The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-12
Heroic Japanese Peasants


Undeterred by the frghtful penalties decreed by law
against all political activity dissent the part of the
Masses two thousand japanese peasants have taken the
crude weapons of their fields in their hands, have VIGOROUSLY
bad the forces of authority have captured the town of
Namoru and at last reports deyng the powers of the
Japanese imperial government
The immediate occasion of this glorious uprising of
crude armed and desperate of peasants the
flooding of their fields by government engineers engaged
reclamation work river in Gu province but the actual
lie in the desperation of hunger and fiendsh sys
tematc oppression.
Whatever the outcome of the present revolt whether
it is drowned in blood whether bazes signal for
general uprising of the downrodden Japanese millions its
effect upon every Asiatc proetarian will be tremendous
impossible to overestmate If the revolt has anything like
the proportions indicated by the meagre reports will
shake the foundations of the crushing Japanese imperialism
in the Island Empire itself The revolutionary earthquake
will be felt through the suppressed but
vanqushabe proetaans and peasants in Korea Manchura
Shantung-the bases of Japanese mperiast aggression
will be felt very distinctly every land washed by the
Pacific
The role of Japanese government in the general i'm
periaist preparations for coming manyded AS the
Imperialism most sraegicay placed in Asia its prepara
tons pursued relatively feverishy those of of the
great western powers directed not only against its i'm
perlast competitors on the Aslatc mainland but Also to-
gether with the other mpeasts against the Soviet Union
Together with the crushing burden of constantly climb
ing armament COSTS piled upon proearia only fraction
of which lives above the starvation level the Japanese work
ing class is compelled to suffer oppression ferocous
any imperialism has yet worked out to assure itself of quiet
at home during its mperialst adventures abroad and in
preparation for oncomng
Wholesale persecution of eft-wing workers and students
organizations the hardly bearabe lives of hundreds of pro-
etarans ended in blood because they dared organize
against to dream of organizing against their op-
or the DEGREES against the left wing workers and
peasants organizations ordain the death penalty for
dangerous thoughts hundreds from among the flower of
the Japanese working buried and tortured in imperial
prsonsthese only the most obvious effects of the
white terror of Japanese imperialism.
Not only has the japanese government especially the
vicious Tanaka government its drive against the workers
and peasants since the elections attempted the total de-
rucon of the Ronoto workers and Peasants Party the
Musan Semen Doe (Proletarian Youth League and the
leftwing Nippon Rodokumia Hyogkai Japanese Trade
Union Counc but has also zeaousy supported its own
mperalst company union the Rodo Sodome for poison
ing and parayzing the workers
Against the bloody oppression of the Japanese masses
and the danger which Japanese Imperialism is further
ing the Secretarat of the PanPacc Trade Union Congress
has raised the slogan: Down with the Mikado!'
The revolving peasants of Gfu infused this slogan
with the blood of their lives given in revolutionary struggle
against the Japanese mperaiss To carry their heroic
effort to victory they must have not only the revolutionary
support OF the japanese peasanry the industrial proeara
OF the great neghborng cities of Koo Nagoya and Osaka
and the cooperation against the Japanese oppressors
in the Japanese colonies but the support of the world
labor movement.
The japanese peasants of Gifu not only combating
one OF the most vainous agencies for oppression the
world but their actions have the effect of combating the
danger against the first workers peasants republic
on its far eastern exposure.