The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1925, Page 12

— oman} Pe a er Page ee (WO hostile armies are mas against each other on the inter tional political front. On-the one side we’have the gath- ering hosts of imperialist reaction, the | Diack united front, On the other side| we have the growing armies of the} proletariat led into struggle against) capitalism by the revolutionary party of the world’s working class—the Communist International. | There may be peace in the. news-| papers of the bourgeoisie. But every “peace” move of the imperialist pow- ers only cloaks a’war maneuver, To-| day, these “peace” moves are mainly ‘war maneuvers against the rising| prowess of the Soviet Union. The se-| curity pact, the Locarno confer } and the other much-heralded “pacify-| fng” agreements and conferences are, | to a large extent, treaties and agree-| ments entered into by the world capi- talists to mobilize all of their re- sources for a war against the Soviet| Union. What is behind these feverish war preparations of the black union against} the red union? What forces .consti-| tute the black united front? Who is | to be found in the ranks of the red| united front? What is the role of| the American capitalists in this attack being planned by the forces of capi- talist reaction against the forces of proletarian progress? The Phantom Stabilization. HE: bourgeoisie may have succeed- ed in temporarily stabilizing to some extent their economic order thru the Dawes plan, thru the partial resto- ration of the system of international @xohange, and thru a temporary im- royement in the world agricultural conditions. But no one knows better than the imperialist junta itself the ehaky foundation on which even this very limited improvement rests. The! hourgeoisie realize full well that these | over-advertised “reconstruction” ef-| forts have not succeeded in removing | any of the inherent contradictions of capitalism which were intensified by| the world war and its aftermath. But the international imperialist clique realizes even more the fact that | their most dangérous foe is the Soviet | Union. The Soviet Union has been making tremendous progress in economic re- construction despite the financial blockade still maintained against the] workers’ and farmers’ republic by the} international money lords. The So- viet Union is winning the confidence} of the many millions of oppressed/| colonial masses ‘thru its unflinching} fight against the imperialist maneuv-| ers of the capitalist powers in the| Far and Near East. Africa, the “Dark Continent,” is also beginning to see the light, Then,” the ‘Soviet Union is winning an ever-increasing hold on the minds and hearts-of- the” proletar- ian masses of the coufitries today dominated by the capitalist class. ing A. |of these workers champions of the Soviet Stabilization Real. HESE assets of the Soviet Union L overwhelm the small stabilization | gains made by the international bour- geoisie. | Zach progressive step of the Soviet Union is substantial and paves the} way for more and greater far-reaching permanent steps of building the work- ers’ and farmers’ Soviet republic on & sound, on an impregnable basis. Each instance of friendship be- tween the Soviet Union and a colonial cquntry or an oppressed nation serves only to cement the relations between the Soviet Republics and the suffer- ing national groups and only adds to the prestige of the Soviet Union amongst all colonial ‘peoples. Every occasion that the proletariat of other countries has to see the So- viet Union as it is, to come in contact with the workers’ republic, to have dealings with the Soviet Union only brings these proletarian masses closer to the Soviet Union and makes out cause of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which is the cause of the working class of every country. Capitalist “Reconstruction.” OW let us look at the asset side of the bourgeois ledger. What do we find? Take the Dawes plan. It has been called the panacea of capitalist pana- ceas. But the hacillus of the transfer problem is rapidly.eating the heart out of this life-saver of the bourgeois order. Secret negotiations are already reported to be under way to revise fundamentally this “Made in America” enslavement plan of Germany. Be- sides, the Dawes plan whose aim was to bring peace to Europe and the world is only sharpening the antagon- isms between the ‘United Statess and Great Britain over the question of who shall exercise financial hegemony over Germany. and hence on the con- tinent outside of Soviet Russia closed to the rapacious capitalist exploiters, Let us glance.at the vexing question of international debts. The failure of the Franco-American. debt , negotia- tions is of paramount significance, Of course, the French bourgeoisie , will make another desperate effort at fund- ing their deft to»:Wall. Street. But, there is an unbridgeable gap in these negotiations, France cannot fund its American debt and at the same time, wage its wars against the Moroccan and Syrian peoples. A debt agree- ment may be patched up but the fun- damental economic contradictions of imperialism cannot be overcome. Germany may be “restored” econom- ically. But the “restoration” of Ger- many brings in its wake the forces making for an intensification of in- ternational trade rivalries. Germany’s capacity to pay is almost. synonymous with Germany’s unwillingness to pay. These are only a few of the out- standing economic reconstruction steps so loudly commended by the Red International By HARRISON GEORGE MONG the many. oustanding pro- ducts of the Bolshevik revolution of eight years ago, not the Jeast im- portant was the surging demand that arose within the trade unions all over] the world for a-world-wide unity of all) is of the class .. trade unions on the ba: struggle, for a united fight against| to the call of the ruling class and be- capitalism. trayed the masses again in» “peace.” The formation and phenomenal| While the Russian’ unions and the new growth of the Rus n labor union} revolutionary unionists. of all the movement, born inthe cradle of revo-| world were demanding” an interna- lution with arms in hand and the In-! tional center and the foundation was | ternational on its lifs, posed the ques-| being laid for the Red International of tion of this moyement’s international connections. UT the war which had brot the rev- olution atso brot an increase in reaction and its desire, by working thru the agents of the bourgeoisie in the ranks of labor, ‘to prevent the workers of the world, instinctively ‘urning toward the fabulous “Mos- cow,” from doing as the Russian work- ers had done. the world were demanding, moreover, some international center that would insure them against a recurrence of the horror thru which they -had just passed. The reformist socialists who -had betrayed the masses in war, answered Unions, the reformists were laying the foundations of an interna tional of class collaboration. HIS was the Amsterdam Interna- tional (the. International Federa- tion of Trade Unions) formed upon the basis of the “victory” of the al- lied arms over Germany and, there- fore, the victory of the allied social Labor The labor unionists of | buorgeois statesmen... Each of these steps has within itself the germs of deepgoing economic disintegration. Can Not Fool Colonies. VERY attempt of the imperialists to fool the colonial peoples with fraudulent concesisons is meeting with failure; The wave of Chinese nationalism is a fitting answer to the manipulations of the fmperialist con- sortium, The present so-called Chi- nese tariff conference is much more than a mere tariff conference, It is the beginning of a new wave of disil- lusionment on the part of the hun- dreds of millions of Chinese with the 5 ibs as men's equals. socialist basis. ialism. es, are now as a result of the patriots over those-ef Germany, Am- sterdam took ‘the most reactionary pogition, identified itself with the Ver- sailles peace and set up organizational connection with capitalism thru the international labor office of the league of nations, | Small wonder, therefore, that those | organized workers of the world who| felt the urge of class struggle to over- | throw capitalism, demanded a center of revolutionary unionism, to clarify | and unify the working masses upon | a basis of class struggle on an inter-| national scale. | ND if the latest developments of | this world movement and strnggle, which is the establisht | ment of the famous Anglo-Russian | Trade Union Unity Commission, har shaken the world and frightened the capitalists into a panic, it must not be forgotten that this latest forward | step: was built upon years of earlier | struggle and arose out of the revolu- | ego A Na RR ren IN SNA calagen in a aa lics.” The peoples of the Moslem East: for unity, / THE DAILY WORKER a) The Red Union and the Black enslavement. schemes of the world’s bankers, The Chinese, as well as the other oppressed peoples, are also learning that the crucifix is as much an instrument. of the foreign bour- geois exploitation as is the machine gun, the ambassador, the airplane, the battleship, and. banker, Red Unity Against Black Unity. ND despite’ the: treachery of the labor bureauctacy, every “treaty of peace” signed for the working masses by these labor lieutenants of capital turns out to be only a scrap of paper in the Class war between the proletariat and ‘the Exploiters, FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED ON THE EIGHTH (1925) ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION E profit press is nowhere this year predicting the “early overthrow” of*workers’ rule in the Union of Soviet Republics. ‘ ‘ HE armies of 14 capitalist nations (Great Britain, France, the United States, Czecho- Slovakia, Germany, Japan, Poland, Rowmania and many others) have participated in the military attacks on the Soviet Union. HE Bolshevik revolution raised the Russian women. from their former conditions of slavery and brought working and peasant women into the Soviets and trade unions JNSEEAD ct the false bourgeois “democracy” acting as a screen for capitalist dictatorship (the Kerensky regime), the revolution has built up a power based on true democracy, on Soviets of workers’, peasants’, and Red Army deputies, elected every year by the masses. ‘TAR the Soviets hundreds of thousands of the foremost workers and peasants are brot straight from the bench and from the plough into the Soviets, the Communist Party and the trade unions, where they take a direct part in the administration of all the branch- es of social and economic life in the immense Soviet country. re Soviet Republic.is steadily going forward with its task of reorganizing society on a It has expropriated the expropriators. It has declared factories, work- shops, mines, means of communication, banks, and land, the property of the working pop- ulation, and has handed over their administration to the Soviets. Pat Soviet power is concentrating all its energy on the development of state industries and trade and is building up co-operative trade under the control of the proletariat, in order by such means to secure complete state control of the economic activity of the country and its complete reorganization on.a socialist basis. of ee Ts revolution has put an end to national oppression. It helped people which but a little while ago were oppressed by czarism, to establish their own independent national Soviet Republics, and united all of them into one powerful “Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- Tartars,) Bashkirs, Kirhgiz, Uzbecks and Turko- mans, brothers to those who are brutally oppressed and exploited by the governments of « Great Britain and France, and by fascist Italy, have become full-fledged members of the "ISoviet Union, The Soviet Republic has stretched out a helping hand to all colonial and ‘semi-colonial peoples (to Turkey, China, mig pvistan and Persia), thereby giving power- 4ul-support to the revolutionary movement -o ProucaTion and thespress, which previous to the revolution were the monopoly of thé “if , capitalists and landowners, and were used as a means of Bolshevik revolu' of Labor Unions a : -the.peoples of. the éast against world imper- in under the control of the victorious work- ing class and are being utilized for Communist, education and training. % | |no task of weaklings. | At the very moment that the bour- geois is straining all its resources to buy off sections of the working class itself. against the other workers of the Soviet Union, the proletariat of, an increasing number of countries is drawing closer and closer to the work- ers’ and farmers’ Soviet republic. We néed but look at the increasing num- ber of workers’ delegations coming to the Soviet republics from the various countries in the clutches of the im- perialist clique. At the very moment that the Bu- ropean bourgeoisie are celebrating their supposed unification at the Lo- fooling and doping the mass- carno conference, the progress. of in- ternational trade union unity is going on apace. Then, the Locarno “peace” conference is,actually laying the basis for new strife-between the imperialist national groups and. letting loose new forces of disintegration in the political parties atvhome, A “united” conti- nent of Burope promotes the antag- onisms between American imperial- ism and among the European imper- ialist cliques, Scarcely had the ink dried on the Locarno pact when the powerful Ger- man nationalist party enters upon a new crisis, the Luther cabinet is en- dangered, the Communists make tre- mendous gains ‘in. the German elec- tions, the Caillaux cabinet falls, the flames of. revolt envelop. Syria,. the Greeks clash with the Bulgars and the Balkans, the cockpit of Europe, are again seething, Role of Amegican, Imperialism. 'N this international drama Ameri- can imperialism plays a major role as the leading banker and manufac- turing nation of the world. It is true, there was no American observer at Locarno playing the role that Colonel Logan played at the London confer- ence of July, 1924. But it was only the heavy financing of the European governments by Wall Street that made possible this effort to unify the capitalist governments of Hurope against the working class government of the Soviet Republics. America ,is, today the buttress of capitalist reaction. American capital- ism is the mainspring of opposition to the Soviet Union everywhere.’ This is as true in the Far East as in Eu- rope. In the Far East American im- perialism is payticularly, irritated over the stinging defeat administered Wall Street . hypocrisy, .;and Washington “humanitarianism” by the Soviet Un- ion. The, latter. fact accounts in a large measure for the apparent sharp- ening.of,the American anti-Soviet pol- icy ata time when many superficial obseryers , believed; that the. United States was already on the verge of So- viet recogniiton. _What the Fakers Are Up To. ITH this. as a background, itis not difficult to. understand, the why and the wherefore of. the hostility of the American labor -bureaucracy to Boviet, recognition.. , The -trade union bureaucracy isan integral part of the imperialist machinery of oppres- stop. .The American, trade. union bu- teducracy being part of the most im- perialist coterie, being a section of the’ capitalist group most, bitterly op- posed to Soviet Russia, is naturally and logically "the most reactionary trad@ ufiion ‘bureaucracy in the world the most bigoted enemy of the work- ing ‘masses of the Soviet Union. No doubp the opposition of the American Federation of Labor leader- ship to Soviet Russia is an important factor in the determination of Ameri- w weaker partners in the original paot the first congress of the R. I. L. U Standing with the R. I. L. U. in those dark days, even more than now, was ET from the deliberations and de- cisions went forth a great rallying organization, which brgt into exist- ence as a conscious world movement the revolutionary unionism of today. The Second World Congress held in November, 1922, saw the R. I. L. U. exerting a most powerful influence in Europe, Asia and America for work- ing class unity and struggle against capitalism, The center of revolutio' was being established for the labo unions of the world. 'Y the Third Congress in July, | 4 1924, the movement was pfepared to lay down new tasks for completion |of the work begun in the first two world gatherings, by reaching out for the working masses in the trade. un- jons still adhering to Amsterdam. To this end proposals for world trade ovens nbn e1ab ¢an capitalist policy towards the So- (Special Eighth Soviet Anniversary. Edition): nion By Jay Lovestone viet Union, The hatred of the, Bo- viet Union by. the labor bureaucrats is without doubt due to the fear on the part of these labor misleaders of the fundamentally changed attitude that the American workers would as- sume towards the Soviet Union and many other problems in the evetit of American recognition of the Soviet republics, A Dangerous Situation. T is obvious to every worker in America that the United States, re- gardless of the increasing conflict of its interests with the interests of imperialist powers of Burope and Asia, is the backbone of thé black united front now being organized against the Soviet Union. Whig reac- tionary union 18 not merely an ub- holy alliance against the Soviet Re- publics. _The black united front, at the head of which stands the Wash- ington government of ‘Wall Street, ‘is an imperialist band of sworn foes against the labor movement the world- over, against every organization of the working class, Who can question the fact that if it should ever come about that the international clique of imper- ialists should succeed to weaken, or undermine the Soviet Union, that such an event would not be an occasion for the letting loose of all the blackest forces of reaction, of capitalist hool- iganism, of murderous fascism against every organization of the workers thruout the world? American Workers Must Act. HE campaign for the defense of the Soviet Union is concretely the most urgent task before the Ameri- can workers. Every worker who has the slightest bit of consciousness of his class interests, every worker who has the slightest bit of use for his union or other labor organization, every poor farmer who wants to get rid of “his nemesis, the monopolist capitalist, must get into the campaign to defend the Soviet Union against the nefarious machinations and plots. of the American and the other capital- ists. The American exploiter is in the front ranks. of the armies of the black united front. The American worker must do his bit to save the world from imperialist tyranny and -plunder hy fighting energetically for the defense and strengthening of his own labor organization.and by uniting with the workers of all other countries for the defense of the interests of the world’s working class. It is up to the. American workers to strive to become:in the red union of proletarian progress what the Wall Street financial and industrial barons have already become in the black uny ion of capitalist reaction. The eighth anniversary of the victorious prole- tarian revolution in Russia is certain- ly a fitting occasion for the American working class working forward to this goal, M Bt i ution unity ,werenset forth, proposing of unity gave up and did not come tabthe: sailing of a.unity congress with i the @msterdam unions and pledging alkcumions, to submit to the. decisions of the ‘unity congress, The yellow, Amstetdamers rejected the sproposal,- ‘Then:\foliowed the growth of rela- cry, and a process of clarification and | tions :between the British and Russian unions, which eulminated. in the re- cent formation pf an: official joint com- mittee; approved at the Scarborough congress—the Anglo-Russian Unity Commission; .}t -is, in behalf of. this commission, and;.its program. that A. A, Purcell is speaking in his. present i of Ameriga. », , NQUESTIONABLY «the growing power of Soviet Russia has aided the unity’ movement thus begun by the:R: LL. Us» The many delegations of trade unionists, -of reformist and syndicalist unions for the most part, which have, visited Soviet Russia and inspected the~ conditions of the work- ers under Soviet. power, have brot back such favorable reports that the whole labor movement has been no-j revolution, tion which set up, the Soviet power. In the years fi 1921 onward, this struggle had been carried into every land and every Wnion by the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, launched at a provisional conference in July, 1920, of represemtatives of the unions of Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Spain Jugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and minorities fons. The first congress was held in Moscow, July, 1921, iBrr at the first congress the Brit- | ish and Italian unions had alréady weakened under the tremendous’ as- saults of the bourgeoisie, The Ital- ian unions were in battle: and their leaders were surrendering to ‘the fas- cisti, The British workers had just been betrayed in the memorable Black Friday, Russia had just experi- enced the Kronstadt events, adopted the new economie policy and was fac- ing the problem of famine. It was seemingly the lowest ebb of the revolutionary ‘labor movement. Under pressurd of \these events, the of the French and Georgian labor_un-} Soviet Russia ticeably turned .to the left and the revolutionary element strengthened. No instance proves this case better than the report of the British delega- tion to Russia headed by Purcell as chairman of the British Trade Union Congress. The great work of uniting thp trade unions of the world was thus launched as a result of the Bolshevik revolu- tion of 1917. And this is one of the reasons why the name of Vladimir Lenin, the organizer and leader of the Bolshevik revolution, has been en- graved in the hearts of millions of revolutionary: unionists who fight un- der the banner of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions. T* ig one of the reasons why every worker who looks upon the Red International «as the leading organ’ tion of revolutionary unionism makes, his or her most enthusiastic holiday, the day on which the ragged Red Guards of Leningrad ‘seized state power in the name of the workers and peasants and lit the fires of world Bdapeki i with the Help of the Communist Party” Bad Ht o® teen ema te emer tae