Japanese Plan Penetration = asf i. Se » obtained here. Laas [vil ha LE "TD" | key PO PE Oita as % ie by : | : Bet le Fe I Be et rt eal THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE Page Three susust 11, 1939 ) Of New Guinea, Australia Air Line To Be 1 'Used To Maintain Communications | BATAVIA, Dutch East In- mp dies.—(ICN). — The Japanese aS navy is planning to continue its secret offensive against the de- "mocracies in the Pacific, ac- Jeording to reliable information Details of these _plans include: e 1. Seizure of further stratgic islands. 2. Establishment of a new air- line, which, though useless from @ commercial point of view, has important military significance; and 3. Development of a wide- spread espionage and Fifth Col- umn network in the Dutch Hast Indies, British Worth Borneo and Australian Guinea. At the same time it is clear that all Japanese moves up to the pres- ent moment have been carried out according “to a carefully worked » out plan in collaboration with the _ two other aggressor powers. At the time of the Czechoslova- kkian crisis last September, a Jap- anese maval unit, consisting of one large cruiser, seyeral torpedo boats and transport carriers, com- plete with troops, were reported in the vicinity of the north coast ef Dutch and Australian New ' Guinea. Tt is now established that in event of war the Japanese intend to occupy these islands immedi- ately. The troops which were not » disembarked during the Septem= > ber crisis have now been unloaded ' in South China. . 5 Significance of the Japanese ' move is clarified when it is real- ized that important petroleum de- posits exist in north New Guinea | and also in Worth Borneo. ATR LINE PURPOSE Heving occupied Hainan and the Spratley Islands, Japan does ' not intend to -wait for the out » break of war before seizing anoth- €r important position, the island of Watuna. Watuna is directly morth of Singapore, blocking the roure from the British naval base te the China Sea. It would form @ useful connecting link between Hainan and Spratley Islands, for the Japanese. its occupation would allow the Japanese line of communications to extend right down to Singapore and Indonesia. 4 At present Natuna is not forti- » tied. Im the hands of the Japan- ' ese, however, it would constitute a greater danger than the occupa-— tion either of Hainan or the Sprat- ley Islands. The new air-lineé which is now being constructed is intended pri- marily to maintain the lines of military communication for Ja- pan. it connects Yokohama with the Island of Palao, and forms a | Straight line, passing through Sai- | Pan, one of the Marianen Islands, and the nearest point to the Unit ed States possession, Guam. Palao, a former German posses- Sion, mandated after the war to Japan, is only a short distance from Dutch WNew Guinea. Likewise a journey of less than two hours would bring an airplane from Pa- Jao within striking distance of the rich Borneo oil wells at Tara- ‘kan and Balikapan. ESTABLISH NETWORK Coincidental with these moves, the Japanese are developing a far- reaching network of propaganda agents and espionage in the Dutch East Indies and elsewhere. in Batavia, it has been revealed, the Japanese haye financed a2 number of important printing shops and newspapers. The chief of the Indonesian department of the semi-official Aneta News Ag- ency, has been exposed as one of the chief Japanese agents. He has recently purchased one of the largest printing shops in Batavia, and is likewise behind the financ- ing of a number of similar deals with newspapers. im Singapore, a Japanese daily newspaper has been started, which openly carries anti-British propaganda. iM 2 4 Delegation Plans Study Of Mexico NEW. YORE, N-Y—Council for Pan-American Democracy, orgzaniz ation fermed last year to further the Wnited States’ “scod neighbor” policy by fostering co-ordinated ac- tion of democratic forces in the , US. and Pan-American countries, ; 4 i ' is sending a delegation to study conditions in Mexica, according to 2a statement issued by its executive secretary, Dr. David Efron. Included on the delepation will be Maury Maverick, mayor of San Antonio, Texas; Justice James EH. Wolfe, of Sait Lake City, of the Su- preme Court of Utah: Dr H. CG Wizon, of New Orleans, executive Secretary of the Southern Confer- €nee for Human Welfare; Joseph Cadden, executive Secretary of the American Youth Congress. Netherlands Prepares Its Coast Defences ONE of the newly-construcirted camouflaged concrete underground fortifications erected by the Dutch army along the coast as part of the country’s defense against invasion from the North Sea: Nazi Agent Who Headed Murder Bands Arrested By ALFRED MILLER MEXICO CITY, DF.—(CCN) .—Siriking at Nazi-led fascist forces, the Cardenas government is holding Helmuth Oscar Schreiter, Nazi leader and ertswhile professor at the state college of Guanajuato, for deportation, with probability that he will first face criminal charges. Roosevelt Hits Out At Enemies Says Reactionary Coalition Gambled With US Welfare NEW YORK, NY. — Lashing out at enemies of the New Deal and the American people, Presi- dent Roosevelt this week at his first press confer— ence since the ses- sion ended declar— ed that a coalition of congressional Republicans and Democrats had gambled with the welfare of 1,500, 000,000 people in rejecting his neu- trality program. Further, he stat- President ed, the reaction- Roosevelt ary coalition had jeopardized the jobs of 20,000,000 Americans by scuttlimne lending and housing measures: . The President stated that be— tween 20 and 25 percent of the Democrats in Congress, acting with the Republican minority, had taken the gamble, first, that there would be no war until they reconvene next January, and sec- ond, that private industry would absorb the 1,000,000 WEA workers dropped this year and another 2,000,000 who have been given work under the public works pro- gram they postponed until the spring of 1940. Schreiters arrest followed de- "nunciation of his activities by the recent meeting of the Confedera- tion of Mexican Workers (CTEM). The CTM charged that Schreiter was a Nazi spy and leader of the fascist National Union . of Sin-Ar- quismo, whose murder bands, the “cristeros,” have killed more than 500 peasants in the state of Quere- taro during the past two years. Eight peasants were slain rec- ently when cristeros raided an eji- do (communal farm) near Celays in the state of Guanajuato. When CIM trade unions and peasant or- #anizations organized a huge funer- al demontsration, cristeros attack- ed demonstrators, killed five un- armed workers and wounded ten. These outrages aroused indigna- tion throughout the country De- mands were made that federal au- thorities intervene to crush fascist activities in Queretaro and Guana- juato. Wow the ministry of defense has ordered disarming of the entire population of the two states, is transferring the military governors and launching an investigation. In the meantime, reactionary: forces in Queretaro have suffered a heavy blow in the overwhelming defeat of Nicefero Guerrero, fascist eandidate for governor, who receiy— ed only 11,228 votes as compared to the 134,388 votes given to Enrique Fernandez, supported by the popu- lar front. US Communists Mark Anniversary NEW YORK, N.Y.— The 20th an- niversary of the Communist party of the United States will be marked by meetings, galas and festivals im al] the larger cities and towns. The party, born in the fall of 1919, is combining its anniversary cele— brations with the fight to defeat reaction in the 1940 presidential elections. ‘Nearly 1000 Join Communist Party At London Rally LONDON, Eng.— (ICN) — Nearly 1000 people joined the British Com- munist party at the huge rally and pageant staged by the party at London’s modern Empress Hall Sta- dium in commemoration of the centenary of the Chartist movement. A collection for the In- ternational Brisade De- pendents’ Aid Committee, started by a donation of $1000 in memory of Lewis Clive, prominent young Labor councillor killed in Spain, realized more than $10,000. “Not Afraid Of Perjurers’ —Bridzges SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. GCN) —Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO jeader, now on trial for deporta- tion, told cheering delegates to the 6th annual convention of the American IWewspaper Guild here last week-end that his case “is in the bag.” “We are not afraid of any col- lection of perjurers, thieves and labor spies,” Bridges said. “As witnesses they are a pretty sorry bunch.” Bridges welcome and outline of developments in his case and the report of Guild Executive Vice— President Jonathan Eddy high- lighted the convention’s opening session. “As far as deportation is con- cerned, ’m not worried,” Bridges eontinued. “The labor movement is going to go on whether f am here or not. We have a dozen men trained to step into my shoes and do as good a job as I can do, and in many respects a better job. We Will come out of this case to the good and to the advantage of the labor movement.” Only Resolute Force Can Check Brazen Aggressors, States Pravda MOSCOW, USSR.—Commenting editorially last Friday on the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War, Pravda, Communist party organ, declared that “the Soviet people are prepared to take part in the organization of a gen- line peace front,” warned that “only a resolute and unyielding force is capable of checking the brazen aggressors.” Appraising the war in light of developments during the past quarter of acentury, Pravda flay- ed the “Socialists” of the Second International for the position they took in serving “as servile lackeys of the bourgeoise,” for im- planting chauyinism: among the elass peace in the name of “de- fence of the fatherland,” Tn these prim years, it said, only the Bolshevik party held aloft the banner of international pro- letarianism., “Tywenty-five years ago,” the Soviet paper stated, ‘‘the ruling classes of imperialist states perpe— trated a crime which the world will never forget They thrust the peoples into a world imperialist War, a rapacious war of the redivi- sion of the world.” Pointing out that this first im- perialist war had already been fol- lowed by the sefond imperialist war, which “threatens to become 2 world war,” instigated by the fas- cist aggressors, Pravda said: “A war against them in defense of the independence of the peoples is a just war. This is known to hundreds of millions of working people in all parts of the world. This is known to the working people of Germany, Italy and Ja- pan.’” Pravda emphasized that the Soviet Union stood on guard for peace, that it abhorred imperiai- ist war, that it had no need for foreign territory, declared in con- elusion: “The Soviet peoples are not afraid of war. They are used to fighting for a just cause. The uni- ty of the Soviet people, their pro- found and unwavering devotion to the Soviet government, to their Own party of Lenin and Stalin, make the Red Army and Navy in- vincible. Their superiority over the armies of the fascist countries, corroded by acute class contradic- tions and by the hatred of the working people for fascism is ob- vious. “In its struggle for peace the party of Lenin and Sialin based itself on the support of the entire (people. The sympathies of the working people of the entire world, of all advanced and pro- gressive mankind, are onthe side ot the Soviet peoples’ Unity Will Be Main Issue At Trades, Labor Congress Union Locals Score Green’s Action In Suspension Of CIO From Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia, trades and labor councils and local unions are electins delegates and drafting resolutions in preparation for the 55th annual convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, which opens in London, Ont., Sept. 25. Philippines [Initiates Land Plan Gov’t To Carry Out Land Distribution, Settlement Program By AMANDO G. DAYRIT MANILA, PI — (By Clipper Mail)—A big program of land settlement and land distribution has been set in motion by the Commonwealth government to solve two problems interwoven into the national economy.. Two government agencies have been set up to promote the objectives of resettlement and land distribution, namely, the Wational Land Settlement Ad- ministration, to take charge of the settlement of unpopulated or sparsely-populated rich agri- cultural regions, and the Rural Progress Administration, to pro- mote small land-ownership by acquiring large privately-owned estates, to be broken up into small lots to be sold or leased to their present tenant occupants. Wational defense has also been tied up with this settlement Program, since in the selection Gf government colonists prefer- ence is given to those who have completed the preseribed six- months military training. This plan is significant in view of the fact that the largest Japanese colony in the Phillipines is in the province of Davao, on the island of Mindanao, chosen for settlement, With an appropriation of $10- 000,000 at itS disposal the Wa- tional Land Settlement Adminis- tration was organized to carry eut the following objectives: i. To facilitate acquisition, settlement and cultivation of jland, whether acquired from the government or from pri- vate parties. 2. To afford opportunity to own farms to tenant farmers and small farmers from econ- gested areas, and to those who have completed the prescrib- ed military trainins. 3. The’ encourage migration to sparsely populated regions, and to facilitate amalgsama- tion of the people in different sections of the country. 4. To develop new money crops to take the place of the present export erops which may suffer from the loss of preferences they enjoy in the American market. > The Convention, first since the Geen unions affiliated with the CIO were suspended from the Trades and Labor Congress this year on orders from William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, will have to deal con- cretely with the problems of trade union unity and national recovery. Uppermost in the minds of trade unionists across the Dominion of Canada is the question of trade union unity. William Green’s arbi- trary and dictatorial order to sus- pend the CrO unions affiliated with the Congress, and his evident deter- mination to further the split by forcing ratification of the suspen-— sion order, has aroused a storm of protest within AFT. unions in Canada, Taking the lead in this protest movement, the Victoria, BC local of the AFT, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has unani- mously rejected orders from its general executive board to support the expulsion of GIO unions from the Congress. Instead the local voted in favor of unity in Ganada’s largest trade union centre, and delegates will vote to reinstate the suspended CiL@ unions. Executive officials of the Trades and Labor Congress of Ganada are scheduled to meet with President William Green of the AFT. at Wash- ington, DC, on August 27, to discuss wtih him again the question of trade union unity in Ganada. SENTIMENT FOR UNITY. Sentiment in this country is for unity in trade union ranks. “@nce again we desire to emphasize this point,” states the Congress call. “Our convention is the supreme au- thority in deciding policies which will govern the conduct of the Congress during the next year.” William Green and his henchmen in Canada, notably John Woble and the roadmen’s association, are working to smash unity in this country and undo the progressive worl: of the Congress in the past three years. On the other hand, progressive forces are rallying to defeat the re actionary line of Green and Go., and indications are that a flood of unity resolutions will descend upon Gon- gress offices at Ottawa before the deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 5. The strugsie around the issue of unity in the Trades and Labor Gon- gress is basic. It involves the entire question of the line of trade union development ni Canada and there— fore of the Canadian labor move-— ment. it is te decide whether a: united trade union movement shall co-operate in the organization of the unorganized, raising of wages and development of independent working class political action for the support of the democratic move— ment, or whether the trade union movement shail be split and deac- tionary groups given a chance to use this split as a key wedge in trying toe split the democratic front in Canada. ADVANCE SALE OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE TICKETS 3 for $1 E2c2 TICKET will admit one adult (or two children) to the Exhibition grounds. Two tickets are good for one Grandstand admission to Horse Races ... from August 28 to September 4. Over $5,100 in Prizes will be given away — including a World Tour (cash value $2,000), a Buick Sedan (value $1,598), a Pontiac Sedan (value $1,131), five prizes cash value $50, and five prizes cash value $25. 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