The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-31

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"A borrowing heavily from in
ternational experience. They
do not hesitate to learn from
Hitler, Mussolini, Ramsay
Macdonald, or Sir John
Simon. La Guardia has a
great fondness for the methods of
the Czarist police.
In the San Francisco general
strike, the exploiters dug deeply
into the history of the British gem
eral strike. Now they are trying to
initiate its aftermath. But instead
if following the British model of
procedure, they believe in an eclec-
ticism. They take the most vicious
terror of Hitler, the democratic"
"legalistic" steps of the British
bourgeoiSie, plus the Shiny dema-
gogy of Roosevelt, and by disre-
garding all patent rights, hope to
have the most perfect anti-labor
machlne IN the world.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the issu-
" ance of LaGuar and
Organs orders for registration of
trade union leaders, and the arming
of 1900 New York police with rifles
and machine guns, the National AS.
ISOLATION of Manufacturers broad
cast the British Trade Disputes and
Trade Union Act of 1927 as model
for similar American anti-labor leg
islation.
1.-THE Federal Government" says
the circular sent to the leading
bosses in the country, lis being
asked to enact national legislation
to control local employment rela-
tons" And what the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers asks for
from the Roosevelt government it
gets.
1--WE may, therefore, examine with
profit" continues the circular, "the
and example Of the great
English speaking nation across the
water, which is the source of our
legal traditions"
THE National Association of Man.
ufacturers, however, is tickle
enough not to hesitate over being
true to the source of our legal
traditions" and pick up the bloody
pearls cast by Hitler and Co.
In recommending the British
Trades Disputes Act as model, the
Manufacturers Association says it
"forbids sympathetic strikes. It
forbidS strikes or lock-outs intended
to coerce the government by inflict-
ing injury upon the public. 1t de-
fines the rights of workers (read
"scabS'') who wish to continue their
jobs during strike. 1t forbids the
use of contributions by workers to
their unions for political purposes
unless so used by and with the writ
ten consent of the worker and an
accounting made and reported to
the Government"
TOR the past five months, jap
4 anese imperialist agents have
been securing Hopei, Honan and
Provinces, recruiting Chi
neSe workers for Manchuria. to
build military roads, airdromes in
for war against the So
Wet Union. More than 100000 have
already been enlisted in the coolie
armies. They are not told what
they are to do. The starving, dis
possessed peasants, the unemployed
coolies, are approached and prom
lsed steady work at good pay in
Manchuria. They are packed into
boats at Tsientsin or Tsingtao and
sent to Dairen, and then trans
ported into the interior of Man.
churia.
WHEN they arrive in Manchuria,
W they are put under the military
control of Japanese officers. Having
signed a contract, they are virtually
lndentured slaves. They are forced
to work at the point of the bayonet,
and many are murdered by the
japanese war lords for the least in
fraction of rules. They receive no
wages, only the meagrest amount of
food. Many, unable to bear the
hardshipS, have escaped and made
their way back to China proper,
They tell revolving stories of how
they are treated.
Here is one of the stories as re-
lated by a Chinese worker who es.
capped from Manchuria:
81 WENT out to Manchuria along
with over 10000 in all. Under
the auspices of the Peiping Ia
Chang Company Foreign firm I
was sent to Gupeikow, bordering on
the Great Wall, thence to Chen
Teh, capital of Jehol, well treated
all the way in my journey, receiv-
ing several dimes a day in addition
to free meals. But beyond the
Great Wall the conditions changed
N.Y. OQA OdOClL was LIE ldSh
some $50 IN our numbers.
Good treatment was gone. Then
ugly-looking Japanese TROOP ers
came to meet us and brought us
along in utter disregard of our
wishes.
Just at that time wages failed
to come. Worse still, we we're given
only some diluted cruel for the
whole day. We are youths in the
prime of life. With only one Cruel
meal a day, we are almost starved
to death. Herded in a concentra-
ton camp, we had neither food to
eat nor the freedom to move about,
confined in such a plight for more
than 20 days. Then suddenly ap-
peared the japanese troops in one
morning, dividing us into two de-
tachments, one composed of youths
and the other of old people. The
youths were impressed into the