The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1925, Page 8

(Continued from page 1) signing the “golden peace,” and will believe and will glow with gratitude toward the butchers preparing their death. Probably never before was a single movie reel exhibited as this one will be. HERR LUTHER, chancellor of the German republic, smiles his best into the camera lenses—for this movie must be shown in the theaters of Berlin. Monsieur Aristide Briand stretches his leathery mouth into a grin, for the picture must be shown in Paris. Monsieur—that is, “Comrade” Vandervelde, the king’s ‘socialist’? of Belgium, must have posed his best, for the plc- ture is to be shown as one of “peace” in the Brussels working clasiedistricts. The cameras’ click sounded almost like machine guns as Doctor Benes of Czecho-Slovakia leaned almost across the table to exchange stage-gestures and grins with Chancellor Luther, nis proverbial enemy of Germany——for this movie is to be shown within a few days in all the movies of New York and Chicago ind Prague and Vienna, Paris, London and Berlin,—under the ‘tle of “The signing of the golden peace of Locarno.” JEVEN nations signed the treaty. “Sir” Austen Chamberlain “(who received the Order of the Garter just the day before in order to give him a title for the occasion) signed for Great “ritain, and Mr. Baldwin was accorded the privilege as well Herr Luther for Germany, and— Where is Mussolini? Mussolini didn’t come. He wanted to come, and was want- ed. But the British foreign office was reluctantly obliged to .dvise him not to come. There would have been difficulties of vailroad travel on English soil; railroad trains might .have re- fused to run with Mussolini on them, in England. Great Britain’s signature is on the treaty. But it appears that the England that signed the treaty was not all-of England. The British government signs a treaty with Mussolini, but restless British workers won’t let Mussolini come to London to sign the treaty! There are TWO Englands. Capitalist England signed the treaty. Proletarian England did not sign the treaty. And thiy indicates the key to the fate of the treaty of Locarno. WHERE was the United States when the treaty was signed? The United States did not visibly sign the “golden peace.” Yet, hovering over Locarno, dictating, bulldozing, and shar- ing in the formation of every line and syllable of the treaty— was the United States government (acting, of course, for Am- erican finance capital.) The treaty of Locarno is a British- American imperialist document. Of the two great powers, only Great Britain visibly signed the treaty,—but written in invisible ink under the names of the other powers is the signature of the United States of America. When the time comes to read the signatures under this pact off" "47-45, .., 2 3 criminal world conspiracy, — when the gun-powder is poured onto the page—then the sign- ature of the United States will become visible. This is already admitted by Coo- lidge in his message this week to con- gress. He boasts with unconcealed glee that the Locarno treaty repre- sents: “the success of this policy which we have been insisting ought to be adopted, of having European coun- tries settle their own political prob- lems without involving this coun- try.” Whet Coolidge means is that the big finance capitalists of the United States conceived, ordered and put thru the big imperialist combine in such a way as to leave themselves in and overseer of the capitalist world—is playing a tremendous role in_all of due machinations of the present day.’ We have seen the events come thick apd fast. The great “pacifist” nation of Wall Street played peace from 1914 until it paid to play war. Then it came out of the war as the creditor of tlre world, as the coldblooded Shylock bargaining over the bones of ten mil- lion dead. Nations changed and patch- ed their financial systems to the dict- ation of a single American banking heirarchy, two of whose petty servants became the president and vice-presi- dent of the United States. After the servants of this banking jhouse had drawn up the Covenant of the League of Nations as a “league of imperialists to strangle fhe nations,” the general judgment of American capitalism found that the murderous coalition | PET Ea ARR RN AEE te i ee ROI A i BONS OE ORS AER AN et II OID Ae ERGY ES, SM LES 2 VOTE SETAE ME 2 LARISA SE SR © LOE TS RRA Sie I ERE SAS A DEY 5») PE MRE ee a te SONS SE See Sees S a prefered position as the natural lords of the world who did not even have to put their own signatures to it. The United States did not have to sign the treaty; its signature is understood; it is understood that the towering master of world-credit is “in” on any world conspiracy among its debtors, : Coolidge in.his message to congress even goes so far as to claim personal responsibility for the Locarno treaty, mentioning the fact that he had “pub- licly advocated such agreements in an address made in Massachusetts” last July. Coolidge called Locarno “the third step”—indicating that the whole policy of European imperialism has been gradudlly bent into form by the maneuvers and coercion of the United States government and the Morgan bank over the governments of Europe. The form now—after the financial bargains of Morgan & Co. have been safely completed—is satis- factory to the United States. (He omits to say that it is not a purely ‘American, but a _ British-American triumph.) But otherwise the presi- dent of the United States indicates under a thin concealment his claim that HE—little Coolidge!—has suc- ceeded in bringing about the subjec- tion of Europe to Brttisn-American imperialism, HE biggest of all the bullies of cap- italist imperialism—the creditor / plan did not yet pay sufficient toll to the Shylock of the world, and refused to sign. Then, when the terms were bettered fcr Shylock, the same im- perialist worid-plan was revised under the new name or the “World Court.” But still the terms for blood money were insufficient. For several years longer the dickering went on, Then, nation by nation, the powers of Eu- rope were humbled by their own threatening decay, Came a series of monster loans totaling hundreds of millions of gold dollars, France came running to Morgan and company. And England, and the British dominions of Australia and Canada, and Italy. Mor- gan bought nations cheap. Now the time had come. Coolidge takes responsibility for the Locarno treaty; and Coolidge says the United States will join the world court. A few days before his message to congress Coolidge gave the word that Morgan and company were ready. Mr. J, P. Morgan seldom gives interviews himself. But the little servant Coo- lidge told a meeting of the New York chamber of commerce that ‘now. the United States is ready to join the world court. This was the word from the house of J. P. Morgan & Co., and from the colossal heirarchy of finance capital whose monarch Morgan is.” UT the new Knight of the Garter —Sir” Austen Chamberlain—ap- pears as the diplomatic victor above all in this successful conspiracy, The British king knighted him with the Order of the Garter for his success. He deserves forty thousand British ladies’ garters for this triumph, and from the point of view of the British working class he deserves one “gar- ter” of hemp, for his pains. It is a bargain for Morgan, but it is an attempted guarantee for British imperialism against all of the terrors which threaten the quaking empire. It is an agreement for the complete na- tional enslavement of Germany—not only of the working class, but even on the petty-bourgeoisie of Germany. It is an arrangement to hold off the hungry militarists of France from dis- turbing Britain’s designs in Europe. It is a war agreement by which the cracking British empire is to be de- fended by a “united front” of all im- perialist powers. It means war against China, India, the native na- tionalists of Africa, Syria and Meso- potamia—and against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—a war in which British imperialism occupies the front trench and Wall Street- Washington imperialism becomes the supposedly inexhaustible reserve. ERMANY stood between two choices. Either to become the con- quered slave of the British-American plunderbund, or to reach out its hand to the only nation which could be its friend—the Soviet Union. Nothing but an orientation toward the Soviet Union could preserve the national in- dependence of Germany. The dastard- ly treason of the social-democratic party, of Germany immediately after the war consisted in preventing the alignment with the Soviet Union; it continued this role until the time came when the German bourgeoisie could rule Germany directly, and then the German capitalist class took the helm openly into its own hands. The German bourgeoisie at last was able to decide the choice (with the con- tinued help of the “socialists”) in favor of sellims the German nation in- to colonial slavery. By the Locarno “golden peace” the German workers pein! _— and also the German betty bourgeoisie become the slaves of British-Americafi finance capital, . . The German big bourgeoisie, from the poifit ‘of view of German national in- dependence, becomes the gilded prosti- tute of British-American imperialism, In exchange the Germua pourgeoisie receives a promise of military pro- tection from the wrath of the Ger- man working class and peasantry. pS if this treaty France at last sur- renders its claim as an inde- pendent nation and slinks with bowed head into the ranks of the subject na- tions of British-American imperialism, For France also there was no other choice but Russia. The slavery of the Frefch working class becomes inten- sified, and the Dawes plan becomes constitution of the French repub- ie, : ad all the orders of the garter and all the meving picture shows of the “golden peace” cannot conceal the ing class by this “triumph of Great Britain.” Not Great Britain, but the United States clambers to the top in the struggle for the world market. The prospect of a military free hand for-war against Africans and Asiatic | The mailed fist of Washington is ham- mering at every door in South Amer- fa. There dre no markets for Great Britain there! This is the private domain of American capital. Her own wars of conquest in the western hemisphere are being planned by the United States. War with Mexico is being prepared. Every effort or servile political leaders of Mexico “peaceful- ly” to sell their country to United States capital cannot remove the causes of friction. Strangely like the events in China, events in Mexico are bringing the Mexican working class into direct conflict with the big Gringo masters in New York. At this moment, proposed laws for the protection of Mexican workers against the most ex- treme degrees of exploitation are taken up as American political issues in the capitalist newspapers of the UVited States, Mexico, like all of South America, is considered as an- nexed territory of the United States. Coolidge’s message indicates the apprgach to conquest of China in the first stage by agreement with “the countries involved.” But another stage will be the open clash between the piratical imperialist “countries in- volved.” HEAD is the second world war, beginning on the basis laid by the “golden peace of Locarno.” A war involving every country on the globe, with millions of Americans,.Germans, British, French, Italians, Belgians, etc., fighting on the plains of Asia and Africa and being driven to the at- tempt at the conquest of Soviet Rus- sia—dying for the “golden peace of Locarno,” But it will be a war in which the true interests of the vast majority of the earth’s population— the workers and toiling farmers of all these countries and equally the one billion population of Asia and Africa— will be forced upon their conscious- ness. The transformation of the war between nations into the war between classes will come. The working class of the countries of Europe is being driven to learn the lesson, The American working class lags behind, but it, too, will learn. Even now the transformation shows some signs of beginning in the affairs of the labor unions. The problem in America is a primitive one, relatively. It is the problem of hastening the crystalization of the American work- ing class as a class. Even Japan sees the birth of a labor party. America will see it too, HE most precious privilege of ev- very honest and intelligent work- er in the United States is now to make himself or herself a part of the great revolutionary movement. The Com- munist International will be the or- ganizer and backbone of the resist- ance to this monster world-conspiracy. Obviously there can be but a single world-leadership, And equally obvious- ly the Communist International will be that leadership. Every worker who is strong enough to take his part in the front rank should endeavor to be within it. TOW is the time when scores of ; enslavement also of the British work-'1N minions of workers should be sét fito motion in England, Germany, France and the United Stategs-as they are in the Soviet Union—against tris “golden” Guarantee Pact of Brit- ih-American imperialism. The cry should be “Down with the peoples does not make British fac- Guarantee Pact!”"—“Long Live the - tories run, not quiet the temper of the British working class in unem- ployment and facing foreign wars. - ciety is falling into decay, and the morale of the working class is be- ing strengthened. We can’t forget that Mussolini couldn’t come to Lén- don. This and other small incidents show that there is real need for this monstrous advertising of the “golden peace.” Nor is the peace among the conspirators a. permanent thing, The discovery of British spies in stealing the secrets of French military air- planes (before the ink was dry on the “golden peace”) is not the only re- minder of the mutual plans for assas- sination on the part of the powers Cuarantee Pact between the workers ©’ the United States, Great Britain, Cormany, France and the Union of A Splendid Article on Communist Theory LENIN that have entered this supposedly |!In the Next Issue, December 19, “permanent” world conspiracy of Locarno, The emissaries of Chili ap- peared af the league of nations to de- clare furiously that the United States is making a single vast colony of the Saturday Magazine of the Daily Worker. | of Wall Street thruout South America. [)UIVUUIUNTITUUINIAITEATHNLINTELIHNEN