The Russo-Japanese Railway Conflict in Manchuria
The Russo-Japanese Railway Conflict in Manchuria Eastern Chinese Railway Built by American Capitalists Used for Japanese Penetration of Buffer State May Bring War Aside from the world...
...We should enlist the liberals, pacifists and progressives and build a broad political movement...
...nirtnre |„ p»r< m»|,,R vivid the complex...
...Little by little the continual troubles of which Manchuria has for some years past been the scene have dislocated traffic, and the i paint has been reached where there is no longer any regular traffic to speak of on the Eastern Chinese Railway...
...Besides, in order to influence in a sense favorable to us the negotiations in Tokio on the sale of the railway, further measures have been taken recently...
...And millions of us are never going to get even a chance to scramble again...
...In these days of kaleidoscopic happenings, perhaps no other topic is more timely...
...That this declaration was more than an empty threat is shown by the fact that on July 1st last, 1,000 Soviet employees were arrested...
...But are you going to ignore the middle classes and the output of the colleges...
...No...
...The sentimentalists tli6n form an upper layer in your movement who tend to become careerists and opportunists...
...Roger Baldwin will preside...
...Business will resent any attempt to deprive it of its life's blood, its only reason for existence—profits...
...Between 1930 and 1933 more than 3,000 assaults of all kinds were made on the railways, according to information from Soviet sources...
...The granted 1 years froi line in II would hi purchasing the concej The am eminent if ernment a trol have been depi Japan's oe of the po their rigU obligations treaties...
...The Soviet Union refused...
...Yes, let's he broad, so broad that we will he all things to all men hut nothing worth while to the working class," said Hill with a trace of a sneer...
...Nego-lind into with K ef Japan in ¦istern Chinese wrote Mr...
...So far the lion's share has gone to the few people sitting pretty on top, while the rest of us had to scramble to get part of what was left...
...Your policy does not even help you to win...
...Article VII of the Treaty of Portsmouth provided that the South Manchurian Railway was only to serve com , merciai ends...
...Joe inquired...
...WILL DISCUSS NRA The real significance of the NRA will be the subject of a discursion in which Prof...
...Pressure is exercised with a view to investing the Manchurian Assistant with powers equal to those of the General Manager...
...To accomplish that we will have to water our Socialism...
...You certainly are dogmatic," said Joe...
...Old Pals' Corner Both Boys Agree the Workers Should Win but What to Win And How Provokes a Debate By Autolycus "|N these times we should make our appeal as broad as possible," said Joe to Hill as they left the Rand School lecture...
...es were pro-1ft selling the railway, the Government of Man churia protested, last spring, against transports effected by the Russians over their own railway, between Transbaikalia (Chita) and the province of Primorie (Vladivostok...
...If so, why do you disguise it...
...Large department stores manage to keep within the letter of the Code without increasing their payrolls...
...Even now there is more quiet chiseling and evasion going on than any of us is aware of...
...Joe Wants to Move Faster ' N* ^onf ?e' dogmatic," sa'' Bill...
...How I hate it...
...All the acts and orders of the General Manager must he endorsed by his Assistant (a Manchuriun...
...The authorities of the new Manchuriun State demanded the return of this rolling stock...
...Wc have seen that they have made powerful •ections of Fascism in Europe and we should recognize this danger...
...last spring withdrew 87 locomotives and 6,500 wagons...
...There are more than enough workers to supply the world's needs...
...I'm afraid we'll have to plow under a few million people before we can do it...
...And we are a little resentful and more than a little baffled by the Buy Now ballyhoo and the NRA campaign...
...you water it, this means that you do not have confidence in those to whom you offer the watered article and it is also evidence that you have lost confidence in the aim as well...
...Manchuria is today a Japanese protectorate...
...Now then see what happens," Hill continued...
...Taking into account, also, the fact that Japan will vol be able to engage in a conflict on the Continent before 1936, it is desirabb to refrain from unpremeditated acts, in spite of the necessity of acquiring the Eastern Chinese Railway...
...October 24th the whole of the Soviet employees were expelled from Manchuria...
...The accompanying picture o»W this parity, falling to 50 per cent in Martha have (bopped to 61, where they now are...
...Manehukuo intends to insist on the subjection of the Eastern Chinese Railway and all its property to the laws and plans of the Manchurian State...
...Surprise inspections are to be carried out in the railway-men's clubs throughout the system...
...Your broad movement in order to reach non-proletarian elements avoids the proletarian and class-conscious appeal...
...The Russo-Japanese Railway Conflict in Manchuria Eastern Chinese Railway Built by American Capitalists Used for Japanese Penetration of Buffer State May Bring War Aside from the world depression and demoralized currencies there, are a number of sore spots in Europe that are so irritating that they are fraught with the danger of war...
...We should try to win them, but win them lor Socialism, not for a watered substitute...
...On the grounds that such a situation was unlawful the Manchurian Government decided to put a stop to it...
...An attempt is being made to get an official spokesman to speak for NRA...
...Tout deavors to commercial problem 1 fails, is e new world the railwt U.S.S.R...
...Hundreds of railway servants have been molested or held in captivity...
...I am impatient with those who are holding us back," said Bill as they parted An Open Letter on NRA to Secretary Frances Perkins By Gertrude Weil Klein [TV''/1.' lo the press of election matters, the printing of this second installment of Comrade Klein's "Open Letter" was delayed...
...We don't need all this elaborate machinery to carry out a "share-work" plan...
...In effect the Soviet Union owns a railway over which she no longer has control...
...The insecurity of traffic and the constant dangers which threaten the Soviet agents, Japan's policy of penetration, the proclamation ¦ of Maacaj these faef 1,1 Kuhsia i administnj country n Japan exf 1933 Itussj posed to 4 tiations % Japan...
...Well, we need leaders, don't we...
...Well, we want to win, don't we?'' Joe inquired...
...No, I want to really win...
...The Japanese military headquarters decide what trains may travel to the U.S.S.R...
...You look to the college intelligentsia for leadership and I look to the working class to provide it...
...Thus in B herself dis-ptilway...
...The meeting will be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., on Wednesday evening, Dec...
...Win what...
...The Soviet | sslntion, which st bast the less f ovsrnnu-nt, how-M Soviet's right f to anybody ex-Government it-f the concession, gbd of eighty {¦¦ration of the rated that China option of roll expiration of tae Soviet Gov-I Nanking Gov-Haorities in con-pteen months i a result of i of Manchuria, Nf exercising fulfilling their i down by the net Russia has dhray to China, fled out by the •stion...
...only the arrest of less prominent persons is contemplated...
...I wish there were something good I could say...
...In carrying out the measures enumerated above, every precaution should be taken to keep them strictly secret and prevent anything leaking out...
...The third lllustrafl »¦ October, ItM...
...The topic is phrased thus: "Resolved That NRA Is a Step Toward Socialism...
...Thus, in order to prevent the transfer of rolling stock it has cut all communication with Pogranichinaya...
...In view of the insecurity and the dimunition of traffic the U.S.S.R...
...In the beginning it will go along, hoping by slight sacrifices now to be in a position to recoup its losses later...
...The President, and with him the NRA, is plainly on the horns of a dilemma...
...I want to move faster...
...It is not ruled out, however, that eventually also more important employees will be proceeded against...
...They hope to recover their , expected career which the depression has shattered...
...rials also are seeking to narrow the ""Pr*4 what the city man payn, an shown in top Uhfl a matter being studied...
...The report sent by the Ambassador Kisikaii to his Government on September 9th shows even more plainly what the intentions of the Japanese are: "To speed up the negotiations on the sale of the Eastern Chinese Railway, the following measures have been decided on: To collect, through the agency of the Railway's Control Hoard data concerning unlawful activities of the Soviet railway employees...
...The proceeds will be devoted to the Willow Brook School at Stanford-ville, N. V., a progressive school for boys and girls, where the children participate in all of the activities of farm life...
...we haven't made much headway in the last ten years," said Joe...
...That is the question," Hill replied...
...And if it will look as though profits are to be seriously challenged for any length of time, there will be open and defiant resistance...
...To authorize the Assistant to the General Manager or the Inspector to take legal action against Soviet employees...
...The South em Manchurian and the Eastern Chinese Railways are the two principal lines of communication...
...Socialism...
...Japan's expropriation policy is clearly revealed by two secret reports addressed by the Japanese Ambassador for Manchuria to his Government on September 4th and 9th, respectively...
...1 control 01 much to ti While i (¦ceding vrl IpfBdence, all Br the position ¦pBtr and co Ksilway in a Bpftectorate of ¦Rcalt...
...In other words, the difference between what you regard as broad and narrow is really the difference between what is bourgeois and proletarian...
...I know that women of my class, the white-collar workers, who must be presentable at all times and who have a normal love for beautiful clothes, always spend more than a sensibly balanced budget allows for clothes and accessories...
...A lot of it is true enough, and would have been applicable twenty-five or thirty years ago when you could have heard the humblest Socialist soap-box speaker expounding these now "advanced" and "radical" doctrines...
...You must admit that we haven't made much headway with the Socialist movement in recent years...
...Their views are as uncertain , as their economic status...
...I know that the factory girl, whose job does not depend upon her appearance as our jobs bo often do, scrimps and pinches on everything to satisfy her natural desire for nice things...
...Their mode of life is identified with an uncertain and ill- ' defined group in capitalist society above the workers and ' below the ruling classes...
...The Eastern Chinese Railway, built in the years 1896 to 1902, has the same strategic and economic importance for Northern Manchuria that the Southern Manchurian Railway has for Southern Manchuria...
...When we do that we cannot cultivate the class-consciousness of the working class...
...These gentlemen are to join the movement not to learn from the members but to teach the members...
...the matter Railway it Wang, lad Soviet Bsj don her is) defend thai chose the is the leu i brutal of | The Nai ever, chaQ to sell tin cept the 1 self...
...Yon want to move faster to the Fascist ditch," Hill replied, "You want a broad movement that will appeal to various types of liberals and sentimentalists...
...In the previous installment, she had answered Secretary Perkins' plea to women's organizations to help "put over" the NRA program and had explained the reactions of Socialist women to the pica.] II | WOULD cheerfully, nay glee fully, dump the whole pile of duds which represents my wardrobe down the dumb-waiter shaft if I could afford to...
...Instead I'm going to spend this somewhat dismal Sunday sorting out and cleaning and mending whatever can he salvaged for another winter's wear...
...The region east of the line Charbin-Pogranichinayu is infested with brigands and the trains that are run, with the consent of the Japanese military authorities, are heavily armed against attack...
...Even the "brain trust" makes me a little weary, with its profound analyses, researches, conclusions and weighty books...
...to insist that in all matters coming within the jurisdiction of the General Manager the countersignature of his Manchurian Assistant is required, failing which the acts of the General Manager shall not be considered as carrying authority, . . . As a measure pre-1 liminary to a possible seizure of the railway, the mobilization of the railway servants is contemplated...
...In reply to this measure of the Soviets, Manchuria cut off all communications with the frontier station Pogranichinaya with the view of preventing any further transfer of rolling stock...
...And what do you want to win, anyway...
...Enquiries are being made into the situation of every Soviet employee and surprise inspections of the club and other public railway organizations are planned...
...Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts won, but what was won and for whom was it won...
...No, we're not pulling out of this yet and we're not going to do it unless you are willing to go the whole hog...
...Socialism is the aim...
...And many of us can carry them off to greater advantage than the hatchet-faced dowagers you see strolling from the theatre to their limousines...
...On the contrary, the mine, shop and factory provide the backgrounds for desirable leadership when proletarian life is supplemented with Socialist education...
...In recent years China has been gradually eliminated from the administration of the Eastern Chinese Railway, which, formerly Russo-Chinese, has instead become, notwithstanding Chinese protests, Russo-Manchurian, that is to say Russo-Japanese...
...Joe asked...
...THE economic opening up of * Manchuria began in 1896 wh< ;i Tsarist Russia obtained a concession to build the Eastern Chinese Railway...
...An investigator of the British "Manchester Guardian" estimates that at present 40% of the cultivataole land along the railway is uncultivated because of the terror exercised by brigands...
...Bill Would Move to a Goal ' A'^' ''iat 'S Sl'" worse'" reP''C(I- "You not only water your Socialism and ignore the proletarian basis of the movement...
...That means so thoroughly emasculating the profit system that it would be senseless for "business as usual" to remain in business...
...Bill Wants No Mask "AND in this period we have had more support by those who like your broad appeal than at any other period," said Bill...
...Built at the beginning of this century by American capital, the Southern Manchurian Railway at the close of the Russo-Japanese War, in 1905, passed, from Port Arthur to Changchun, into the hands of the Japanese, who bought out the American Harriman Railroads Corporation...
...Many of them have an academic training, haven't they...
...And when I think of all the other women who are going through the same dreary routine and then think of the mass starvation among the tailors and s h o e m akers and hatters, whose desperate daily plea is for a chance to make us clothes to wear, I begin to think I must be going insane...
...If, on the other hand, the workers are to receive enough in wages to buy back what they have produced, you're going to knock the profit system into a cocked hat...
...Somehow or other the President, it seems, expects to give the workers greater purchasing power and at the same time restore business to a more* profitable basis...
...Core to be taken not to create the false impression of an extensive police round-up...
...At the same time it declared that "Soviet railway servants acting in an unlawful manner in a foreign country are liable to be regarded as criminals...
...what American Farmers Face in 1933 Congress has ruled that the prices of farm si hundred pounds of pork, or a given aaMtfl city good* as it bought back in 1910 to 1»M| new farm act...
...Ecott Nearing, author and lecturer, and Norman Thomas will participate...
...That road leads quite definitely to the left...
...For the 1 offered tout This, howeij present peas Altboughl at 350 to 4 the Soviet ti million, sal lion...
...The class will of the workers is thus smothered...
...We should ask them to join us, not to teach us but to learn from us...
...To , get them with their narrow viezvs you want a broad appeal that will not offend them...
...Unless it is the President's intention to divert the lion's share of the national wealth from its usual course and take the meager balance and divide it among the owners of industry...
...The following are a few significant passages from the report of September 4th: "Since the spring of the present year Manehukuo has taken u series of measures in connection with the Eastern Chinese Railway...
...Only beef cattle were hfJ I ore* h IMH increased until a bushel of wheat, or a ¦P*" products will buy as much in the way of |*» "parity" referred to in most discussions of the Bpitfcat farm prices in 1929 were 90 per cent of Pr combed an to 71 per cent on July 15 bat since ¦fto let farmers parity on their goods, farm offl-inu * *** farmer receives for bis products and Bj rl*"h'- How to rut down distribution cost in IVMjriceR paid to farmers in Ortober, 1932, and pgj^Th...
...If what is to be given to labor were to be taken from capital it would be all right, but if it is to be taken from other workers It will make a bad situation worse...
...The following article, somewhat condensed, is provided by the information service of the International Transport Workers' Federation, headquarters in Amsterdam...
...We need no exhortation to Buy Now or any time...
...During the last five years the track has been broken up no less than five times, on three occasions the trains have been bombarded, and two stations have been set on fire...
...The effects of this report were not long in manifesting themselves...
...You want to get the Morals, pacifists, progressives, sentimentalists and others into one stew with the workers because you want to win, hut what you want to win or should want to win is ignored...
...asked Joe...
...Since the occupation of Manchuria by Japan the regular running of trains has entirely ceased...
...In the course of seven years the Soviet Government's expenditure on the Chinese Eastern Railway amounted to 140,000,000 gold roubles, which shows the importance attached to it...
...Well, wc will never win by your methods...
...People are eager to know whether the NRA will really lead to discover, and, if so, along what road it will travel and where it will lead...
...flway is valued at fold-roubles, only asked 250 nently 200 mil-pit Union en-It the form of a pii a political 1 the solution to provoke a The fact that itned by the sr having any ss contributed t value...
...They should go through the same apprenticeship in acquiring knowledge and experience as other members...
...C. C. w director, "that l either to aban-p the railway or bc...
...The Southern Manchurian, linking up to the Russian Charbin-Changchun branch of the Eastern Chinese Railway, joins Port Arthur to Charbin and has always been of great importance for Japanese penetration into Manchuria...
...It is important for workers in this country to know something of these sore spots...
...Yes, hut the bourgeois college and theological seminary are not training schools for Socialist leadership," Hill replied...
...you want to follow a policy which would accept the professions, the lower middle class groups, the colleges and theological seminaries as training schools for Socialist leadership...
...Mussolini and Hitler were both so broad in their appeal that they had a little of something to offer to everybody...
...Plans are under consideration whereby the private creditors of the railway would have to claim repayment of their holdings, which would enable the property of the railway to be distrained...
...13, under the auspices of the Willow Brook Cooperative Association...
...Otherwise we will encourage arrogance, not foster comradeship...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
