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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
THE liberal" REGIME
IN JAPAN OF PREMIER
HAMAGUCHI & COMPANY
"A Gentleman Who Lives Frugally, Reads
Marx and Understands Labor Takes Helm
Only-Under This Gentleman, Persecution
of the Workers Becomes the Chief Business

gressive professors as well as fake
laborites on how to introduce ration
alization most effectively, placing
all the burdens on labor.
Coming to the fourth point we
simply point out that a new draft
for trade union regulation bill has
just been completed. To know the
real intention Of the government
for preparing such a bill we need
only to remember what ex-premier
Wakatsuki remarked at the time Of
the introduction of similar bill
in March, 1927. He said:
"Now the time for the application
of universal manhood suffrage is
approaching. In the future when
the working class begins to have
more say in the lower house it will
be almost impossible to pass a
sound trade union bill at the lower
house. If so, to have a sound
one passed right now would be very
advisable, for in such case we can
prevent the passing of more radical
ones, on the ground that we have
already one :. :"
A significant comment by a Brit
ish owned bourgeois press in Kobe
recently that "never before, even in
war period, has there been more
brutal suppression Of news than I'M
der present Minseito government"
together with all the liberal ges-
ture" shown by the government to-
ward renegade Oyama and his
group, allowing them to form a new
legal labor-farmer party, clearly
tell us the real character Of the
Minseito government.
We must remember in this con-
nection that this is the government
that is participating in the London
Naval Armament Conference with
imperialistic demand camouflaged
by the phrase Enough navy to pro-
tect herself but not enough to take
aggressive measures"
Now, ever since it's coming into
power the Minseito government has
been raking out all the scandals
and briberies committed by the
leaders of the opposition while in
office. So far they succeeded in
placing a one time minister of JUS
tice and a former minister of rail
ways into Jail. Dozens Of M. P.
and government officials who served
under Premier Tanaka are also con-
yicted of having accepted brides or
of transportation of public funds,
etc.
The popularity of the opposition,
Seiyukai party, fell to the ground.
It was even rumored when Ex-
Premier Tanaka died suddenly,
shortly after his resignation, that
he committed suicide because one
of his right hand men, Heikichi Oga-
wa, the minister of railways, was
placed under arrest. At any rate
there is now a splendid opportunity
for the fake "liberap' Minseito gov
eminent to gain majority support
in the parliament. Besides the COM
ing general election is going to be
held under its own supervision.
| Nothing more could be hoped for.
tn Rs Continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worlter Correspondent
CHICAGO.-A week after my
husband was laid off I was forced
to go and look for a job myself.
After looking around for a while l
came to a big shop with a sign on
the door, 'No help wanted but l
decided to go in and prove it to
myself whether they did any hiring
at all or not.
But to my surprise that morning
they hired about a hundred girls, in
GLIDING me. Next morning when |
started to work they hired still more
female help. / couldn't understand
why there was sign on the door,
"No help wanted" while they were
still hiring girls. So l asked one
of the girls that worked there three
years why they did that. She said
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Investia Hits Labor
Aid to War Threat

Continued from Page One)
denounced the anti-Soviet religious
crusade abroad, backed by the inn
perialist powers, in an interview
with foreign newspaper correspon-
dents.N
The Metropolitan condemned the
crusade as "bloodthirsty, unjust
and unchristian attacks on the So
Wet Union, and a summons to an
tagonistic action against it."
Sergius, responding in writing to
questions submitted in advance by
correspondents from British and
American capitalist papers, unre-
servedly reaffirmed the contents Of
his interview last Saturday with
the Soviet press.
eve have SEEM" he said, "the
declarations Of the Pope, the Arch
bishop Of Canterbury and many
other religious leaders summoning
crusade against the Soviets. We
refer you to Bishop Longley Of
Iowa, who not only Joined the pope
but declares they must not hesitate
even before bloody struggles"
Sergius accused the pope in 1925
of confiscating 500 Greek Catholic
Churches in Poland alone, convert
ing them into Roman Catholic
Churches.
GAS far as we know" he said
"no bishop in England, the United
States, or any other country, pro.
tested against these violent actions
Of the Catholic Church.
eve do not need any kind Of as.
sistance," Sergius stated, especial
ly we do not need foreign inter
ference"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

SEOUL, Korea.--Despite all the
Japanese propaganda about the re-
form in criminal matters, horrible
punishments are still inflicted, es-
pecially on suspected Communists
or agitators in the national indepen-
dence movement.
In this connection an interview
printed in the local "Seoul Press"
with S. Suyehiro, the head Of the
Criminal Section Of the Japanese
Court System, is Illuminating. This
is particularly true because lead
ing daily in Japan has recently de-
clared that such practices were re-
sorted to after the ending Of the
world war. There have been many
charges that such methods-indeed
others even worse-are still en-
ployed by the Japanese officials.
Punishment by striking the &C.
cused repeatedly with heavy rods
was, Suyehiro states, managed in
this fashion:
1.-THE criminal was stripped bare
and fastened to wooden boards ar
ranged crossfise. He was then beat
en- with . rod. The maximum num-
Der Of blows was fixed at 80 a day.
In case Of q sentence of 60 blows,
the prisoner was beaten on the left
hip 80 times the first day, and then
on the second day given as many
blows on the right hip. This kind
of punishment was given those pun
ishable by either imprisonment for
less than month, or fine Of less
than 100 yen (S50).
Sometimes, he continues, 1--WE
judges, attended the execution. In
; such cases the executioners were
full of zeal and beat the poor Grim.
inals severely. Because we felt pity
for the sufferers, we refrained from
visiting the place as often as we
might otherwise have done.
Whenever we, judges, pronounced
sentence calling for less than 6t
blows the accused were glad and
expressed their thanks. If it was
for more than 80 blows the accused
would turn pale and cry out 'Aigol
"Such sentence meant 80 blows
on the left hip the first day, &c
on the right hip the second day
and another 80 on the left hip again
on the third day.
1T must surely have been hard to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

cause of refusal to accept reduc-
ton in wages, or refusal to work
below union rates. Absolute equal
ity of Negro and white workers.
"3. Establishment of free en-
ployment agencies administered by
the workers themselves.
"a. Abolition of private employ
ment agencies.
"5. Emergency relief for unem-
ployed from city, state or federal
funds.
sc. Abolition of all evictions for
non-payment of rents by the unem-
ployed.
az. Abolition of all vagrancy
laws.
"S. Full union rates Of wages on
all public works with the right to
organize and strike against discrim-
nation and bad working condi-
tons"
Another unemployed meeting is
being held on Feb. 10, and a dem
onstration on Friday, Feb. 81.
Editorial note: Unless our cor
respondent in Youngstown is mis-.
taken, the action being taken by the
Youngstown unemployed does moi
conform to the policy of the T. U. U
l.. on the organization and methods
of the unemployed movement. First.
ly, the unemployed workers do not
select council" but form one, Of
which all are members who join a.
individuals, who of course elect ar
Executive Committee Of the Council
Secondly, the method of sending {
letter thru the mail" to the Cit,
Council, and of sending a Commit
tee Of five" merely "to visit thu
City Council, is not the method o.
revolutionary workers but of re
formists, and needless to say it il
ineffective. The T. U. U. L., on thu
contrary, upholds the action o.
masses rather than Of twists 0.
committees" of militant demonstra
tions of all workers en- masse, no
the method Of "petitioning." Since
the Youngstown Council Of Unem
ployed is planning demonstration
on Friday, we take it, therefore
that the first action, if mistaken, i:
being corrected.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Youngstown Jobless Organize.

Labor Defense, carry on the legal
defense and the mass work of agi-
tation and propaganda. Each local
union should be affiliated with the
LID, the organization which in the
Illinois strike defended the hundreds
Of strikers jailed on the picket line.
The establishment Of a strike re-
lief fund is urged by the National
Board, with a certain percentage Of
all dues to be set aside for this PR
pose. Affiliation is urged with the
Workers International Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Says Filipino Freedom
Would Stir NJ a $ $ e s
Throughout All Asia

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1s.--
Nicholas Roosevelt, capitalist editor
and economist from New York, tes-
titled before the Senate Insular
Committee on the Filipino question,
and argued that it would add to the
revolutionary mood Of the masses
in the Orient If the Philippines were
freed from Wall Street domination.
Everyone is sitting on key Of
gunpowder out there in the Far
East" said Roosevelt, land the
grant Of Philippine independence
might set of the keg."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
BY S. sAKURAI.

(In the first article Comrade
Sakurai dealt with the dissolu-
ton of the Japanese parliament
recently, and how this developed
under the Tanaka government up
to the arrest of 1000, the holding
of 1926 for trial and the dissolu-
ton of militant labor organiza-
tions in the Spring of 192s.--Ed.)
~
PART II.
THESE terrorist measures, how
! ever, not only did not terrorize
the workers and peasants who live
under appalling conditions, but
rather encouraged their left orien-
tation. The Japanese bourgeoisie,
therefore, now needed the service of
a cabinet Of 'liberal brand" And
thus the present Minseito cabinet,
headed by Japan's "third untitled"
premier Hamaguchi and which in
cluded Baron Shidehara, the advo-
Gator of non-interference policy--as
long as it can afford tin China,
as foreign minister came into exist
ence in spite Of the minority sup
port.
We remember very well that no
efforts were spared at the time to
hail the 'liberal" quality Of the new
cabinet. Premier Hamaguchi was
described as gentleman who "lives
frugally," reads Marks "Capital"
and therefore has better understand
ing Of labor problems than General
Tanaka. It was also reported that
one Of the ministers, in his youth,
was a fisherman, therefore giving
the Minseito cabinet something of
a "proletarian" character, etc.
That all this publicity and propa-
ganda were purposely conducted to
fool the Japanese workers and peas
ants and especially the petty-bour-
geoisie were clearly exposed by the
pledges and actions made by the
cabinet members themselves since
first coming into power six months
ago.
First of all among the ten points
the new cabinet made public as its
. policies early July last year we
read:
/. Lifting of gold embargo.
2. Conciliatory policy toward
China and the reestablishment Of
Japanese industry and trade there.
8. Recognizing Of Japanese ma
tional economy.
4. Establishment Of sound $50
cial policy"
Already at the heavy expense of
the workers and peasants as well as
of the Electromagnetic, the first
of these four was successfully car
ried out January II to the great
satisfaction of the big bourgeoisie
of Japan. The second, too, is being
successfully carried out. For by
dethroning the American financed
Chang Kai-shek the Anglo-Japan-
ese imperialists will restore their
prestige at least temporarily.
As to the third, the cabinet has
been cooperating with the special
committee which like MacD Donald
proposed Imperial Economic Coun-
GILL" includes big financiers and pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
ESTIMATES
HALF UNEMPLOYED IN
ST. LOUIS, VICINITY
Three Block Long Breadline in Detroit; Ii You
Are Jobless, You're Not Behaving Says Judge
Bosses in Scheme to Starve Out Filipinos Be
cause They Resisted Fascists in California

awful huts around here, babies shiv-
ering, for want of fuel, clothing and
food.
Seven hundred families called for
aid at the Carr st. police station. |
don't know how many have called at
others.
Mayor Miller says he knows of
nothing that can be done. He spends
the winter in Florida. It's awful
and the unemployed workers got to
organize to end this suffering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
JOBLESS Defend
PH|LA. LEADERS
Youngstown ] o bic SIS
Demonstrate Friday

Continued from Page One)
the part of the police" and asking
for action to relieve unemployment.
A conference on unemployment is
called by the T,U.U.L. for February
%, Sunday, at / p. M. at 1908
Tasker st.
Youngstown Jobless Organize.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 49,
At a meeting of unemployed work
ers held here on the 14th, with
more than 300 present, an Unem-
ployed Council was elected and at q
meeting of the council the follow
ing steps were taken:
81. A letter to be sent thru the
mail to the City Council with our
demands.
"2. Copies of this letter to be
sent the local press for publication
"3. A committee of five to visit
the meeting of the City Council to
present our demands which are as
follows:
81. Complete insurance agains,
unemployment to be provided by the
government financed by taxes de.
rived from income, inheritance and
profits, and providing unemploy.
ment benefits at full union rates Of
wages without exceptions or dis.
qualifications.
"2. Administration Of such funds
by unemployed organizations, nc
disqualification to be allowed be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
ITALIAN UNEMPLOYED ARMY
GROWS

ROME, Feb. 1s.-There was an
increase of 5000 registered unem-
ployed workers in Italy in January
over December. The total jobless,
as reported by the government is
now 462,948. Undoubtedly the un-
employed army is much larger as
the Italian government does not
register all the out-of-work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
'sBehave"-And Be A Willing Slave

"But you are not working" the
Judge said.
"No, because there are no jobs
to be found"
ooh, you did not find a job. Then
you did not behave-60 days." was
the ruling of ''his honor"
So now we know that good be-
havior for a worker does not only
mean a willing slave, but he also
must be able to locate JOB when
it's impossible to find one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
SPEED-UP OF
BOSSES MAKES
CRISIS WORSE
Unemployment Grows
More Severe
Continued from Page One)

tCUHtIUUeU JTOW EUyS OH6/
will not rise out of the crisis:
"If a thoroughly sound and salts
factory basis for a further gain in
steel output is present, it has not yet
appeared in the statistics, which are
available to the public" And that
furthermore: Allowing for seasonal
variation there was really loss"
lin steel output during january.
Agriculture Menace.
There is new element in the
crisis of American capitalism which
will further sharpen the slump. That
is the growing agrarian crisis.
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle becomes quite frantic over
this menace of sharpening agra
rian crisis along with the deep de-
preston in all basic industries. They
Say February Is, 1930):
Unfortunately, too, the menace
involved is beginning to have some
effect upon general business. And
there is grave danger that the
revival in trade may be ar
rested. President Hoover's
strenuous efforts to prevent large
scale unemployment may be foiled
by this unhappy development"
The three industries about which
so much ado is made are: steel, tex
tile and automobiles. All capitalist
propagandists point to rise in pro-
duction during January of these
three industries. They all admit
that the rise has not brought any
one of these industries within Is to
20 per cent of the average of the
same time last year.
Gets Worse "At the Best"
But even with the slight increases
in production the Department of La.
Dor reports increased unemployment
in these very industries.
"The textile industry continued
to mark time" says the January
Industrial Employment Informa.
ton Bulletin" of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. "A surplus of tex
tile workers is apparent in all Sec
lions of the country"
Speaking before the University Of
North Carolina recently, Bernard
Cone, head Of the big Cone mills
in Greensboro, frankly promises the
workers more unemployment in the
future. The smaller mills will be
driven out of existence, and this
means further unemployment" he
stated.
With regard to employment in the
Pittsburgh steel centers, the Labor
Department quite unwillingly re
ports: Employment throughout this
district was described as somewhat
unsatisfactory throughout January
Many units of the iron and steel in
dustry operated at low level dur
ing the early part of the month
;. !. The closing of number Of
plants for inventory taking caused
the release of many men," etc., etc
AS to the automobile industry the
reports show continued unemploy.
ment: practically all plants con.
tinued on part-time operations with
curtaiIed forces. A surplus of au-
tomobile factory labor prevailed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Three Block Long Breadline in Detroit

wood A. on Wednesday, February
IL, also another one at Michigan
near Trumbull.
The unemployed in Detroit are
growing daily. They'll make them
selves heard throughout the world
on March 6, when they demonstrate.
A JOBLESS WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
(By a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-A worker can't
find work here, because nearly so
per cent of the workers have been
unemployed all winter. l have asked
many places for employment and
the bosses just laugh and say, go
to the municipal Lodging House.
Well, I've seen hundreds there,
the most miserable food have seen
offered people to eat. You should
see the workers families in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent.)
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Unem-
ployed workers are Migrants" here.
One "vagrant" was given a 30-day
sentence recently. The sentence was
suspended provided he would "be-
have"
A couple of days later he was
jailed again and came up before the
same Judge on similar charge.
II told you to behave" the judge
Numbered out.
II have" the worker answered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
TOLEDO J0bLESS
DEMAND RELIEF
WORK OR WAGES
Cincinnati A. F. of L.
Fails in Attack

Continued from Page Ons)
ment of the workers. So he con-
tinued speaking, calling on the work
ers to organize to fight for their
demands for "work or wages"
against speed-ups," against wage
CUTS" "for the Seven-hour day."
social insurance" and immediate
relief for unemployed.
He also spoke on the Communist
Party's role as leader of the working
class, the condition of the workers
in the Soviet Union compared TO the
conditions here in capitalist America,
and called on the workers to demon
strate on International Unemploy-
ment Day, March 6. The crowd was
enthusiastic in pledging its support
to International Unemployment Day
plans.
On account Of the City Councils
promise to take up the demands of
the jobless tonight, there will surely
be a larger demonstration tonight
than the one last night.
Is
Cincinnati A. F. of l.. Beaten.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 13.--A
last minute concerted effort was
made by combination of police, the
A. F. of L. officialdom, petty-bour-
geois hall keepers and the capitalist
press, to prevent the holding of the
two mass unemployed meetings call
ed by the Unemployed Councils At
filiated to the Trade Union Unity
League.
The splendid response Of the
workers to the call Of the T.U.UL.
and the fighting spirit displayed 1t
the previous Sunday meeting, which
necessitated the hiring Of second
hall to accommodate the large num-
Der of workers that came, inspired
the Unemployed Council 50 that
preparations were made to hold two
such meetings in different parts Of
the city.
Thousands of leaflets were dis
tributed, bearing the unemployed de-
mands and the meeting dates and
places, when one of the hall keepers
suddenly said that on instructions
from labor leaders" and police Of
ficials, no unemployed meetings
would be allowed at his hall.
Af %L1
Councils quickly adjusted things,
hired new halls and to the crowd
that came exposed the fascist role
of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats in
their alliance with the police against
the workers out of job.
! Both meetings were a great sue
cess, and the crowd, 60 per cent Of
which were Negro workers, showed
! themselves fully determined to fight
for "work or wages" unemployment.
and other social insurance, unity Of
the employed with the unemployed,
Negro and white alike, and full So
cial, political and economic equality
for the Negro masses.
The Councils of Unemployed were
strengthened by the joining Of a
great many more militant workers,
and preparations were made to hold
several meetings the coming week,
and make ready for international
Unemployment Day, March s, when
the Unemployed Councils will utilize
the demonstration to broaden out
still further in the fight for I'M
employment demands. The speakers
were Chas. Mitchell, S. Safer and
| A. Ford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

(Bp q Worker Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-Cham-
bers of Commerce throughout cen
trail California have ordered all
ranch owners to stop hiring Filipino
workers in the harvest fields, in an
attempt to starve them out and
drive them from the country, be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-As a reader of
The Daily Worker and noticing
photos of breadlines in different
cities, want to let you know also
that we have them in Detroit. One
three blocks long at 18th and Hazel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him a copy every
day for a week. Then ask him to
become a regular subscriber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Moundsville Case Won,
Contempt Trial Next

Continued from Page One)
These workers were arrested and
sent to Jail for "tresspassing" last
week. The charge of violating a
permanent injunction comes to hear
ing tomorrow morning, and repre-
sentatives of the LID. and N.M.U.
will be in court to attack the in
junction itself as a strike-breaking
weapon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Filipino Workers To Be Starved Out

cause they defended themselves
against American Legion fascist at
tacks in the recent boss-inspired
race riots.
Another Filipino was beaten up in
San Francisco by the 100 per cent
ers.
-FRISO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
MORE UNEMPLOYMENT PROM.
IsED CHI. BUILDING WORKERS

CHICAGO, eFeb. 18.--The build.
ing commissioner here in the weeh
ended Feb. IS issued 35 permits
involving construction work Of $685..
100 as compared with SO permita
with value of S2,503,900 in like
period of last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Japanese Imperialist Admits Torture of
Koreans
hOTedHS

have ones side-still aching from
the previous beating--again beaten"
comments this brute in the employ
ment of Japanese imperialism.
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