PAGE TWENTY COMMUNISTIC PRACTICES IN JAPAN We have several such single islands family ever need turn into a loan shark on on the principle of co operation and which have been practicing communal life victim or be in need or in distress. profit sharing. For instance, a boat owner furnishes a boat and fishing material; for many centuries. Hotsu Shima (Shima Shirahama Mura is far better governed eight fishermen the number in one boát ineans island. one of those little islands about ten miles from Atami, a fashionable than Inatori Mura and has a larger yearly do their own work. After the expense income Thus it can enjoy many more for food of the fishermen is taken off, hot spring which is a few hours ride common advantages than the latter. It from Tokyo, for many decades there have the profit is divided into ten shares; the has a fine public school, hospital and other been living on the island about 32 families.
owner of the boat is given two shares.
Everything is held in common. Land is institutions of public utility. Of course all the business in these villages is conCommunism is not entirely foreign to owned, cultivated, harvested and granaried ducted on the principle of private ownerthe Japanese. It is only under the modern in common. The work is done mostly ship so that the richer a village is the civilization which was introduced about by girls and married women, for the men more it is benefited. However, the vil forty or fifty years ago that the idea and go fishing. The island owns two big fishing boats and many small ones; all fisher lagers generally get quite a large income practice of private property became pro minent in Japan. An older person like on account of the sea weed industry which men work in common for common prothe present writer remembers well the duction. They live a most happy life. is carried on on a communistic basis. The They are well supplied with things, but profit of the said industry is equally dis happy and easy going village life which rice they import for the island can not tributed among the members of the village. prevailed in the middle of the nineteenth If sea weed carried on a communistic basis century, when the villagers enjoyed a great It is sufficient for all. It has one gram gives the two islands such great benefit, many of the communal activities.
piar school. The population of the island then if rice which the greatest industry true that they had no political rights, but is about 150; there is no room for new in Japan would be carried on a communeconomically the relation between the vilfamilies. Thus the children with the istic basis, what a great profit it would lagers and the chief ended with the payexception of the oldest son and daughterment of the land rent.
For the rest have to leave the island to get their living bring to the entire nation!
he was left to live an entirely free and on the main island.
This arrangement There are few other villages which contented life. The Communism that exists has been kept up for generations and very carry on more or less in common the sea in Hotsu Shima today is most primitive, satisfactorily.
weed industry. But those two villages but it can be improved and enlarged with Hatsu Shima is well known to the pubmentioned above are the most successful. results of the modern civilization that will lic as a communistic island. The people As a rule fish industry which is not in surely over and above excel modern capon it live a most peaceful and happy life! corporated under a company is carried italism.
Partial Communism Practiced in Inatori and Shirahama Inatori Mura and Shiraham Mura are two well known villages on the Izu PeninECENT news from Czecho Sloof the class struggle reaches a revolusula, a little farther south of Atami. Both vakia tells bricfly of the general tionary stage, as from an economic viewvillages are not far from Shimada where strike. comprehensive review point is the case in Czecho Slovakia, the Commodore Perry first anchored, in 1868. of the outbreak cannot be given because issue as well as the entire act of the These two villages communized the inof the censorship by the government of proletariat depends upon conscious revodustry of the sea wead. Part of the sea press, telegrams and letters and the sup lutionary political guidance.
weed grows near pression of the Left the shore, and the Socialist The mistakes of a conscious Communist papers, women pick and dry it. In many cases Rude Pravo and Revnost. But from the leadership also mark the whole course of the husband stays in the booth while his known facts important object lessons are the general strike in Czecho Slovakia. The wife dives all day long to pick out the apparent in the suppression of the 50 per direct provocation for the strike (the weed. Thus she earns 5 yen a day, cent. political revolution.
occupation of the People House by while her husband earns only yen, bethe Right Socialists)
could not in The immediate cause of the strike was cause his work is rather easy; he only spite of the undeniable meaning of the occupation by the Right Socialist has to pull his wife up on the water every the act furnish the basis for decisive Party of the People House in Prague. political action.
thrcc or four minutes.
The Lefts themselves The price for The Rights used for their own purposes, picking is fixed for all the season and seem to have seen this and hurried produring the whole period of the strike, the bably under pressure of the working each one is paid according to the amount government apparatus, the party press and of weed he picked. There are little shacks printing establishment, the party secretamasses to deepen the import of the built along the shore to dry the weed in strike by raising economic demands. These riat and party machinery. At all times demands, however, were pack it, and get it ready for shipment. they more or less openly supported the gether by any single, unified revolutionary not held toThus the common treasury of the village brutal crushing of the labor movement by principle and created confusion.
is enriched every year. In the village of Inatori there are 500 fishermen and 300 were: Abdication of the government, 30 farmers. The village pays rent and other In the circumstances the collapse of the per cent. wage increase, factory commitexpenses out of the proceeds of the intees and factory committee control in the general strike was a forgone conclusion.
dustry. It sustains a public school and a workshops, 000 krons Christmas bonus But while without doubt the blame for hospital.
Besides those annual expenses and socialization of this rests primarily upon the Right Socialthe large landed it has large tracks of common forests estates ist Party it would be a mistake to lay bought some years ago on which various the whole blame for its defeat to their Small wonder that the revolutionary trees are planted, and sometimes the vii account. Indeed, in view of the develop minded workers in some localities did not lagers will get a vast income from it, and ments at the party convention, acquiesce in these demands but immediit will be utilized among the villagers. to be expected that they would oppose ately occupied the factories. In Kladno Mutual aid and improvement system of with all means every revolutionary prole they took the initial steps for the orgathe island is so well organized that no tarian movement. When the development nization of a Red Army. Lacking unified The General Strike in Czecho Slovakia. They the army.
was