The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-07
H. I.L.U. SESSION
/. TAKES UP JAPAN
LABOR QUESTION
Schumann Reports on
8-Hour Day

international Press Correspondence
MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., March is ny
Mall).-The sixth session Of the exeeu-
tive Of the Red international Of Labor
Unions adopted a resolution upon the
work Of the revolutionary trade unions
for the study Of sooial-eeonomlc ques-
tlons. The session then heard the
report Of conrade Taxi Hara upon the
trade union movement in Japan.
Taxi Hara described the severe eco
nomic crisis and the persecution on
the part Of the government under
which the Japanese revolutionary
working-class movement must de-
velop. The reformists have built a
block with a government and they sa-
botage every attempt to establish the
unity Of the working class.
The Yiekikai.
A particularly Grass example OF this
is their refusal to participate in the
formation of the workers and peas
ants party, which was formed by revo-
lutionary elements and later on dis
solved by the government The revo-
lutionary center of the trade union
movement, the Yiekikai, struggles for
unity, organizes the unemployed and
fights the efforts Of Amsterdam to sub
iugate the japanese trade union move
ment,
~ Browder Speaks.
comrade Browder (U. S. A. stressed
the necessity of the establishment of
CLOSE connections between the Japan
.ese and American workers and sug-
gested mutual workers delegations for
this purpose.
Losovsky.
Comrade Losovsky pointed to the
great significance of the Japanese
working-class movement for the in
ternational proletariat Reformism,
which is supported by the whole force
of the state apparatus, is very strong
in Japan. No, after the destruction
of the workers and peasants party
the reformists are forming a moderate
labor party, which will undoubtedly be
a great hindrance for the work of the
revolutionaries.
The left trade union center has al
ready reached a very considerable de-
gree Of political maturity. A struggle
must be carried on for the unity of
the trade union movement and for the
establishment of firm International re-
lationships.
Japanese 5ackwardness.
Comrade Saller (R. |. L. u ex-
planned the reasons for the theological
fbackwardness Of the Japanese proIe-
tariat in comparison with the Chinese
proletariat and declared that the cause
Of this backwardness came from the
incorrect tactic of the Japanese revo-
lutionary center towards the labor
office.
Eiaht-Hour Day Report.
Comrade Schumann then made the
report upon the question of the eight
hour day and social legislation. He
went into the situation in the various
countries in detail. The eight-hour
day, which was won in the revolution
airy wave after the war, has been for
mally abolished in some countries dur
ing the attacks of the reaction and in
many other countries it is now L.
nored.
Eight Hours Firm In Russia.
The only country in which the eight
hour day is firmly maintained is the
soviet union. In the same way the
laws for the protection of women and
children were abolished or limited in
practice. The speaker then dealt with
the question of labor arbitration, the
unemployment exchanges, the factory
inspection, social insurance, ETC., etc,
and pointed out that the leaders of the
revolutionary trade union movement
would have to pay the greatest atten-
ton TO the question of fighting for the
re-establishment or the maintenance
Of the eight-hour day, and to the gen
eral questions of social legislation.