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

chur1an Railway owns enormous StorehouSeS,
workshops, one of the biggest locomotive works
in Asia at Dairen, a flotilla and harbors at
Dairen, Port Arthur, Inow, and Andun, its own
docks at Shanghai coal mines at Fushun, Yam
tai and other places, electric stations, gas works
at Dairen, Mukden, Chandun, Andun hotels in
all the chief towns, building and reserve land
to the extent of $3.50 thousand acres buildings,
hospitals, experimental stations, laboratories,
model silk works chemical works, oil pressing
works, breweries, iron mines, blast furnaces fac
tories for distillng shale oil, soda works, saw
mills etc. The capital Of this monopohst giant
is 671 100000 yen. The annual budget of this
state within a state" is about 250,000,000 yen
income and about 22oooo,ooo yen expenses
The interests of this monopolist association
predeternine to great extent the direction Of
all Japanese policy in Manchuria.
The South Manchurian Railway is trying to
obtain a number of new railroad concessions
for building line from Grin to Hoiren. At
the same time it is bringing about the cessa-
ton of the construction of railroads by Chinese
capital, and in particular the cessation of the
construc on Of lines which might compete with
the South Manchurian Railroad 1t was no
chance that the journal of the department of
economic investigation of the SIN Railway,
"Mammo Dz1dzo," when recounting all the rail-
way lines projected by Chinese capital, states
that If the Chinese plans are carried out, the
SIN Railway will lose the freight of the most
important districts of Manchuria. IF the Chinese
insist on their plans" writes the journal, "a
black cloud will rise on the relations between
Japan and China. This may cause much harm
to both countries. At present there is hope that
this cloud will pass by Japan and China
The South Manchurian Railway agrees to the
Chinese building railways which will serve the
SIN Railway, providing it with freight. But it
ressts the construction of lines parallel to itself,
which would divert freight from the SIM Rail
way. A struggle is going on for imperialist
monopoly, for the strengthening and enlarge
ment Of this monopoly.
Along with the SIM Railway and in close COL
liberation with it, the Korean bank the So
called Chosen bank and the Yokohama specie
bank dominate the economy of Manchuria.
Evidently, Japanese imperialism at the pres
ent time is solving the Questions connected
with railroad construction, which means giving
new concessions to Japanese capital and the
refusal to construct competing railway lines by
Chinese capital. Secondly, Japanese capital is
trying to "solve" the land question in Man
churia.
Up to the present, Japanese citizens have not
had the formal right to buy land apart from the
land owned by the South Manchurian Railway.
Japanese imperialism is seeking TO get JHeSe
rights under the pretext of defending the in
terests Of the Korean settlers. Naturally, there
is no question Of protecting the interests Of the
ruined Korean peasants but 1t is only ques-
ton of whether the Eastern Colonizng Society
the Chosen Bank and the Japanese land specu-
lators and not the Chinese landlords will exploit
the peasants. Therefore the Japanese imper-
ialists are prepared to insist on the right OF
extra -territoriality of the Korean settlers. The
recognition of this right would be equivalent to
the seizure Of Tsiandao and other provinces OF
Manchuria by the Japanese imperialists.
Thirdly, Japanese imperialism is seeking to
bring about the formal separation Of Man.
churia from China The war lord of Manchilria
Chang Hsue Liang has formally recognized the
Marking government. Though faithful servant
Of Japanese capital Chang Hsue Lang has
nevertheless several times tried to evade direct
negotiations" with Japan, on the pretext that
in questions Of foreign policy, the competent
power belongs to the Marking government which
is an agent OF American imperialism As 9
method of utilizing the contradictions between
the imperialists, Mukden gave concession fo1
goldmining to British capital, attracted to Man
| churia Dutch and German capital and made at.
| tempts to attract American capital
| All these questions are interviewer with others
The taxation of Japanese firms and citizens, the
| right" of the Japanese banks Ito issue papel
money, the struggle for the monopoly Of the
collection Of BEANS ETC., form the main feature.
Of the Japanese demands as far as they con.
| Germ Mknchuria itself.
Ths problem Of Manchuria is inseparately