The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1927, Page 6

en Page six Communist on the International Situation % (Resolution passed by the Joint Plenum of the C. C. and the C. C. C., after hearing Comrade Bukharin's 7.) report of the 9th August, 19 I. The International Situation and the Soviet Union. 1. The present international situa- tion is mainly characterized by the extreme tension in the relations be- tween imperialist Great Britain and the proletarian Soviet Union on the ene hand, and the military interven- tion of imperialism in China on the other. The danger of a counter-rev- olutionary war on the Soviet Union is the acutest question of the present period, The sharpening of antagon- ism to the Soviet Union, and its cap- italist encirclement, are the main ten- dencies of the present period, though this does not, of course, exclude ‘the possibility of this or that epoch of a certain improvement in conditions on this or that fighting front. 2. This aggravation of antagonis in the fact of the strength- ening talism+-both in the pure- ly economic sphere and_in the sphere of polities—in Europe, where it had been greatly shaken by the war, and in Japan and the United § and in the simultaneous increasing success of revolution constructive social- ism in the Soviet Union, the develop- ment of the people’s revolution in China, the wide-spread ferment among the colonial peoples, and the notice- able swing to the Left among the proletarian masses of Europe. (Events in Great B Day in Germany, Vienna, etc.) This process of the consolidation of | capitalism, developing amid the gen- eral disorganization of the post-war period, causes continually fresh and increasi ute antagonisms with- in the capitalist system itself, and thereby intensifies all imperialist tendencies to the utmost. Therefore the so-called “Russian” and “Chinese” i are the acutest political for international ‘imperial- European imperialism, in the midst of its stabilization, is concerned with these questions from two view- points: From the viewpoint of eco- nomic expansion (markets, capital in- vestments, sources of raw materials), | and from the viewpoint of preventive ! war against revolution. ‘ * 3. The economic stabilization of European capitalism is being accom- panied at the present time by its rad- ical reconstruction (rapid growth of he trusts and other combines, techni- organization of production by of new machinery, new metals, in part new raw materials, introduc- 1 of the conveyor, etc.). At the » time a remarkable adjustment of industry to war may be observed, whereby the chemical industry is com ing more and more to the front to-! gether with the metal industry. The extensive investments of capital as foundation capital causes a great in- crease in the productive capacity of | the industrial apparatus, and the home markets being entirely inadequate, *he question of foreign markets and oreign spheres of investment becomes lore and more acute. Precisely for WANTS TO RULE Pierre du Pont has made his fort Gary. . | consoli ritain, Red Front Fighters’ | International th Union and China is of extreme ¢ nomic importance for the impe ists. : While! European capitalism (espe- cially French and German) is rapidly increasing its productiv f the whole, British impe boring under a chronic dey spite the frantic efforts at stabiliza- tion being made in the country itself. Faced with the necessity of compet- ing with the Continent of Europe and with the United States of America, and threatened by the colonial move- ments in the East, British imperi ism naturaHy ,becomes the leader of }the reactionary impe 4. The economic. stabiliz which is unfolding ‘its profound i ternal contradictions and intensi. ing the cl ruggle (Great Britain, Austria, etc.) is accompanied by the simultaneous political consolidation of the bour; The series of F cist upheava the formation of t bourgeois bloc” in Ge a |consolidation, the firm {ment of the reactionary gov |in France, the rule of the “d tives in Great Bri tion of the ruling clas |Poland, the present collapse {coalition governments in Europe, are |all factors which promote the ager |sive policy towards the Soviet Union. for they inc¥ease the b: of the eco- {nomic and general cl antagonisms between the Soviet Union and the im- |perialist powers encircling it, 5, The change in the relations be- {tween the State of the proletariat and imperialism has been promoted to a great extent by the growth of the -hard” its state power, its education and or- ganization of the broad masses of the workers, and its international revolu- tionary importance. The system of socialist foreign trade monopoly, pro- testing the interests of the .Soviet Union as exporter, securing the {growth of socialist production, and preventing the Soviet Union from be- jing transformed into an agrarian ap- pendage supplementing the economic “hinterland” of world capitalism; the policy of the industrialization of the country, pursued on the same lines; the collapse of the hopes set on the internal degeneration of the econom- ics and political superstructure of the Soviet Union; the collapse of the il- lusions of the imperialists with re- spect to the so-called “peaceful pene- tration” of imperialism into every pore of our economics; and finally, the mighty revolutionary influence of the Soviet Union (China, Great Brit- ain)—all these are highly important facts which have called forth, and continue to call forth, a growing ag- gressiveness on the part of counter- revolutionary imperialism. | (fo Be Continued.) Editor Killed in Auto. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 5.—Gerald |F. Doyle, -dramatic editor of the Evening Appeal here, died today from {injuries received late last night ‘in {an auto accident. MORE WORKERS | une several times over in powder. Now he has also become a figure in the steel and auto industries. He is being mentioned as a successor to the late industrial tyrant, 7 Soviet Union itself, by its economy, | ~ | Cw SC | Uniformed police and “ and Vanzetti thruout the country THE DAILY WORKER, wy NEW YORK, TUE DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1927 GUARDIANS OF LAW AND ORDER zr? in plainclothes infested every protest demonstration held for Sacco On most occasions they were fortified by machine guns, armored motorcycles, gas and tear bombs, and clubs. War Danger |of the Communist Party of France (Continued From Last issue) and the Communist Youth of France ieis the Ninth Installment. of | ing ways in Morocco and | the Theses on the war danger adopted | Syria, and finally the rich experience at the Plenum of the Executive Com- | of the Y. C. I. The utilization of this | mittee of the Communist International | Tich »experience in the present war on May 29, 1927. It gives the official |#g2inst China constitutes the most | Communist viewpoint on this impor- elementary duty of all Sections of | tapt-question. | the ©. I. : |The Slogai of “National Militia” and | Partial Military Demands, 33, Recently a number of Commu- ,nist Parties have been substituting ‘the old democratic slogans of “Na- | The following are the deductions | tional hee by the eee of “Toil- fs for the Communist Parties: evs” Militia” (a militia of workers and | A. In the imperialist war, par ex-| peasants) or the slogan of arming the ~ | cellence, against’ China or the Soviet; proletariat. Is this correct? Has 4 Union (in perspective), the workers the slogan of a National Militia be- jin the capitalist countries, engaged |come obsolete? We know that Lenin gc\ | in-that war should be for the defeat | already in April 1917 in an article en- of their, own capitalist government | titled “The Proletarian Militia” sup- just as in every imperialist war. | ported the old slogan of “universal B. If in an ordinary imperialist; arming of the people” for the Russia | war between two capitalist countries; of that day. ~ workers must declare themselves in! | favor, of the defeat of their gover | ments, in the imperialist and counter- * revolutionary wars, par excellence, ay ‘ Psy | baoainet thes Chinese Revolunen: (abl Revolutionaries, “the universal arm- _ = seis F ing of the people” was a counter-slo- yaa St dye ate ae ee to the imperialist army at>the { tory of the workers of China and the front and-had a two-fold meaning: Soviet Union. | (a) As a guarantee against a pos- ©. The fraternization slogan ad-|Sible military counter-revolution. vanced by the Bolshevil to the (b) ‘As a slogan directed against i | soldiers. during the imperialist war! the imperialist war. ‘The bourgeois holds good iso now as one of the | democratic revolution in Russia was ‘most impertant slogans of anti-mili- | then developing into a Socialist Revo- tarist work among the soldiers and! lution. : Against the (Continuation) qe 81. Consequently the possibilities | for fighting against war at the pres- , ent time are very much greater than they were in 1914—-1918. - \ | In that period, in April, when the imasses of the; soldiers. supported the Mensheviks and mainly the Socialist ° eo) Qa 4 sailors of thé imperialist armies and; 34, What has changed since? fleets. But preserving its signifi-| stly, in a number of. European | cance primarily in a war between tWo | coun (Austria, Hungary, Ger- imperialist States, this slogan in the | many). the period of bourgeois revo- ; war of the imperialists against revo- jutions has closed as it was closed lutionary China (Wuhan today) and|long ago in the overwhelming ma- ‘the Soviet Union must be linked UP | jority .of countries in Europe and Every day young workers of free America are reminded of their status in this country under the capitalist system when they are accosted with this insulting question: “Want to join the navy, marines or army?” Cannon Fodder. This question indicates that the bosses of U. S. A. think young work- ers are only good for military serv, ice, to be used*as cannon fodder in the protection of their investments at home and abroad. At the present time, the government is utilizing every bit of possible propaganda to carry out a policy of treachery and death to the young workers. The government is promoting a gigantic campaign for the militarization of working class youth. The navy department and the war department have issued orders to all commanding officers of the navy, army and marine corps to pick out the “best men” for recruiting serv- ice. What does this “best men” mean? It means the best known} “bull thrower.” The heads of mili-} tary service realize the necessity of | sending professional “bull throwers” | on recruiting duty. | Body Snatching. | The men appointed for geeruiting | |duty hate this particular duty—.of | recruiting or “body snatching” as it | is called in the service; but even con- | sidering their hatred for this kind of | work they take advantage of this! opportunity to get away from the | stern military discipline that goes on) |ayound the army barracks and aboard | ships. These men who go ont on re-j| cruiting duty hate the military serv- ice; they dislike the idea of being used as bait to entice other poor working class victims. The only reason that sailors, soldiers and ma- rines go on recruiting duty is to es- cape the regular military surround- ings; to try out their ability as a body snatcher salesman which offers \a little variety fromeregular mili- |tary duty and because they enjoy better food and living conditions on recruiting duty, and must accept re- cruiting duty as part of their regular military duty. Outside of these rea- | sons, I have yet to see the man who | goes on recruiting whole-heartedly. | Militarism and Misery. The recruiting campaign is going full force now. They find it easy to | get disillisioned young workers. |Throughout the whole nation, the young worker finds bad conditions, | unemployment, slack work, low money, bad conditions at home re* sulting mostly from poverty; all of | these things make the task of the recruiting officer easier. Militarism breeds in this misery of the workers, especially at this time when young workers are unorganized. No Freedom to Bosses’ Soldiers. The military service doesn’t. want to enlist anybody who thinks in terms {of concrete facts. To enlist anybody who wants facts would be dangerous to the army, navy and marine di cipline. For instance; a fellow join- |ing the service who really believes |that in this country thereyis justice, | equality and rights and that wherever | the flag of the U. S. goes—justice | reigns. Now this fellow is in service and begins to analyze things. First, he finds in a military branch in sup- port of a government that has a con- stitution guaranteeing life, liberty and happiness to all of fts people, that as a military fighter of his country, The U.S. Government Recruits | More Cannon Fodder | things, Secondly, that as a fighter for his country that has a statue of liberty at its gates, and a fighter for the traditions of the American flag which is supposed to guarantee free- dom and safety he finds that wher-| ever the American flag goes; it is to carry on a system of military oppres- | sion against. weaker nations, forcing,| them to comply. with the demands of the American bankers who are car- rying on a system of economic inva- sion. Or he must fight another cap- italist nation that threatens to offer | severe commercial competition, fore- ing “our American bankers” to lose some of their ‘profits or to fight against the Worker’ Soviet Republic which threatens the interest of the | bosses by asking the workers of the | whole world to unite and fight against the bosses. Brutalizes Workers. _ The present capitalist government realizes that it cannot allow the work- ing class youth who enter military service any liberty and must in every ease exercise a striet military discip- line to keep the men in subjection. | To allow an enlisted man to feel like a human being and to have the rights of a human being would make it} almost impossible for the government | and the bosses to carry on their sys- | tem of plunder in thé West Indies, | Mexico, Nicaragua, South America, Hawaii, Philippines, China, Porto/ Rica, Guam, Virgin Islands, and parts | of Europe. ‘ | Recruiting Signs Lie. | The recruiting signs are made to allure; most of them are gross lies and lack facts. While some of the signs are actual scenes that have no| bearing on conditions that prevail in the navy particularly. | Transport A Horror. | One poster shows the U. S. army transport Cambria setting sail from | Brooklyn headed for sunny China. bai could say a word about this transport | trip from New York to Shanghai, how the officers and their wives and a bunch of politicians sit around in straw chairs, live in political state- rooms, have music and dances, large dining reoms, and sailors to wait on them. While down in the second and third decks below are a couple of thousand soldiers, sailors and ma- rines, living worse than dogs, almost on top of each other, lying around on deck, on hatchways, in firerooms, galleys, gangways, scupper ways— everywhere. \s On a long trip they are forced to stand up and eat their food. Men stand in line to pass the cooks, loca- ted in the galley. By the time they get through eating breakfast, little time elapses and they stand-in line for dinner.and so on. Men come up on deck, squatting down to eat in the seupper ways (gutter). There is an insufficient supply of fresh water on board. Men go about without wash- ing for days. Wash room space con- ditions are terrible, small, unfit, and no accommodations for a human be- ing. The upper decks where the of- ficers- and women are, have plenty showers and ideal washrooms. To Hell With the Workers! T suppose when they built the ship |the construction and repair depart- ment of the navy, said, “To Hell” with the workers who come in our ‘navy. _ This is not half of it. If I could translate and interpret the sentiment and expression of men going to sunny with the call to the soldiers of the/ ‘America. Secondly, during the last imperialist armies at the right mo-| decade the class struggle has assumed ment to join the forces of the revolu-| severity unparalleled in history, tion. classes are arming themselves opgnly: | D. The proletariat must do its ut-| on the one hand the Fascists and on [most to prevent the imperialists! the other the proletarian defence or- throttling revolutionary China. | ganizations (the Red Hundreds of Strikes of transport workers and of|Germany and similar organizations); workers employed in munitions fac-| thirdly and lastly in the event of vic- + ‘tories, the general strike, ete.—con- | tory the proletariat must utilize the stitute the means which the interna-| experience of the Russian revolution — all that their life means to them by |allowing themselves to serve in the! |capacity of official body snatcher |sanctioned by the bloody hands of | every boss who has interests abroad. Humanitarian Bunk. Another popular poster shows a major general conferring an S: P. C. A. medaf on a private in the army | for saving 12 bosses’ lives. Such humanitarian hypocrisy should make clear enough to the workers that this sentimental advertising covers more sinister deeds committed by the armed forces such as killing Chinese workers. p Planned Blood Baths. Another picture speaking for the coast artillery corps has a large gun belching forth its terrorizing, destruc- (eu the men who sold’themselves and ,tive death-dealing missile. This photo has a caption, “Join Us!” How sin-; cere and clear is the motive of ask-! ing workers to “join us?” Such a pic-| ture coultt easily be termed the ad-j vance agent for death, destruction, | famine and pestilence. And to think this is the role of the war depart-| ment, eminating from our ownj “government of the people.” They say “join us,” but we wonder where ae war department leaders and the! ankers and employers they represent. will be when the joining time comes. ! The government appeals to the lowest barbarian instinct within man, when it asks young workers to participate | in well-planned blood baths. for work- | ers. The young workers of America| should answer this insult with the im- | mediate organization of the working | class youth to combat the plans of the bosses who want to fake the young workers into another war for profits. Another poster says the navy navy | China, it wouldn’t speak well for the navy, for the ships that fly under the he himself eniovs the least of these 4 ’ American flag, of the conditions, and TRAINS TOSSED LIKE “roadway Limited twelve miles from Altoona, P; a . NG Clatersational tional proletariat must use in order to defend revolutionary China and the Soviet Union. 32. History provides the interna- tional working class with numerous examples of Communists fighting against war. Above all we have the | experience of the Russian Bolsheviks during the imperialist war in 1914-18; | the enormous experience of the Ger-| man*partacists, the fight put up by | the workers of various countries dur- ing the intervention in Russia inj 1918-1919. ~ The sailors’ mutiny in Odessa; the experience of the Yugo- slavian and Austrian comrades who} fought against intervention in Hun- gary in 1919;-the Committees of Ac- tion in Great Britain during the So- viet-Polish war in 1920, the preven- tion by the workers of Great Britain, Germany and Italy, of the transport of arms, the guerilla warfare conduc- ted by the workers and peasants in} the rear of the Polish armies; the ex- perience in the Ruhr of organizing illegal work in the army and com-\| batting the occupation, the experience \ builds men. We aré supposed to be-_ lieve that under the protective arms | of our war department the very best that is in man is developed. Is any-} one a man when he is deprived of | every right except that of going into: battle? Is anyone a man when he: must lower himself to accept the in-/| sults of the trained military caste} that comes out of Annapolis and West | Point? The navy builds men, Jus! look up the reports of the depart ment of medicine and_ surgery and become familiar with health condi-| tions of the enlisted personnel. The | figures of this report relates the as- | tounding proportion of men who con-| tract syphilis and gonorrhoea while in | the service. Yes, the navy builds men. But how? TOYS IN ets a Two persons are dead and several are suffering injuries as the result of the wreck of the ‘a. Cranes are ‘Newsreelp which passed from the Red Guard composed of workers’ detachments to the establishment of the Red Army. Hence, it would be a mistake to apply the slogan of a “universal militia” to all countties. This would be a purely mechanical solution of the problem. 35, The questions of the abolition of standing armies, of a “universal national militia” of “arming the pro- letariat” and of the “toilers’ militia” must be formulated in their concrete historical conditions. 1. In the modern capitalist coun- tries which have already gone through the period of - bourgeois revolution, Communist Parties as a rule must bring forward side by side with_the demand for the abolition of the stand- ing army the slogan of the arming of the proletariat. This slogan is of im- mediate importance: In the period of actual preparation for civil war, for the struggle for proletarian dictator- ship as well as during the civil war itself should the bourgeoisie have at its disposal Fascist organizations. 2. The Red Army slogan is essen- tial after the conquest of political power by the proletariat for. the purpose of liquidating all relics of the bourgeois counter-revolution within the country, and for defence of the achievements of the revolution from the attacks of the capitalist world. 8. The slogan of the “Toiiers” Militia” which presupposes’ the aboli- ion of standing armies has at pres- nt a propaganda significance. Its ealization depends on the victory of the proletarian revolution in a num- ber of important capitalist countries. In their propaganda for this slogan, Communist Parties must concentrate on the disarmament of the bour- geoisie, of the Fascist organizations, of the police and the gendarmerie. \ (To be Continued) RAILROAD WRECK shown removing the debris. \