The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 6

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe atu S IPTION RATES | By mail (outside of Chicago)! | | | | By mall (In Chicago only): $8.00 per yea $4.50 six months $2.50 three months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six monthe $2.00 three months se ed Address ali mail and make out chee THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IH, —_————___ = AN ibe che. es 2: piste ahi J, LO WILLIAM F, DUNN MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager nber 2% 1923, at tho post-office at Chi er the act of March 3, 1879. Entered as second-class mai! cago, ILL, w —— Advertising rates on application, | Sea ee | Armistice Day Light years ago today the capitalist powers that were fighting | for civilization by proxy—the proxies being workers—decided to gag} their guns and park their gas bombs until some other worthy cause demanded their use. Several million men were killed and three times the number maimed, not to count the sorrow that came to millions of homes thru the loss of their nearest and dearest. The total loss in life and suffering brought about by the war cannot be computed. | It was a “glorious war” while it lasted and afterwards profit~) able for those. who pulled the strings. For those who did ‘the fighting | it meant toes pointed towards the skies, provided the toes could be| located, or for those who survived, tho wounded, a life-time in a! lonely hospital. And for those who came out of it with more or less sound bodies, needed sound feet to pound the bricks in search of masters. Of course, there were those who survived physically and economically. They are now officers in the American Legion and| , are going to Paris for a drunk on the occasion of the next legion | convention. . 5 | This is the day we do not telebrate. The capitalists do and} have reason to. The American capitalists because the war left them | sitting on the top of the world; the Buropean capitalists, because it | left them with a place to sit. THE DAILY WORKER Wo do not celebrate armistice day; we merely draw a lesson The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are combatting the encircling ring of capitalist imperialism by building a strong socialist industry in their owe + from it and we try to get this lesson to the working class thru Tur country and making it an outpost of the struggling workers of the world. { Daruy Worrnr. We ask the workers some pertinent questions: Those who had one experience fighting for “democracy” have had enough of it, we | feel sure, But a young generation is growing up that did not feel} the bite of a trench louse and did not hear the whistle of a shell! that might as well as not have a familiar name on it. Those workers | | may be easy prey for the recruiting sergeants who are after cannon } | fodder. It is those we address ourselves to in partieular. opens Sl entry into the league The late war grew two millionaires where there was only one“ 0f nations formally concludes the before. It cost the lives of 100,000 American lads, but it was worth | bran of can et aes eh it to the capitalists. The wounded—ask them what Mr. Forbes did |¥2° D’ve been aiming at opposing with the money that was intended to salve their misery! What did {states subservient to England thru tho | the war aecomplish? It fastened the yoke of British imperialism |agengy of the league of nations,‘ and around the necks. of millions of human beings in the undeveloped |of’a number of greater and lesser Lo- sections of the world, it sent the kaiser to Holland where he draws |°#?nes. But the British statesmen, as | i |is usual ‘with./bourgeois politicians, | a fat pay check from a grateful capitalist republie and dreams of | nevavtaia hele’ plans: Wiktiowt seekun | ;@ come-back. The queen of Roumania is having the time of her life| ing’ with the antagonisms existing | in America, being feted by our patriotic rich while almost every |among the capitalist states, and have | | day some paper or other tells of a war hero’s suicide, because he!not''taken into account the develop- | | could not get a job. France grabbed off another slice of northern peor seine ri op Na ; Africa and all of Syria and the Italian workers got Mussolini and ttthe éFistty wae really Geitiataa thie: murder. The rest of Europe, with few exceptions, got 4 reign of \the mysteries of the league of nations, | terror such as never shocked that portion of humanity that still jand made a knight of the “Order of | | has any humanity left. “We got.strike-breaking injunctions, pro-|the-Geneva Peace,” these processes of t MS VAR é development had already led to a posals to finger-print workers and criminal syndiealist laws, ic; lwbiateas obbdae Abithes coubleake aie \ It was a glorious vietory! It is true that we got the Russian tating in: Worope, and _ Chamberlain | Revolution out of it in spite of the efforts of the capftalist powers haa €very reason to refrain. from mak- | to-Pestore the robber system in that country. But the Russian work-|ing festive speeches, at the moment Lers and peasants paid déarly for their victory. Still, it did not | when Stresemana and Briand were p cost them as much in human life as fighting for the capitalists cost psaondad ‘<xprnesions } the rest of the world’s working class. The arovean Steel Trust, this first | Today our ruling elasses and their servants will tell you what economic expression of the political 2 glorious thing ‘it is to die for your country. But they take good PB apie pioneer pri Pg yeare that they live to honor the dead. You, sons ae danghters of tne demas << ees Pad | the working class, have noeinterest in fighting any war except the fiiwtsmsove in His oromade aladdch tp { class war. Turn a deaf ear to the pleadings of the bloody militarists British diplomacy against the Soviet {and make up your mind that the only war that is worthy of your | steel is the class war, whether you fight it on the industrial field, in election campaigns, or somewhere else. By S. YAVORSKY. of cordial | Union. Germany had already endeay-| ored to secure itself by means of a neutrality agreement wit® the Soviet Union, against the danger of serving as a cockpit in the case of an attack against the Soviet Union. And now Germany's foreign policy is to seek \in France a counter-weight against the {demands of England. British’ diplom- acy must now turn its attention to creating a united front against the So- viet Union hy means of a rapproche- ment not to Germany, but to France. | Franco-British Rapprochement, | all outward apearance conditions | appeat to favor British efforts In ‘ents direction, ‘The Poincare govern. ment, tho containing the “pacifists” Herriot and Briand, bears the sharp stamp of its aggressive leader, Dur jing the two years which have elapsed since the defeat of the national Di nothing thas occurred to changa the vattitude of the obstinate reactionary and convinced imperialist Potncare to- | Wards the Soviet Union, France has Jo tat, a more active foreign policy Changing Sweethearts FAREWELL DEAR LADY, We MAY MEET AGAIN Some pay / of late, and it has been inevitable that in leading circles in England there has | been a revival of plans for encircling |and strangling the Soviet Union with the aid of France. But can France take any tmportant position in the ranks of the bourgeois (etates against the Soviet Union? France and England are at logger , heads along the whole line af foreign | policy, and there is not a single spot | jin all tho world where these two! states have mutual interests, Ger | ‘many’s rapprochement to France, and \the impending combination of |coal with French ore, threaten the) prosperity and even the existence of | English heavy industry. In the Med- iterranean the aggressive anti-French | Policy of the Italian fascist! imitates \the endeavors of British diplomacy, | which is exerting no inconsiderable ef- tort for the firm establishment of the | [talo-Spani*h alliance, which 4s again | directed against France. In the South East of Burope, and in the Balkans, “ $ “ {the Soviet Union a bloc of capitalist | German | | British Imperialism Is Attempting to Build a Strangling Ring of Alli- ances Around the Soviet Union—Complications of Bourgeois Rival- ries Prevent United Imperialist Front—the Soviet Is Gaining Ground in the East—the U. S. S. R. Has Its Allies in Every Land: The Workers and Peasants of all Countries England is strugglingewith France for;ity and non-attack proposed by the the dominating position. France’s un-|government of the Soviet Union is derstanding with Turkey 1s a great ob-|quite candidly substantiated by the stacle in thesway of British plans in |statement that Poland does not care the Near Rast. stances it- is extremely doubtful | power might be at war with the So- whether France will w hersélf to {Viet Union. be drawn in the wake of. England’s! ‘The idea of a Baltic anti-Soviet bloc anti-Soviet plans,. unlegg she can see belongs equally to Poland and to Eng: | -The extraordinary negligence | some prospect of advantage to her- | land, self. Oe ces jShown by Finland, Esthonia, and Lat. France Steps® Lightly, ivia, who will not take part in nego- T is true, that between the Soviet |tiations with the soviet government on | Weatone and the Prench bourgeois the guarantee treaty, again shows that there still stand the questions of the ‘hese countries, tho forced to give cancelment of the evarist debts and of their formal consent to the conclusion the nationalization of, French capital-\0f the neutrality agreement, have ist undertakings in sia. In order |Still, in their negotiations with the So- to accelerate the sol m of these | Viet Union, not abandoned the idea of questions, the Poinc government joint action, that 1s, of a masked bloc can affond itself the Juxury of a tri- ,under the leadership of a belligerent fling swindle, and cat,” for instance, | Poland. support the doubtful. pretentions of | Sea to Sea Anti-Soviet Bloc. the Russian Asiatic fn the Hast /TYHERE is no doubt that danger China railway ques! But should it| > threatens the Soviet Union from attempt to carry on active policy this side, for even Finland, tho draw against the Soviet Uni 4t would find ing a ihe in words between hergelf itself entirely without the support of ang the aggressive border states, has not only the French peasantry and nevertheless taken part in the’ secret working people, but of the dour. | consultations held by these states at geoiste, for these have learned how |Geneva, Where the atmosphere of expensive wars are, even for the vic-|“love of peace” appears to have been tors. And the government itself wil! | favorable for the elaboration of plans scarcely risk “an adventure which |of military attack, would inevitably place France in an| It need not be sald that the Row even more dependent ition with re-|Manian government, which fears for spect to Anglo-. capital, the future of a Bessarabia occupied by force, and concluded’ an offensive and defensive agreement with Poland, Mussolint may be doing his best to ‘with Brit march shoulder to ish diplomacy, guaranteeing to both states their ent acumen to present frontiers, is quite ready to par |Japanese imperialism. the task of chin tietpate in any combination directed |received from the Far East shows us | out of the Russian | against the Soylet Unton, The pro-|that among the conditions imposed by fit ot England: Fa 1S nen eee to gain some colon! ra . tha aid ot | Resolutions of the I. L. D. Conference Greetings to Imprisoned Class War Prisoners, Jibs Second Annual Conference of International Labor Defense sends the warmest greetings of fraternal solidarity to the scores of class war fighters now languishing tn the pris- ons of American capitali The conrage and fortitude of these prisoners of capitalism whose sole crime consisted in unflinching devo- tion to the cause of labor, commands the respect and admiration of s workers, Their long years of ‘ng and imprisonment f#'n ringing call to tho entire Inbor movement for the organization and action necovsary to ‘elng freedoan to their Incarcerated brothers, ae Second Annual Conterence/ of International Labor Defense again pledges the entire resources and en- ergy, of its organization to carry on the struggle in ‘the’ tnterests of all class war prisoners, irrespective of their affiliations or opinions, last of them has been liberated and \s free once more to enter the ranks lomats at create a states “ sen to sen” against the Soviet Unioh, The main axis of th! combination is Poland, where the of the Kiev campaign, sudski, holds complete sway since May upheaval, The present Poland do not even try to their intentions with regan td’ the Soviet Union, and a series of quite openly unfriendly acts reveal their per- fect readiness to serve the plans of | of the labor movement pate English imperialism, which coincid actively in ite work, “npon for the most part with the alms of| the workers of America thetr Polish imperialism, Poland's refusal | strength in this sacred du: im- to conclude the agreement of neatral-|prisoned brothers and te to ’ Under these circum-|to have her hands tied, since a third | |dect»of- the anti-Soviet bloc of the istates lying on the western boundary |ofithe Soviet Union will thus be real- ized in some way or another, | It must, however, be observed that the Baltic states, altho they have come to an understanding with Po- land ‘behind the scenes,, still do not venture to take up a position openly hostile to the Soviet Union, fearing , internal complications. Besides this, certain of these states, Latvia, for in- stance, have not yet settled their con. | flict# with Poland, Poland stil} has her eye on the southern part of the ‘Latvian territory, Latvian Gallen, Fin- land Obviously fears to be drawn into afraid of being swallowed wholesale jby Polish imperialism, 1s quite openly opposing the Anglo-Polish plans with regard’to the Soviet Union, Imperialist Tools In China. 4 Ra! ranks of the states ready to join in encircling the Sovtet Union have lately been swelled by a new ally, Marshall Chang-Tso-Lin, ruler of Manchuria, The hostile action taken againgt the Soviet Union by Chang- Tso-Lin, and the part he has played in bringing about provocative incidents on the East China railway, give every reason to regard the activities of the Japanese diplomatists and Japanese militarists with ever greater mistrust, The present situation in China, and England's peristent desire to put an end to the Chinese national movement by force, form a favorable ground for an understanding between British and Information them their freedom with the ald of the powerful solidarity of labor. eee Resolution on Latin-America. fina Jabor movements of Cuba, Cen- tral and South America and the Philippines are suffering from bitter persecution, direct or indirect, by Wall Street and the Washington gov- ernment. ‘ The International Labor Defense takes coghizanco of the fact that the struggle of the Latin American work- ers against imperialist exploitation ts by ity very, nature joined in the strug- gle of the workers of the United until the | Latin America States against the self-same exploit- {Oe hafling the-release of Jose Range! Charles Cline and their comrades as |@ victory for lahor of both the United | States and Mexico, pledges a continu- ance of its efforts to bring relief and |releage to the persecuted workers of and the Philippines, to devote a part of its propaganda and activity to these victims of capitalist | fmperialism, to ald their defense or- sanizations wher they are formed, and to avsist them morally and ma- ferlally where no defense organiza ons exist to the extent of our ability, }the’ Polish adventure, and Lithuania, ; The Soviet Union and the Imperialists Japan in return for her participation in an intervention, there is the very important one of trading facilities for Japan in Manchuria and in outer Mon- golia, This indicates her open inten- tion to enter into conflict with the So. viet Union at a suitable moment, and that she will not shrink from a re- |course to arms. The Far Eastern sec- \tor of the offensive of the imperialist Powers must be regarded at the pres. ent time as one of the most dangerous, Eastern Conflicts, Bur even here the mutual antagon- isms among the imperialist pow- ,ers do not permit them to come to an | understanding, even on tha common ground of enmity to the Soviet Union. Japan demands from England, as the |price of her partictpation in the Chi- |nese ifitervention and in an offensive \4gainst the Soviet Union, thet Eng- jJand shall abandon the fortification of \the Singapore naval base, and share out her sphere of influence in Central China, But England’s motfve tor the naval base at Singapore is precisely the prospect of a war with Japan, and to let the Japanese into the Yangtse- | Klang valley would mean, to drive out the devil with Beelzezub. And beside all this, neither England |nor Japan can come forward openly |until they have secured the agreement |of their most dangerous opponent, the | United States of America. The Amer- {ean policy of the “open door” pur- sues, however, the direct aim of sup planting English and Japanese compe- tition in the Chinese markets. America has little reason to strengthen Eng- land’s position in China, and she notes with equal distrust Japan’s intention of getting the whole of Manchuria into her hands. (Continued Tomorrow) Get Your Copy! * soil | hip. (ENE dust Off the Press! - ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION By A. BERDNIKOV and F, SVETLOF. Under the general editorial direction of N. BUCHARIN, z With notes on the A merican edition by ALEXANDER BITTELMAN, A COMPLETE COURSE in the form of questions and an- swers; simply stated in briet paragraphs. Ideal for self-study and class use, $1.00 Durofiex Covers $1,560 Cloth Bound 4 DAILY WORKER PUB. Co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, tt. rae as ee A ER Ne