The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-22
On the
World Front
L. BY HARRY CANNES
Kidnapping Too Slow
Korean Victims
A Japanese Appeal
CONNECTED with the Japa-

CONNECTED with the Japa-
" nese embassy in Shanghai
is a gunmen's department.
One of its main objects is the
execution of Korean revolu-
tionary leaders. The Japa-
nese imperialists could resort
to the process of extradition. Blu
that is long drawn-out and CONF
plicated. They want to be sure OF
their prey, because Korea Is the
key to penetration of Manchuris
and war against the Soviet Union.
Korea, an area the size of the
state of Minnesota, was one OF the
first colonial conquests of Japan.
having been wrested from China in
1895 by war. At that time the
Japanese war lords signed solemn
treaty recognizing the absolute
independence" OF Korea. BY 1910,
the japanese invaders eliminated
all pretenses and swallowed Korea
entire.
Now Korea assumes tremendous
importance, because all of the war
| plans of japanese imperialism in
volve tying up Korea with strategic
railway lines leading into Manchu-
ria. In Korea, however, the work.
ing and peasant masses are in
creasing their struggles against
their murderous oppressor. Japan
ese imperialism tries to divert this
! struggle in many ways. Korean
peasants are transported to certain
sections of Manchuria, and pro-
voked into encroaching on Chinese
owned land. The result is violent
race conflicts, by means Of which
the Japanese hope to stir up the
enslaved Korean people behind the
| Japanese war plans for the DOM
nation of Manchuria, Mongolia,
North China and for war against
the Soviet Union.
Despite sporadic race wars that
aided the Japanese bandit invad-
ers, the Korean masses have been
growing more and more revolu-
tionary. The Communist Party Of
Korea, which had previously been
destroyed by ferociouS attacks by
Japanese police, and by internal
disruption, is now reorganized.
Working in close cooperation with
the heroic Communist Party Of
Japan, the Communist Party of
Korea has been picked out for
special attack by the japanese mill
itariSts.
DECENTLY, in Seoul, the indus
N trial center of Korea, 100 Korean
revolutionists were tried, after hay-
ing languished in prison for nearly
a year. Twenty-Five of them were
summarily executed. Over 20 others
were given long prison sentences,
which mean prolonged and excru-
ciating death sentences.
But the major attack of the
Japanese gunner is on the Korean
revolutionists who manage to keep
underground in the intricate maze
of imperialiSt rule that is Shanghai.
The China Weekly Review, an
American magazine published in
Shanghai, reports that the Japan
ese War Department last fall sent
special officers with a corps OF
secret police to Shanghai to watch
over the Koreans there" In Shang-
hal, the japanese pick up their
gangsters, the rOnins, track down
the Korean revolutionists, and shoot
them at the first opportunity. The
French and British police work
hand in glove with the Japanese
gunner. At first the Japanese
tried to kindap the Korean revo-
lutionists, in order. to transport
them to Seoul for trial" But this
proved embarrassing, because 1t
required bringing the victims to
the rump courts in Shanghai.
Kidnapping soon gave way to
the good old-fashioned AL Capone
tactics.
Korean revolutionists are thrown
into a japanese car and taken for
"a ride"
THE Communist Party of Japan,
L itself fighting against the most
extreme terror, has called upon
the Japanese workers to protest
against this vicious slaughter Of
Korean workers.
Surrounded by these fascist gun
men, the Japanese Communist Party
is, at the same time, energetically
conducting a campaign for the re-
lease of Ernst Thaelmann. Almost
at the same time that the Japan
ese Admiral Matsushita was being
wined and dined by the butcher
Hitler, the Central Committee Of
the Communist Party of Japan
issued a plea for the japanese
workers to intensity their actions
to save the life of Comrade Ernst
Thaelmann, heroic leader of the
Communist Party of Germany.
I'VE japanese workers and peas
ants" said the declaration, will
do our duty to our class against all
odds and mobilize every force to
free our Comrade Thaelmann. He
must be saved at all costs, as our
leader Dimitroff WaSl