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Rh writers’ federation. But immediately comrades set about organizing a big Workers’ and Peasants’ funeral for him. March 15th was chosen, as it was the fifth anniversary of the first great arrest of Communists, which he had told of in one of his first stories.

On that day, in spite of the fact that almost the whole of the police were mobilized as a precaution, and that they did succeed in stopping the presentation of a dramatization of his story The Village of Numajiri by arresting all the actors, workers and students in all the big cities came out into the streets and demonstrated and distributed leaflets protesting against his foul murder.

To commemorate the great work Comrade Kobayashi did for the masses with his pen it has been decided to call March 15th, and to keep it every year as a day when the workers will demonstrate in his memory and for the spread of real proletarian culture.