The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1927, Page 10

W & Young Comrade section " @ @ LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 2 is WE THE CHILDREN OF THE WORKERS DO NOT THINK THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON IS OUR HERO LIKE LENIN, LIEBKNECHT, AND DEBS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THE WORKING CLASS, Well! Well! This week we received quite a few correct answers. Here are the names of those who were right: Blanche Auerbach, N. Y. C. Julius Bravin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Morris Rosenblatt, N. Y. C. Abraham Israelite, Brooklyn, N. Y. Harry Eisman, N. Y. C. David Israelite, Brooklyn, N. Y. S. Skamaliusky, Brooklyn, N. Y. Esther Gershon, N. Y. C. Joseph Goldberg, Brooklyn, N. Y. Reuben Wolk, N. Y. C. Elianora Ivanoff, all the way from Post Falls, Ida., answered puzzle No. 1 correctly, Better late than never, isn’t it? The best answer to the Picture Puzzle was given by Esther Gershon who said “China is telling- America and Great Britain to GET OUT!” Only one other comrade, Reuben Wolk, answered correct- ty. Try this weck’s Picture Puzzle, it’s great fun. THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 3. Try and solve this puzzle. The answer is a word in six letters meaning to fight against the bosses by stopping work. My first letter is in SOME but not in MANY My second is in CENT but not in PENNY, My third is in RUN but not in WALK, My fourth is in SING but not in TALK, My fifth is in KILL but not in DIE, * + My sixth is in EAR and also in EYE. Together, I’m something that workers use Against bosses, to get better wages, conditions, and less abuse. Send all aswers to the Pioneer Editorial Com- mittee, care of the Young Comrade Section, 33 E. tst_St., New York Gity, giving your name, age, address, and the number of the puzzle. Tew we mee we After the Imperial Conference (Continued from page 4) avoiding a sharp break. In practice Canada is al- ready half outside the empire, but the position awaits a crisis to be brought out. In South Africa, on the other hand, where British influence has been financially strong, but lacking any broad basis, being linked up with the Rand financial oligarchy against both the Boer farmers and the colored four-fifths of the population, a change in the situation has brought an actual in- crease in imperialist influence. The Boer national- ists, represented by Herzog, have closed ranks with the British. This undoubtedly reflects the growing agitation and organization of the colored majority, which has manifested itself in many ways during the past two years (notably during the Prince of Wales’ visit, and in the protest against the Bloemenfotein massacre), and resulted in a steady weakening of the old intransigent republican policy of the national- ists. This process reached its. culmination at the imperial conference; Herzog publicly ate his words amid the jubilation of the imperialists at the one positive success of the conference: the whites closed ranks, and a fusion of parties may follow. Here the “unity” is simply the counter-revolutionary unity of the white exploiters against the colored 80 per ‘cent of the population, who will inevitably carry forward the fight for independence to victory. Finally in Australia and New Zealand, British _eonnections -and financial control are still close and strong; the American invasion has only just begun; and the anti-Asiatic policy involves strategical de- pendence on the British navy. This is reflected in _the close present alliance of Britain and Australia, vas shown in the role of Bruce at the conference, .and in the scale of armaments contributions. But Aus- . tralia has developed a strong independent bourgeoisie “(as Bruce pointed out, over half the total Australian debt is now held in Australia), and is becoming a principal battleground of British and American in- fluence. This has been vividly shown in Bruce's visit to America and Coolidge immediately after the imperial conference, in the playing off of Wall Street against the City of London as a source of new capital, in the rapid American commercial invasion. and in ‘the visits of the Ameriean navy as the sign of the new protection. With the transference of the centre of world politics to the pacific and the weakening ef London as a financial centre, Australian orienta. tion inevituble turns increasingly to the United Do You Believe Her? Do you believe your teacher when, She says that Soviet Russia is a terrible place? She says that all children should belong to the Boy and Girl Scouts? She says that strikers are lazy people? Don’t believe her, for it’s all a FAIRY TALE. — ALL. CHILDREN will be just as pleased to receive The Young Comrade It’s only 50 cents for a wholé year? Fill in this blank and send it to: Pioneer Editorial Committee, Care of Young Comrade Section, 33 E. First Street, New York City. Here is Fifty Cents for the Young Comrade. Name States. Summing up the situation, the “unity” which has been “saved” at the imperial conference represents an unstable equilibrium in which the total of forces is steadily accumulating against British hegemony but in which the various upper-bourgeois elements of the different states hang together, partly on the basis of definite common interests, partly for fear of the consequences of disruption. Only a crisis will show fully the actual array of forces. The policy of the British bourgeoisie in the face of this situation is to endeavor to carry through 1 far reaching process of empire development or re- irganization on the lines of the propaganda of Mond and others for the development of the empire as a “single economie unit.” This conception runs like a single thread through the whole home, foreign and financial policy of the British bourgeoisie in the present period. Such a policy, however, can no longer be conducted on the old conception ofthe development of Britain as the industrial centre of a predominantly raw-materials-producing empire. It has, on the contrary, to build on the new fact of the industrial development of the dominions, and to endeavor to build up the new economic structure of the empire on th ebasis of the transference of in- dustrial development under British financial con- trol to the dominions and India, leaving Britain to more highly specialized, secondary and luxury in- dustries. If this process can be developed on a large seale, then the “mass migration” of the un- employed in Britain to fidustrial employment in the dominions, still bringing profit to their masters, becomes possible, and a new basis would be reached. But this process requires a series of years of undis- turbed- development, and during this period a large scale financing from London, such as can only be achieved by extracting enlarged profits from the declining British industry, that is, by driving down the British workers. These factors give the key to conservative policy in the present period. Will the British bourgeoisie be likely to be able to succeed in this new line of policy of empire develop- ment? The answer to this question lies in the whole character of the existing British and world situation. The policy of empire development comes into con- flict with the central contradiction that it depends on the enlarged financial and capital-exporting power of Britain, just when that financial and capi- tal-exporting power is declining. This decline in- evitably continues with the home industrial decline, which cannot be solved within capitalist conditions. The attempt to raise enlarged profits out of the de- lining industry involves wholesale attacks on the workers, intensified class struggle and the revolu- tionizing of the British workers. At the same time e — —— rte nasteatentesiier esilinasenns . THE LITTLE GREY DOG (Continued) In one of the Negro huts arrived the little grey dog who ‘had been born in the splendid stable, and this is how it happened, Once when the rich man walked through the stable, he noticed the little grey dog who was playing in the straw. He examined the little dog, and said angrily te the coachman, “What is this ugly littl creature deving here in my beautiful stable? Take it out, drown it in the river.” The coachman promised to do this; indeed he pitied the’ lively little animal, but the master was strict and he did not dare to disobey the eommand, He called the little dog, who came running joy- ously, and started toward the river. As he came near the homes of the slaves, a I'ttle black boy ran out of one of the huts and cried, “O, the lovely little animal! Where are you taking it?” And he ran quite close to them and patted the dog, who mischiev- ously jumped at him, barking. (To Be Continued) THE WORKERS’ FLAG By HENRY SOMPOLINSKY. There is a flag of red hue, The bravest'flag that flieth Whose folds wave o’er hearts full-true As no worker can deny it. Here’s to the workers—-their cause so dear, Here’s to the soil that carries it! Here’s to the hearts so far or near, That love the flag of the Soviet! Workers! Your red banner fling! . For the cause beneath its folds Your anthem loudly sing Beneath the flag, the red flag, The brave flag that we love. Workers! Workers! We stand to do or die, Beneath the flag, the red flag That waves for victory nigh. Some Rooster! HELEN PENTALLER The capitalists had a rooster, They put it on the fence, The rooster crowed for the workers, Beeause it had some sense, LLL LLL LE Ne et te the independent colonial bourgecisie, untrammelled by these complications, develop more rapidly than they ean be controlled by Britain finance. Finally the seat of world economic and financial power rests with the United States, which has all the ad- vantages in these respects and is effectively en- deavoring to take over into its own hands the de- velopment of the British empire in the new period. Frem this situation a host of crisis and conflicts may arise; but what is certain is that Brtiai capi- talism has no longer the power to carry out the de- velopment of the empire under its control, and the attempt to do so. will only hasten the development of the revolution in Britain, Nevertheless this policy necessarily remains the grand obpective ef the British bourgeoisie, and im- perialist propaganda will play a‘large and increas- ing part in the years immediately in front. not only fro nithe side of the bourgeoisie directly, but within the labor movement. The imperialist penetration of the upper strata of the labor party, both right and so-called “left” (the Clyde and Lansbury groups) is developing with increasing momentum—witness the “Forward” campaigns for empire development in susport of Garvin, Beldwin, ete.; the growth of the “British Commonwealth Group” in the partia- mentary labor party to a maiority of the member- ship; the foundation of the “London Weekly” as a “non-party” empire weekly under the enditorship of a, prominent Jabor member, Haden Guest, with the cogperation of Amery, conservative colonial sec- retary, and similar signs of abundance. This de- velopment is inevitable. Reforism, bankrupt at home through the economic decline, turns inereasingly to the propaganda of emnire illusions ag the sole alter- native to revolution. The propaganda of imperialism goes hand in hand with the propaganda of class peace. Tn consequence in the comme period it is neces- sary in Britain to rédéuble our anti-imnerialist pro- paganda, to show the hopeless and illusory char- acter for the British workers of the schemes of empire develorment, to show the meaning of the development of Britain as a parasitic centre, to show the connection of imperialism and the attack on hours and wages, to show the connection of imperial- ism with armaments and the next war, and in con- sequence to show the unity of interests of the white and colored workers and peasants in the empire against the British and dominions’ bourgeoisie and in unity with the international working class, and to show the line of development of Britain, not as the decaying centre of the empire, but alone the line of the socialist revolution as part of the United States of socialist Europe’ and so as an integra! healthy part of world socialist economy.