The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1927, Page 5

Tue New MacaZine Section of The DAILY WORKER SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927 | EDITOR’S NOTES Vitter BY ALEX GITTELMAN 2 EFINITELY and openly William Green and Matthew Woll have been doing “their best at the Fifth Congress of the Pan- American Federation of Labor | to whitewash the brigandage and murder by American imperial- ism in Nicaragua. They exerted all their efforts to prevent the congress from speaking out . plainly and energetically in con- demnation of the Nicaraguan killings and of the American government responsible for it. In this the Green-Woll combination succeeded largely but not fully. The congress did go on record, despite Green and Woll, protesting against the murder and demanding the withdrawal of American military forees from Nicaragua. “The militant delegates from Nicaragua and Vene- zuela, whose courageous efforts were respon- sible for forcing the congress into action, were also instrumental in opening up a discussion on the so-called Monroe Doctrine, attacking it for what it is—an instrument of American imperialism to subju- gate and oppress the peoples of Latin-America, But Green and Woll, who had been humiliated on the previous issues, succeeded in taking their re- venge after all by attacking the Communists and the militants-generally, thus attempting to placate their masters—the imperialists of the United States ~—who were naturally greatly displeased with the coyrse of the congress in the beginning of its de- liberations. It was exceedingly beneficial to the la- bor movement in the Americas that the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan delegates succeeded in bringing forth the issue of struggle against American im- perialism in Latin-America, forcing Morones, of the Mexican Federation of Labor, to come along part of the way and defeating the efforts of Green and Woll to keep the whole matter out of the congress. The deliberations and actions of this congres, though inadequate and indecisive, will yet prove of inestimable value if as a result of what happened in Washington, D. C., a real anti-imperialist move- ment comes forth uniting the labor movement of Latin-America for genuine struggle against the domination of the imperialists of the United States, * * * The Nicaraguan outrages happened in an “un- lucky” -hour, as one of the capitalist papers had put it. It was “unlucky” for Coolidge for this to have happened almost on the eve of presidential elec- tions when he is already confronting formidable sen- timent against the imperialist policies of his ad- ministration. And it was also “unlucky” for Wil- liam Green to have “this thing” happen just at the opeing of the Congress of the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor. The New York Times puts it this way:, “One of the unlucky aspects of the whole business is that the Pan-American Federation of Labor was meeting in Washington at the very time when these bloody occurrences were reported in Nicaragua. Violent speeches were naturally made by some of the Latin-American delegates, and a resolution of protest was to be drafted and sent to the state department.” One can sensd in these words of the spokesman of Wall Street an effort to apologize for William Green’s failure to keep the congress completely in check, Green and Woll will undoubtedly be exon- erated by their masters in the imperialist camp, particularly those who are inclined towards the demoeratie party, like the Times, and who are not averse to the idea of hurting the political fortunes of the Coolidge administration just a little bit. But (Continued on Page Two) This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. The New War A FEW months ago comrade Bukarin pointed out that the Soviet Union was, owing to various cir- cumstances quite independent cf our will, approach- ing difficult times. Since then I have stressed this fact in various speeches and pointed out that despite all our efforts, despite our determined peace policy, cur enemies wished to forced us into war. Recent “events have completely corroborated the analysis of comrade Bukharin. A few weeks after Bukharin’s speech, we r€ccived the Chamberlain Note, and then folowed the events which are now well-known. Our country*is approaching a new period of difficulties, and it is our duty to prepare ourselves in all seriousness for the trials which are facing us. One can still meet the opinion that we will be successful in our manoeuvring and be able to avoid a collison with the enemy. This opinion is to a certain extent justified, but it does not represent the whole truth. The whole truth is that we are now approaching a period of history in which our class enemies will inevitably force us into war. What has been our international situation up to the present? The majority of countries trades with us, the majority of countries recognizes us, but at the same time the capitalist world tells us through the lips of individual politicians, through the speeches of the representatives of the most reac- tionary section of the bourgeoisie, that it regards the existence of the Soviet Union as a temporary phenomenon which must be brought to an end. The bourgeoisie of the whole world is united in the fond hope that we will one day be destroyed. Not only Great Britain, but the whole capitalist world is of the opinion that we, that is, our state which has a new structure, who are building up socialism have no right to exist and must disappear from the stage. We have been in this situation now for ten years, since the commencement of the Soviet Power, Tem- porarily the situation relaxed, sometimes it was in- tensified. Now we are faced with a severe inten- sification. In face of this, can we expect a new period in which the hostility of the capitalist world towards us will relax? I believe that the answer to this question is ‘in the negative. It was no accident that in the British House of Commons the representatives of the whole bour- geoisie supported the proposal of the conservatives to break off diplomatic relations with us, although the British bourgeoisie as a whole is by no means interested in a breach of the diplomatic and eco- nomic relations with us. And because the whole bourgeoisie nevertheless supported the*breach, then that proves that we have no right to expect a new spring of friendly and neighborly relations with the outside world, but that, on the contrary, we must prepare ourselves for the worst. The comparatively C. M. BUDENNY Organizer and commander of the Red Cavalry. vf y, ALEX BITTELMAN, Editor Danger Facing By G. VOROSHILOV (Minister Of Defense Of the Soviet Union) peaceful period of our existence has, without a doubt, passed, The British bourgeoisie has played and will con- tinue to play the first fiddle in the attack against us. It broke off relations with us in order to give itself a free hand. The British government is doing its utmost to feree us into war. The raid upon our VOROSHILOV Together with Budenny he organized the first Red cavalry troops, which mashed the attacks of Yu- denitch, Wrangel and the Polih Invasion. embassy in Peking, which was carried out under the instructions of British governmental circles, «was intended to do this. The British capitalists thought that we would answer the insults and maltreatment heaped upon the employes of our institutions in China with active reprisals. They thought above all, that we would undertake armed action against Charg Tso-lin, who was-directly responsible for the raid upon our Peking embassy. The British capitalists wanted to kill three birds with one stone: By pro- voking us into war in the East, they hoped us to compromise us in the eyes of the Chineso toilers, they hoped also for an econmic weakenihg of our country in consequence of the war and finally a weakening of the defense of our western frontier which would have made it easier for them to urge our neighbors agairist the Ukraine and White F tussia, But our government realized these not over-intelli- gent plans of the British capitalists in time. We did not permit ourselves to be provoked. In a diffi- cult moment we retained our coolness and level- headedness. Following upon the failure of the raid upon our representation in Peking, came the raid upon our Trade Delegation and Arcos in London. The aim of this raid was to discover documents which might have compromised our employes and been used as material to accuse us of anti-British propaganda, No such documents were found, and the British gov- ernment was compelled to declare that sufficient grounds were present for a breach with us without offering any concrete proofs. The following acts of the British bourgeoisie are known to everyone. They are laid down both in the note of Litvinoy to Poland and in the statements of our government published in the press. We accuse the British bourgeoisie very definitely not merely of bearing the responsibility for the organization of the murder of Voikoff in Warsaw, but also that the Britsh secret service organizes and supports in- cendiaries, bandits and murderers inside our coun- try. The published statements of our government contained only a part of the proofs which are at our disposal. But this part is sufficient in order to show the increased activity of our enemies who are openly led by British official organs, We have arrested British spies very often before, we have however, never made any great stir about it. We knew very well that the proletarian world and the (Continued on Page Four)