The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

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HARRY HAYWOOD
toiling masses In Korea and For
mosa make cynical jest Of Tokyo's
pretense to be liberator of the
darker peoples.
Japan is Dungeon for Workers
Japan itself has become a dungeon
for thousands of Japanese workers,
peasants and intellectuals protest.
ing this brutality. Millions are I'M
employed, in q country which makes
no provision for the hungry. Wages
have been cut to the bone; work
proceeds under barrack discipline,
IA and Is hours daily. All workers
organizations have been driven into
illegality, and kept illegal by q
terror that knows no bounds.
What are the deeds Of this
savior of the oppressed" in China?
Here again Japan shows herself to
be of the same stuff as all imperi-
alists, whatever their color. Suf-
flee it to mention that Japanese war
lords have seized Chinese territory
against the will of the Chinese
people. We call attention to the
rape of Manchuria, the setting up
of the puppet state of Manchukuo,
propped up by the bayonets of the
Japanese imperial army. We point
to the hunting down and murder
ing of the leaders Of the Chinese
masses. The activities of Japan
in China have been one long blood
letting.
But-we are told by the leaders
of the pro-Japanese organizations
in America Japan's cruelty in
China is a necessary step in unit
ing China against the white i'm
| perialists. To this we make two
answers. The first is that between
japanese imperialism and white i'm
perialist nations in China there has
been complete and perfect coopera-
ton except as concerns ultimate
division of the spoils. Second, We
are in a position to produce state
ments by the foremost rulers Of
Japan, of Japan's true intentions
in the rape of China.
United Front of Imperialism
True, the japanese, French,
British, American imperialists fight
among themselves over the division
of the booty-but against the rising
Chinese masses they close tteir re-
dictionary ranks. Did not former
War Minister Araki of Japan speak
freely of his country rs the police
man of world imperialism in the
Far East? Has no. Japan been from
the beginning a party to all i'm
psr:alist actions in China = the
march on Pekin, the fighting off
of the nationalist forces from
Shanghai in 1921? The japanese
Chamber of Commerce and the ia
panese Association of North Amer
lea have said plainly: 1T must be
clearly understood that the Japa-
nese naval action in Shanghai was
purely for the protection not only
of Japanese lives and property but
also of international interests"
Have not the japanese generals
given fdll cooperation to the inter
national imperialist drive against
the Chinese Soviets, the only force
striving to lberate China, fighting
for the unification of China and
the freedom Of the Chinese people
from the foreign imperialists? That
force which in heroic struggle has
already wrested one-fifth of Chi
nese soil from the hands Of the
oppressors? Whose Red Armies
have beaten back the punitive ex-
petitions of Chiang-K -Shek, sup
ported and financed by interna-
tionaI imperialists, including Japan.
Japan, the Nazis and the Negroes
1t is a matter of record that ia
pan has a secret understanding
with the Nazi rulers of Germany,
the most viciously chauvinistic
power in the Western World. ia
pan, this alleged champion of the
darker races" protested officially to
the German Foreign Office against
the Nazi race classification Of the
Japanese with the Negroes as an
inferior, ''non-Aryan' race. And
the German fascists agreed that
"for the purposes of this Law (the
Aryan Law the japanese are to
be considered Aryans!" This is the
true solidarity of the japanese rul-
ing class with the oppressed darker
races of the world
The Infamous Tanaka Document
These bloody actions but carry
through the avowed policy so
clearly stated in the Tanaka docu-
ment, a secret paper prepared by
the late Premier Tanaka for the
then emperor of Japan. This in
famous document states in the
most unmistakable terms the bloody
intentions of Japan, her role as
aggressor against the Chinese
people. In the words of the Tanaka
document:
g. more dangerous factor
is the fact that the Chinese
people may wake up enc fine day
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