The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
Reign OF Terror.

In connection with the reign of
terror in Japan, the Pan-Pacific
Trade Union Secretariat on October
Is issued statement calling for
the overthrow of the Mikado and his
class rule, part of which is as fol-
lows:
"The spectre of dangerous
thoughts is haunting bourgeois
Japan. Dangerous thoughts are
sprouting in the heads of the jul
venile proletarians. Dangerous
thoughts are spreading wide among
the working masses and are taking
root in The army and navy.
Oppression"
1.-THE causes IF the dangerous
thoughts are not far nor difficult
to be found. Precisely the extreme
exploitation and oppression of the
working class and peasant masses
by the bourgeoisie and the landlords,
the enforcement of the speed-up
system and the frightening of the
workday, which filings hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of prole-
tarians on the streets of Tokyo,
Osaka, Nagoya, etc., the cut in
wages and the pressing of the stand
ard of living of the workers down
even lower; the systematic and per-
sistant persecution and suppression
CT strikes, peasant riots, mass dem
onstrations-all combined causes
and drives the working masses to
dangerous thoughts to thoughts
of revolutionary working class con-
cepts, and the capitalization of a
definite left wing within the Japa-
nese labor movement.
Fight Empire.
"The newly formed left wing de-
velops rapidly into leading center
of the mass struggles, not only those
of an economic character and imme-
date nature, but also of political
activities and far-reaching revolu-
tionary aspirations. The left wing
presses not only the struggles of
the daily needs and the fight for
free speech, free press, freedom of
strike, organization, ETC., but it also
promotes the struggle for the over
/ throw of the open and violent bour-
geois dictatorship and the establish
ment of the workers and peasants
government in Japan. Likewise the
left wing propaganda for the indie
pendence of Korea and Formosa, as
well as the campaign for the Hands
Off China movement threatened to
become a serious obstacle tc the
Japanese imperialist aggression and
invasion of China, and a disturbing
factor in the general preparation for
imperialist war. Firstly, in prepara-
ton of war against Soviet Russia
and the great Chinese revolution,
and, secondly, for war against its
imperialist rivals, against the United
States of America in particular.
Suppress Peasant Organization.
Therefore the smash-up of the
left wing. Therefore right after
the general elections the Tanaka
government began vicious attack
against the left wing and revolu-
tionary organizations. Thus on
March IA over one thousand left
wing trade unionists and Commu-
nists were arrested and simultane-
ously the left wing organizations
dissolved, namely, the Nippon Rodo
Kunuiai Hyogikai Trades Union
Council in JAPAN, the Musan Sci
men Domei (Proletarian Youth
League) and the Ronoto workers
and Peasants Party, were all
broken up. In April again mass ar
rests all over the country and, above
all, the PRONUNCIATION Of the Bloody
Lava law calling for a death
penalty or at least ten years i'm
rrisonment for every revolutionary
seeking to change the present form
of the Japanese state. Mass arrests
again in August and more mass ar
tests last week. At the same time
the mass trials are in full sway of
preparation by the employment of
the most cruel methods and barbar-
Gus tortures. Especially the most
outrageous and brutal torture are
being inflicted by the Mikado spies
and police to the comrades arrested
in Korea and Tokyo"