The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
On the Eve of the Communist
Mass Trial in Japan
By FRED ELLIS

provide the worst for the most active members
of the Central Committee.
The KICK Japanese section of the MOPR)
is now leading the protest of the Japanese
workers and peasants against the terroristlc
measures and is fighting for the release of
these prisoners and for the repeal of all anti
labor laws. Precisely because the social-demo-
cratic forces are united with the state power
and with the ruling class against the working
class, it is necessary that spread the pro-
test as widely as possible
Up to today whatever has been told about
Japan in the bourgeois press is altogether
lie. Japan is no country of cherry blossoms
and of mystery. To indulge in any kind of
illusion that the class struggle is not going
on in the far eastern country is a crime against
the international working class. Japan, today,
under the "liberal" Hamaguchi government, is
under strict censorship. Very few communica-
lions regarding the real revolutionary stua-
ton is communicated to us directly. At the
same time the Japanese ruling class is trying
to hold back the news of the left labor move
ment iii the foreign countries as much as pos
sible from the ears of the Japanese working
class and peasants, who becoming more
and more internationally minded. In this con-
nection we can expect the tremendous effect
from whatever we do in this country for the
Japanese Communists arrested and waiting
death sentences. The fact was already shown
in the case of the Communist demonstration
in New York and Detroit and others against
the American Imperialism in Haiti and Mexico.
Revolutionary Wave in Korea
In this connection it is necessary to remem-
Der that there is another very important point
to be mentioned That is the growing revolu-
ionary wave in Korea and the brutal suppress
sion of her people by Japanese governmental
forces. Since October Is of last year, when
quarrel between Japanese students and Korean
students in one Of the provinces spread into
mass revolt against imperialism and resulted
in the killing of 70 Koreans and the arrests of
over 1900, the independence movement of
Korea, under the leadership of the Korean
Communist Party is moving rapidly forward
Only month SO ago the news leaked out
through strict censorship that another mass
shooting of Korean students took place in the
cities of Korea. The struggle Of the Japanese
working class must be closely connected with
the struggle of the colonial nations, especially
the Chinese, Indian, Korean and the Philip
pines if it wishes to be effective in any way.
The shaky foundations of the Japanese i'm
perialism in the far east have been tremen-
dously undermined by the growing radcaliza-
ton of her own masses and that of colonial
countries bordering to her. Besides, the sue
cessful Socialist construction in the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics, which is bordering
to her, is another threat to the Japanese i'm
perialists.
There are at present about 10000 Japanese
in the United States proper and little over
10000 in the island of Hawaii. Excepting in
the east, j. e., New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
con, ETC., most of these japanese are poor peas
ants, gardeners or agricultural workers. They
are Disseminated against, despised and ex-
plotted. In most of the states they even
deprived of the right to own land which they
have to cultivate to live on Although most
Of these Japanese still are under the influence