The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, July 24, 1924 PARENTS REVIEW SONS THEY WILL KILL FOR PROFIT Citizens’ Training Camp Prepares for War (Special to the Dally Worker.) CAMP CUSTER,.Mich., July 23.— Proud papas and mamas fairly burst with paytriotic pride yesterday in watching their youngsters in full mili- tary panoply march in review. The parent-profiteers looked on without the last compunction at sending their sons into the service of Mars, be- cause their short-sighted eyes did not really seg beyond the drill field into the turbulent future when some of them might feel more keenly the send- ing of their strong young men to car- nage and slaughter. Fat fathers puffed about the field while their offspring, stuffed with all the militarist-capitalist propaganda, given in red-white-and-blue coated pills, marched sturdily thru the drills. the 2nd and 6th infantry regiments and the 14th cavalry and the 6th tank corps, all of the regular army and sta- tioned here for the summer, were given the once over, too, so that papa- in-his-swivel-chair and mama-making- sox-for-buddy! will know just what kind of death-dealing devices their sons are playing with in the next war. “See the Pretty Guns.” ‘There was a complete array of wea- pons exhibited to help the parental ed- ucation: sabres, pistols, machine guns, French artillery “75,” the tank, etc. When mother gets the news from the battlefield, she’ll know just what kind of a shell did the dirty work with her son. The reserve officers here have com- pleted the course in community mo- bilization, which is supposed to have taught them how to form local com- panies and begin preliminary drilling “in the event of a national emergen- cy.” In other words, when Morgan or one of the other big capitalist-impe- rialists needs American troops to help him push his foot into some choice field for exploitation. No Talk of War's Causes. Of course none of the real causes of war are talked about here. The camp is the place for military tactics to be studied without the questioning the why of wars. The students are to assume the truth of the school bun- combe about “defending the nation from the huns,” or “saving your mothers and sisters,” or “making thi world safe for democracy,” or what ever slogan the big bosses will get up for the next war. Maybe it will be “avoid the yellow peril,” or “save us from Soviets.” It’s a safe bet that anti-revolution dope will be injected into these young sons of Mars whom their parents would sacrifice at a mo- ment’s notice to profits. The army is training the country’s youth rot alone for wars of foreign aggression, but for use against ‘the rising working class in strikes and in revolution when that time comes. Tell Them About Profiteers. It is imperative that the Young Workers League and the Workers Party members use every possible means of convincing these young sol- diers that they are only being trained to fight somebody else’s war; that they are being used by the oil and finance capitalists to compel resisting nations :o toe the mark; that they are going co be uged some day against the mili- ant working class, who will bring seal freedom to this country and to all + others. Remind the youngsters of the bonus ight in the last war, the difficulty the war vets had in getting jobs when hey came back, the careless way the sovernment handled the disabled rets; anything that you can think of o discredit capitalist wars and then iammer home again that the boys in he trenches got lots of lead and darn ittle gold while the profiteers who sat t home raked in the gold at fabulous ums and sent all the lead to, the op- vosing armies. Ten Theses for the Tenth Anniversary of 7 the World War. (Theses for agitators.) I. Results of the War: Prospects of. é New Wars. 'HE years of war experience, and the post war disillusion-capitalists of the world hurled the people into fratricidal war. Contending among themselves for the colonies, for the markets, for spheres of investment for their capital, the imperialist clique perpetrated the dreadful crime which was forseen by the theoreticians of socialism, and awaited with terror by the proletariat. The years of war experience, and the post war disillusionment, shat- tered all the illusions of. grandeur with which a servile ideology had clothed the terrible picture of war. The masses of the people learned by bitter experience what was _ really meant by such phrases as “the last war,” the “fight for civilization,” for the “sacred rights of thé people,” for “democracy and the liberation of op- pressed peoples.” The roar of artillery, the bursting of shells, the suffocating gases, the; misery of millions of refugees, the heaps of corpses, the epidemics of disease during and after the war— this is the face of capitalism which has been stripped of its mask in the eyes of the people. Capital now stands before humanity in all its repulsive nakedness. In place of the mountains of gold which were promised to the workers by the capitalists after the victorious conclusion of the war, which they called a “righteous” war, the “last” war, etc. the capitalists undertook a determined offensive against the working class. In a num- ber of countries the eight hour day was lost; workers’ organizations were destroyed in a debauch of Fascism, and all the burden of the post war taxes, levies and reparations, fell on The Coming Tenth Anniversary of the War Pre for the Propaganda Week inst Imperialism and Sooial Democracy. ‘ By D. PETROVSKY. ‘RUE to the charge entrusted to us by our teacher Lenin never for one moment to forget the world war, (‘the Executive of the Communist In- ternational has decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its outbreak by mighty demonstrations thruout the whole world against imperialism and the socialist traitors. In doing this. we are not actuated with the idea of tearing open the still unhealed wounds. The view of the Communist International is directed towards the future, and it is making every effort to mobolize the working masses of the whoie world for the victorious struggle against imperial- ism—the cause of all modern wars. But the struggle against imperialism will only be successful if we really take to heart the lessons of the past. The teachings of the world war have a special and actual importance for us at the present time, when a new war is approaching nearer every day. The old tale that the world war was the last war no longer deludes any- the backs of the working class. The working class, having already left millions of fallen workers on the battle fields, may wonder in anguish when the capitalists will kindle Wnew world conflagration. The monstrous lie of the bourgeoisie about “The last war,” and how the principles of jusfice and humanity would triumph after the war, has been burnt into the con- sciousness of the most backward sec- tions of people. Capitalism is, by\its actions, making haste to prove the correctness of the contention of the revolutionary leaders of the proletar- iat, that the war of 1914 was only the first link in a chain of imperialist wars, which could only be brought to an end by the international proletar- iat, when they should ‘be able to mobilize all’ the working masses to vanquish imperialist war by a de- cisive civil war against capital, and thus annihilate the very cause and source of wars, the class domination of capital. Six years have passed since the time when the victors triumphantly celebrated their cannibal victory, pro- claiming, over the bones of millions of victinis, the victory of civilization, eternal peace, and the development of international agreements, under the leadership of the League of Nations. Now it is clear even to the blind, that capitalism has given no peace, that it could not and cannot give peace. The wounds of the war are still bleeding. The millions of participants of the war, invalids and cripples, have not yet forgotten th® horrifying pic- tures of the war and capitalis already preparing new great wars. It is not only, preparing them, but, as rehear- sals, it makes small wars and military expeditions. Since the Versailles peace, the cannons have never re- mained without work, expeditions have been undertaken into the co- lonial' countries, against the “self-de- termined” natives. A large portion of Central Europe ig an armed camp, Belgium, French and English troops mixed with colored soldiers, have been and heroic efforts of the workers of the whole world. “The refusal of military service, the strike against war, etc.,” wrote Lenin on the ist of November, 1914, “is'a simple piece of stupidity, a mis- erable and cowardly dream of an un- armed fight against the armed bour- geoisie, a longing for the annihilation of capitalism without a desperate ci- vil war or a number of wars.” These pitiable cowardly dreams are more out of place now than ever. We will not avert the approaching war-tempest by resolutions, declara- tions and avowals. War can only be averted by the vic- torious revolution of the workers, which will overthrow the power of capital, at first in European and then thruout the whole world. The demon- strations in the week’s campaign against imperialism and _ socialist treachery must therefore pursue the task of mobilizing the workers of the whole world, under the banner of the Russian October Revolution, to the decisive struggle against capitalism— the original cause and organizer of new slaughters. The fight against imperialism will naturally be a fight against the so- cialist traitorss The honeyed words body, The danger of fresh bloody slaughters is plairfly visible to mil- Hons. The germs of fresh slaughter, are to be found in the offices of the banks, of the syndicates and the trusts. Preparations for fresh massa- cres are being made in the factories, workshops and laboratories; fresh slaughters are being organized by the general staffs and administrations of the ever-growing armies. The new war is approaching. The ruling glasses are directing all their intelligence to the discovery of new and terrible means of annihilation and destruction. In order to prevent this war‘there is required the united DO IT TODAY Fray. will be too late, unless you send in your order by six o'clock that night. DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, For the enclosed F....ru. NAM? scogesrsnsesceereccennnsnsnessen CITY E ssssessen Fight Wars of Capitalism send me special “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, July 26, at the special rate of 32 cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred, standards of Communism against the wars of capitalism. ssvnsssseneeoseatonsnnsssssnssenne STA TELS sssssssssssssssssssesssssssssesees ba copies of the | want to help raise the veneaneene ADDRESSS secsssscssccorrssoosssooserroesececescensesessensssnsnnansessccsnronsnenecsonoesrseesesinetennnenssesiee of the heroes of the 2nd International in the year 1914 regarding the fight against war could only appear as a piece of sheer stupidity. In the year 1924 we have no longer to deal with cowardly dreams, but with conscious and brazen betrayal. ( Before the world war the 2nd In- ternational had given a number of promises to protect the banner of pro- letarian. solidarity against fracticidal wars, At the Stuttgart Congress it recognized it to be the duty of all workers, “to fight with all means against the preparations for war on sea and land, to expose the class char- acter of bourgeois society and the motives which actuate it to support national antagonisms, and to refuse to give any financial support to this Policy.” This resolution recommends energetic and united action, “in or- der by’ every means to avert war.” In the case of the outbreak of the war, the congress recommends that use be made of the crisis called forth by the war, “in order to stir up the most profound social forces and expedite the overthrow of capitalist domina- tion.” The same ideas were repeated by the congresses in Copenhagen (1910) and Basle (1912). Independent of the resolutions of the world congre: the socialist parties of the various countries, among them the Labour Party of Great Britain, which now has the reins of government in its hands, have sworn not to permit a world catastrophe, ; But in the fearful days of the end of July and beginning of August, 1914, when the world slaughter bagan, the socialist parties of the 2nd Interna- tional handed over their red flags to lend a sacred appearance to the world war which was undertaken in the in- THE DAILY WORKER Prepare for Communist Anti-War Week Against Imperialism and Social Democracy stationed there in the service of the capitalist system. The poverty of the masses, the disorganization of econ- omic relations, lack of reconstruction, notwithstanding all efforts of the quack doctors of capitalism, arrogant military rule,. the foul cancer of militant Fascism, the insatiable ap- petite of great and small capitalist states, ruled from behind the scenes by financial kings, by committees of ithe key industries, by banks and stock exchanges, a mad competition in armaments, screened by pious pray- ers about Imitation of armament, a rush for ever newer means of anni- hilation of human beings—this is what capitalism has given us after the war, a war which was called, by one of the servants of capital, one of the organizers of the world slaughter, the former French president Mil- lerand, “the most glorious of all the wars.” Hopes of the possibility of success- ful reconstruction of the world econ- omic organism are definitely buried by the occupation of the Ruhr, and new inevitable military conflicts, which no’ parliamentary or extra-par- liamentary combination of bourgeois parties and the Socialist satellites will be able or willing to prevent. The two great nations of the Hn- tente, “welded together” in struggle for the great common cause of sav- ing civilization from “Prussian militar- ism’—France and Great Britain, are making ready to attack each other. The antagonism of their interests grows daily, and becomes manifest everywhere. In middle Hurope, in Asia Minor, in the Balkans, in North- ern Africa and in Hastern Asia. Great Britain watches with the greatest alarm the growth of French territorial armies and aerial squadrons, the milit- ary conventions entered into by France. Similarly, the elements of im- perialistic conflict, between the United Years of Mass Murder striving to discover the military sec- rets of each other, and to out do each other in inventiveness. An English Minister openly declares, in the House of Commons, the necessity of “creating an air fleet to defend the fatherland, which would be able to withstand the attack of the strongest air power Near enough to make such an attack possible.” . In 1914, on the eve of the outbreak of World War, there were seven million men under arms in all the countries of the globe./~In 1921, after the Versailles peace and the disarma- ment of.the vanquished countries, the number of all the armies of the world on a peace footing had reached eleyen millions, i. e., they increased almost twice. The United States spent for military purposes in 1914, 49,000,000 pounds sterling, in 1920, 501,000,000. The military expenditures of England grew between 1914 and 1920 more than three times. France maintains an army larger than the pre-war Ger- man army, although her population is one third less. In the Union of Soviet Republics, there is one soldier to every 100 persons of the population. There has never been such a ratio even in the notorious militarist Prus- sia against which the Entente con- ducted, from 1914—18, the “last”, the “just” war. But faster than the number of men under arms grow every day the power and the force of those means of ex- termination which the nations will use against each other when the, in- evitable new war comes. f Preparations for that war still con- tinue, independently of whether a bourgeois group heads the govern- ment or a camouflaged “labor” govern- ment screens the real mainsprings of bourgeois government. The govern- ment of MacDonald is preparing dread- naughts and building. aeroplanes in the same fashion as was done by the States and Japan grow incessantly. Thousands of inventors labor over the problem of finding devilish means of extermination, the governments are terests of the cliques of imperialist rivals. And when, ater the war, those crises arose which the congress- es of the 2nd International had spoken of before the war, then the “2nd In- ternational did not devote itself to “expediting the overthrow of the capi- talist domination” but to the strug- gle to defend capitalism against the masses, These flunkeys of imperialism and fascism now venture to assure the masses that they will reply to war with the strike. Through these as- surances they not only mask the pre- parations for war, but take immediate part in them. The MacDonald gov- ernment which faithfully preserves the traditions of English imperialism, strengthens the military power of the British Empire. The French friends of MacDonald vote the military cred- its and help French imperialism in the realization of its predatory plans. We are therefore obliged to brand- mark the pacifist assurances of the leaders of the 2nd International as a conscious attempt to overcome the watchfulness of and lull to sleep the masses of the people, by which means the unhindered preparations for the new war will be secured. And our ‘Week therefore must not only be directed against imperialism, but also against the preachers of social recon- cillation, whd mask and conceal tlie military preparations of the ruling classes. In order to secure the suc- cess of this week, it is necessary, not only to rally the masses of the work- ers who follow the Communists to the active fight against imperialism and socialist treachery, but also the workers and peasants of the sup- pressed peoples of the colonies and semi-colonies, who have all experi- enced the horrors of the so-called “Great War” on their own bodies. We must begin at once with the or- ganizing of committees of action. It is desirable to include in these com- revolutionary fight of the working |, mittees, not only representatives of the trade unions which follow the R. I. L. U. and representatives of the Communist Youth, of the Peasants’ International, of the International Co- governments of Curzon, ‘ Baldwin, Lloyd George and the others. The government of the left Bloc will serve the god of imperialist war with the THE GREAT SOCIALIST BETRAYAL | ECLARATION of the Social-Democratic (Socialist) group in the Reichstag, August 4, 1914: “We are now face to face with the impending fact of war. terrors of foreign invasions surround us. not for war or against war, but for the defense of the necessities of the country. ism, which has stained its hands Operativé Union, of the I. W. R., but also representatives of such organiza- tions as the Union of Ex-service men, the War-Invalids Union, etc. In other words, every effort must be made in order that the demonstrations shall be of a really impressive character and as far as possible include the whole population. While striving to bring the broad masses into the struggle against the danger of a new war, we must insure that our demonstrations shall not assume the character of pacifist manifestations, the noise of which in no way disturbs the ruling classes in eartying on their affairs as usual. Our whole agitation and propa- ganda must be dominated by the idea that the war can only be prevented by revolution; and if a war breaks out it can only be ended by opposing it by militant methods, that is to say by, converting the imperialist war in- to the civil war for the capture of power by the workers. Therefore the fight for the Union of Soviet Republics must occupy a very important place in all our pre- paratory work. The workers of the Soviet Union, led by the Communist Party of Russia, succeeded under Lenin’s leadership in freeing them- selves from the imperialist war by means of revolution, that is by civil war, as a result of which the power of capital in one of the largest coun- HEROIC DECLARATION OF THE BASLE MANIFESTO THE SOCIALIST FORGOT HE Second Socialist Internation and Copenhagen, presented t at Stuttgart guiding principl it its, Congres: slogans for the proletariat of all countries in Its war against war: “Whenever a war is about to break out, it is the duty of the working class, and its representativ: in the countries concerned, supported by the unlfying activities of their international bureaus, to uw every particle of influence they po 8, thru the use of the most practicable means, to prevent the outbreak of the war. “In case the work should break out, neverthel duty to work to bring the war to all their might to use the political by the war to stir the pe: tion of the capitalist class.” and by this mea it Is then their a speedy end and to strive with and economic crisis brought about to hasten the aboll- “For our people and the future freedom of our people, much, if not everything, depends upon a triumph over the, Russian despot- Page Threé”) same zeal as Millerand and Poincare. The ‘pacifist ‘fables about the pos- sibility of disarmament, of agree- ments, of international tribupals to prevent conflicts, only screen the en- ergetic preparations for war. Na- tions in possessions of strong navies are not averse to a serious general limitation of territorial armies; na- tions which have prepared stocks of! ammunition for many years to come are trying to bring about a limitation of the production of poisonous mat rials for suffocating gases, in order not to be outstripped by other nations | in the same field. The League of Nations, whose ap- pearance was heralded as the begin- ing of a new peaceful era, has proven | nothing else but a plaything in the} hands of imperialist nations, or an arena for their covert struggle. The Communist International has| incessantly unmasked the real sub- stance of the League of Nations, it has shown the deception of the bourge- oisie and its social-patriotic agents, and now this bourgeois deception ought to be clear to everybody. The epic of the Ruhr stands out as the most striking illustration, and the most telling proof, of the falsity of the bourgeois pacifist speeches, of the bankruptcy of the “peaceful” policy of bourgeois circles. The logic of events steers the re- pafations policy again into the chan- nel of imperialist conflict. The class of interests “inevitably grows. The centrifugal forces in the development of world capitalism, become more and more rampant. (America, Japan, Britain and the colonies, with their growing young capit&lism, Britain and) the American capitalism, etc.) Tens of millions of killed, wounded! and maimed, enormous amounts. of wealth annihilated, moral deteriora- tion, poverty, degradation,—all this in order that the world may again face the inevitability of ever new wars, ever more menacing, more horrible in their destructive power—this is the logic of imperialism. . The |) We must choose today, with the blood of the best of its | own people. In order to ward off this danger, it is necessary to assure the culture and the independence of our own country. make good what we have always said: in the hour of need we will not leave our Fatherland In danger.” Now we will | tries of the world has been over-| thrown. The proletariat of the So-| viet Union has been the first to pfo-| ceed along this difficult road. The workers of the whole world will find it | easier to fight against war by revolu-| tionary means, as they are not only supported by the first attempt at a victorious proletarian revolution, but} also by, the fact of the existence of} a@ powerful workers’ and peasants’ country which is protected by the Red Army, the shield of the oppressed and| the sword of the revolting masses of the peoples. The slogans of our week are: Down with war; long live the revo- lutionary fight! For the power of the workers! Down with the Socialist betrayers! Long live the Communist Interna- tional! Long live the Union of) Soviet Re- publics! Long live the World Union of So- viet Republics! Brazilian Revolt Uncertain Yet; May Collapse Shortly (Special to The DAILY WORKER) RIO DE: JANEIRO, July 23.—The Brazilian revolution’s days are num- bered; and the movement, almost purely military, is breaking down so rapidly the soldiers and officers of the rival forces are fraternizing on the so-called battle lines. These assertions are based on in- formation from persons who have been in the revolutionary zone, which is virtually confined to the limits of Sao Paulo. Rebel air planes, however, flew over Santos yesterday, dropping pam- phiets and circulars agitating their cause. Some of these fell on the decks of a Brazilian warship in the harbor. The president of Sao Paulo state, who fled in the eanly days of the revolt, has taken refuge on this warship, the Minas Geraes. Business{is naturally affected in Sao Paulo and at Santos the banks, stock exvhange and customs house were close. Casualtiqs have been few ¢n either side, —— melhia've FIRE AND REHIRE AT LOW WAGE, ELECTRIC PLAN Foreman Gives Facts to Daily Worker The executive heads of the West- ern Electric company have decided to discharge twenty-five thousand of jtheir employes and re-hire them in |a few months at a reduced wage, ac- |cording to information confidentially given the DAILY WORKER by a Western Electric foreman. This foreman was asked by a friend for a job. He went to one of the officials of the company and asked to have his friend placed in a position. The Western Electric offi- cial replied that he could not do so because the department heads and officials, at a meeting, had decided to discharge 25,000 employes, and take them back later at a “re-adjusted” or reduced wage scale. This confirms the charge made by the DAILY WORKER in its expose of the Western Electric anti-union slave driving system, that thousands of men are being discharged with- out reason, and their places being filled at a lower salary, is confirmed from another source. The Western Electric company “ts “putting it over” on the employes by lowering the general standard of Mv- ing without justification. Production for the coming year will admittedly be high. The Western Electric fore man said to the DAILY WORKER, “They are installing the stop-watch in the Western Electric plant. They, are making every minute of : workers’ time bring them profit, , jat the same time they are trying to. carry on a general wage cut in suéh a way that the workers will ignore the DAILY WORKER expose will not strike. The Western iectrde fears a strike. Chester Organizes New Workers Party Branches to Fight By ABRAM JAKIRA. CHESTER, Pa., July 23—An tm tensive organization campaign is now being carried on by the Workers Party of this city, The results are already apparent. A lively English branch was recently organized and thru its initia- tive a joint membership meeting was held last Friday night and a City Cen- tral Committee re ha Steps are being taken to organize a Lithuanian Branch and to reorganize the Polish branch, Chester is well known as an Open Shop city despite the fact that it is quite an industrial center. Chester is well known with its ship yards and textile mills. Unemployment is steadi- ly increasing and many morkers are now walking the streets in search of work, At the last, general membership meeting plans were worked out for an extensive election campaign and for securing of signatures for the Placing of the names of comrades Foster and Git- low, the Workers Party candidates for President and Vice-President Tespect- ively on the ballot. Thos. Foley, 516 Parker Street, was elected secretary of the City Central Committee. He is also the secretary of the English Branch. All workers of Chester desiring to join the Workers Party or wishing to get information about the organization should commu- nicate with comrade Foley at the above address. Ohio Labor Hammers Militarists’ Shield; Slashes at Weeks CLEVELAND, July 23.—Mobiliza- tion day, Sept. 12, gets the hammer from Ohio churches and labor organ- izations who united in a strong protest against the mobilization scheduled by Secretary of War Weeks. The Ohio council of churches protests against this glorification of militarism in a ringing rebuke to Weeks. The Cleveland Federation of Labor also voted to protest to Weeks, de claring that labor would have none of his schemes for the next war. The league of Women Voters of this state similarly sent its respects to our war chief advising him that they are un- alterably opposed to the public cek ebration of the war spirit in any man- ner. Wealthy Oll Man Sued, George C. Priestly, 62, said to be the largest individual oil operator in the United States, and national com- mitteeman for the progressives from Oklahoma during the Roosevelt cam- paign of 1912, was named defendant in a mysterious $250,000 damage suit filed in superior court. Whew! Won't Get Rich! BERLIN, July 23. — Professor Miethe, who claims to have developed a process of making gold from mer- cury, admitted today the cost was more than $2,000,000 a pound, Send in that Subsor! ion ‘Foday, . Bre