The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1924, Page 12

To the Workers and Peasants of J apan APPEAL BY COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL, Your country is in the power of a ruling class of landlords, militarists, bureaucrats and capitalist monopolists who refuse you any rights, who ex- ploit you unmercifully and oppress you with the cruel hand of violence, Since the great disaster that befell your country last September the op- pression has become greater and the masses are seething with discontent and revolt. Your ruling class is totally incap- able of solving the economic crisis prevailing in your ccuntry and of cop- ing with the great task of restoration. While your rulers call on you to cher- ish the interests of the nation, their only concern is how to gat the great- est profit out of the national disaster. While they quarrel over the spoils, nothing is done to ameliorate your condition. Hundreds of thousands are still living in temporary huts in pov- erty and misery. Tens of thousands are unemployed, thousands of ruined farms are left unrestored. Your rulers can offer you no pros- pect of improvement: meanwhile the country is falling into the power of American finance which will impose on you the additional burden of ex- ploitation by foreign capitalists and convert your government into an in- strument of foreign imperialism. Your ruling class, the landlords, the militarists, the bureaucrats and the big monopolists, faced with a crisis they cannot solve, and seeing the ris- ing tide of revolt against them, are growing frantic in their endeavor to retain power. The phantom of “dangerous thoughts” is haunting your ruling class and it is introducing a reign of terror to destroy it. The wholesale massacre of Korean ‘workmen, the murder of Japanese workmen in Ka- meidok, the savage sentences recent- ly passed on the workmen in Nagoya and the forthcoming trials of the Com- munists in Tokio,—whose only crime is that they champion the cause of the toilers—witness to the ruthlessness of your ruling class. Jt realizes that its rule is being challenged. But your ruling class also tries to employ cunning in order to enslave you. Your rulers offer you fictitious recognition of your labor unions if you will agree to save the face of your exploiters by sending delegates to the capitalist conference of the Labor Bureau of the League of Na- tions in Geneva. They offer you the (Continued from page 4) the right side. It is known that the C. I. was in favor of her being elected to the C. E. C. Some of the leaders were also in her favor. The conven- tion, however, refused to do her the honor. Clara Zetkin was neither made an executive member nor nominated for the reichstag (federal legislature). In the rush of battle no quarters were given. The new C. E. C. consists of ten lefts, three rights and one “wild” member. Some Left Arguments. If you talk to the leaders of the ma- jority they point out a number of dif- fictilties they are confronted with. They assert that the bulk of the mem- bership is in the grip of impatience and is intolerant towards everything that smacks moderation. This, they say, is also the reason why Clara Zetkin could not be elected. They assure their loyalty to the C. I., but they express apprehension as to their ability to hold the extremists in check, They reiterate their readiness to stay within the labor unions, but they stress the existence of millions of unorganized who have to be kept im contact with the shop and factory committees in order thus to win them for the revolution. They declare themselves in favor of partial slogans which are to be utilized in a revolu- tionary spirit, but the masses of la-. bor, they say, are sick of the struggle for petty improvements. They ac- knowledge allegiance to the united front tactics, but again they caution against the mood that prevails in the AMONG THE GERMAN COMMUNISTS | protection of the law by their Trade Union Bill which in tact will paralyze your organizations. They try to bribe your leaders with high posts in the government. They offer you land courts which will settle rent disputes in the interests of the landlords. They talk about universal suffrage, but they do not intend to give it to you. They employ every trick to keep you in bondage. It is significant that the tyrannical Russian tsarist government, prior to the revolution of 1905, employed the same measures of repression and cun- ning. But the Russian workers re- jected the offer of “official” unions and instead, they fought to overthrow the tsar and established their own rule. Toilers of town and country. You are disfranchised, unemploy- ment and starvation stare you in the face and your rulers can offer you nothing but increased exploitation and poverty, and repression that will force you back to serfdom. The radi- cal boufgeoisie try to win your sup- port by pretending to fight for re- forms, but they only seek their own interest. Beware of them. The government recently dissolved parliament and “appealed to the na- tion.” But you have no voice in the election of a new government. If you think that a change of govern- ment will bring you any improvement in your condition, you will be disap- pointed. No government of bureau- crats, miltarists, landlords and capital- ists will bring you velief. You must take up the fight for liberty. You alone can stop we reaction and open the way for the future develop- ment of your country. You have shown good fighting spir- it. In spite of the governmental ter- ror you have bravely resisted the at- tacks of the capitalists and the land- lords. You have shown independence by compelling your tabor leaders to decline the offer of a government post. You have repudiated the pernicious Trade Union Bill, But this is not enough. You must storm the citadel of reaction. Organize your forces for the fight for civil liberties. Hasten with the formation of your Workers’ and Pea- sants’ party by which alone you will be able to conduct your fight for li- ‘erty. Your party must be indepen- tent of the bourgeois radicals. Put forward your program of liber- ies and fight until you get it carried. party. Altogether the German party ap pears in a state of regrouping of fac tions, revision of ideology, recasting of tactical slogans. Events after the convention seem to indicate a strong and healthful tendency towards con- solidation ‘along the lines of revolu- tionary realism. Thus the meeting of Berlin functionaries, some three thou- sand in number, unanimously indorsed the union policy of work within the old organizations. Another hopeful sign is the decision to organize local committees of action, composed not| 5 only of party members but of all sorts of militant workers who are in favor of revolutionary struggle. The task of those committees will be to unite all local revolutionary forces and to be the leading body in days of actual battle. The deepest regret I heard ex- pressed everywhere is over the lack of great leaders. The party is there, the ‘forces are there, the conditions are ripe, if only the workers of Ger- many had a great all-embracing revo- lutionary leader! With a feeling akin to envy the German comrades speak of the Russian workers who were fortunate enough to have a Lenin... A Personal Quest. In conclusion: please do not look upon this as an exhaustive and abso- lute presentation of the conditions within the German party. These are only impressions, gained thru brief contact with the German comrades. They may be of interest to the readers of the DAILY WORKER, Demand: Democratic government; immediate adult suffrage for men and women without any qualification; the right of combinatiqn; freeddm to strike and the right to collective bar- gaining; freedom of political opinion; the right of assembly—to hold meet- ings without the presence of the po- lice; real freedom of press and speech for the working clays. Put forward also your economic demands. Combine your labor unions and or- ganize those who have not yet joined, and compel the government to recog- nize them as independent legal organ- izations. Workers and peasants of Japan! _The savage sentences on your fel- low workers in Nagya shows that the government holds out the same fate for your comrades now awaiting trial in Tokio, in Gumma and other places. Remember, these gases show that the government intends to pick out and crush all the most active and thinking members of your movement J. T. W. NEWBOLD Leading English Communist. Amalgamated THIS IS OUR @ ao and thus demoralize your ranks by leaving you leaderless. The Commun- ists are men and women who fight for the interests of the working class. In striking against them the government is striking against you. You must raisé your protest in their defense. | Commence your, campaign for political liberty by demanding the release of all those who are persecuted for their political opinions, and the cessation of all future political prosecution. Demand the release of the political prisoners. Form your Workers’ and Peasants’ party to fight for your program of li- berties. 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