The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Japanese Toiler Hits
Tokyo Lies Spread
Among NegroPeople
ExplOdes False Claim That japanese Imperialism.
Is the champion of the Darker Peoples

EDITORS NOTE;-The follow
ing letter is from a Japanese
worker in response to Comrade
Briggs exposure in the Daily
Worker Of March 3, 1894. of the
activities of Japanese inperisIists
and their agents among the Ne
gro masses in this country.
from a japanese Worker a
I want to state here that Jaod1
is an imperishst state, and wha
ever we hear from JapaneA
statesmen or their agents is an ex-
preston Of inperialist policy: the
policy of exploitation, suppression,
lynehing, hunger and war.
I state here specifically lynching,
because Japanese Imperialism not
only lynched thousands of Korean
and Formossan people in its brutal
colonial rule Cnassacres of Koreans
in 1919 and 1923, etc.. but also
lynches native Japanese workers,
especially their militant leaders.
Negro people and all darker races
throughout the world. can you be-
lieve the monstrous lie that Japa-
nese Imperialism is the champion
and protector Of the darker peoples?
AS an honest Japanese worker, I do
not. Not only myself, but millions
Of Japanese toilers shall hurl back
such lie into the faces of our
bloody rulers
If Japanese Imperialism exploits.
starves and lynches its native Japa-
nese workers as well as others Of
the darker peoples they get their
hands on, can different treatment
for the Negro people be expected at
the hands of the japanese i'm
perialists? Those who think so. are
believers in myths. Those who
know better and still talk Of Japan
as defender of the darker peoples
are not only betraying the Negro
people, but doing the greatest harm
against the Japanese workers, as
well as against the struggling work
ers Of all lands. The Negro workers
should drive such agents of Japa-
nese imperialism out of their ranks.
Plumbers and Expresses the
Darker Peoples
The japanese imperialsts raise
the false slogan of Pan-Asiaism
while plundering Formosa and Ko-
rea to the bone and now plumber
ing Manchuria and reaching out to
seize all of China. Why? Because
they seek to use all factors in the
international situation for their
aims, against China, against the
Soviet Union and also against their
imperialist rivals for the plumber
of China and mastery of the Pacific.
Their pretense of defending" the
darker peoples is nothing but
war aim. They say they are "for the
darker races" Just as Roosevelt and
Thomas said the N. R. A. is for the
workers, but in reality they seek to-
benefit their brutal self -interesta
and to make a goat out of the Mel
gro people. This is the policy of all
imperialists. If we trust what they
say-they're apt to say sweet things
like protector of something" "war
for democracy" war to end war"
for world peace etc.-then we are
facing disaster
Only One Way Out for the
Negro People
For the Negro people suppressed
and bleeding by hunger and mis-
ery-it is not another hangman'S.
call to listen to, but the militant
call of the world working class fol /
joint revolutionary strugge against
all imperialists.
Down with Japanese imperialism
Down with the myth of protector
of the darker racesl" Long live
the unity Of all workers!
Only by united action of all work
ers and oppressed peoples under the
militant leadership of the Commu-
mist International can we finally
free ourselves and destroy the rot
ting system of capitalism, with its
exploitation of man by man and its
savage oppression of the darker
peoples.
This is the only path for you, my
beloved class brothers and suffer-
ing Negro people. For the Japanese
workers? They shall march forward
under the revolutionary banner of
the Communist Party of Japan and
shall smash the brutal ruling class
into atoms, nail their vicious lies
into their own mouths, tear their
iron rule apart, and from across the
Pacific shall extend their hands in
warm class solidarity to you, Negro
people, as well as to the whole
working class of the United States.
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