The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
World Front
By HARRY CANNES =

I6SIu6iiC N U U >
riotous war expenditures, the
Japanese cabinet voted to pass
the largest war budget in the
history of Japan. The total
budget, demanded on the
threat of resignation of the war
ministry, stupendous for Japan, is
only one quarer the total New Deal
expenditures for war. With the
peasants starving by the thousands,
the Japanese Cabinet voted 1,020,-
100000 yen ($2970oo, 0oo) for arm.
aments.
The burden on the masses will
be so crushing, the financial re-
suits so drastic, the sharpening Of
the class struggle so severe, that
the very passage Of the budget will
force the speeding of actual war;
fare. The arguments on the bud
get were not made public. They
were extremely bitter. We may be
sure that War Minister General
Hayashi, threatened imminent fas-
cism and war, which would have
/ forced the budget through, despite
whatever opposition there was from
those who feared financial cstas-
trophe.
The day before the budget was
passed, we received two important
pieces of information from Japan.
One was from a Japanese comrade
who tells me that never before in
the history of Japan were so many
peasants starving. am getting
translations now from the Japanese
press telling of wholesale deaths
from hunger in Japan.
The other comes from the Balti-
more Evening Sun of Nov. 21st,
which reprints the following, writ
ten by K. Hoshino, in the Neue
Weltbuehne prague:
In our village the peasants
work in the fields from sunrise,
not returning until the evening
stars appear in the sky. They
spend the whole day bent over
their labor. Being undernourished,
even the strongest of them soon
weaken, and most of them die in
their fOrties. They have a sun
ScOrched, dry, dfrt-colored skin,
deep lines in their faces, thin
stomachs, with sharply prOtruding
ribs, and blue Spl0tches under
their eyes. Their clothes look
like sacks. They walk barefoot,
as do their wives and children.
They are chary of words and mis-
trust outsiders. They earn
so little, that they can hardly pay
the interest on their debts and
prepare for the next harvest.
They have stopped eating meat
and fish and cannot even afford
rice. They live on the roots of
plants, a little cooked wheat mash
and turnips boiled in salt water
AND this is the lot of the aver
"A age peasant. Millions are even
worse off. To the above, the writer
adds:
To-day the spectre of prole-
tartan revolution threatens jap
ancse Imperialism. A military
| Will Vic OUfACb
might bring many surprises"
A COMRADE writes us, saying
n there seems to be some confu-
sion over the political character Of
the Macedonian Imro organizations
in Bulgaria. In some places in our
international literature he reads Of
the In1ro as "a counter-revolution
airy organization led by Michael
SON." In another place, he reads
of it as working for the right Of
self-determination of the Mace
DOMAIN people and for an inde-
pendent republic of the working
people He asks us to clear up
the matter. Here is the answer:
There are three Imro organiza-
tons in Macedonia. They are:
| /. Imro, led by Michayloff, and
/ supported by Italian fascism. It's
representative in the u S. is the
so-called Macedonian Political Or
| ganization.
2. Imro, led by the so-called Pro-
togerovists, which is the fascist
/
supported by the French imperial
lists. After the military-fascist die
tatorship, the orientation of the
Bulgarian government now is to-
ward French imperialism.
8. Imro Omitted, which is the
organization struggling for the lib
Grafton of Macedonia from all fas-
cist and imperialist control, and for
real national independence under
the leadership of the workers and
peasants.
ITJNEMPLoYMENT increased by
Y $1,000 in the month of october
in England, the total number Of
unemployed on the registers at the
end of the month being 2,119,635.
Every area in the country except
the Midlands shows an increase.
The hardest hit industry is coal
mining, the number of whose UNI
employed has increased by 22.30 per
cent.
A section of the press .endeavors
to explain this increase away by
talking OF a seasonal decline but
an examination of past figures
shows That there is usually prac-
tically no difference between the
September and October figures.
When it is remembered that the
increase Of registered unemployed
is coupled with steady rise in the
numbers struck eff benefit, and now
forced onto Poor Law relief, 1t ID
obvious that the steady march to
| prosperity" of which the press il
talking, has once more proved to be
mere mirage.
| RETURN HARRY TO US!