The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-28
THE STRUGGLE OF THE FAR
EASTERN TOILERS AGAINST
THE IMPERIALIST WAR


Celebrate the 14th anniversary of the establish
ment of the Red Army!"
Other kinds of literature Of the same reyolu-
tionary nature are abundant. The japanese
revolutionary elements are so active that on
Feb. 81, one of their members connected with
the japanese air force at Shanghai even utilized
one OF the japanese fighting r.ianes as the in
strument Of their publicity work and distributed
great many leaflets bearing the seal of the
Young Japanese Communists urging the Japanese
soldiers on the front to fight against the inn
perialist war to defend the Chinese revolution
and to defend the Soviet Union
The same kind of ant-war literature has been
also frequently distributed among the Japanese
plain clothes corps organized by the petty mer-
chants and students Of japanese nationality at
Shanghai On Feb IA, many women and children
OF the japanese poor at Shanghai organized as
ather-husband-so Demanding Corps for their
fathers, husbands or sons were nabbed away by
the war, distributed various sorts of antiWar
literature in the garrison district of the japanese
force
Workers of Other Nationalities Join Struggle
More concrete and enlarged anti-war move
ments have been proceeding now among the re-
yolutionary masses of various nationaties at
Shanghai. In their enlarged Representative
Meeting on Feb. members of the Anti-Im-
perialist League of Koreans at Shanghai decided
to appeal to the anti-imperialist masses of all
nationalities in the city for united front
against the invasion of Shanghai by japanese
imperialism. Under the auspices of the Shanghai
Anti Imperialism League and the A. l. L. of the
Koreans at Shanghai the Representative Meeting
of the Chinese Japanese, Formosan Korean
Indian, etc anti-imperialst masses is now under
positive preparation This certainly viii promise
the formation of the united front against I'M
perialism by the suppressed nations in the Far
East.
The anti-imperialist waves now on the up
surge throughout China that manifested as anti
war struggle at Shanghai undoubtedly have
organically united with the anti-war movement
in Japan and Korea which have been ever ON
the increase since Japanese imperialism forcibly
occupied Manchuria and later shifted a part Of
its guns toward Shanghai. Right after the
Shanghai war occurred according to press re-
ports Oh Feb. 6, two regiments of the Japanese
army mutinied at Kobe opposing attacking
China; toiling women at Yokohama have or
ganized Father husband son Demanding Corps"
and workers in Toxic, Kioto Osaka, ETC., together
with revolutionary students have repeatedly
demonstrated against war, each time having
serious clashes with the police of the ruling class.
1t was told that early on November 20 last
year some 300 Japanese soldiers on the front at
Dahusan in Manchuria suddenly mutinied against
massacreing the Chinese masses and attacking
the Soviet Union, but they were outnumbered and
killed en- bloc by Japanese imperialism. This
fact tells US that the prestige of the Imperial
force is carrying with itself anti-war seeds ana
scattering them everywhere.
Korean Masses in Revolutionary Fights
In Korea, the struggle against attacking China
and that for national emancipation have been
well co-ordinated assuming very high revolu-
tionary waves. Owing to the blockade willfully
laid by the, japanese news agencies, the reports
concerning their activities can leak out to us
only through the revolutionary Koreans at
Shanghai. From what we have been occasionally
informed the demonstrations and revolts Of
workers, peasants and revolutionary students
against imperialiSt war are universally spreading
over Korea
In the latter half of September last year the
plan of the workers of Taku Gin the north part
OF Keung Sang Province in South Korea) to
wreck the japanese military trains was detected
by japanese police with many of the reyoll-
tionary workers slaughtered. Demonstrations
having each time over 5000 participants were
waged one after the other to demand land and
to oppose military occupation of Manchura by
peasants in Hamheung, Youngsheung, Hong
seung, ETC., in the province of Hamheung toward
the end of last year. Early in January, this
year peasants in Chungchen were active again
in planning to wreck the japanese military
trains
AS to the students, their anti-imperialist
struggle with the Imperial University at Seoul
as the Headquarters has been growing so vio-
lently that many of them fell victims under the
suppression of Japanese Imperialism. Toward the
end OF last year students of the Agricultural
School at Chungchen lin Chungeheung province
in Central Dorea) of the High School of Peng-
yang Gin Pengyan province in North Korea) and
of the High School of Chenchu have held anti
imperalist and anti-war demonstrations sep
arately. and the strikes and sabotages of the
workers against the industrial naturalization
that constitutes part of the military plan of
Japanese imperialism are spreading throughout
the whole territory of Korea. Evidently all these
have considerably affected the military action Of
Japanese Imperialism in Manchuria.
Before the heroic struggles of the Far Eastern
toilng masses, it is not the prestige of the force
OF the japanese Empire alone but also that of
the troops of other imperalsts who are now
bent on suppressing colonial revolutions and
invading the Soviet Union which will meet the