The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16


moneylenders and merchants plumber the peas
ants of Korea The ruined Korean peasants
flee to the Japanese factories in Japan or Korea,
and If the capitalist factory cannot swallow up
them all in it's hellish caudron, then they in
turn flee into Manchuria During the course of
1913 years, the number of Korean refugees in
Manchuria has grown to million persons. In
the border province OF Tsindao, the number of
Korean farms is 57,643 and Chinese $3.50.
But the Korean pasant fees to Manchuria in
vain, Japanese imperialism, the Chinese land
lord, the usurer and the tax collector await him
there
Manchuria is the richest province Of China,
which is so poor in natural wealth. 1t exports
abroad great amount of soya bans, wheat, OIL
cake tobacco, rice, gao-lin. But the wealth of
Manchuria is not only its soil Manchuria has
coal, iron, gold, forests, Soda
Japanese industry grew up without a cor
responding base of raw material in Japan it
self. Therefore japanese imperialism is trying
to convert all China and especially Manchuria
into its base of raw materials into market for
its products into its economic territory for the
export of capital and in connection with the
threat of the anti-imperialist and agrarian revo-
luton in Korea, into its reserve colonization
fund.
meets with strong resistance from American,
British and in some places French imperialism.
In Manchuria Japanese imperialism won for It
self a commanding position, economically and
politically, in the war with TSarist Russia. 1t
defended this position in the struggle with the
Imperialism of the u S. A., enlarged and ex-
tended it, in spite of the opposition of the Amer
leans and the British. The depeer the crisis in
Japan itself, the sharper became the dispropor-
ton between the tremendous productive ap-
paratus and the narrow base of raw materials
the stronger became the contradiction between
the tremendous productive forces and the ex-
tent of the home market, as the result of the
semi-slavish standard of life of the workers. and
the sen-feudal exploitation of the peasants of
Japan.
The war of competition has become stronger
in the Far East between the leading imperialist
powers. Japanese imperialism has dug itself in
the more firmly in Manchuria.
Manchuria has become emi-colony Of Jap
anese Imperialism, and jumping off point for
winning new positions in China. Based on its
commanding positions in Manchuria Japanese
imperialism is stretching out feelers into inner
Mongolia. is trying to penetrate into Shan-si,
to get Shan-tung fully into its hands and
strengthen its positions throughout all China.
All the economic commanding positions in
Manchurla are IN the hands OF Japanese 1mper-
ialism. The total sum of Japanese investments
in Manchuria az the end of 1929 was 1 1853, 405 900
yen. CA yen is worth about SO cents USA). In
agriculture and forestry, the investments are
224 million yen, in mining they are 116 million
yen, in electric power stations they are 36.1 mil
lion yen, iD industry-105.6 million, in transport
--6799 millions in bankng-672 millions in
| trading-1177 millions, in various other under
takings-51.2 millions japanese capital con-
trolls foreign trade, the chief railroads, the best
| coal mines, the modern ironworks the oil press
ing works. the textile and silk factories, the
match factories, the tobacco factories, the big
gest banks. From heavy industry to wholesale
trading, from railroads to hotels, from big banks
to agricultural experimental acknowledgements
capital dominates over the economy of the
country.
Japanese monopolist associations have beer
exceptionally developed in Manchuria. The big
gest monopoly is the South Manchurian Railway
In addition to the railway line, the South Man.