The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Floods United States
With Lurid Promises
To 'EDarker Races"
By HARRY HAYWOOD


BY HARRY HAYWOOD
A food of propaganda Is being
looSed among the Negroes OF the
United States by the agents Of ia
panese Imperialism in America. The
pent-up desires Of the Negro people
for freedom will, according to these
emisSaries Of the Japanese ruling
class, find their fruition through
an alliance with imperialist Japan,
through united front of the darker
races, under the leadership of ia
paneSe imperialism. The Japanese
ruling class is depicted as the cham
pion, protector and savior of the
dark races Of the world, including
the Negroes of the United States.
The ideas and slogans of the de-
funct Garvey movement have had
a rebirth in new form through this
propaganda of the Japanese mill
tarists. Garvey's visionary Negro
Kingdom in Africa" is to be
achieved with the aid Of the
Mikado. The pro-Japanese move
ments among the Negroes have
recruited many of the lower middle
class Negro intellectuals. The core
of this leadership are people for
merly connected with Carney. The
Garveyite leaders, involved in a
movement which has fallen into
disintegration, have graSped at the
new pro-Japanese imperialist move
ment as drowning man clutches
at a straw, in order to dress up
the outward and largely discredited
Carney slogans In new ana more
cunning form. To hold the Negro
masses back from struggle, the
Carney leaders have willingly made
a working agreement with the
agents of the bloody rulers of Japan.
Worldwide MiIitarist Propaganda
In Chicago and in many other
cities, this propaganda has crystal
lized organizationally into the
Pacific Movement of the Eastern
World" In other cities, notably
Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati,
the Japanese agents have formed
the Society for the Development
of Our Own" The program and
avowed aims Of both organizations
are the same. Japanese imperial
isnl-say the leaders of these or
ganizations-is by its war on China
and by all its activities uniting and
serving the darker races. By in
vading China it is-supposedly-
preventing the white imperialists
from invading China. Japanese i'm
perialism is thus represented as a
rallying point for the oppressed
masses of darker peoples every
where. BY Selling Manchuria, it is
establishing a base from which 1t
will help the Negro masses to re-
deem Africa!
Not only in the United States,
but likewise in South America, in
the Philippines, in Africa the
agents Of Japanese imperialism are
working feverishly.
What Is Behind This Talk?
What is the explanation of all
this propaganda? What is behind
the noble pretensions of the Japa-
nese jingoists that they are the
"saviors of the darker peoples of
the world?"
In its bitter rivalry with other
imperialist nations, Japan is try
ing to use the healthy hatred of
the darker peoples against the
white imperialist nations. 1t is try
ing to use the revolutionary up
surge of the colored masses, their
natural sympathy for one another
the world over, for its own pre-
datory interests, for markets and
for new territories, for re-division
of the world, to wrest for itself new
fields of colonial exploitation. The
humanitarian mask of ''liberator of
the darker peoples" covers the leer-
ing face of japanese imperialism,
with its selfish and sinister pur-
poses. The words of these pro-
Japanese movements are the words
of freedom" the voice is the
voice Of the imperialist oppressors.
1t is not accidental therefore that
the impetus of this movement in
America, among the Negro people,
has leapt forward with the sharp
ening of the tension between Amer
lean and Japanese imperialism for
mastery in the Pacific. But there
is nothing new here. The japanese
rulers, in their conflict with Amer
lean imperialism, have not over
looked the fact that the liberation
struggles of 100000 Negroes con-
stitute an, explosive sector in the
rear of American imperialism. 1t
is quite natural that they seek to
use this Achilles heel for the pur-
pose of weakening their enemy. In
this, Japan Is merely employing the
strategy of war, so well described
by Lenin:
"All the general army headquar-S
tiers. are making strenuous efforts
during the present war to utilize
each and every kind of national and
revolutionary movement in the
camp of their enemies; Germans
the Irish rebellion, the French-the
Czech movement, etc. And they
act correctly from their own point
of view. You cannot take seriously
the very serious problem of war
without utilizing the smallest weak
ness of your adversary"
Thousands Fooled by japanese
Imperialism
II is clear that we cannot dismiss
lightly, or with mere label of
'fakery," a movement such as this.
Beneath this alliance of japanese
imperialists and Negro petty -bour-
geois nationalist leaders, stand
thousands Of confused but honest
and sincere Negro workers, hating
the white oppressors with a deep