The daily worker., 1925-10-13
eRy.sgYamato.

TOKYO, Sept. 22.-(By MaiD Jap
an is going thru period OF long and
deep depression. There are no signs
of Immediate; economic and financial
improvement. The imports are far
above the exports. The trade balance
is unfavorable and the yen is fiuctuat-
ing. The government is trying to fix
the limits to imports but the cutting
down Of the imports of raw material
affects the industry. The slowing
down Of industry increases the unem-
ployed army, which already reaches
the 100000 mark OF course the un-
favorable outlook of the rice crop and
the Chinese uprisings are also contri-
buting to the depression and dead
locked position of Japanese capital
ism
The prices of necessities, particul-
arly on rice, are going up. Wages
are being cut time and time again.
There is great unrest amongst the
proletarians The unemployed do not
get any assistance whatsoever and
the capitalist press fears sporadic out
breaks, etc The government is
scheming to ''export" about a million
unemployed proletarians to Hokkaido,
northern agricultural island. How
ever even the capitalist spokesman
are forced to admit that such a
scheme is an impossibility. Thus all
in all and making the long story short,
we may say that the objective CON
ditions in Japan are ripe and favor
able for Communist activities.
Labor Forces Scattered.
Unfortunately, the organized forces
of Japanese labor are scattered to all
four. winds. There are 222,OOO organ
lied workers out of the four to four
and a half million workers employed.
But even this small force-the $4,000
= are organized into no less than
4O1 unions. Yes, dualism and inde-
pendence, or as we Japanese say,
neutralism is prevailing. Decentral-
ization and territorialism is being felt
everywhere. Syndicalism, is still
blossoming among the metal and
printing trades.
Undoubtedly it will require some
time before We will be able to put our
selves on the right track. For in
stance, just recently, we still had a
split in the Japanese Federation of
Labor In a nutshell, the case was
as follows: The Japanese Federation
of Labor, embracing $4,000 workers,
was the leading and the most advanc-
ed section of organized labor in Japan.
But due to the failure of the German
revolution and the temporary stabil.
ization Of capitalism, ETC., reformism
began to manifest itself within this
organization. o.
Thus gradually the right wing and
the left. wing within the Japanese Fed
Grafton of Labor came into existence.
The left wing was growing stronger
every day. The right wingers became
desperate and decided to expel the
left wing. The left wingers on May
21st assembled in conference and,
after heated ddebate decided to accept
the challenge and decision of the
right wing and resolved to organize
new federation-The Council of the
Trade Unions of Japan. We, the
Communists were against the accept
ance oftheschallenge, but we were too
weak to stem the tide of dualism.
Altho the Japanese Federation of
Labor split in $3.50, yet we the left
wingers are pfacing isolation. The
Suzukis and Nishios are trying their
damndest to detach us from the gem
eral labor movement 1t is quite pos
sible that owing to the favorable OBJ
jective canditions and the political de-
velopments athat we will be able to
avoid sectarianism and further dual
ism. Eees