The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES -
Struggle on Japan's Docks
'NOw II Can Be Told"
Sweden's Elections
By HARRY CANNES

THE San Francisco marine and
L general strike, as well as the
struggles Of the American dock
workers and Seamen elsewhere, are
having their repercussions in Japan.
In an effort to avoid a general
strike Of the japanese Seamen's
Union, involving 100000 workers,
the Japenese shipowners are Offer
ing meagre concessions to the work.
ers.
The seamen are the best organ
lied Of the japanese workers. Water
transportation is a strategic indus
try for the Japanese bosses, prepar-
ing war. Every Japenese ship ar
rives in port with war material.
Faced with a general strike, they
are doing everything possible to
stop it-terror against the revo.u-
tionary opposition, promises, small
concessions, and military preparas-
tons to crush the workers.
The seamen have already enliStedA
the support of the Toxic Municipal
street car workers in support of
any strike action they may take for
higher wages. Our solidarity, our
hopes, and our action wherever
possible should be with our Jap
anese brothers of the sea and water
front in their fight against their
brutal masters.
IN Gdynia, Polish naval base and
1 port, $500 lockers are on strike
against wage cuts, for hiring Of
labor without discrimination (some-
what like the fight against Fink
Halls in San Francisco,) and
against Fascist methods of the en-
ployers and the government.
The PiISudski government has in
stituted martial law, declaring a
state of siege exists at the port.
Troops and Fascist gangsters have
been modified against the lockers.
The International of Seamen and
Harbor Workers has issued an APP
peal:
"Dockers everywhere: Boycott all
ships coming from Gdynia. Refuse
to discharge them, load them again
or transport cargo coming from or
destined to Gdynia."
WE now have some more complete
w figures on the recent Swedish
county council and municipal cleo
lions. The Communists gained liz
new mandates in the Municipal
elections. At Kiruna, largest min
ing center of Norrbotten, they re-
ceived 40 per cent of the vote; at
Malberget, second mining center,
they got more than so per cent of
the vote.
The Social-democrats won 100000
votes and SO mandates; the farm
ers' federation, $1,000 votes, the
Communist Party increased its vote
cast from $1,000 in the last election
to $4,000, though not all returns
were in at the time we received the
report of the elections.
EVEN these votes, however, are not
Il the real expression of Commu-
mist influence. The reactionary cleo
ton laws disfranchise many Com
munist sympathizers. The poorest
voters are denied the ballot be-
cause they cannot pay taxes, and
10000 migratory workers, among
whom there is a great Communist
influence, were denied voting rights.
my Dag" New Day., central
organ of the Communist Party,
writes on these election results:
1.-THE election results are a signlf1-
cant success for our Party. The
figures of the votes cast for it are
much higher everywhere. In nu-
merous important constituencies,
the figures were even higher than
at the Reichstag elections, although
the connection of the franchise
with the pay of taxes and the pre-
vented pourney of migratory work
ers prevented them from voting IN
their home towns. The Communist
Party of Sweden is able to record
a greater increase in votes than
any other Party"
IF THE revolutionary deeds OF the
" French soldiers in the last world
war, the capitalist press says: Now
it can be told" We reprint some
of the facts, not so that it can be
told, but so that it can serve as a
guide, an inspiration, should the
bloodsucking bosses succeed in
starting a new criminal war, so that
instead of meeting with defeat, 1t
should lead on to the victory OF the
civil war against the war-makers.
We take the following from the N.
Y. Times feature: Inside War
Stories Are Still To Be Told" by
Clair Price:
I'VE know that lis UNITS IN
THE FRENCH ARMY WERE AT
FECTED and that all that stopped
it were the wholesale executions
which followed the RAISING OF
THE RED FLAG BY A REGI-
MENT AT THE COEUVRES DE-
POT. For that one days mutiny
one mutineer out of every five
was chosen by lot for execution.
OF the hundreds Of men who thus
died at the hands Of their own
countrymen, practically every man
faced his end as if it no longer
, mattered to him whether he died
at French firing post or on Ger
man barbed wire. Incidentally,
there is curious sidelight on the
. French poilu which is worth re-
calling in this connection, in the
fact that long after the Tiger had
come in and the French had been
, pulled out of defeat and were being
driven to victory, indeed right to
the end OF the war, French troops