workers along the!
line of march. Thousands of them
joined the parade as it swept out
of the square toward City Hall.
The line of march looked like a
sea of banners as, one after im-|
other, organized detachments o£j
workers demonstrated their deter
imitation to fight for Unemploy-,
Slogans were
ment Insurance,
shouted out all the way to City
Hall.
The entire parade marched sev
eral times around the City' Hal
building
tered. About 50,000 workers jam
med City Park and cheered the
delegation.
BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 4.—The
Boston police brutally attacked
several hundred workers march
ing from the demonstration to
the unemployed headquarters on
Washington St. Five workers
are known to have been arrest
ed and amongst them was Keith,
District Organizer (of the Y. C.
L., who was brutally beaten up.
Several workers had their
faces cut open by the police.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 4.— Five
thousand workers look part in the
demonstration today at
Square in spile of a terrific snow
storm.
The march proceeded to city
hall. There were no arrests.
Public
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. Feb. 4.
—More than 300 workers de
monstrated today at an open air
meeting in the industrial dis
trict of Knoxville, and listened
to the speech of George Hicks,
a textile worker, and chairman
of the local
Council Committee, besides three
other local speakers and Joe
Weber, National Miners Union
Unemployment
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 4.—
At a preliminary demonstration
on February 2nd, in front of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.,
12 workers were arrested. Three
are being held by the federal au
thorities, while nine are out on
$100 bail bond each.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4.-
Despite refusal to grant a permit
for a factory gate meeting, ISO
workers of Winchester today de>
monstrated their solidarity with
tbe unemployed and for unemploy
ment insurance at a noon gate
meeting today.
Three hundred workers demon
strated on the Central Green of
New Haven for unemployment in
surance and immediate relief, and
elected a committee to present
their demands to Mayor Murphy.
The mayor was out and his repre
sentative told the committee that
city cannot do anything more
for the unemployed,
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LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 4.—
Two thousand workers crowded
the Common bandstand in an en
thusiastic meeting, despite the
cold.
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JAMAICA, L. I., Feb. 4.—Two
thousand workers participated in a
militant demonstration demanding j
the enactment of the Workers'
Unemployment Insurance Bill and
for immediate relief. Hundreds
joined the demonstration at Union
Square, New York City,
thousand demonstrated in
j
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ANACONDA THUGS
BREAK UP FEB. 4
DEMONSTRATION
THOUSANDS OF BUTTE,
MONT., WORKERS CHEER
MARCHERS FOR IMME
DIATE RELIEF
Butte, Mont., Feb. 6.—On Na
tional Unemployment Insurance
day, February 4th, hundreds of
Butte workers poured out of the
Workers International Relief hall
on East Park St. Marching only
one and one-half blocks we were
stopped by the entire mobilized
police force of Butte. Thirty-sev
en of the leading marchers were
hauled to the city jail. As early
as one o'clock, thousands of work
ers lined the streets to cheer and
SU pport the marchers,
| The unemployed workers left
the W. I. R. hall at 2 P. M. and
filed out into the streets. In the
demonstration were men, women
an d children. It was the best
turn . out 0 f workers fighting to
j better their condition that Butte
has had for years. The workers
,
marched just beyond Park and
Arizona Streets when the entire
police force swooped down upon
them and broke up the parade. All
of the workers in the lead were
arrested cr crowded onto the side- 1
The leading marchers were pu*. ,
into the city jail and the patrol
wagon returned to the scene of
the parade. No women or child
jren were arrested. However, a
I
walk.
insisted
that they be taken to the jail, as
they to» were fighting shoulder'
to shoulder with their jobless
brothers for unemployment insur
number of the women
ance.
Workers Shake Jail With Songs
Inside the jail the songs of the
workers conclusively proved to
the bosses that the terror of the
jail only fired tbe spirit of the
workers and never quenched it.
Thousands of workers came to
the jail and demanded that the
prisoners be released. Our two
local song birds were among the
first to be arrested, and when we
struck up Solidarity Forever we
literally shook tbe town.
Sixtjh Floor Orders the Arrest!
The order that the parade- be
broken and the marchers be ar
rested came from the Sixth floor
of the Hennessy building, the lo
cal stable of the lackeys of the
Anaconda Copper Company. From
this stable the word came to May
or McTaggart in the City Hall.
(The city hall has recently been
branded by the Company papers—
Butte's Shabby Shack—for the
reason that the Montana Power
Co. wants the lot and building.)
It was Mayor McTaggart who or
dered the Chief of Police to have
the entire police force on the job
to break the parade.
Sewer Rata Out In Force
All of the lackeys of the com
pany turned out to watch the par
ade. They were all represented,
tbe gunmen, the stools, the tools,
thq finks and the rats, each in his
particular category and position
was represented and on hand,
from the lowest to the still lower.
Theke lackeys on the Sixth Floor
are now over-zealous to please
their masters in New York,
the past these lackeys have en
joyed, so to speak, the security of
the proverbial prostitutes' bull
dog, so of course, when the work
ers in Butte show militancy, it
shakes these lackeys in their foul
nests and challenges their securi
ty. The Chamber of Criminals
delegates were on hand, and hope
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In
Soviet Union Plans
Increase In Sowing
The spring* sowing plan for So
viet Russia in 1932 calls for 64,
700,000 acres of wheat, an increase
season;
an in
crease of 4 per cent and 17,000,000
'acres of barley, an increase of 9
per cent, according to a cable just
received by the Department of Ag
riculture and made available Jan.
30. The increases are computed
on the basis of revised spring ac
reage estimates for 1931, it was
stated.
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45,000,000 acres of oats,
RELIEF CAMPAIGN MUST BE
INTENSIFIED TO BACK
STRIKERS
PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 7.—in
an attempt to discredit the Work
ers International Relief, the oper
ators hired a woman and gun
thugs to appear at the Pinevilk
Central Strike Relief Station and
demand clothes.
Four miners relief
mittee who took food and clothing
from agents of the operators who
had stolen it from the warehuse,
have been arrested for robbery
because they forced the
thieves t» return the stolen goods.
The National Miners Union has
issued a statement on this slimy
frame-up.
real
Commenting upon this most re
cent attack upon the relief activi
ties the National Office of the
Workers International Relief said
today:
"This is a deliberate strike
breaking move of the operators
to shut off relief from the cen
tral , relief distributing head
quarters and we bring sharply
befere the workers of this coun
try that it must he answered
with increased support of the
campaign to provide food and
clothes to the hungry and rag
ged miners and their families.
"The slowness with which re
lief forces are being mobilized
is endangering the entire cam
paign. Redouble your support!
Expr.se the treachery of the
operators before the broadest
masses! Bring iww volunteers
Into the ranks of the Kentucky
Tennessee Striking Miners Re
H e f Volunteers of the W.I.R.
"Every volunteer recruited for
this campaign is a shack briga
dier in the counter-offensive of
the workers against the vicious
attacks of the bosses upon the
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Ü.F.L WINS IMMEDIATE RELIEF
FOR FAMILIES OF TWO FARMERS
U. F. L. Will Organize Farmers For Demands Refused
By County Commissioners
(By Clearwater County, Minnesota
U. F. L. Correspondent.)
Bagley, Minn., Feb. 3.— Yester
day the United Farmers League
called a meeting of small farmers
cf Clearwater county to demand
help from the boss class. Altho
the day was very cold and the
roads bad from recent snow and
high winds, many farmers gather
ed and filled the court room.
Comrade Ed. C. Bauman, coun
ty organizer for the U. F. L., was
elected chairman for the meeting.
He gave a general outline of what
League
done to help poor farmers in
Clearwater oounty. He showed
how the farmers thru mass action
in the U. P. L. had forced the Red
Cross and township boards to get
relief for the small farmers. He
told how the U. P. L. of Clearwat
er county works in co-operation
with farmers and workers over the
entire world.
He then read the demands that
were drawn mp by the county com
mittee at the conference held at
Bagley on January 9 to be pre
sented to the county commission
ers of Clearwater county.
These demands read as follows:
To the Oourity Board of Clear
water County:
Whereas, many poor farmers in
Clearwater county are im need of
food and clothing, while many
more are losing their farms on ac
count of. the present depression,
and
Whereas, the capitalist crisis in
CHINESE RED ARMY
SWEEPS FORWARD IN
CENTRAL CHINA
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TOILING FARMERS, DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
U. S. WAR MOVES
The Japanese sizure of Harbin and their announced in
tentions to carry out an armed advance toward the Siberi
an border of the Soviet Union have been hailed with glee
in all imperialist and White Guard circles.
A Harbin dispatch reports that the White Guards in
that city turned out en masse to cheer the invading Japanese army.
The New York American in printing this dispatch gave it the signifi
cant head : ,
" «WHITE RUSSIAN' CROWDS CHEER HARBIN TROOPS."
"Japanese entry hailed with joy by exiles as portending revenge up
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MILK STRIKE IN
N.Y. SPREADING
THREATEN TO ORDER STATE
MILITIA OUT.
So determined has the resistance
of the small dairy farmers to the
attacks of the milk trust become
in New York state that the Milk
Trust is demanding that the mili
tia be called out to prevent milk
dumping. The statements that
have been made to the governor
are that the poverty stricken
dairy farmers are prepared to at
tack milk wagons, tank cars and
other milk distributing vessels and
dump them.
The city of Buffalo is facing a
milk famine unless an agreement
is reached by February 12th. The
milk trust is using this fact to de
mand of the governor that an ar
bitration board be organized for
the city of Buffalo. In thk way
they hope to force the small dairy
farmers to accept prices for milk
below the cost of production. If
this is not done the milk trust de
mands that a special emergency
be declared by the governor. In
this case the department of health
of the state would assume control
by executive mandate.
The milk trust is determined to
use the state power, if necessary,
the state militia, to force the far
mers to accept the miserable
prices they offer. Against this
attack by the milk trust and by
the state power the small and
middle farmers must organize—in
to the United Farmers League so
that a united front of all the
small producers can be set up
against the milk trust.
general is becoming worse, bring
ing upon the workers in the cities
and the small and middle farm
ers of the countryside additional
misery and starvation and mort
gage sales and evictions of the
small and middle farmers are be
coming the order of the day in
all farm communities.
The hypocritical schemes for
farm relief by the agencies of cap
italism have only aggravated the
situation making it impossible for
the small farmer to exist any
longer under the prevailing condi
tions.
At this meeting of the U. F. L.
we are well aware of our respon
sibility as an organization of the
poverty ridden farmers of Clear
water county and know that only
thru organized mass action can
the farmers of Clearwater county
protect themselves from utter ru
in.
Therefore we declare our soli
darity with farmers and workers
of the entire world in their strug
gle for better conditions and sub
mit to you, the county commis
sioners of Clearwater county, the
following demands for your en
dorsement:
We demand:
1. Exemption of taxes on all
workers and poor farmers and
placing all taxes on bankers, cor
poration« and truste.
2. Cancellation of debts and
mortgages of poor fanners, no e
victions, no sheriffs sales of im
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Moscow."
That the imperialist war mong
ers consider the stage new set for
armed intervention against work
ers, Russia is further shown by
the lies printed on Saturday in the
imperialist press that the Soviet
Vlad
isvestock. These lies were imme
diately denied by the Soviet Uni
on. A Tokyo dispatch reports:
"Russia and Japanese authori
ties alike ridiculed reports pub
lished abroad today that Rus
sian troops have been concen
trated at Vladivoatock."
This is not the first time that
the Japanese have b«e*>- forr^ri
along with the other imperialist
bandits, to admit the first peace
policy of the Soviet Union. But
the imperialists are determined to
press their long-prepared plana
for armed intervention against
the Soviet Union where workers
rule and where unemployment and
national oppression have been a
bolished.
The Harbin dispatch published
by the New York American furth
er expresses the anti-Soviet nature
of the moves around Harbin. It
says:
"The «independent government*
promises 'White' Russians citi
zenship and a chance to avenge
the overthrow of Russia b 7
Communism,"
t
Stripped of its hypocritical ver
biage this sentence means that the
Japanese are mobilizing the White
Guards against the Soviet Union
on the basis of the attempt to
overthrow the rule of the workers
and peasants in the Soviet Union
and to re-establish the murderous
rule of Tzarist-capitalism.
the Japanese now intend to force
war on the Soviet Union is plain
ly stated by the dispatch:
«White' Russians, cheering
the entry of the Japanese bri
gades, interpret the coming of
Japan as sounding the death
knell of Soviet influence and tbe
forerunner of a forced Sino-So
viet clash.
"Meanwhile, consular officials
here foresee a prompt drive to
the Siberian frontier at Man
chuli, bringing the Japanese
far« to face with the Russians.**
That
a
The imperialist correspondents
at Moscow admit the firm peace
policy of the Soviet Union in face
of these monstrous provocations.
A dispatch to the New York Time»
says:
"Whatever may kappen in Ute
Far East, with the exception of
in invasion of Soviet territory
k>r Unprovoked attack on Soviet
property or nationals, which at
the moment seems unlikely, the
Soviet will not allow itself to
be dragged into the war or bo
Involved in the Sino-Japanese'
imbroglio in any way.**
The southern section of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway has been oc
cupied by tho Japanese.
Tbe guns of the advancing Chi
nese Red Army are flashing five
miles from Hankow, important
Central China industrial
strategical city. Foreign imperi
alists and Kuomintang landlord
and banker elements in the city
are in a panic. Martial law is be
ing savagely applied against the
workers in the effort to prevent a
threatened mass unrising to weU
come the Chinese Red Army. The
Japanese forces are frantically
fortifying the Japanese concession
In the city. The Hankow forces
ore so furious over the Japanese
butchery of Chinese workem at
an^
Shanghai that the Japanese for
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