Much of this issue is devoted to reports and resolutions from the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, a subdivision of the Red International of Labor Unions, Second Plenary Conference in Vladivostok, August, 1929.

The Pan-Pacific Monthly. No. 33. December-January, 1930.

Contents: Labor Imperialism and India by R.P. Dutt, To the All-India Trade Union Congress from the PPTUS, Developments in India by Earl Browder, The Bursting of the Wall Street Bubble and Its Meaning to World Labor by Harrison George, “The Second Section” A Victory of the PPTUS, Against Imperialism, The Opening of the ‘Second Section’ at Shanghai, A Pledge to the Soviet Toilers from the Workers of the Far East, Malay Labor Steps Onto the World Arena, On the Struggle of the Trade Unions Against Imperialism, To the Workers and Peasants of the Pacific Area Manifesto of the Shanghai “Second Section,” Japanese Imperialist Maneuvers and the Strategy of the Kyogikai, Practical ways to Defend the Soviet union, To the Workers and Peasants of India, Proletarian Advance in the Philippines, Co-report on Struggle Against War and Imperialism by Ting Tai-Yeh, Comrade Yamagata’s Speech, Comrade Losovsky’s Concluding Speech, Tasks of Organization Facing Pacific Trade Unions, The Organization of Agricultural Workers, Trade Union Propaganda And Cultural Activities of the PPTUS, Resolution on The Role of the Trade Unions and Socialist Construction, MacDonald’s Prison Law in Palestine by J.B., For the Struggle for Freedom of the Arab People.

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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