The Awakening East.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 18

The Awakening East.

Capitalism is advancing by leaps and bounds in China. Just as Japan became a full fledged capitalist nation m less than 30 years, so does China bid fair to become one still more quickly. Industrial development has to become uniform the world over. And these world-wide revolutionary changes which necessity forces upon our masters become more lightning-like each year. China, with her wonderful resources and vast labor population, must soon take her place in the forefront of capitalist countries. At the same time, a revolutionary labor movement will develop in the' Orient. We see that already in Japan, where the Government is murdering labor agitators, because it fears 'their influence on ine awakening working class. The Chinese and Japanese workers will not long remain "cheap labor." Urged on by necessity and an awakening class consciousness, they will organise and fight for higher wages and a shorter workday.