Rise of Jap Capitalism Brings Trade Conflict and a Menace of World War
Rise of Jap Capitalism Brings Trade Conflict and a Menace of World War GREAT BRITAIN begins a trade war against the Japanese in her colonies that may pile up dead conscripts on battlefields and...
...The meeting was opened by mass singing of the Internationale...
...If the Japs are undermining our Babbitts in LatinAmerica...
...The first section wss composed of the forty-five branches of the Socialist Party and about twentyfive friendly fraternal organisations...
...Nevertheless, they were inf<rmed by letter, signed by Mr...
...What the Washington Administration will do is not yet decided...
...Dan Hoan Leads Colorful May Day Demonstration ly Andrew J. Biemiller MILWAUKEE.—Fifteen thousand workers marched here in a May Day parade twenty-five blocks long, Sunday, May 6. Following the parade they were joined by ten thousand more who listened to speeches by Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Anthony J. King and J. F. Friedrick...
...This week Great Britain set up a quota system that reduces Japan's exports of cotton and rayon textiles to the British colonies by 50 per cent . It is expected that further action may be taken on other Japanese commodities unless Japan curtails her exports...
...Fascism is one menace of war in Europe and the challenge of Japanese capitalism to American and British capitalism briags a conflict that may produce another world war...
...The speeches were delivsMd from the east steps of the court house and were carried over a powerful loudspeaker system...
...Coupled with the Japanese announcement last month that Japan has special interests in i.mna, tnat japan snouid nave a navy as large as the American, and having set up a puppet state torn out of China and installed a Manchu to serve Japanese capitalism, we have a situation that is dangerous to the peace of the world...
...I consulted the budget for 1935 and found an appropriation of over $1,900,000,000 set aside for war preparations...
...How* then describes the many farcial committee hearings, wherein those not in favor of great war preparation expenditures were made to look ridiculous...
...We rededicate ourselves to the original Socialist slogan, 'Workers of the world, unite...
...We value our Democratic institutions too highly to seek support from groups who favor the destruction of Democratic institutions in Germany...
...Friedrick, recording secretary of the Trades Council, spoke as an official representative of that body...
...There is ho solution to the workers' problems save the triumph of Socialism," Hoan declared...
...The labor unions are revolutionary organizations...
...However, if they persist In their communistic sctivlties, things will be worse in these United States than they were in Germany...
...Rise of Jap Capitalism Brings Trade Conflict and a Menace of World War GREAT BRITAIN begins a trade war against the Japanese in her colonies that may pile up dead conscripts on battlefields and involve other nations, including the United States...
...Moreover, in April the Navy Department assembled the Pacific Fleet of 110 ships for a trial of speed through the Panama Canal which was accomplished in two days...
...Congressman Hamilton Fish, referred to as "America's Little Bine Boy," is quoted by Mr...
...Howe declares that fascism in this country is a forerunner of war, and that everything in Washington now points to such a possibility...
...France and Holland are also nervous...
...but such dramatic fleet maneuvers have an unofficial significance that is not lost in this world of imperialist strategy...
...Ha dascribes in detail the tactics of those wbo sell munitions and combat planes to the government, and tells of the rushing of war bills through both booses of Congress...
...We .are," he said, "determined that the present capitalist system must go...
...The Socialist Party of Allegheny County, in behalf of its candidates, repudiates the endorsement of the German-American Federation...
...When encased ofbelng anti-Semitic, Fish is said to have burst ont to the investigators: "The Jews may bs good citisens...
...I want to correct that impression...
...There are many who do not regard the organized labor movement as a revolutionary croup," he said...
...The second section had representatives of more than forty unions in line...
...Uruguay took four times as much ot Japanese offerings and the rest of the continent nearly tripled its purchases...
...This is the gist of facts gathered by Michael Howe during an investigation just finished...
...Our candidates rect da questionnaire, to which no reply was made...
...One of the features of the section was the women's division, in which more than a thousand woman marcl !, some pushing baby carriages the entire two and a half miles covered by the demonstration...
...That this militaristic feeling is intensified by the activities of the makers of monitions !s claimed by the investigator, who cites especially a pamphlet issued by on* of the big manufacturers of explosives...
...Workers have everything to lose and nothing to gain by fighting in such a conflict...
...Two score floats, five bands, and hundreds of banners and flags mads the parade exceedingly colorful...
...If it cannot be accomplished by legal means, we shall use any other means that are necessary...
...Howe wonders at the fact that such literature should be circulated among the law-makers...
...The reasons given for the endorsement of a certain Senatorial was met with the cheers of "Heil, Hitler...
...Red flags and union banners were massed behind the speakers' stand...
...Officially, no...
...and deliberate misrepresentation o the facts...
...He gave a fiery address, expounding Socialist principles...
...Howe as denouncing many recovery leaders as Communists...
...The Japs have also cleared the high tariff wall in the Philippines...
...We quote the United States News: "The same group that buys cotton in the United States operates the ships that carry it to Japan, controls the banks that finance the' purchase, owns the , railroads that carry the cotton to the mills, owns and operates the mills that make it into cloth, finances and administers the export abroad and operates the sales organization...
...The party's statement reads: "We note through the press that the German-American Federati.n announced the < dor.ement of Socialist Party candidates for the Legislature...
...There was no mistaking the Socialist ardor of the crowd, who, time and again, applauded the speaker*' demands for the establishment of a worker*' world, a world free of exploiters...
...It is not an accident that the United States is also building the American Navy/ to full treaty strength...
...The Socialist Part...
...What has made Japan an economic giant that makes the rest of the capitalist world shiver...
...Howe...
...candidates did not seek nor desire the endorsement of the German-American Federation...
...Here is the result summarized by the same publication: "Figures prepared for the President show that last year the Japanese sold four times as much to Peru as the year before, they sold four times as much in yen value to Chile, about twice as much to Argentina, more than double as much to Brazil...
...The robber profit system must go...
...The scent of the War God led all over Washington," writes Mr...
...It is rather difficult to understand this candidate, a: for the failure to endorse one of his opponents, stamps the Federation as definitely accepting and approving the destruction of the German trade union movement, and their political expression, the Social...
...Here is a phase of world capitalism that will bear watching...
...the planned, brutal treatment of the liberals, Jews and other minority groups, and the complete destruction of democratic Germany, made possible through the sacrifice of 13 million men in the World War...
...The trade war may at any time become a war of cruisers and airplanes, of big berthas and tanks, of poison gas and machine guns, and all for the greater glory and gain of the masters of economic life...
...Japan was an ally'of Great Britain and the United States in the war for "democracy...
...This book, two pages of which are reproduced to illustrate the article, is sail to be given over from cover to cover to aha glorification of war and the Joys of wholesale slaughter...
...The Washington Administration is worried and made an investigation...
...The Communist press, however, with its characteristic 7 al for truth, honor and fairness, promptly broadcast the reported endorsement of the Socialist candidates, totally ignoring: the indignant repudiation by the Socialists of the proffer of aid by the allies of the Nasi assassins...
...Democratic Party...
...Mayor Hoan was given a terrific ovation when be rose to make the closing speech...
...It led me into many strange corners...
...The parade and demonstration was orgMitoed by the Socialist Party and had the endorsement of the Federated Trades Council snd the Workers' Committee on Unemployment...
...you have nothing to lose but your chains...
...The facts are now appearing in the controversial magazine, Debate, for whom the investigation was made...
...A few powerful families organised into less than 20 great organisations practically control the export business of the nation...
...The speskers were introduced by State Senator Walter Polakowski...
...Washington Is Looking Around forWar Munition Peddlers Active in Capital WASHINGTON, D. C — Incited by war literature issued by munition makers, urged and fanned by American fascists who used the recent Wirt "red scare" as its chief weapon, Washington waits for war...
...Whatever their pretense, the aim of each imperialist power is the same, the enrichment of a handful of exploiters at the expense of the toiling masses...
...Here is the highest perfected capitalism in the world off the coast of China, prepared to dominate the Far East and using the heavy artillery of mass production to undermine the capitalist production of the Western Powers...
...This section was led by the elected Socialist officials...
...They demand the full product of their toil, and they know that thia aim can only be accomplished by the ending of the capitalist system...
...Pinchot did so participate...
...The primary reason for this situation is that Japan has organized the most efficient system of capitalist production in the world so that it is today able to under»ell all other nations...
...In the lower depths of society in Japan, Great Britain and the United States are the workers on the farms and the wage slaves, millions of whom are idle and destitute...
...beautiful float depicting the heroism of ths Austrian workers preceded this division...
...He writes that he finds food for thought in many things he found in Washington, but that the most astounding thing ha found was this warinciting pamphlet boldly published by sellers of monitions to the government...
...King, speaking as secretary of the Workers' Committee, declared his organization was working for the end of the profit system...
...John Gloeckner, Legislative Chairman of the German^American Federation, that 'We are pleased to inform yon that after careful consideration of your questionnaire, and your fitness f lie office, we endorse your candidacy...
...Senator David Reed, reactionary of reactionaries, has been .endorsed on the grounds that he did not participate in anti-Hitler meetings, while Governor Pinchot was repudiated because Mrs...
...Unlike the German-American Federation, the Socialist Party stands definitely in favor of the boycott of German goods, as a weapon with which to hasten the overthrow of Hitlerism...
...Now the latter two powers are ranged in antagonism with Japan and a bitter struggle is on over trade and profits wrung from the working masses who produce the commodities that are stakes in this struggle...
...The German-American Federation's idea of fitness seems to be typical of the Nazi mentality...
...At the meeting held by the German Federation, the German Consul, Loibl, said: "It doesn't a bit peculiar, to say the least make any difference whether you like him (Hitler) or not...
...Knowing that strenuous efforts have always been made by certain groups to limit sums for munitions, I went over the hearings attendant to the appropriation bill . . . and what a travesty I found...
...Mr...
...They are raw material now largely useless in production but available cannon fodder to serve as conscripts in the struggle of banking and capitalist corporations for the control of markets...
...Was this intended to impress the Japanese imperialists with the speed by which the Pacific Armada can reach the Pacific Ocean...
...you've •ot to like him, or else...
...They were led by their officers and by a band made op of members of the organization...
...She has depreciated her currency, kept prices and wages low, and developed a system of mass production that is the equal of and, in some respects, more efficient than American production...
...To what extent has the Japanese colossus succeeded...
...Pittsburgh Socialists Spurn Unsought Nazi Endorsement PITTSBURGH.—It seems that Jhe Nazified German-American Federation has "endorsed" certain Socialist candidates here, much to the surprise and disgust of these same candidates...
...The party agrily spurned the "endorsement...
...The officers of the Federated Trades Council led the section...
...The Youth division also had over a thousand in line...
...In the third section were grouped the members of the eighteen branches of the Workers' Committee on Unemployment...
...Great Britain is more affected by Japanese competition...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 19
