The Pan-Pacific Monthly. No. 37. June-July, 1930.

Contents: The Fifth Congress Approaches by A. Losovsky, India and the Second International by V. Chattopadhyaya, The Indian Revolution and the Nationalist Leaders by V. Chattopadhyaya, East Africans tn Revolt, “Samoa for Samoa” by G. Kilpatrick, The Class Struggle in China, Revolutionary Trade Unions of China, The Partisan Movement in China by A. Iwin, China’s Women Workers No Longer Submissive, Class Against Class in the Japanese Movement by Hayama, The International Conference of Negro Workers London England by James W. Ford, The “White Australia” Principle by E. Borzhenskaya, Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance in the USSR, American Farm Workers Battle by Harrison George, Book Reviews.

The Pan-Pacific Monthly was the official organ of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS), a subdivision of the Red International of Labor Unions, or Profitern. Established first in China in May 1927, the PPTUS had to move its offices, and the production of the Monthly to San Francisco after the fall of the Shanghai Commune in 1927. Earl Browder was an early Secretary of tge PPTUS, having been in China during its establishment. Harrison George was the editor of the Monthly. Constituents of the PPTUC included the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Indonesian Labor Federation, the Japanese Trade Union Council, the National Minority Movement (UK Colonies), the Confédération Générale du Travail Unitaire (French Colonies), the Korean Workers and Peasants Federation, the Philippine Labor Congress, the National Confederation of Farm Laborers and Tenants of the Philippines, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union, and the Trade Union Educational League of the U.S. With only two international conferences, the second in 1929, the PPTUS never took off as a force capable of coordinating trade union activity in the Pacific Basis, as was its charge. However, despite its short run, the Monthly is an invaluable English-language resource on a crucial period in the Communist movement in the Pacific, the beginnings of the ‘Third Period.’

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