The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
"A Letter to Japanese Workers

(From the ALI China Labor Fed
eration)
Dear Comrades:
Reaction sweeps over the Japanese
islands and seas. Persecution and
suppression of revolutionary work.
ers and peasants is going on per-
sistently and systematically in your
country. The crushing of your
class-conscious trade union and pro-
letarian party organizations is the
order of the day in the realms of the
Mikado. The arch-reactionary Sci
yukai's government in the most
brutal fashion is throwing your
militant and revolutionaries in the
prisons for many years. The Fas-
cistic General Tanaka government
is trying to break the backbone of
your movement; to disarm you from
working-class policies and leader
ship; to switch your trade unions
and proletarian parties into class
collaboration and reformist swamps;
to corrupt your movement for
the benefit of the master class, the
bourgeoisie and the landlords.
Urge Fight on Exploiters
We have no doubt, dear comrades,
that you will meet and oppose the
offensive of the exploiters and OPP
pressors with determination and
mass mobilization by closing your
ranks and unifying your forces upon
a militant program; a fighting pro-
gram for your daily needs, for the
defense and liberation of the ar
rested comrades, for the emancipa-
ton of your class from the yoke of
capitalism and landlordism. To all
workers and peasants who are or
ganizing and fighting in this direc-
ton, and to all imprisoned COM
rades, the China. Labor. Fedora.
ton sends its heartiest greetings
and best wishes.
Kuomintang Betrayal
We are writing to you these few
words from our bitter experience.
Thus a couple of yearssago we have
not closed up our ranks sufficiently
upon clear-cut revolutionary pro-
gram and have permitted to too
great on extent the right wing and
observation-disclosures elements with
in the Kuomintang and other organ
izations to exercise control and
leadership of our revolution-the
great Chinese revolution. The lead
ers of the Kuomintang, as you are
we'll aware, have betrayed us, the
Chinese workers and peasants, in
the most vicious manner. They
even turned the Kuomintang from
a revolutionary organization into an
instrument of determination of the
forces of the revolution. Indeed,
the Kuomintang became the bench
man of the imperialist oppressors of
cur country, and the executioner of
tens of thousands of our comrades,
not to speak of the endless and tire
less persecution and suppression of
strikes and our trade union and pea
SAINT organizations. And although
the treacherous Kouminting-the
Chang Kai-sheks, Ii Chi-suns,
Feng Yu-hsians, ETC., are beheading
and heaping the bodies of our COM
rades piles upon piles; although
these running dogs Of the Chinese
feudalists, financiers and merchants
were able to defeat Soviet Canton
and are driving a merciless war
against the many local Soviets in
South and Central China rural re-
gions, yet the revolution is far from
being crushed. On the contrary,
the revolutionary forces are steadily
gathering and growing, regardless
of the oppression and executions.
The general discomfort and unrest
is not only widening but also deep
ening. The Chinese revolution has
developed into a higher stage,
namely, into the stage of the estab-
lishment of Soviets. Therefore, our
slogans are: Down with the Kuo-
mintang government! Long live the
Soviets!
Fight Imperialism
But we are confronted not only
by the Kuomintang as our deadly
enemy. but also we have to fight
against the imperialists-the Japa-
nese. British, American, French, ETC.,
invaders of our country. The i'm
perialist powers have sent and sta
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