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SR ne ema ama | Friday, July 25, 1924 DETROIT PLANS FULL ANTI-WAR WEEK PROGRAM Workers Demonstrate ‘Against Imperialism (Special to The DAILY WORKER) “SETROIT, Mich. July 24.—The Workers’ Party of Detroit is making big arrangements to join in with the demonstrations against imperialist wars that will be held thruout~ the world during the week of July 27th to August 4th, The workers of Detroit have many reminders of the World War. They ‘were called upon to make contribu- tions from their meager financial re- sources, and were herded in droves into training camps to make scienti- fic preparations for the imperialistic ' Communist blood-bath. And out of their “invest- ments” in democracy they have se- cured the Open Shop, unemployment, and a steadily decreasing standard of life. J Wednesday evening, July 30th, there will be a joint meeting under the auspices of the Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Branches,/in Interna- tional Home, 3014 Yeman St., Ham- tramck, with speeches in the above languages and in English. There will be open air demonstra- tions Wednesday, July 30th, at Del- mar and Westminster, and on Thurs- day, July 31st, at Hastings and Theo- dore, with speeches in English and Jewish. Friday evening the German Branch has arranged a meeting in the House of the Masses, with Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volkzeitung as the prin- ciple speaker. Comrade Lore will speak in German. Saturday evening, August 2nd, there will be a joint demonstration under the auspices of the South Slavic, Bul- garian and Roumanian Branches, at 1343 E. Ferry Ave. Monday evening, August 4th, the week's demonstrations will be brought to a fitting close with a meeting un- der the auspices of the City Central Committee, with Robert Minor, editor of the Liberator. as the principal speaker. Party Activities Of Local Chicago seaeey BRANCH MEETINGS Sunday, July 27—South Slavic No. 2, 8743 Buffalo Ave. No. 23, 4630 S. Gross Ave. ih No. July 28—Northwest Jewish, yne Ave. th Ward, 1103'S, Loomis Ave. Italian Cicero, 1402S. 50th Ct. Tuesday, July 29—Party and Y. W. L. Members in A. C. W. A., 3322 Douglas Blvd., 8 p. m. ‘Wednesday, July 30 — Roumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Ave. Thursday, July 31—Anti-Militarist Mass Meeting, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Ave. . Scandinavian Karl Marx, 2733 Hirsch vd. be ‘Thursday, fig, ‘Ward Italian, vd. day, i—Ukranian No. 2, . ephenson Ave. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. Lithuanian No. 4i, 4188 Archer Ave. Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave. STREET MEETINGS Friday, July 25 North Ave. and Rockwell, N. W. English Ww. Division and Washtenaw, Hersh Lekert % W. L Saturday, July 26 d Central Park, Douglas Park Jewish. 30th and State, South Side English W, P. 112th and Michigan, Pullman Sub-City Central Committee. Sunday, July 27 Mygragela and Roosevelt, Marshfield Y. July 26—Riverview Press Picnic Committee meeting, at Room 307, 166 W. Washington St. . m. Friday, July 25—Speakers Class, 1902 ‘W. Division St. Saturday, Send in that Subscription Today. “The Commanist. International” Reduced! Now at —— $2.50 a year or | aae— 12 issues. Single copy 25 cents. It represents officially the views and reflections of the Communist International as the official organ of the Executive Committee, edited Sy the world renowned revolution- ary leaders: Gregory Zinoviev and Karl Radek. It surely is read by all who fear an educated revolutionary working- class: by kings, emperors, capital- ists and labor fakers, and there is no reason in the world why you, as a reader of the DAILY WORKER, should not read it. The subscrip- tion price is within your reach. Do it for your own benefit. Send your subscription to the Literature Department, Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicag Great War Unmasked Treason of Social-Democracy to the Workers THERE IS ONLY ONE WATCHWORD Comintern Thesis | installment of the International's thegis for the tenth anniversary of the World War is a damning Indict- ment of the Social Democratic trait- ors. It compares socialist pledges against capitalist war with social- ist support to the imperialistic gov- ernments, August, 1914. And, the thesis shows, social-democracy must be destroyed that. the proletariat ‘may be no longer betrayed in the hour of crisis. * * Il. Who Is ta blame forthe War?—The 2nd International as the Criminal Abettor of the Imperialist War. When the war was over, when the rapacious Versailles peace was being conducted, the bourgeois bands, in order to avert from themselves the anger and scorn of the masses hypo- critically occupied themselves with a search for those who are to blame for the war. They wanted to place at their door the responsfbility for the world conflagration.’ The procla- mation of the German Emperor Wil- helm as the one responsible for the war could not erase from the con- sciousness of, the advanced workers and peasants the’ firm conviction that all capitalist cliques, all financial captains of all nations, the bankers of all creeds, the manipulators of fin- ance capital and heavy industry, both in Germany and in France and Great Britain, are equally to blame for the world war. World capital, imperial- ism, in friendly co-operation with the remnants of the nobility, the dynas- ties and the priests—these are the real perpetrators of the slaughter. The working masses and history will never forget that, in the decisive hour of military trails, throughout the en- tire war and post-war period, capital found in the leaders and _ function- aries of the 2nd International willing servants and aiders and abettors in the work of the world war. 2nd International Betrayed. History and the working masses will never forget that the 2nd Inter- national criminally betrayed the inter- ests of the working class, the inter- ests of the toilers, the interests of humanity. Long before the beginning of the world war, international socialism had foreseen its inevitabilty, had shown its causes and factors, had outlined a plan of struggle. Year after yeag partial wars—such as the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the Italian-Turkish war—substantiat- ed the warnings of international so- cialism. Long before the imperialist war of 1914, International socialism had es- tablished leading principles for the This second (itRoueinsneetcuuteMee dmanenmemeamand seamen te The proletariat will be able to meet them with the necessary courage. . . Let the governments know well that to play with fire is dangerous for themselves. Should they start a mon- strous conflagration in Hurope, they will not remain unpunished.” In November of the same year the International emergency Congress at Basle adopted a manifesto against the impending imperialist war, against any help whatever in this war and to the bourgeois governments and par- liaments who would. be taking part in it: ¢ Basle Anti-War Manifesto, “It (the International) was in fa- vor of the workers of all countries opposing the might of international proletarian solidarity to capitalist imperialism. The Congress gave a clear indi- cation of the path to be followed by the workers if the crime were to be- come a reality, if the war were to break out,—the path of civil war. By pointing out that the Franco- Prussian and the Russo-Japanese wars caused the proletariat to rise and engage in civil war, the con- gress invited the socialist parties and workers’ organizations to re- spond again by civil war in the event of war breaking out anew. They. would be madmen if they did not understand that the thought alone of the horrors of war rouses the proletariat of all countries to anger and indignation. Workers consider it a crime to shoot each other for the benefit of capitalists.” Such were the promises and pledges of the Second International. And how did they keep them? Proletariat Demonstrated. On the eve of war, when the ex- cited proletariat demonstrated against the war in the streets of Berlin, Paris and Petersbourgh, the leaders of the Second International were already negotiating secretly with the bourge- oisie and were preparing to betray the working class. On the 30th of July the Ger- man Social-Democrats placed. all their hopes for the preservation of peace on the Kaiser. The cowardly betrayers of the cause of Socialism were seeking access to imperial thrones and ministerial portfolios. But Socialists Praise Kaiser. “While being opposed directly and in principle to the monarchi¢ form of government” they wrote “and deter- mined to maintain this aititude also in the future, and while cairying on frequently a determined fight azainst the imperial crowned head,—we never- theless declare, and not for the first time, that Wilhelm II has by his con- duct shown during the last few years that he is a lover of peace, which he is determined to maintain.” This is how the imperialist socialists, the so- attitude of socialist parties towards the war-preparations of the imperial- ists and the conduct of socialists’ and workers’ organizations fh case of war. This was done at the International Congresses (especially in the Stutt- gart Congress of 1907, and the Basle Congress of 1912), and at a series of national party conventions (Chemnitz Congress of the German Social Demo- cratic Party, etc.) In passing a resolution on the war, the 2nd International took upon it- self definite and unequivocal obliga- tions. Broken Stuttgart Pledge. The resolution of the Stuttgart Con- gress reads: “The Congress deems it the duty of all the workers and their re- presentatives in Parliaments to fight in every way against armaments, both on sea and land, to unmask the class character of bourgeois society, and the motives which im- pel it to maintain and support na- tional antagonisms, and also to re- fuse any kind of financial support for such a policy, and to strive towards educating the proletarian youth in the socialist ideals of inter- national brotherhood, and towards maintaining class consciousness among them.” The resolution of the Stuttgart Con- gress contains approval of tlie Activ- ities of the Russian and Polish work- ers and peasants, who conducted a mass revolutionary struggle in order to prevent Tzarism from conducting the war, in order to put an end to it, in order to make, to the people and the proletariat, in the midst of this conflict, an appeal for civil war. “If however, notwithstanding all these measures, the war has already begun,” so reads the end of the Stutt- gart resolution, “then it is the duty of the socialists to make every effort to secure its termination us speedily as possible, and to make every effort to use the economic and political crisis created by it in order to stir up the most profound social forces and ex: pedite the overthrow of capitalist domination.” 5 Another Anti-War Gesture, “On the 29th of October, 1912, on the occasion of the Balkan war, the Inter- national-Socialist Bureau passed a re- solution the concluding part of which reads: “The near future will probably bring for the Socialist Party and for the prolstariat many trials, and will demand of them responsible . cialist followers of Wilhelm II, pre- pared the masses for the acceptance of the lying’ story of the bourgeoisie about the war being forced on Ger- many and about the necessity to de- fend the fatherland. Was the conduct of the opportun- ist heroes of the Second International in France and in other countries any different from that of the German So- cial-Democratic leaders? Not in the least. They too were concerned not so much with the unmasking of their governments, as with representing them as lovers of peace. The declaration of the French par- liamentary socialist group of March 29th, 1914 supported the illusion of the peace-loving nature of the policy of France. thr‘ is, of the French gov- ernment, and ..! its peaceful influence on Europe. ' Forget Pledges. But these patriotic notes were still submerged by the tumult of protests and declarations against the war. As soon as war broke out, the picture changed as if by magic. Opportunist ideas, which sprang up and ripened in the opportunist circles of the Second International, were allowed. by the leaders of the central—Kausky and others—to rise to the surface, and be- came the slogans and military pro- gramme of the entire Second Interna. tional, in lieu of the decisions of Stutt- gart, Brussels, Chemnitz, Paris, etc:, which were dishonored, forgotten and buried. Treason of August 4th, August 4th is a significant date in the history of socialism. The Social-| Democratic fraction of the German Reichstag carried out the decision, adopted the day before by 78 to 14 votes, to vote war credits. The dec- laration of the Social-Democratic frac- tion which the'lackeys of the bour- geoisie and the betrayers of socialism placed before the Imperial Chancellor for examination and approval, was as follows: “We must now vote not for or against the war, but we must rather decide the question of credits for the defence of our country.” The Russian ARL LIEBKNECHT said: Liebknecht Hits German Imperialism It Is a question of an imperialistic war, and even a war on the German side, with the object of seizing power in grand style. (Speech in the Reichstag, December 2, 1914.) ‘i THE DAILY WORKER peril was the justification for this treachery. “It is absolutely necessary to avert this peril, and to save the cul- ture and independence of our father- land. Let us therefore act up to our’ professions, for did we not always maintain that we will never desert our country in the hour of peril. We maintain our solidarity with the In- ternational, which always recognized the right of every nation to national independence and self-defence, and to- gether with the International we con- demn all wars for aggrandizement.” At Disposal of the Military. All obligations and promises were forgotten and trodden underfoot, and | Social-Democracy became the servant of Wilhelm II. It adopted the offi- cial “defence of the country” attitude, and placed the powerful apparatus of the Party of the Social-Democratic press and the trade-unions at the dis- posal of the military clique. There is not a base action under the sun which these betrayers of socialism did not commit during the first days of the war. They lowered the red banner of the working class and brought it into dishonor. The “Arbei- ter-Zeitung,” the organ of the Austrian Soctal-Democrats, wrote as follows an | by only impeded the true internation- of the German bourgeoisie, the servant | REGORY ZINOVIEV, chairman in his “The Watchword of sald: “In the present era of imperial word for Social-Democracy other t cal social-patriots supported the war, while the center, as for instance the “Independents” in Germany, paid lip |service to anti-militarism, and there- alists in their revolutionary fight. It would be difficult to imagine any- thing more shameful than the com- | plete bankruptcy of the Second Inter- national. Branded Forever. The originators of the war, the im-| perialists and their helpers—the so-| clal-patriots, asserted at the beginning| of the war that they were only deténd-| ing their country. The trend of his- tory showed them in their true light. German imperialism showed itself for August 4th, 1914: “We shall ‘never forget the day of August bth... The|Litovsk, and by its bloody deeds in picture presented by the German|Finland and in thé Ukraine. Reichstag, the representative of the|tente powers betrayed their imperiai- entire nation, will remain for ever injism and their predatory nature by the memory of the German peoples|the treaties of Versailles, Sevres, and} and will be recorded in the annals of history as a day of a mighty and proud uplifting of the German spirit.” We Never Forget. The proletariat will never forget this. day. And on the Tenth Anniversary of this day it will show its fierce hatred for the originators of the war. It will not forget their helpers and lackeys— the Social-Democrats, and will say that, having made common cause with the bourgeoisie, they must share with it the contempt and the hatred of the working class. French socialists have declared that | they consider it their duty to defend the independence and the inviolability | of republican Europe, which is thirst- ing for peace. Belgian Treachery. The General Council of the Belgian Labor Party declared: “Sooial-Democracy cannot be made responsible for this’ terrible bloodshed. It does not stop at any- thing to warn the peoples, in order to prevent the mass competition in armaments, and in order to avert the catastrophe which threatens to overcome the entire population of Europe. But the terrible evil is already upon us, and fate has decreed that our only thought should be: to do our utmost to protect our territory against enemy invasion. We will put our heart and soul into this fight, for we know that by defending neutrality and the very existence of our country, we are serving the interests of democracy and the political emancipation of Europe.” British Socialist Betrayal. The British Socialist Party said in its manifesto: “The great war, which was threat- ening us, has broken out. Austria's attack on Serbia has drawn into the struggle the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, and our country was drawn into the war by Germany's declaration of war against Belgium, the direct cause of which was this little country’s refusal to violate the neutrality guaranteed to it in ythe) interests of the attacking Power.” The majority of the leaders of the Social-Democratic parties of other countries (with few exceptions) be- trayed the working class, with more or less cynicism, adopting the view- point of their bourgeoisie, or descend- Labor Recruiting Sergeants. ing to its level. The socialist traitors converted the big and powerful German trade-unions into recruiting centers for the German government, and trade-union leaders acted as recruiting sergeants. The French trade-union renegade, Jouhaux, one of the present leaders of the Amsterdam International, was a what it is at the peace of Brest- The En- others. The Second International fol- lowed, faithfully in the wake of im- perialism. The Second International branded itself for ever by its shame- ful opposition to the Russian revolu- tion, and by the murder of German, French and colonial workers. The blood of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Lux- emburg, and of thousands of the Ger, man proletarians, as well as of mil- lions of those killed in the imperialist war, is on the conscience of the Sec- ond International. The working masses will never for- get that the predatory Versailles | Treaty was ratified by the Second In- |ternational. Among the signatures to this treaty is that of His Majesty’s Socialist Minister, the pride and glory of the treacherous yellow internation- al—Vandervelde. Oppressor of India. In the person of MacDonald, the Second International has shown itself in its true light to the masses of In- dia and other oppressed colonial coun- tries, by its bourgeois policy, which only benefits the nobility, and finance and industrial capital. The Second International has be- smirched itself by open collaboration with the executioners of the working class—the fascisti of Germany, Bul- garia, Hungary, Italy, and a number of other countries. The bourgeois gov- ernment in Germany was saved in the autumn of 1923 only with the help of the Social-Democrats, for at that time the German revolutionary movement had reached its climax, and the disor- ganization of the bourgeois camp was complete. With the systematic support of the Social-Democrats, the German bourgeois republic is gradually assum- ing the character of a monarchist mili- tary distatorship. Hollow and Insincere. This being so, all the declarations of the Second International, of the transition to the war against the bourgeoisie.” » Page Threé CHARGE HOOVER ABETS GRAB BY SUPER POWER Would Give Potomac to Private Interests | (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, July 24.—Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce and chief unofficial adviser to the super |power interests in their attempt to head off public ownership of super- power in the United States, has an- |nounced detailed plans for linking up the big hydro-electric power plants and sites in the eastern region of the country with big coal-burning plants, |which would be located at the mouths Fight for Revolution. of mines in the bituminous fields. The well-being of the Entente coun-| Hoover includes in his scheme the tries cannot be insured at the expense | harnessing of the 180,000 horsepower of an utterly ruined Germany, ev available in the Potomac river. This with the consent of the German bour-|i8 the power which Senator Norris, geoisie. The attempt to smooth a pioneer advocate of public owner- the contradictions of an imperialist}ship and development, has for the peace, and to relegate the menace of a|Past twelve years sought to have new war to the dim and distant future | Congress develop as a source of light by putting into practice the Expe power for the District of Colum Report, will give nothing to the work-|bia. Congress has voted the prelim: ers of Europe and the whole world| inary surveys, and within two years is but new illusions and a new betrayal.| likely to appropriate for the construe What is needed for the prevention of|tion of a series of three dams and wer, which is already on the horizon,| Power turbines. The Hoover scheme is not alliance between the bourgeois|@Ppears to contemplate the turning and Social-Democracy, but a reyolu-)Over of this power to the private tionary fight of the working class|Power combine. headed by the Communist Internation-|' While Norris is absent from the cap al, not capitalist dictatorship endorsed | ital—engaged tn his re-election cam by social-patriotic hypocrisy and |Paign in Nebraska, the public-ownem treachery, but the overthrow of capital-| ship forces here declare Congress will {sm and the establishment of prole-| not dare to block the Norris plan. The tarian dictatorship, For us the best|Power to be generated at the falls of reminder of this is the tenth anni-|the Potomac will eventually be com versary of the world war. It calls upon | nected up, they say, with the power the working class and the workers|from Muscle Shoals and half a dozeg thruout the world to mobilize their | other sites now'in federal possession, forces againts capitalism and against|Siving to the nation a super-powée the social traitors—against the insti-| System that will at least control rated atorg-of war and their helpers. jin the southeastern section of the War on Capitalist War. country. It is agreed that the federal ‘World war, for which preparations |®¥8tem Will have to include coal-busm are being made quite openly in all im- ing plants, in order that the flow of perialist countries, with the direct as- She. SRESAEIR, | CORVEFEC: 1BEDGteaaee sistance of the social-traitors, can only ouregat $n time of Mish Water, meee be averted by the triumph of prole- compensated by the burning of coal ty tarian revolution, at first in Europe ee TOROS: and subsequently thruout the world. But if war breaks out, the struggle against it can enly be successful if| this struggle takes a revolutionary form. The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, led by the Russian Communist Party, and following the precepts of Lenin, were able to emery from the imperialist war by revolu- tionary methods, namely by civil war, which gave rise to the first proletarian republic. During the week of the tenth anniversary of the declaration of the world war, Communist parties are called upon to mobilize all the revo- lutionary forces for the revolutionary struggle for power, for a Soviet gov- ernment on a world scale, which alone| can save mankind from the horror of | new wars. At the samé time, if war| breaks out, the workers of the world must be prepared to make war on war, like revolutionaries. of the Communist International, Revolutionary Social-Democracy,” istic wars, there can be no watch- han to make imperialist. wars He | will not surrender its position volun- tarily. PHILADELPHIA PARTY ACTIVITIES Local. Philadelphia Workers Pai making preparatiofs for a vigoro palgn. ‘The enthusiasm shown at the Gitlow meeting on July 18 proves that Philadelphia workers are lining up strong behind our program and the candidates. The Political Committee with comrade A. Rosenberg as its chairman has laid out plans for the campaign that promises to double the Party membership: by November. The Party Headquarters are buzzing with activity and our member- ship is aware of the great possibilities for the growth of the Party during the presidential campaign. The Open Air Meetings have been very successful and will soon be in- creased in number. Open Air Meetings. Every Saturday, 8 p. m., Front and Dauphin Streets. Friday, July 25, 8 p. m., N. E. Corner Kensington and ‘Orleans St. Open Air Mass Meeting. Tuesday, July 29, 8 p. m is m= W._Cor- ae ner Girard Ave. and Marshall Harry Mussolini Turns Out Winitsky. of New York. A. Fetnstone of Philadelphia. Blackshirts to Put in Respectable Rich PROTEST AGAINST U. S. DECISION GRANTING $1,500,000 representatives of the Kerensky regime. Preparations are being made for a Huge held COURT to the Anti-War Demonstration to he (as ha 'Woliahiad beeen August 6, Watch for further announce- The Industrial Department is_show- ing energetic activity in many Unions, and especially busy in a campaign to organize two new local Unions. ROME, July 24.—The murder-gang cabinet of Mussolini has been suc-| egeded by one of extremely respect-| able conservative rich men. | The minister for the colonies, Prince de Scalea, is an elegant diplo- Amsterdam International, and of the|mat and clubman, a favorite at fash- trade unions, about a general strike in|{onable soirees. The new minister of the event of a new war, sound hallow|¢ducation, Casati, is a rich patrician and insincere. After the experiences | of the world war of 1914—18, and after jthe continued collaboration of the heroes of the Second and Amsterdam Internationals with the black hun- | dreds of capitalist reaction, one is seZe |in prophesying that the fine promises of a general strike in the event of war are nothing but a piece of colossal political humbug. . . The Second Inter- national will not be able to keep these promises even if it wished to do # There is no doubt whatever that, as soon as a new war breaks out, interna- tional social democracy will offer its services to the bourgeoisie of the bil- ligerent countries, and will call upon the workers on both sides of the front to support their bourgeois countries. Must Defeat Traitors, Victory over the Second Interna- among the most ardent defenders of tional, and over working class oppor- the patriotic bourgeoisie. made their members join bourgeois governments (Jules Guesde, Sembat, Thomas, Henderson, Vandervelde.) They used the authority of the Sec- ond International as a cloak for the crime committed by the bourgeoisie, and shared with it the responsibility before the peoples. The theorists of the Second International—Kautsky, Victor Adler and others—undertook the dirty work of explaining, excusing and camouflaging the treacherous at- titude of the soctalist-patriots. Logi- tunism is an essential pre-requisite of The parties of the social traitors| 4 successful anti-militarist campaign. At the present juncture, the power "lof the Entente countries (Great Brit- ain and France) is being transferred to the left elements within the bour- geoisie which adhere to the Second In- ternational. We are seeing an attempt to come to a settlement in the rela- tions between the victorious and the defeated countries (he findings of the Committee of Experts) together with a recrudescense of pacifist agitation. This attempt, which has the support of the Social-Democratic parties, and of the Amsterdam Internation: is pregnant with colossal burd tor the German working class, at whose expense the German bourgeoisie hopes to pay off the Entente ... But, in spite of the efforts of the German Social- Democrats, the German working class will refuse to accept this new yoke, while the German bourgeoisie, in- | ‘flamed by chauvinism and nationalism, a from Mtlan. Sarocchi, the minister of labor, and Nava, minister of national economy, come from ultra-conserva- tive clerical families. Labor is not likely to fare any bet- ter under the reorganized Mussolini cabinet than it did under the cabinet responsible for the murder of Mat teotti. Night _and Morning to keep — Clean, Clear and Healthy Write for Free “Eye Care” or “Eye Beauty” Book Marine Co., Dept. H. S.,9 E. Ohio St., Chicago Your Dollars FRIEND OR FOE TO LABOR? 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