JAPANESE LABOR PARTY STRUGGLES TO BE BORN
JAPANESE LABOR PARTY STRUGGLES TO OF BORN GOVERNMENT AND SPLIT HINDER GROWTH GROWTH Tokio Cottference ProytA1 Failure, b-jt Riders May Change Their Policy THE first formal attempt...
...But, Judging from the comment of the'more Liberal Japanese vernacular papers and of the papers printed in English in Nippon, the government baa already realised that It made a tactical mistake and...
...Being the only woman among them...
...All around was life, and I?—I...
...At night one could often beer the desperate criea of the "holy fathers" whenever the brave little mice caught at their long hair during theirThnooent sleep...
...I would sit for an hour, for two, sometimes longer.' and then, waking up...
...Their'services' would last three or four hours...
...So I would remain sitting in a petrified condition, my hands clenched* in despair till my fingers cracked...
...Tet the'ovUaks, of whom tjiepe arev<nany along .the rivers of Parabel, Kenghe, Chusyk, Wassyugan, are really so accustomed to the taiga that they safely walk 40 or 60 versts a day across . swamps and thickets...
...is likely to put no great difficulties in the way-of a reorganisation ot the warmer Labor Party, sVhlch may he done shortly in case the Japattg&s Federation of Labor doe* net decldv-io start *: party ot its own...
...No books, no newspaper*, no paper.'-' no people with whom one could talk in a human fashion...
...aelsiax nta/gpjn of s4*eedts s*r the social Democrats and a* aeae^at' 4 [far, the lejber Party...
...Since the congress tt has been reported from Warsaw that when the 8krsynskt Government tried to put through by administrative decree a measure allowing the opening by orthodox Jewish shopkeepers of their stores for two hours Saturday' evenings as an offset for their losses under compulsory Sunday closing law...
...His declaration that tt waa up to tbk German and Polish Socialists to batter i down the psychological walls of misunderstanding existing between their countries waa Mtwrlillr annrectated...
...First of all...
...the mice would bravely run between my feet, and with their black and glistening little eyes, stare at the creature they had never .seen before...
...The arm was injured previously, during the Journey, when all of us hbd totdraw a boat by rope, carrying our baggage oh us...
...tio'n in general from the onslaughts sgcJust Ahem euro to be made by tbe reaction in the name of econctoy under the pressure of the present crisis ot unemployment and financial trouble...
...Thm Holy Fatharm . _ Now, about the '"hely fathers...
...an this is rubbish, I have distressed too much...
...Including the time spent going there...
...The priests labored threshing the grain with flails, tolling so that the aweat streamed down their bodies, the wind swept tbelr long hair and spread wide the skirts of their priestly garments...
...will be frightened by- my cry and clumsily hop off into hiding...
...The fund is expected to amount to 44,000,000 yen per 'year...
...1 would return to the hut towards evening...
...About 2,300,000 persons will be covered by the insurance law...
...Evan, the field mice and the beavers, of 'whom there were great swarms, did not tear the presence of man and played freely about the cabin...
...Ot course, there was no path...
...sometimes following the path for a long distance, risking a broken leg too...
...And in the other half of tbe cabin, where th« "holy fathers" were at.rest one heard the sound: "Sh . . . sh . . . sh . . .' : It was the priests driving tbe mlct away...
...They, too, will understand and say...
...They would toll hard...
...Sometimes, on account of the- lack of provisions, the meal consisted of bread and hot water...
...They do not even fear hell in the other world tot injuring *holy fathers...
...Party May Soon Organtma 80 Professor Isoo Abe of Waseda University, who - had been elected president of the pew party, did not hold bis job vary.long, officially...
...rfliHst Party of Poland, on Jan...
...I could but look-on...
...the work, however, moved forward very slowly...
...The priests would exert themselves to the utmost to fan the Are, standing around it and.( protecting it from the wind with,the skirts of .their ragged garments, torn during the walk in the taiga...
...The priests always took' turns boiling the water...
...The Ostiak skillfully Jumped over the hillocks...
...To the birds, mice and*beavers who every now and then raised their'heads from under tbe tree-trunks...
...Two days later we reached a deserted cabin, spent tbe night there, and continued on our way but now along a path...
...Comrade Zlemienskt objected and Robotatk, the Warsaw Socialist paper, declared that the party would not stand for.any infringement of the eight-hour working day or the Sunday law and would Jain the Opposition U the plan went into effect...
...Consequently, when some three-score delegates, principally peasants, tan) including representatives of several local- labor unions,- met in Tokyo on "Dec...
...I cry out...
...The mosquitoes would buss and bit* {it was these bites that finally would drive me away and back Into the cheerless but...
...I would not want 'to return...
...Whenever I recall them I want to laugh...
...Great enthusiasm was aroused by the speeches of the fraternal delegates from abroad and by the message from tbe Socialist.and Labor international delivered by Otto Wets, who also represented the Socisl Demo, era tic Party of...
...nothing, but In reply to my cry their eree wiH glitter and then they will hide under the trunk, and the birds will fly off...
...It was Impossible to return by rowbeet—the -stream bad become too shalUtw...
...But, they, too...
...The workers are to pay 3 percent of their wages, the employers the same and, the State will add 10 percent, to the total receipts...
...La Follette .Smmm...
...Suddenly I missed my' step and fell Into the 'water, or rather into tbe thick' vegetation filling the bike...
...It was absolutely impossible to busy oneself studying the locality and nature generally...
...They will understand nothing...
...As I said...
...Nothing...
...pot into effect the-sickness insurance law enacted four years ago and has set aside 1,480,000 yen <about $730,000) for that purpose in the budget of 1921-27...
...We publish these documents m the belief that aurmamUmcetwilh the facte *iU came the *prken of America to bring atth moral presmap to bear on the Soviet government thai the almost unbelievable situation—the imprisonment of norkjing-class leaders by a gowrnment established in the name of the worker* mag be brought to a spekdp termmotiea...
...either they pulled at my hair, or they bit my feet or hands, - One, had to wake up to fight with them...
...JAPANESE LABOR PARTY STRUGGLES TO OF BORN GOVERNMENT AND SPLIT HINDER GROWTH GROWTH Tokio Cottference ProytA1 Failure, b-jt Riders May Change Their Policy THE first formal attempt to launch a political party representing the ^interests of the some 4,250,000 industrial workers of Japan and the many minions of small farmers turned out a fiasco, according to reports of the event belatedly reaching this country...
...In the autumn tbe water is already like Ice in the swamps...
...He not only failed to straighten it out/but dislocated it even more...
...with sharp steel cade,-for...
...with a pmtform built'along lines suitable to Japanese ideas', but International in its actual Import...
...I shivered, my teeth chattered.' Finally, the service would end, all going to sleep...
...A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS By Olga Romanova THE first .period of my exile I spent in a dark country . where there were' .no people except myself, eight exiled priests and the "authorities...
...I would'still be under the influence ot the thoughts and recollections of my former' life...
...Yfhat a "pity...
...Stmt**, Dei>art)J9eti^a j 'Secret Mexsscej...
...two Socialists into the cognition* cabinet organized . by Count...
...I followed the OstMk, who was clearing a passage...
...But if you try to overcome, the obstacles you risk . losing an eye and return with bleeding hands and face, clothes torn' to shreds...
...I would want'to cry cut: "I desire liberty, freedom...
...20 and adjourned to the strains of the International and loud cheers for the Polish Republic snd the Socialist International...
...What did we do there...
...Cautiously I would, make my way...
...The underbrush is in the way...
...a ""prominent English language papesV said the Japanese bourgeoisie was-jwiowlng the example e+Ossriat russia, while the Nlchl Nlchi, a big Japanese Journal, feared that the government's , repression of social progress would make trouble,' "¦ '' On the other hand, a recent Tokyo report says the government Is about to...
...organized labor last year, due to differences of opinion 'between the older, elements, and the Communists, the outlook for the founding of a real labor party was bright, especially with the big* increase in the electorate resulting from the extension of the suffrage, to practically all men ol_£S years or more...
...became I want to tell you a little abqnjf the priests...
...1 would rest * Itttle, and then their exasperating singing would get on my nerves...
...expected to draw benefits in 1927...
...I baked bread for aU and oo>ked dinner whenever there were any potatoes or peas...
...They recognisg nothing...
...the Socialist International and several foreign Socialist parties, the party leaders, folio wing the Una laid down in his opening epos eh by Dasaynski, defended themselves from the charges of opportunism raised by e militant minority by pointing out that participation in a coalition Oovernmen't by Socialists waa no longer 4 matter of principle...
...Not to the aged cedars...
...I following in his footsteps...
...Before the split in the ranks of...
...Lonmlmaa* Incidentally,' I may add, that on account of this baking I even*now suffer from a dislocated right arm...
...When I waa free I wandered like a shadow around the cabin...
...Skrzynski.on Nor...
...There was nothing to occupy u...
...Germany...
...We continued- througn the "oorman" (the Qstiak name tor the dense taiga...
...the birds would -flutter and sing...
...mTWammm\\mmar^aa\m\mmmm' ikma\^aW^amm^mm\^ammT¦ m\^awa\\\^^t%r^a*~^usnlauaV^^E*amu1 Isus*1 sauavHssam .•^^^^^^ssnF^l^^^^r aw- . . ^^^^^^^^"t^1* u rf^^^nat mMmmXau* Jamwa\vn&g*\r^ar#*T^r \ rm% mdo^maaT^^^V^rtgn maA 4*Mt ifafenta, jSaan^^S^ BertranaJ, who waa a b^triotrtor taflrt aWwnlss* mMM a*8fe an sctlva member of the staff...
...The poor souls were afraid that If I should take cold and become ill they would be left without bread, since there waa no one etof' to do the baking...
...Organisation of the sick benefit fund: Is" to begin hi March and the workers ar...
...In the absence of a samovar, we used a kettle over a fire made outside the cabin, and even in the autumn, when the rain dricsled from morning to evening, we had to boil the water in this wey...
...I had nothing to do except to bake bread...
...end the Socialist Ministers will quit the Cabinet...
...Laughter...
...I began to cry...
...The Wan Street' Journal on January IS hinted at the existence., of such a secret pledge, as being the basis for KeUogg's threats against Mexico when it enacted Its" anti-alien land, and petroleum laws...
...In spite of my desire to help with the boiling of the water, the "fathers" never allowed, me to get near the fire, Insisting that I remain In the hut...
...We reached a lake choked with vegetation...
...Weti...
...The priests would be at vespers or night-mass...
...Then I would shake it all off and recover my consciousness and - realise fully what, where and why...
...For a couple of months It did not bother me...
...In addition to all this there is another awful nuisance which prevents the enjoyment of natural In the whole Narym territory there is such a multitude of mosquitoes and Insects that some days.: it is Impossible to go even outside the cabin without nets...
...because there arejjot even paths, let alone roads, in this wild country...
...Then I would begin to think, and -sitting on a treetrunk I would think, think,' think...
...voted approval of the "entry of...
...Then came the bread-baking, and new I cannot lift anything heavy, and when I turn tt a bit the wrong war it pains'frightfully...
...l*Pmpwd* #re**o*ji» Jtssuli: WsuteK lfizttntet^of Ubor ht tba 6tabWkn^ five editiona daily hntf far the Inst wear jsa^heaat baching Hat Volksbiad, a Socialist paper in Vkmth...
...If the insurance against illness -functions weU the government intends to extend it to cover disability, accidents, eld age and unemployment...
...The Ostiak returned' and pulled - me out...
...Whence- these century-old cedars...
...Unless something definite is done by tbe end of that period the forty-one SorisMwt Deps»3sslfe.c*a£ Seym will withdrew their support from the Government...
...but slowly, slowly, they will shake their heads as-before...
...First, about things serious...
...I too would turn in for the night...
...magnificent cedars, but thja must remain a wish because It is impossible to walk even three feet off the'path...
...But family rows among the labor and' fsjgmer forces,-.coupled with the Japanese authorities' fear ot the spread of "dangerous /thoughts" that would probably follow the organisation ot even a moderate labor party changed the situation...
...Perhaps to the green frogs...
...In the marshland I jumped from one hfllook to another...
...But of course they are dressed in leather clothes, in high boots, and are equipped ' with firearms to protect themselves against beasts, as well as with a palltxa (resembling * scythe), "A Voice at (he WUemeu" is the eecolti of « series af letters ami statement* from Socialists and other •orlnng-dass TCVvlxiiiqnUu mo* at Russian prisons vhich The No* Leader will print front time to time m fie next fe* month...
...it was then that i tri^p*d over a log and fell and my arm was injured...
...I would sit, and all around me was life, use sun would shine brightly and call gloriously," luring and promising a better life...
...That would, last but a moment...
...1, ,in the presence of a couple of hundred spectators and plenty of , potfeemeft, and organised themselves into a party with a platform calling for political freedom, denouncing militarism and asserting the rights of labor and the masses, it took the -Bfhflstry of Home Affairs only three heVirs to discover "Communist views" in the party ^nd to order Its dissolution...
...These documents hare, heme collected in one volume, "Letter* From Russian Prisons," published hp the International camrrttoee for Political Prisoners, of wmch Roger Beld*m a chairman...
...Night would.come...
...But the mice would give me no' peace...
...I say...
...It Is»true there wss one little path of about seven versts, so bed that It was almost impossible to follow it, being a stranger, .without..breaking one's neck or at least a leg...
...Later the nights became cold, especially in the autumn, t frose, having no warm clothes...
...One "holy father," wishing to place the bone back in its place, pulled my poor hand so hard that my eyes nearly popped put...
...Brave little mice...
...Th* Return Trip* -' -"' * < After living there four months I waa sent hack* on foot, accompanied by aa Cetiak guide...
...I questioned myself: "Where am I? Why am I here...
...During the convention, which was attended by S«e> deluge tee asd representatives of...
...One wants to leave the path and walk under the...
...Narym, translated into Russian, means "swamp...
...After standing for an hour or More in the wind and rain,' numb and wet, the unfortunate men would, drag their legs, covered with gaping boots, through the mud and water end enter the cabin to warm themselves with some "tea...
...Then -a burning yearning would creep again Into my heart, a yearning for freedom, tor life, for people...
...There goes an Oatjak over the taiga, waving his palltxa to the right, and to e left, clearing hia path, and when h* comes to- a swamp or an overgrown pond he skillfully, without hesitation, begins to Jump from one hillock to the other...
...Upon our arrival there, at tbe Upper Kenghe, the "fathers" busied themselves thrashing- .the gram left by a colony of "sectarians" who bgd lived there before our arrival and disappeared as soon as the authorities discovered them...
...But to whom could...
...Give Government -* Three Months .. The Socialist leaders reported that they had given the1 Government three months in which bo put through drastic measures of economy, mainly consistIns in cutting down the »0.e»e-m«a army and in reforming the civilian aa* ministration...
...the'purpose ot cutting their way through the thickets and underbrush...
...And so I walked two days" through the taiga and the swamps, a distance.oS SO versts...
...It waa cold...
...It- was so dead and human, beings were so rare in those parts that even tbe firds,dl* not fear us- Frequently wild fowl, such as heath-cocks and woodbens,, would ait en^ the roof of the cabin in which the' priests and I lived, and wild geese would swim in this streani under th* window without fear and without stirring at .our approach...
...an£ the staging from tbe hut still reached my ears...
...Tired, exhausted, the poor souls, needing a rest, would enter' the cabin to strengthen themselves with the .meager dinner and some clear "tea"—boiling water,.' .1 would put before them whateve|£<3bd gave...
...It took us only"a month by rowboat to,: get there, a distance of 900 verits, along the Parabel and Kenghe^ rivets, besides -• some "hikipg" across marshland...
...Some playful mouse must have become entangled in the locks of one of the priests, or.bjtten his hand or foot...
...SOCILIST OF POLAND IN GOVT Party 'C^m^^-^j^ Meitil^ Cafe* : -.nbaa* :-'.-/-'• 7, AFTER a fively debate fcstV . if(g fonr days, the tweo< : tieth coogreis-of the So...
...It has so many stumps and roots that after the first attempt one loses all desire to rev peat- it...
...The Japanese Advertiser...
...There are some Impassable swamps stretching for .distances from 70 to SO versts, and even the native Ostiaks, accustomed to the taiga and the marshes, are-unable to cross them...
...I would run out or the but and go off in any direction...
...They showed that Comrades Uemlsn* ski and iforacsewski, respectively Ministers' of Labor and Public Works, had been allowed to enter the Cabinet so as to be able to 'defend the eighthour working...
...The Socialist program, as stated In resolutions adopted' by the congress, calls for maintenance of .social legislation, a campaign against specuhtiota) and the high cost of living, autonomy for racial minorities occupying distinct districts, abolition of court niartials and all exceptional legislation against labor, increased allowances for tbe unemployed, execution of the .agrarian* reform and the conclusion or commercial treaties with Germany anel Russia^ The coiwfess waa held lnf the city hall of Warsaw...
...but eg tactics...
...The rest of the trip was made partly on foot, partly on horseback, partly by rowboat, until we reached Parabel, in the vicinity of which I am making at present my uncertain habitation...
...Or suddenly, right after falllm asleep, an inhuman - cry would react me from the other esse...
...0 I. lived' In tbe wilderness for tour months, true...
...day .and social logtahv...
...And they were aU alarming thoughts, not happy thoughts, arousing me more, snd more...
...tar te-.ti^jt fk«e*sa...
...Fflsjji Washington ¦ Senator-Usi: -FoSette has offered in the Senate a' lesclutlopr calling upon Secretary Kelloeg to dieclose the secret pledge, it any,' extorted by the American Oaverasaen't from "the Obregcn Government of Mexico in 1223 in leturn for recognitloa...
Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 2
