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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Militarists Regard the
Soviet Union AS
Main Enemy
MILITARISM AND FASCISM IN
JAPAN, BY o. Tanin and E.
Yohan. with an introduction by
Karl Radek. 800 pages. Interna-
tional Publishers. SITS.
Reviewed by
HARRY CANNES

THERE is not the slightest doubt
that the rulers of Japan are now
preparing major war move in the
Far East. The ceaseless movements
Of the army is but one indication.
Surveying the world situation, as
well as the internal crisis in Japan,
the Arakis, Hirotas, Hayashis, the
war and diplomatic agents of the
Mitsui and Mitsubishi trusts, have
decided that a major blood letting
must be risked.
The taking of Manchuria has not
brought the Eldorado that the jap
anese landlords, capitalists and fin
anciers expected. Instead, it inten-
sified the crisis in Japan. The mill
tary cost of taking and holding
Manchuria has hit Japan like an
earthquake.
1t now seems like the japanese
reactionary-military clique which
rules the country for the finance
capitalists has decided to meet the
much talked of crisis of 1885 by
attempting war against the Soviet
Union. The Japanese n1ilitarists
reason it is futile to try to build
colonial empire on the border of
the Soviet country. They have de-
cided the Soviet country touching
on this colony must be destroyed.
The long-range perspective of
Japanese imperialism has always
been to take Siberia up to Lake
Baikal. Now that perspective be-
comes an immediate one for which
Japan is preparing every day, every
hour, every minute.
To achieve this end, the Japanese
finance capitalists. the rich land
owners, and their most aggressive
militarists are planning a more
open, more brutal fascist regime.
Incipient Japanese Hitler
Recognizing the Importance of ia
pans present moves in the Far East.
American publishers have been is
suing a slew of books on Japan.
But none of them begins to ap-
proach Militarism and Fascism in
Japan, by o. Tanin and E. Yohan,
two Russian Orientalists. The in
PRODUCTION by Karl Radek, one of
the editors of the Soviet newspaper
Izvestia, remarking on the great
scientific and political value" of the
book, indicates that the authors
have been influenced too strongly
Gin their estimates of the chief al
legiance of the imcipient japanese
Hitlers) by the historical develop
ment of the japanese financial
magnates from the feudal-land-
owners.
The Japanese ruling class, on
more than one occasion, has been
brutally frank in it's imperialist
declarations, as for example in
the Tanaka memorial to TIL e
Emperor Hirohita, in which
Baron Tanaka outlined almost in
blueprint form the present depreda-
tons in Manchuria and the prep
aration for war against the Soviet
Union. But there is hardly a more
Observation-Disclosures manifesto than
that of General Araki, former Min
lister of War, and idol of the most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

to move mountain. The truck
off the road does not bulge. The
cable snaps, Nothing more can they
do now. He'll have to SOS. his
company in the morning. The other
trucks pull out.
Sleeps the drivers bug -a-boo
Sleep at the wheel, That guys
lucky he picked soft spot to fall
asleep at. There are some pretty
bad places along this route" Miller
tells the young man when his
truck is rolling again.
A big fast motor car passes, its
clarion horn blowing a powerful
blast through the night.
go to it, you bastard. I'm as
much in hurry to get there as
you are"
The red tail light Of the fast car
bounces up and down like rubber
ball as the car hits the high spots
ON the road. Soon it winks away
into the dark ahead.
What do you know about strikes,
buddy? Miller asks. Then he be-
comes busy with the gears and
brakes, preparing for steep hill
ahead. The motor, in low gear,
holds back on the driving axle; the
brakes hiss at the wheels.
Hell Of q place for anyone to
take few winks Of snooze."
THE truck rolls over narrow
4 bridge at the bottom of the hill:
the road aattens out again.
Some of the fellows are think
Ing OF going out on strike" Miller
says. He lights cigarette with
an expert flip of match. His face,
in the flare, is strained, his eyes
hanging onto the small patch of
lighted road fifteen feet ahead of
the truck.
"Jeez, 1 don't know" he SAYS.
The motor huns without let-up.
The company wants to cut us
again. Claim they are losing money.
Losing money hell I'm carrying
six tons over the road limit now.
and If the. road inspectors catch me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
New Book on japanese MiIitarism Indispensable
For Understanding OF Var Moves in Far Eas
F ascist Organizations
Trying To Create
Mass Base
by del

general staff of the japanese army
recently issued in a pamphlet for
public distribution, is already fore
cast in this book by the analysis of
the extreme demagogy Of the most
reactionary section of the japanese
military. A sample is the following
manifesto issued May Is, 1882:
Japan is even now ready to
crash. If reforms are not insti-
tuted Immediately then Japan
will perish. People! Take arms
and arise. New the only way to
deliversnce is through direct
action There is no other way.
People. In the name of the EN-
peror put to death the evil Off
cials of the imperial court, kill
the plutOcrats of the present
political parties, which are the
enemies of the people. Punish
those who misuse power, kill off
the traitOrous privileged class.
Peasants, workers all the
people, defend your fatherland,
Japan =. Wake up, arise, let us
create a true Japan"
This sort of "anti-capitalist"
demagogy, for the sole purpose of
speeding the imperialist war plans
of the leading f1nance-capitaists, is
ably seconded by the reformist trade
union leaders and the Socialist
Party off1cialdom. In fact, when
the militarists had prepared plot
for the establishment of an open
fascist regime in 1881, the Osaka
trade union leaders offered their
cooperation to initiate riots"
agains the liberal press so that the
military could take the dominant
hand.
Split in Socialist Party
The japanese Socialist Party, as
a result Of the Manchurian events,
was split, and later, under the
guidance of the Right Wing, reor-
ganized and merged with other re-
dictionary elements in the labor
movement. At the end of 1882 it
announced its program of foreign
policy" which was for full support
to Japanese imperialism in Man
churia.
Because of the rising wave Of
discomfort in Japan, the extension
of the starvation of the pesantry,
the unrest among the proletariat
and the petty bourgeoisie, the ag-
gravated financial and economic
crisis, various japanese fascist or
carnations are struggling to create
a mass base. But the inner conflicts
of the japanese ruling clique, of the
widely differentiated strata Of the
bourgeoisie, is making this difficult.
The guiding force in all fascist de-
velopments is the army and navy
leading stats. They believe that by
precipitating more and more open
warfare in China and Manchuria,
and by major stroke against the
Soviet Union, they can achieve their
political purposes at home and
their imperialist aims abroad.
For an understanding of Japanese
Imperialism today, its complicated
forces and organizations, its war
moves, and fascist developments
and the struggles Of the heroic
Communist Party of japan under
the most difficult conditions, this
book is indispensable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
TRUCKING = A Sketch by Burt Gary

AT A stop light, the huge truck,
n double trailer dragging, slows
down. The air brakes hiss and the
wheels hold tight. A young man
standing at the curb goes over and
shouts above the motor, How about
a lift?"
Joe Miller truck driver, turns his
head with tired effort, 20. k
The young man climbs in. IF you
won't bum cigarettes. Can't afford
it," Miller says.
The red light changes green, Mil
Ter shifts gears, the small slick
motor pulls away the truck and
double trailer.
Someone who'll listen helps to
get the light poles past"
The motor grinds without letup
The manifold CLOVIS white hot
through the Sits in the hood. Small
towns pass by, sleeping under feeble
street lights.
Pulling twenty-five tons of crap
West to East, tomorrow East to
West. Holding this truck with
double trailer on a narrow road,
up and down hill is no cinch."
A truck is coming towards them up
the road, row of green lights
above the cab. Both drivers flicker
their lights. 1t means, Hello
truck driver!"
Chicago to Cleveland is a long
pull on the axle. 1t takes steel
nerves and clear head and the
company begrudges us IS cents an
hour, take it or find something bet
ter"
A HEAD now there is a mile of red,
II green and white lights. Ten or
twelve trucks are parked along the
road. One truck is in the soft ditch.
down to the rear axle. All the
drivers hang around to help him
get his truck out. Miller has
heavy wire cable in his cab. Two
trucks are double hitched to pull
their comrade out. In lowest gear
the two new Auto Cars" seem able
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08


500 P. M.-wEAF-Cugat
Orchestra
wOR-Uncls Don-Chil-
dren's Program
WJ2-Los Angeles Philhar-
monte Orchestra, Alfred
Wallenstein, Conductor
wABC-Navara Orchestra
6;i5-wEAF-Ranch Boys,
wABC-Bobby Benson
;:30-WEAF-Press-Radio News
WOR-Resume, Hauptmann
Trial
WJz-Press-Radio News
WABC-Current Events-H.
V. Kaltenborn
6:35-WEAF-Jack, Loretta
Clemens. Songs
wJZ-Gale Page, Songs
6:45-WEAF-B Billy Bachelor
WOR-Talks and Music
WJZ-Lowell Thomas, Com
mentator
wABC-Be auty-Margaret
Brainard
s:55- WABC-Press-Ra ado News
7:e0-wEAP-To Be Announced
wOR-Sports Resume-Stsn
Lomax
wJZ-Amos m Andy
WABC-Myrt and Msrge-
7.f5-WEAF-Stories Of the
Black Chamber
WOR-Lum and Abner
WJz-Plentation Echoes.
Robson Orch. Southern
aires Quartet
WABC-Just Plain Bill
7;3o-WEAF-Hirsch Orchestra
woR-Mystery Sketch
wJZ-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-The O'Neills-Sketch
I:45-WEAF-Uncle Ezra
WOR--Front-Psge Drama
WJz-Dangerous Paradise
WABC-Boake Carter, Com
mentator
:o0-WEAF-Bourdon Orch;
Jessiea Dragonette, So
prano; Male Quartet
WOS-Lone Rangers Sketch
WJZ-Dramatic Sketch.
with Irene Rich. Actress
WABC-Faricty Musicale
3:15-wJz-Dick Lsibert. Or
gan; Armbrustcr and
Kraus. Piano: Mary
courtlandt, Songs, Male
Quartet
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wABC-Edwin c. Hill, Com-
mentator
s.30-WOR-Katzman Orch:
Lucille Peterson. Songs;
Choristers Quartet
WJz-Goodman Orchestra;
James Melton, Tenor; Bob
Hope, Comedian
WABC-Court Of Human
Relations
45-WEAF-President Roose-
welt, From White House,
Addressing Boy Scouts Of
America Silver jubilee
Circus, St. Louis
WABC-Same as WEAF
9:00-WEAF-Lyman Orch;
Frank Mum, Tenor;
Viyienne Segal, Songs
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Beatrice Lille, Com
medicine; Perrin Orch;
Cavaliers Quartet
WABC-March of Time
9:3O-WEAF-Bonime Orch;
Pic and Pat, Comedians
WOR-Al and Lee Reiser.
WJz-Phil Baker. Comedian:
Gabrielle de Lys, Songs.
Belssco Orch.
WABC-Hollywood Hotel
Sketch, with Dick Powell.
Fio-Rita Orchestra and
others; Mariene Dietrich
9:45-WOR- Singh Sam
io;00-WEAF-John Brown,
Gentleman-Sketch
WOR-Kerp Orchestra
WJz-Dramatic Sketch
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Events
H. E. Read
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Or
chestra, Frank Black,
Conductor: Mixed Chorus
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Jewish Program;
Rabbi Israel Goldstein
WABC-The O'Flynn-MuS-
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HOO WEAF-Ta Ik-George
Holmes, Chief Washington
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WOR-NewS
WJz-Nelson Orchestra
il;i5-WEAF- Ferdinando Or
chestra
WOR-Moonbesms Trio
1l.30- WMCA-Dance Music
tAlso wEAF. wOR. WIZ.
wABC. WEyDl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on the feature
page. All questions should be addressed to "Ques-
tiOns and Answers" c 20 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
T UN Nc IN

From till $50 A. M, WABC brings broad
cast from Moscow with program performance
A-Union Radio Committee under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Question: Do the Communists objections to the
Black-Connery bill, which provides for thirty
hour week to relieve unemployment. still hold for
thebil in its new form as introduced in the present
session Of Congress?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18

institutions He sees both Europe and ASIA PAM
to the bursting point with people and oeleVeS 'ha
after the inevitable period of expansion ana rear
1otment Of the earths land the Orentals may domi-
nate our globe. ga ..
| Noi+ber the Chinese nor the Hindus have adopt
cd TO any great degree, science and medicine as
oo,,s Of battling disease and other hazards of life
They still RELY on their fertility to produce raster
than epidemics can kill, and they are ee''i'e i"-
IT, obead all the time While the whites are re-
ducine the birth rate all over the world as poor
means of solving the problem of overpopulatlon
(which probably does not really EXIST or as an al
,eged means of improving the race, the OrlentaS
are still increasing at rapid rate.
DR. Burgdoerfer speaks of the yellows and the
browns as the interiors of the whites This is TAX
ing far too much for granted. But if we d.
consider the white superior to all others, ma
ture may not do She doesn't judge by the same
standards as do. If the whites continue to
slaughter each other and disregard natures mini
mum rate of reproduction, she won't save them
because they have the talest buildings and the
automobiles. Europe has more important problems
m solve than those arising from petty national
iealouses and land grabbing. She may still cherish
the illusion that the United States will sagain come
to the rescue and rake her chestnuts out of the
fire. We devoutly hope that the "esson" we learned
NV getting into the World will be taken to
heart bv us-but are not at all sangune Gil
this subject We know we were trlcked before, by
those alien-minded nternatonalists. They are
smarter than we are. At least they are more I'M
scrupulous. Our very anxiety to stay out might
AGAIN force us in.-Pathfnder.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
ONE OF WARS DANGERS

with the Old World launching herself into war
that may the different nations to settle down
to systematic and modern methods of killing each
other Off, the white is acting true to numerous
predictions. European scholars have spent consid-
cradle time lately calculating the life expectancy
OF Europes civilization, and some predict it's end
IN very limited number of years Equipped with
collection OF well-choSen facts these men are now
able to present convincing arguments to support
their predictions.
Dr. Charles Rchet of France, sees, within the
next 100 years, tired, war-weakened Europe fall
ing easily before advancing hordes of colored peo
pie. By that time, he says, the yellow and brown
races in Asia will have increased to point where
their continent will no longer hold them. and be-
cause there is nothing else to do they will sweep
down over Europe and wipe out both the white
nations and their civilization by sheer force Of
numbers. He points out that after the death rate
has been balarced off there are still $50 Chinese
babies for every 43 German, 10 English, and Is
French infants. In 10 years. according to his cal
eulations, the Mongoloids in Eurasa will have re-
corded a population gain of 140,OOO,OOO while the
white in Europe will have increased in the same
time only 100000. Add such a comparative in
crease to the 100000 600 Chinese and 100000 600
hlndus who already exist and it is not hard to be-
heVe that there may be real peril in what Dr.
Rchet forecasts.
A German, DR.. Frederick Burgdoerfer Seas the
same threat against the European whites and their
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
TRAVEL PROMOTERS SEE THE
CAROLINAS

Hendersonville was host yesterday for
short time to the party of travel bureau
and travel club officials which is being pl-
loted on a trip through the Carolinas by
the Carolinas Motor Club and The Caro-
linas. Inc, under the supervision OF PreSi-
dent c.. w. Roberts of the Motor Club.
There were 60 visitors in the party, not IN
Guiding the officers of the Carolinas organ
izations and other Carolinians.
The visitors are engaged in the business
of promoting and routing and sponsoring
travel, either as the representatives OF
commercial enterprises or automobile clubs
They are from eastern and northern States
and represent thousands of travel organl-
cations and offices and millions of prospec-
tive tourists for the Carolinas. Their trip
through the Carolinas will thoroughly COW
er both States In North Carolina it will
extend from the Smoky Mountains to the
Atlantic ocean. Scores of towns and cities
will be visited, and at the conclusion of the
trip the visitors will know the Carolinas
and will have vast fund of information to
pass along to the people of this country
and foreign countries, which will undoubt-
eddy be incalculable in results and benefits
for the future of the tourist business in the
two States.
The Times-News believes this tour is the
most practical effort that has been made to
show the Carolinas to select company OF
men and women, who are in better position
than any other party which has visited the
Carolinas, to make this section of the Uni
ted States widely known to travellers.
The Motor Club and The Carolinas Or
ganization are certainly doing great and
constructive work in advertising the Caro-
linas by this method. C. W. Roberts and
his associates are due not only a vote of
thanks from the people of the two States,
but they are due and should have in the
future the complete and hearty co-opera-
ton of all Carolinians in their efforts to
advertise our States and promote their up
building.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
NOTE ON RUSSIA

/ Dr. F. R. Jenkins of RutherTordton wise, tray
eed and learned man, has spent much time IN Rus
sa and he tells about his travels with interest ana
skill His particular interest in the Russian expert
ment is. of course the tide of communism and the
attempt of the Soviet to outlaw the churches. This
attempt forbds the teaching of religion to any per-
son under Is years
E. L. Young is president of the Christian Men
Club of Charlotte. He has not, apparently, been 10
Russia but he has been down to Chapel Hill. He
reports that the university is fostering communism,
and that President Graham is associate profess
sor of the University of Moscow, that member
of the Chapel Hill faculty is even now in Russia
STUDYING communism He condemns President
Graham for declaring that it is all right to study
communism
We agree with DR.. Jenkins that it would be a
sad day if communism spread to North Carolina,
but with the echo of one big Shelby churchs celc-
bration of its pastors tenth anniversary in our
ears, we feel fairly safe for the moment.
We are puzzled by Mr.. Young's attitude. We
hold in doubt the charge that any state institution
is deliberately teaching atheism and communism,
let alone the university, which at LAP is the oldest
state university in the nation And we wonder why
it is not all right for university professors to study
this new evil in Russia to explore its workings and
its implications.
To deny great university (Which after all, IS
vastly more than schooD the right to study is 20
disarm that university, just physician would be
dsarmed if he denied the opportunity to study
the effects of scarlet fever, and poiomye-
litis.-Cleveland Star.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
T HE NEW = e Al
IN WASHIN GTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

subsistence hoIu1steads. ana otne.
experimental projects.
Such planning as seems required
will be done under DR. Thomas C.
Blaisdell. functioning as economic
adviser to RIA.
4! ..
DA figures about $4,000 of its
Ia distressed farm families will
need straight relief this winter and
about 100000 will need some help
ing hand, such as being given A
COW or a couple of horses or a plow,
Many other rural persons, con.
sidered hopeless as rehabilitation
prospects, will have to have work
or relief from Harry Hopkins.
Through his own organization. Tug.
we'll hopes to have rehabilitated
100000 farm families off relief
rolls by next summer.
RA expects to pick up about TO-
600 900 acres of land, so per cent
of it submarginal enough to be re-
tired to forests, park, grazing, and
other non.productive use.
Instead of moving $4,000 farmers
off such land and onto good land
by July. as previously planned, it
now hopes to resettle $4,000, which
will be enough, Tugwell figures, to
make a convincing demonstration
Of what might be done on a large
scale.
THE daily sheaf of WPA's all,
L nouncements of project allot,
ments has become much more dis.
Greet Frankly and unblushingly.
the Hopkins organization for weeks
detailed it's most bizarre methods
If making work for the white.col
,ored unemployed and others. This
Wrought many, sarcastic comments
in The Republican press.
Nav WPA doesn't do that any
n,orc except where construction OF
",T al improvement is involved
ptII,,a,nvr;aht. 1885. NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
Tic LATEST PeNrlc

The OkavengO natives of South
west Africa are said TO he So laZy
that they do not seem to care
whether they survive lean" years
or nOt-so long as they do MT
work. Their "labOr-saving" devices
include: Poisoning water to catch
fish quickly; chOpping or burnin.
down trees TO get fruit; and burn
ing grassland 10 drive away viii!
animals. The Okavenga natives
should be able to grow and store
sufficient foodstulTS to carry them
through two or three years 0f
drouth, but that they are too lazy
and Indifferent to do.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-18
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

The poetry identification prize
was won by Mrs. w. f. Bracket
of Hendersonville.
She was presented with two
souvenirs of the travels and la
bors of my friend Sam; one a
photograph of a rare orchid ia
ken on the heights of the Andes
mountains; the other poem
written by Sam on one of his
trips. l have not told you that
Sam has written few rare
poems. He has never published
them because he has been known
so long as man of affairs, a
captain of industry, an engineer,
and an empire-builder that he did
not wish to have his big-business
associates to smile at his versify-
ing.
But I tell him that there was
at least one man like him in his
tory who was a big business man
and who also wrote a few immor-
tai poems-Sir Walter Raleigh. So
l may yet be able to persuade
Sam to allow his few lapses to be
published, but not yet. He is curl
ously sensitive about the matter.
Maybe he will be inspired by Mrs.
Brackets. compliments, but |
shall have to work on him.
BY the way, Mrs. Olive Tilford
Dargan agrees with your Uncle
Ike about that sonnet of Shakes