VOICE OF JAP LABOUR.

Grey River Argus, 31 March 1922, Page 3

VOICE OF JAP LABOUR.

WAR NEVER BENEFITS WORKERS.

Although the capitalist Press do?i not choose to tell us about it, ther« is a workers’ movement in Japan that has definite ideals and growing power. These Japanese workers arc thinking in unison with the most enlightened minds of the workers in America or any other country. One of the leaders of the Japanese workers, by name Bunji Suzuki, has issued a statement which the capitalist Press has not seen fit to report to the American workers. Says Suzuki:— “The friendly co-operation of labo’ir unions of various nationalities is the best guarantee of international peace. If the labour unions in the world really co-operate with one another in the cause of peace, they will be able to do a great thing. I look forward to the day when the world’s armaments will be entirely abandoned through the international co-operation, of labour. “The history of trade unionism in Japan is brief. We have not yet made much progress, but, be it remembered, the Japanese trade unionist hrs already advanced to the state of social consciousness. ‘ ‘ War never benefits the labourer, whether it be victorious or not. War means for the working man suicide by the weapons he himself has forged.” You see, the workers in Japan do not want war. The workers in America do not want war. Nor do the workers in any country want war—until they are lied to and stampeded into blind herd passions by the ruling classes that want war (to be fought always by the workers) for the benefit of markets and commercial expansion. What is needed is a closer recognition of the universal relationship of the ■workers, regardless of nationalities, and the kind of intelligent co-operation that will bring about a world for the workers; a world dedicated to peaceful production instead of the greedy and destructive struggle for profits. — “Appeal to Reason.”