The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
JAPANESE COMMUNISTS
FIGHT LIQUIDATORS IN
AND OUTSIDE PARTY
New Labor Party Formed Against Communist
Party Under Pretense of Helping Workers
Communist Party Influence Grows; It's Isola-
ton Ends in Spite of Right Wing Opposition

! So the proposal met with hostility
everywhere but in government quar-.
tiers. Oyama, Hososeko, Kamimura,
Kawakami and Koiwai, were expel-
led from the Labor Farmer Alliance.
The japanese Workers Associa..
ton of New York made a statement
against the proposal on the basis
of its first information, which
proved later to be correct.
The New Party Formed.
On Nov. /, the formation of a
new Labor-Farmer Party was prom
ulgated by the Oyama group. To
understand the situation, it is neces-
sary to show the development in the
left labor movement. Besides the
social democrats, there are two
groups doing much harm to the
Communist movement in Japan. One
is the Oyama group. The other is
the Opposition" within the Commu-
mist Party, the leading figures of
which are Toshiro Murayama, Et-
suzo Hawai-, Kazuo Fukumoto, Akira
Asano, and others, mostly the intel
lectual elements who are now in jail.
The Opposition" demands the re-
nunciation of the Party's two main
slogans; "Down with the Mikado|
and "Confiscation of the landed
properties of the landlords, the state
and the church," The opposition
claims the first is premature, since
the Japanese masses are still loyal
to the Mikado.
The Party Opposition Liquidators.
The Opposition" came into the
open first during the public trial
of the victims of the March Is
events. In the court room last sum-
mer, these defeatists revealed all
the secrets of the Party. They waged
polemics against other comrades, but
their line was nothing but criticism
of the Party line correctly set forth
by the Communist International.
They could not see anything outside
Japan, and they could see very little
hope within Japan. They were de-
featists, and they fought the Party
line until beaten.
The Oyama group, in setting up
Q legal Labor Farmer Party, insists
on this line even though it means:
l. To renounce proletarian leader
ship. 2. To drop all revolutionary
demands.
Thus it's declaration is purely re-
formist, stating that it flights for
the protection and extension of the
daily interests of the workers, peas
ants, petty bourgeoisie, in fact all
oppressed to build labor unions
and peasant unions; to foster unfit
cation of the proletarian front; for
political freedom of all oppressed.
Some of these are demagogic,
since the New York Times of Nov.
2 tells us that the new party was
formed under police protection. 1t
has nothing about war danger, de-
tense of the Soviet Union or the
Chinese Revolution. Colonial revo-
luton is ignored.
But despite these liquidators, and
the government attacks, the fight
will go on until the Japanese pro-
letariat seizes power.
The Communist Party is not an
initiated. On the contrary its ac-
Invites are growing. The proletariat
is giving its whole-hearted support.
Not only in the left wing unions,
but even in the right wing unions
the Party gets support. The Party
has conferred its activities in the fac
tories and these are its fortresses.