The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 3

aig a _DAILY WORK EW YORS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932 Congressmen Back Wari, 000 CHILDREN Moves of Japan with Plan WinHout MILK IN to Boycott Soviet Union! U.S. Senators and Congressmen Support Drive | for Legislation Ag Against So Soviet Products Forced Labor Lies Get |Noise Set-Ba Back As American | INDIANAPOLIS | Baby Hides Plight of Workers’ Babies INDIANAPOLIS, ‘Ind. —Ten thou- sand children in this city are with- for Lindbergh! limits of Manchuria.” JAPANESE USE SUSPICIOUS “REVOLTS” OF CHINESE TROOPS FOR ADVANCE ON U.S. 8. R | presence of Japanese troops. There- fore the Soviet Union Intends to reinforce frontier garrisons against the possibility of Japanese opera- tions which might over-reach the {CONTINUMD FROM PAGE ONED | Support the revolutionary struggles of the Japanese and Chinese masses! | Down with imperialism and its war | and hunger program against the} | masses! Woman Tells How Soviet Protests Women Workers and Children While Japanese troops are strung out along the Siberian | frontiers of the Soviet Union, the United States imperialists have revived their program for an economic war against the peaceful Soviet Union. Legislation for a boycott against all Soveit products is being urged by a large group of members of the U. S. congress and representa- tives of reactionary patriotic and in- Yustrial organizations. The support- ers of the anti-Soviet move are the same people who have opposed the Proposals from certain “liberal” groups for a boycott against Japan on the grounds that such a boycott would lead to war with Japan. Yesterday a delegation visited Sec- xetary of the Treasury Mills to de- mand the exclusion of Soviet prod- ucts, on the lying pretext that the Soviet system is based on forced Jabor. Secretary Mills expressed his regrets that under the present law the Treasury could not place a general embargo on Soviet products. He sug- gested that provision to that effect be placed in the law by Congress. He admitted that the Treasury has “had great difficulty” in establishing the fiction of forced labor in the Soviet Union. Senator Oddie, spokesman for the delegation, promised to sponsor such legislation. He declared: “If you believe the law is defec- tive it is our purpose to urge the enactment of effective legislation.” Wemen Workers and “Forced Labor” in the U. S. S. R. In the meantime, yesterday's New York Journal published an article by Margaret Mooers Marshall which gave the “low down” on “forced labor” in the Soviet Union, Writing on the Soviet Union ard. the women work- @rs, she declared, in part: “One has only to read the reports of surveys undertaken by the Wo- men’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, to see how muc’: pleasanter life must be for Russian than for American mothers of families, who also are toilers in shop or mill. “Russia’s Policy. “These American mothers are work- ‘amg not because of any grand theories about the economic independence of women, but because—quite simply— their families would suffer without the pitifully few dollars. they can earn, Yet what is done to help them? Practically nothing. “Soviet Russia follows a different policy, If you want to know how different—and to blush for your country’s callous indifference to working mothers—read that most interesting new book, ‘Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Rus- sia,” by Alice Withold Field. “Mrs. Field is an American woman who made her own investigation of Russian conditions. These are some of the things she found: “In Russia, every woman worker receives from three to six months’ vacation, WITH FULL PAY, when- ever she has a baby. “After she goes back to work, she gets time off every three hours to nurse her baby, withont being docked. “Creches are connected with an ever-increasing number of factories and offices, where the children of women workers receive freé the best scientific care. “Social insurance provides med- ical attention for working mothers and their babies, and has reduced infant mortality among the children of working women from 40 per cent before the revolution to 4,5 per cent now. “4 “In Soviet Russia,” sums up Mrs. Field, “a woman is given every pos- sible chance to be both a healthy mother and at the same time a self- supporting individual. “Can the United States say as much?” One World Your's Workers! Capitalist World!” ‘Two worlds, workers! ‘The Soviet world of the emancipated working- class, and the capitalist world in which a small class of parasites con- trols the means of production and robe and plunders the toiling masses, driving them like slaves in their shops and mills, throwing them on the streets to starve in times of crisis, callously denying them unemploy- ment relief, and using their police shoot them down when they demand relief, Two worlds, workers! The Soviet world of your class and your hopes. And the capitalist world of the op- pressors. Workers! Defend your so- cialist fatherland! Ring the rising, flourishing Soviet world with an iron defense! One the START HALF DOLLARS ROLLING IN TO SAVE DAILY WORKER USE THIS COUPON SAVE THE DAILY WORKER | Wrap me up and mail me with 50 cents, Name eer ee eee Ce etree ery) Address. City State Rush this blank form in at once, Two workers can get together and send a dollar bill in with. this form. A half dollar each from 70,000 work- ees will save the Daily Worker. War Shuts Textile Mills In Shanghai Owned ‘by Japanese LABOR RESEARCH ASSN. The effect on textiles of the war in China is seen in the fact that Japanese-owned mills in Shanghai are not operating and only a few Chinese mills are open and these are operating part time: Yarn production in the Shanghai district is reported at about 10 per cent of operating capacity. If a boycott were adopted against Japan, by the United States, some 300,000 workers in silk and al- lied industries here might be affected by closing of mills chiefly in Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The boycott, working in the other direc- tion against export of cotton from the United States, would cause even more widespread unemployment than at present among cotton mill workers of Japan and China, Japanese cotton mills have been making frantic efforts to reduce cost of production by wage cuts, and are boasting of the progress they have made in the last few years in steadily raising the number of spindles per workers from about 27 in 1926 to over 50 now. During the same period of intense rationalization, the number of yards turned out per weaver has more than doubled. Competition with British textiles in the Indian and other oriental markets has been the cause for this increased speed-up and exploitation of the workers, out milk or insufficient milk. This was admitted in a recent editorial in ‘>> Indianapolis Times. “pest physicians say,” the editorial continues, “that milk diet is absolutely necessary for children and that if it be denied there will | be a heavy bill of sickness a few years later.” On the front pages of every newspaper in the country, in start- ling headlines, consuming column | after column of print, is the case of one kidnapped baby. Newspapers stretched across the nation drip tears through their pages over the Lindbergh baby, shuddering at the idea that it may not be: receiving the scientifically prepared diet that it is accustomed to, To all appearances, therefore, the bosses of the country and their newspapers are big-hearted gentle- man who law awake nights think- ing about babies without sufficient food, This is the impression they try to make on the workers. The 10,000 children in Indianap- olis and the millions over the country give the bosses and their government ample opportunity to prove their “concern.” Their “concern” for working- class babies amounts to this: “A promise was made that the situa- tion (in Indianapolis) would be corrected, but since that time there has been a very persistent drive (on the part of the bosses) to reduce the cost of feeding tha needy,” says the editorial in the India- napolis paper, “The memory of the fighters of the Commune is not: only honored by the workers of France but by the pro~ letariat of the whole world, for the Commune did not fight for any local or narrow national aim, but for the freedom of toiling humanity, of all the downtrodden and oppressed.” Lenin, 1911. Fight to free Tom Moo- ney and the Negro victims of Scotts- boro, March 18, LL.D. Paris Com- mune Anniversary, (CONTINUED ROM PAGE ONED 1). That the companies guaranty @ certain number of days work at union wage rate; so that there will be no rift between employed and unemployed. 2). Reopening of mines. 3). Miners having no chance of getting work because of exhaustion of mines in their district, unem- ployed miners, be given relief paid by the operators and the govern- ment agencies. 4). Rank and File control of the strike, through election of strike Rank and File Committese includes: | | | Call on Rank and File Miners to Turn Anthracite Strike Into Real Struggle committee of 25 in eache local, 5 of which delegates from each local to constitute central strike com- mittee, to have power to discuss, negotiate and settle. The Rank and File Committee is calling on the anthracite miners to make the strike into a real struggle by taking it into their own hands and fighting for the rank and file pro- gram, State troopers have been rushed into the field because the operators realize the men are in a fighting mood despite the Maloney-Shuster desire to smash and betray the strike. Gen. Honjo On Way to Tsitsihar. A Shanghai dispatch reports that General Honjo, Japanese army com~- mander in Manchuria several days ago flew from Mukden to Harbin “and it was announced that he was | going on to Tsitsihar, 175 miles west- ward.” The dispatch significantly adds: “This city (Tsitsihar) is 250 miles south of Blagovestchensk and | would be the base for any Japanese advance into the Hetho district.” Tt is significant, too, t hat the in- famous secret Tanaka document} which outlined the program that | Japanese imperialism is now faith- fully carrying out in its robber war against China and its war moves against the Soviet Union, envisaged Tsitsihar as a base of operations against the Soviet Union. The Ta- naka document declared: ‘Having constructed this line, we can convert Dalai into a base for the offensive against Siberia along three roads: through Tuunan, An- chan and Tsitsthar, The riches of North Manchuria will fall into our | hands” (page 740). “Sooner or later | we shall have to fight here against Soviet Russia, The fight will take place in Girin” (page 741). Washington Admitted Japanese War Moves, The Japanese war moves on the Soviet frontier follow admissions by the Washington government that the Japanese were concentrating troops on the Korean-Siberian border and |that the Japanese battle fleet were in “mysterious movements” of the Soviet port of Vladivostok on the Japan Sea. ‘Phe Japanese war moves follow 2 long series of war provocations against the Soviet Union, including the mobilization and arming of White Guards in Manchuria, a detachment of whom crossed the Soviet border a. little over a week ago and were re- pelled by Red Army units. A few days ago a Japanese military plane was caught spying over Soviet ter- ritory and forced down by the alert Soviet airmen. In the face of this monstrous pro- vocation, the Soviet Unton still con- tinues to pursue a firm peace policy. ‘Tf there was°a nationalist govern- ment in Russia,” writes the Czech war-incited ‘Kramarz, “it would have been at war with Japan long ago.” As Comrade 8. U. Lin points out in the latest issue of the Inprecorr “this ‘reproach’ on the part of Herr Kra- mars against the Soviet government is, in reality, the greatest praise for the peace policy of the Soviet Union. Tt has pursued a peaceful policy the lke of which is not to be found in?) the history of bourgeols diplomacy.” Workers! Rally against the war plots of the imperialists! Down with those who are trying to get out of the crisis at the expense of the blood of the toiling masses, at the expense of China and the Soviet Union! De- mand hands off the Soviet Union! Hands off China! Demand the with- drawal of Japanese trpops from Man- churia and other parte of China! PHILA. TO HOLD COMMUNE MEET Meeting on March 18) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The Inter- | national Labor Defense will hold a} huge mass meeting on the anniver- sary of the Paris Commune on Fri- day, March 18, at 8 p.m. at the Ukrai- nian Hall, 849 N. Franklin Street. Like the thousands of the heroic workers of Paris, who were massacred by the French bosses when they fought against the starvation system, the American workers today are be- ing slaughtered by the police and gunmen of the boss-ciass when they demand relief or strike for hetter conditions. The Paris Commune ‘Vommemoration should serve as an} inspiration to the wrokers to fight ruthlessly against the terror drive of the ruling class. The massaeres in) Detroit, Chicago, Kentucky and the | frame-ups of Mooney, Scottsboro boys and Wille Brown must be answered | with a mass defense movement on the part of the workers. The International Labor Defense calls upon the Philadelphia workers to demonstrate on the anniversary of |@%nounced plan of the Japanese to| the Paris Commune against the ter- ror and lynch rule of the bosses. J. Louis Engdahl, National Secret- | ary of the ILD., will be the mai speaker. The program will include the Russian Chorus, the eee Dramatic ‘Srop, aud and other features. CHI. WORKERS TO CHICAGO.-The Friends of the Soviet Union, Chicago District, is conducting an intensive campaign for funds to send five worker pe gates to the Soviet Union. workers do not have to be members of the organization. They are elected on the basis of activity in the labor | movement, « Every year, for May 1 and Noy. 7, the Friends of the Soviet Union sends a delegation of American work- ers to greet the workers of the Soy- jet Union and bring back their mes- sage to us. Candidates are now being elected, In this way an ever- growing circle of Friends of the Sov- fet Union is being created, since hardly a worker who goes to Russia today but comes back full of en- thusiasm not only for what has been accomplished there, but for greater intensity in the class struggle here. Delegates are being campaigned for from the following sections: One worker from Southern Illinois mine | fields, one steel worker from Calu~ met section, one from Milwaukee and two workers from Chicago from among the steel, packinghouse or | the at Ukrainian Hall | SEND 5 TO USSR: |portde to have agreed to leave Man- | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED States, was rejected by the United States Senate by an overwhelming vote, indicating clearly that when the capitalists are compelled to provide relief and at the same time advance taxes for this provision, they will make every concession to the taxpayers, namely the rich but will grant absolutely nothing to the workers. After this rejection, a bill for 750 million dollars was intro- duced by Senator Wagner, but it has not the slightest hope of being passed. The LaFollette- Costigan bill was introduced for election pur- poses, in the hope of winning votes. Following the rejection of this bill, the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives put for- ward a bill of $132,500,000 for “emergency high- way construction.” Of this amount $120,000,000 would be loaned to the states to be spent, before June 30, 1932 and to be repaid to the U. 8. treas- ury within ten years, According to the first information, this would provide jbbs for one million men. This, however, is ridiculous, espe- cially in view of the fact that Representative Burnell of Indiana, declared “Not more than 25 per cent of the money will go to the working men engaged on such construction.” ‘This would have meant that $20 would be allotted per man. However, the figures were later corrected and showed that only 55,400 men would be employed at such work—and this means less than $400 per yeat per worker. The question might arise “What. becomes of the 75 per cent?” Does this go chiefly to graft, as in all th erelief campaigns that are being conducted in the country? However, there need not be any speculation on this matter, for it is already reported that Hoover will veto the bill, not on the basis it will not provide the workers with enough, but on the basis that Hoover demands “econmy.” The City of New York with its more than 1,000,000 unemployed has stopped the carrying Out of $213,000,000 worth of work, which means the denial of jobs to tens of thousands of workers. Mayor Walker, obeying the dictates of Wall St. has also “economized” but only at the expense of the workers, Still, in the city of New York, it is admitted that only 22,469 workers, men and women, have been given any kind of work since January Ist and that an “additional 50,000 ap- Plicants for emergency work have been investi- gated and now await placement as soon as funds becomes available.” This is only a fraction of those in need and yet the statement is made in view of the fact that the relief funds are dis- appearing and there is no outlook of further funds being obtained. One of the most shame- ful manifestations, however, of the sivuation is the proposal of the Federal tax bill amounting facturers’ sales levy. This bill be handed on to the workers in the form either of immediate wage reductions or in increases in the price of | commodities—this in the face of constant wage | cuts! | I nall the relief that is even pretended, the | foreign-born and Negro workers are shamofully | | to $1,096,000,000 carrying a 2 1-4 per cent manu- for relief in Harlem, which is mainly for the | Negro population, out of the $18,000,000 collected in the City of New York, only $300,000 was al- | lotted to Harlem. The situation of the Negroes | is desperate, not only in that relief is‘not being given them, but in the starvation and the high rents that they have to pay. For instance, whites pay for the same accommodations in New York $6.67, whereas Negroes pay $9.50. ‘This is the manner in which the most exploited sections of the working-class are being “sustained” in the crisis. G. H. D. Cole, the noted British economist, states that the “slump may be @ mortal wound to capitalism.” He believes, however, that cap- italism can be put again on its feet only provided certain conditions are met, conditions that are impossible under capitalism, ‘The extent of the distress in one city alone, namely New York City, in the present situation, may be gathered Eek the following excerpts from the report of the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau: | In an investigation covering 6304 cases gathered by 41 investigators, the fol- lowing facts were compiled: “1) Food was lacking in 81 per cent of the homes visited. “2) Fuel was urgently needed in 25 per cent of the homes, “3) Breadwinners reported being unemployed from 4 months to 2 years, the average being 8 months. ¥ “4) 88 per cent were in arrears for rent. In vir- tually all mortgage cases, foreclosure was im- mient. “5) 74 per cent had borrowed from friends or relatives and were in debt from $50 to $500 or been worn to a sliver. “1) Half of those having insurance had bor- Towed on policies or had obtained cagh surrender values. “8) In more than 1,500 homes, furniture hed been pawned or sold to buy food. diserminated against. In the original provisions - THE SIX GOVERNORS’ FAKE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PLAN “9) None of the cases visited was known to any family welfare society, but about 50 per cent were attempting to subsist on food tickets obtained irregularly from other emergency relief offices, “10) In nearly 40 per cent of the homes, the | investigators reported discouragement and bit~ terness aggravated by the breaking up of homes made necessary by the inability to care for children.” | This is capitalism and its fake relief for the unemployed. This iy the way Hoover, Roocevelt, Walker, Smith, Gibson, the American Legion, the American Federation of Labor officials and the Socialist Party in their combined efforts are relieving the rnemployed of this country, At the Convention of the A. F. of L. in Van- couver, William Green, who made @ vicious at~ tack upon the proposal for Unemployment In- surance as being “un-American” and “destruc- tive of the rugged individualism” of the Ameri- can workers, declared that he would go before | the United States Congress and if necessary, de- mand a billion dollars in relief for the unem- U. 8. Government which has made gifts to in the form of loans to the banks a billion dollars, hundreds of mil- of dalla into the pockets of the manufac- ch the protective tariff, 750 million habe railroads in the form of higher w hundred million dollar sto the high ey payers, provisions for the bankers the newly adopted reconstruction board, “baby bond” measure, etc., categorically re- fuses to do anything for the unemployed except to allow them, as stated in a previous report, to “attempt to subsist on food tickets obtained ir- regularly”, According to William Green, in New York alone, “there are 250,000 families in immediate need of relief”, whereas no more than a pre- tense is being made to take care irregularly of more than a fraction of this number. William the Executive Council of the Ameri- eration of Labor admit that “the num- employed is constantyl increasing, mil- children are suffering from hunger and school i He g29 ial day many thousands are up- attend because of the lack of and shoes.” Yet the leadership of American Federation of Labor constantly op- ployment Insurance as an “un-Amer- jure—and they had a little hunger U. S. Capitol to support the Costi- bill, which the U. 8. Congress HHT ri U.S. BRITISH IN | NEW PRESSURE Aimed at Protecting Own Loot in South China As a five United States and British imperialists who see their loot in South China threatened by the Japanese, the Japanese are | reported to be preparing to withdraw from the Shanghai} | area. | The presence of the Japanese |forces in South China created situation which several times threat~ | ened to develop into open conflict bee tween the Japanese and the other} | imperialists over the division of the China. Whil anese butchery of the Chinese masses the United States and England both gave Japan to understand that “Shanghai was not Manchuria.” They made it quite clear that while they | support Japan’s conversion of Man- churia into a military base against | the Soviet Union, they would oppose the Japanese threat to their loot in| |South China. They made this clear |not only by their protest notes to he Japanese but by rushing warships jand troops to Shanghai. Further demonstrating the sharpening an- tagonisms between the imperialists, the United States has now categori- cally refused to recognize the new Japanese puppet state tn Manchuria. Other considerations in the present | withdraw their troops include the| |churia and against the Soviet border, | transport of these troops to Man- here the Japanese are carrying on steady mobilization and war pro-| | vocation policy; and te free the Kuo- ee eas tools of imperialism from jance to the Japanese, thus freeing all of the Kuomintang troops for the | bloody suppression of the nationa)| } revolutionary struggle and for the at- jtack, already begun, against the growing Chinese Soviet districts, The Kuomintang traitors are re- |churia out of th econsideration when j they meet in a “round table confer- | mee” with the Japanese. The con-} |ference ig being arranged by the © | United States and the League of Na- | jtions. ‘The! Kuomintang has also jagreed that Chinese troops are to be the Japanese have marked off for | the creation of an “international city” | to be under the direct control of the imperialist brigands. of the Chinese masses over the be- trayal of the heroic defenders of Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek is now peddling the lie that he sent Wang Ching-yu’s Ninth Army to reinforce the defenders, but only the 47th Di- vision of that army arrived at the front. Moreover, he says, it’s disci- pline and morale were so “appalling” that he was forced to recall it, railroad workers. Every sympathizer and friend of the Soviet Union is asked to support this campaign to raise funds. Get in touch with the secretary at 2019 Division St. WORKERS HOOT EX-BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. — The biggest laugh an audience ever gave a speak- er was at the Detroit City College when Rene Smith a former member | of the House of Commons of Great Britain defended the bankers of England saying that they “too” were | workers and that there is no classes in England. Workers! Help ° Your C Class Paper by Getting Ads from Stores, Clubs, , Meeting Halls RATES $2 $2. AN INCH | spoils in the planned partition of | ypporting the Jap- | the necessity of pretending a resist- | kept, out of the Shanghai area. which | In his efforts to placate the fury} Fascist Government | Organized in Japan 'Prepares Bloody Masses and Revol | nists Made Home of Po The Japanese ( abi net is b Terror to Push War on USSR Agair Starving utionary Fighters sult of pressure by|Suzuki, Notorious for Persecution of Commu- xr With Control ice eing organized on the basis of establishing a fascist dictatorship against the rising revolu- r in many sections of Japan. | ome Minister, Kisaburo Suzik ed Home Minister. police force. Suzuki has been succeeded as the Minister of Justic by Takeji Kawa- | mura, former Governor General or} | Formossa and butcher of the For- | | mossan masses. Nakahashi resigned as Home Min- | ister ostensibly because of ill health, | but the real reason is that he was | | forced out by the feudal militar elements in order to prepare the w more effectively for a fascist dic torship whose task is to find a more | effectively counter-revolutionary way out of the crisis and to pursue a straight-forward intervention policy against China and the Soviet Union. Had Planned Fascist Coup Last | November. ane The fascist dictatorship which is now being carried through by the | Inukai Cabinet was to have been set up on November 3 last with a bloody |coup d'etat and the massacre of thousands of revolutionary fighters, | beginning with those who are at pre- sent in the Japanese jails. The plan was not realized at that time owing jt the conflict in the camp of the ruling class, There was set up, how- ever, the Unukai Cabinet, which |Should pursue a “stronger,” more “agressive” home and foreign policy. The Inukai Cabinet prepared the way for the present openly fascist devel- opment, “Socialists” Supported Fascist Plot This bloody plot against the Jap- anese working class was supported by the Japanese “socialist” Party (the Shakia Minshuto) which is openly supporting the robber war of Japanese imperialism against | China and the Japanese war moves | against the Soviet Union. The ele- | ments of the plot are given in an | | article by Comrade Sen Katayama in Inprecer No. 10, as follows: | “The main facts regarding the coup | yetat are as follows: The chief par- ticipants were: the military and monarchist police represented by Minami, the then war Minister; Su- | iki, present Minister of Justic, no- | torious for his persecutions of Com- | munists; Kanaya, then the chief of the general army staff; Prince Kanin, present chief of the general staff; Prince Nashimoto, two of the lead- ing members of the royal family, Araki, present War Minister, Koiso, head of the burea uof military affairs, and others, “The national federation of young officers of which Prince Higashikuze ds president, was to play the chief part in the carrying out of this plot. This federation was founded in Aug. Jast as @ result of the amalgamation of the Seikoi (society of lieutenants and general officers, with a member- ship of about 23,000) and the Jik- yoku Kenkyukai (society for the study of current problems). In addi- tion, the national reserve officers’ association, the Saisanto, the Koko- suika and other fascist and monar- chist organizations and also the| Shakia Minshuto (social democratic paryt) were to have played an active part ih this plot.” “Peace” Meeting Was to Afford Opportunity. The coup d'etat was to have been | carried through with a meeting of | reservists, p numbering abou 000, on | SEND US THEIR NAMES! Daily, Worker 50 E. 13th St., N. Y. BLADDER WEAKNESS? ing, sealding sensations, frequent ps =~ quickly overcome, dy, Prescribed ay dochere for over oe Seate ‘sald By drugsine struggles of the Japan growing strike movement in Jay ; war on China and in armed resistance of the starving peasantry for his persecution of revolutionary workers, THE WESTERN WORKER ese masses, expressed in the pan, in opposition to the robber Wiht the resignation yesterday of Tokugoro Nakahashi as i, Minister of Justice notorious has been appoint- The Home Minister is head of the Japanese (the birthday of the | late emperor Maiji). The meeting was called ostensibly to pray for na- tional peace and was to have been held in front of the Shokoku jinje (shrine commemorating departed warriors). “At the same time, in accordance with an agreement secretly arrived at between the chief conspirators and Akamatsu, the general secre- tary of the social demecratic (“so- cialist”) party, the social demoratic party was to mobilize and incite the workers still under its influ- ence to attack the bourgeois news- papers, in particular the Tokyo Asahi, The Arabu regiment and three companies of the Mikado’s bodyguard were to be dispatched to the spot in order, allegedly, to suppress the workers’ riots, bat in reality to join with them and seize these bourgois newspaper offices, after which they were to join forees with the reservists gathered im front of the imperial palace and led by General Shiowten. They were then to obtain the imperial sanction for a coup d'etat by pie- senting @ petition to the Mikade asking him te declare martial Rye in Tokyo, At the same time, they were to of cupy the Ministries, the paver ago of the Seiyukai and Minsotai part the Bank af Japan, and pied financial institutions throughout the country, and also the State apparatus. The dictatorship ef the Mikado would then be established. All known revo- lutionary fighters were to be mas- “November ard {sacred and the revolutionary move- ment stamped out. Only two news- papers, the Nippon, organ of the monarchists, and Tsuwamono, or- gan of the militarists were to remain. “The plot failed, however, before its execution owing to inner difficul- ties, At 2:30 a. m. on October 23, 300 gendarmes were sent to guard the residence of the oabinet ministers, Shidehara, and Adachi and also the Private residence of Makino, the keeper of the Privy Seal.” As Comtade Katayame points out in his article, while the plot failed, it Was never abandoned: “the com- ing into power of the Inukai Cabinet marks a step towards the realization of the plans of the conspirators.” ‘The fascist coup now has been care ried through. It ts a prelude to an even more bloody terror against the Japanesé masses and for an oper workers of the whole ion-heth- ETT warlare against the Soviet Union The workers of the whole world must Tally to the support of the revolu« tionary Yapanese masses, to the de~ fense of the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union! Workers! 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