The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1928, Page 8

Page ‘' Pe a S 1928 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ... 1... 7, DECEMBER Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by National Daily Worker Publishing As’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address “Daitvork” Telephone, ROBERT MINOR. WM. F. DUNNE.. . Editor - Assistant Editor “Peace” Maneuvers in Preparation | for World War! The “peace” maneuvers of the Pan-Ameri- ean conference at Washington in relation to the Bolivian-Paraguay conflict follows the aggressive line laid down in the jingo Armis- tice Day speech of Coolidge against Britain. The intervention of the Pan-American con- ference, dominated by the United States state department, in the dispute and its ac- ceptance arbitrator by both Bolivia and Paraguay is a blow against any attempt of the League of Nations, dominated by Britain, to intervene in any dispute on the two American continents. It is a living demon- stration of the implacable position of Ameri- can imperialism that, although the Latin- American countries are members of the League of Nations, the influence of the league cannot prevail in the Western hemis- phere. Acceptance by both Bolivia and Paraguay of the mediation proposals of the Pan- American conference is also a rebuke to the government of the Argentine republic, inas- much as it serves notice that only the United States or its imperialist tool, the Pan-Ameri- ean union, can intervene in any dispute af- fecting Latin-American countries. This maneuver is an act of insolent de- fiance to the whole world. Briand, renegade socialist and foreign minister of France who is also chairman of the council of the League of Nations, after cautiously proposing that the belligerent countries try to settle the dis- pute, and arranging to call an emergency meeting of the council, instantly retired in confusion before the aggressive hostility of the state department at Washington, de- livered through the medium of the ambassa- dor from the puppet government of Cuba to the league, demanding that it keep hands off and stating that all questions affecting the two American continents would be “settled by the American republic.” Argentine, though accepted by both Bolivia and Paraguay some months ago to arbitrate the dispute over the Gran Chacho, backed down. The facts already established prove con- clusively that the aggressor was the United States, working through its puppet govern- ment in Bolivia. The immediate motive was the seizure of the Gran Chacho territory that for years has been in dispute in order to steal the rich oil resources recently dis- covered by the Carib Oil Syndicate, and to furnish an Atlantic port for the shipment of the products of Standard Oil and Guggen- heim mining interests in Bolivia. A more impudent piece of imperialist banditry would be hard to imagine. After the armed Bolivia invasion of the territory guarded by the Paraguayan forces and the unprovoked slaughter of soldiers of Paraguay there were a number of border skirmishes. As soon as the news of the con- flict reached the rest of the world all the devices of imperialist intrigue masquerading as “peace agencies” were set to work. The league offer came from Briand. Argentine offered to act as mediator of the dispute, in- asmuch as it had already been chosen, months hefore the outbreak, to arbitrate the terri- torial dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay. Then the Pan-American conference at Wash- ington got in action with proposals to “mediate” the fight. At that point occurred one of the most contemptible pieces of du- plicity ever perpetrated. The Bolivian dele- gate withdrew from the Pan-American con- SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION IN U. By E. KWIRING. |ca, and of these 800 are already in, have Daily =@= Worker | IMPERIALIS ad . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8 a year $4.50 six mos, $2.50 three mos. By Je of New York): $6 a year mos. $2.00 three mos. Address and mail all checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ference, Deceived by that action of the Bolivian dele- gate, the Paraguayian government accepted the offer of the Pan-American conference. pretending to resent its actions. Paraguay also accepted the offers of the league and Argentina. Then Bolivia re- joined the Pan-American conference at Wash- ington and in a short time accepted its “mediation” proposals. It was clearly a de- ceptive move, deliberately staged, in order to entice Paraguay into the clutches of Kellogg. Since the Pan-American offer was the only one accepted by both parties to the dispute, it is obvious that only that agency, completely dominated by Yankee imperialism, will have a decisive voice in settling the dispute. Thus the United States government has gained a distinct victory in its relentless drive to extend its power further south, to try to subdue and enslave all Latin-America and in preparation for the struggle against Britain for a redivision of the world. It is probable that Kellogg, himself, will act as “mediator.” He announced that he would not act as secretary of state, but the in- spired press reports from Washington state that there nothing to prevent his acting in the capacity of his other office, that of chairman of the Pan-American conference— hence, not Kellogg, the American secretary of state, but Kellogg, the chairman of the 2an-American conference will act. That the two jobs are held by one and the same person is pure accident, if we are to take seriously the brain contortions of the pen prostitutes who write apologies for American im- perialism in the kept press. There is still another joker in the proposals for settlement. Since Argentina is already ac- cepted as arbitrator in the land dispute the Pan-American conference states that it will confine its intervention only to the question of the actual border conflict and that it will not deal with the question of territorial sovereignty that was previously in dispute. i That this concession to Argentina is only formal is revealed by a moment’s~thought about the situation. When the question of any armed conflict is decided there always arises the associated and inseparable ques- tion of reparations. In this intervention one of two things will happen unless American imperialism is checked by the- fury of the Latin-American masses; either Paraguay will be compelled to relinquish the disputed oil lands to Bolivia, or the government of Para- guay will become, like the Bolivian govern- ment, the abject slave of Wall Street. To achieve the latter aim it is not unlikely that American impé@rialism will incite and finance a revolution against any Paraguayan gov- ernment that stands in its way, and set up in its place one more Latin-American puppet government. Such an attempt should meet with the same determined resistance that Sandino displays in his defense of Nicaragua. The open, brazen assault against Para- guay is a part of the whole vicious offensive of Yankee tyranny that has as its objective the enslavement of all Latin-America, and the extermination of the power in that part of the world of its great imperialist rival, England. The peace maneuver at Washing- ton is a part of the preparation for a new world war. Against this imperialist policy the work- ers and farmers of the United States, hand in hand with the exploited and bleeding masses Latin-Americans should fight with all their might. A common fate victims of the most powerful, the most arrogant, the most murderous imperialist power on earth must unite the masses of both continents into an invincible force that will wipe out every ' vestige of Yankee tyranny. > oR. already pointed out that, taken . “AT LAST A STABLE GOVERNMEN By Fred Ellis In today’s issue we begin] tion of the the: by the 6th World Congres: Communist International at its re- cent sessions in Moscow on “The 1. The Menace of Imperialist War Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communists.”| The continuation will appear in the next issue of the Daily Worker.—} Editor.) capital and the basis for the im- minent danger of a new imperialist| * * * ent time. | 1. Ten years after the world war,| : ; the big imperialist powers solemn-| War will not only be a mechanized ly conclude a pact for outlawing| War with a tremendous use of ma- war; they talk about disarmament;| terial, but simultaneously it will be) they seek, with the support of the a war that will seize upon vast mil-| | leaders of international social demo-| lions, indeed upon the majority of cifists seek, by means of hypocri cracy, to delude the workers and|the population of the warring coun- toiling masses into the belief that) tries. The boundary between battle-| the rule of monopoly capitalism as-| front and rear will tend more and) situation, and under the cloak | pacifism, and “peace” policy, sys- | more to become obliterated. sures peace to the world. | The Congress points to the tre-| The VI. World Congress of the! . : Communist International condemns| mendous increase in armaments, to) jall these maneuvers as a vile decep-! the great improvements in the field) | tion of the working masses, It re-|0f war technique, and to the meas- calls to the minds of the interna-|Ures for the militarization of the | tional proletariat, of the toilers and) ™asses and of industry taken in all) oppressed peoples of the world, the CaPitalist countries; the militariza-| experiences of recent years, the|tion in fascist Italy; the military waged against the colonial peoples,|@"™my laws in Czechoslovakia; the and the events of last year: inter-/8toWing military preparations in) | vention against the Chinese revolu-| Poland and Roumania under the di-| |tion, the sharpening conflict be-| "ection of the general staffs of the| | tween the powers for a new division| big imperialist powers; the prepa-| of China, the mobilization of troops| ‘ations in Germany for the re-build- in Poland, the immediate menace to| ing of the old militarism in new) the independence of Lithuania—and| forms; the mass militarization in) in connection therewith, the con-| America; the military preparations | |stantly growing menace of war : A against the Soviet Union by an im. 20d particularly ‘in India, ete. ‘The perialist bloc under the leadership| "#Val rivalry between America and) of Great Britain; it recalls all these 2ngland opens up a new world) facts as illustrating the criminal) ®*mament race. A most significant) | war policy of the imperialists, which | NeW factor in the present mass mili-| may suddenly burst into a terrible| t@tization is intensified militariza-| world conflagration. tion of the youth and that this mili-| | The VI. World Congress has al-|tatization actually, and in some) ready analyzed the political and| Places even officially, extends ‘to! economic driving forces of the com-| Women (France, Poland, Bulgaria,| ing war. | ete, The changes in the world situa-| % Side by side with the arma- tion since the V. World Congress are| ments and war preparations of the characterized by a tremendous in-| imperialists against foreign rivals, tensification of all the contradic-| there proceeds an intensification of | tions of capitalism, by the great| reaction at home. Without a “quiet” economic and political strengthening hinterland it is impossible for the of the Soviet Union, by the rapid) imperialists to wage war. The bour-| 'growth of the national revolution-| ge0isie is taking measures to pre- ary movements in the colonies and| vent the workers from putting up | semi-colonial countries—above all in| any kind of organized resistance to China—and by the intensification| their war policy, of the class struggle between the| This “covering of the rear” by} bourgeoisie and the proletariat in| the bourgeoisie is served by such the capitalist countries. | measures as the Trade Union Laws The antagonisms between the im-|in Great Britain and Norway, the perialist powers in the struggle for| arbitration system in Germany, the war that is threatening at the pres-|immediately confronted with danger : 2. The coming imperialist world) ground,” into complete illegality. | armaments and extensive prepara-| |favor of the struggle against the {has ripened into open social imper- } } i xt use on Soviet farms, This fact alone suffices to show how rapidly t creation of the Soviet farms is vancing. Hand in hand with the creation of granaries, due attention was paid to the promotion of such Soviet (Soviet estates). farms as already existed. One of In the past economic year the | the weak points in the work of the Party set itself the task of creating ld Soviet farms was their insuffi- large granaries, so as to have re- cient supply of the means of produc- serves of at least 100 million poods tion, which meant that these enter- of grain available upon the lapse of | Prises were unable adequately to ex- the five-year plan. This task is ex- Ploit the ground at their disposal. tremely difficult, but the Soviet Gov-| As in the case of, the collective e¢nment has set about it with the farms, ‘the investment of capital in utmost energy. In the districts in| the Soviet farms was increased in question fallow land was staked off the year under review. In 1927-28, and formed into new Soviet estates. /36 million roubles were invested If the above-named task is to be ful- against 17 millions in the preceding filled, Soviet farms aggregating at year. Together with the increase of least 5 million hectares must be investments, the cultivated area in- ereated, In the Soviet Union there creased from 1,230,000 hectares in is no lack of suitable fallow land for 1926-27 to 1,300,000 hectares in this purpose, so that the ground al-| 1927-28. At the same time the total voady in the hands of farmers need |oUtput rose from 195 million to 206 ‘sy no means be touched. The crea- million roubles and the commercial ‘on of new Soviet estates has from quota of this total from 111 to 124 he very first been carried out on a millions, le, particularly as regards| These figures show that in regard roduction of machinery |to both the collective farms and the o those estates. Tractors were |Soviet farms fairly considerable immediately ordered in Ameri- achievements have been made. We ontinued he slogan of support for the col- lective estates in the rural distr does not refer only to the* step-by tep remodel of the individual farms but also to the greatest pos- sible extension of the State farms ition, however, was not reduced. The markets are more and more sharply expressed, But still more strongly than the antagonisms between the imperialist powers is growing the : I principal antagonism that is divid-| that we are absolutely cn the right ing the world into, two camps: on| path. |the one hand the whole of the capi-| The successful construction of so- | talist world, and on the other hand) cialism in the open country naturally | the U. S. S, R., around which the} met with increased resistance on the | international proletariat and thé op- part of the kulaks, for which reason | pressed peoples of the colonies are. ic is comprehensible that the last, grouping. twelvemonth should have entailed! THe fight for the destruction of an increase of the class struggle in| the Soviet system and the Chinese the rural districts. | revolution, for unrestricted domina-| reflected chiefly in the | tion over China and for the posses-| grain-provisioning campaign. The| sion of the enormous reservoirs of! kulaks hoped to be able to frustyate | raw materials and the markets in| the price policy of the Soviet author-| these countries, is a matter of ex-| ities last winter by retaining the| treme importance for international | grain they ought to have sur- rendered. They did not succeed in doing this, The government initiated | poor villagers were undeterred in a series of measures to ensure the continuing the development of the provisioning of the industrial centres |new Socialist villages and. their with grain. Thereupon the kulaks|moyement was supported by the tried to revenge themselves during |great majority of the middle pea- | the spring seed-time by agitating |sants. ' for a decrease of the area under| The results of the last economic cultivation. But here again they | year enable us to say that the Soviet | failed, although in certain districts | villages have made great progress | a great part of the autumn seed |in their fight against the kulaks and | perished. The area under cultiva- absolutely, these results are still in- ignificant, but that there great eld of activity before us in this respect. The results attained show struction, ry Mond plan for collaboration in the chemical enterprises, the “industrial peace” campaigns, the non-political trade unions (Spencerism in Great) Britain), the “company unions” in America, the creation of fascist state unions in Italy and the law} militarizing the trade unions in case of war in France. These are meas- ures to assure the military suppres- sion of every working class move- ment immediately war is declared. On the other hand, the unofficial armies of the type of the “Stahl- helm” in Germany, the “Schutz- korps” in Finland, the “Strelzy” in Poland, and the “Heimwehr” in Aus-| tria pursue the aim of strikebreak-| ing and forcible suppression of the workers—not only in time of war, | but ‘also in the period of war prep- arations, In this must be included also the military or semi-mititary women’s organizations established in a number of countries, The big imperialist powers support fascism in Southeastern Europe and in Po- land and Roumania as an’ important instrument in the preparation for and conduct of the imperialist war especially against the U. S. S. R. The persecution and measures of their advance towards socialist con- suppression against the Communist) ‘Parties are being systematically in- tensified and the Comintern Sec- tions in all imperialist countries are the “under-| of being driven 4. In this situation of increased) tions for imperialist wars, the bour- geoisie and the petty bourgeois pa- cal speeches, to deceive the toiling! masses as to the real facts of the| of | | | tematically strive to turn them in Soviet Union. The battle-cry of the} coming war against the Soviet Union| will be: “The war for peace! Down! with Bolshevism, the destroyer of| civilization!” | The speeches of the bourgeoisie | re : i ; i land their social democratic and | small wars of plunder continuously|"eform in France; the reactionary) and petty bourgeois pacifist accomplices, about disarmament, security, arbi- tration courts, outlawry of war as an instrument of national policy, etc., are examples of the worst hy-| pocrisy. | The League of Nations, founded) nine years ago as an imperialist al- liance in defense of the robber} suppression of the ‘evolutionary movement of the world, is itself) more and more becoming a direct! instrument for the preparation and carrying through of war against the| Soviet Union. The alliances and pacts created under the protectorate | of the League of Nations are direct means for camouflaging war prep-| arations, and are themselves instru- ments ‘for the preparations for war, especially war against the Soviet! Union. 5. The imperialists are only able to carry on their war policy thanks to the active collaboration of inter- national social democracy. The re- formists were exposed as social pa- triots and chauvinists already by the world war of 1914-1918. Since then, the policy of social democracy ialism. In all decisive questions,) the leaders of social democracy and of the Amsterdam trade-unions have not only become the defenders, but the active champions. of imperial- ism. They have developed their| greatest activity in support of the imperialist war preparations against the Soviet Union, The course adopted by the ‘ re- formist leaders towards deepening | the split,in the camp of the ‘labor movement by a sharpened offensive against the Communist movement and by their active splitting tactics in the trade unions and proletarian mass organizations (Germany, Great | Britain), serves, like their defeatist | strategy in big economie struggles, | to strengthen the bourgeoisie, to! weaken the battle-positions for’ the proletariat, and, in this way, to pre- pare the conditions in which the, bourgeoisie. may’ embark on a new imperialist. war. The ‘proletariat! must closely study the methods by| which social democracy is preparing | ideologically for the war against the Soviet Union. Some of these meth- ods are: (a) dissemination of lies about “red imperialism” and “red militarism,” about the “identity of fascism and Bolshevism,” ete.; (b) the claim that the dictatorship of | the proletariat is the cause of war,| or one of the causes of war; (e)| the hypocritical attitude that “We) are for the support of the Soviets, i The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communists featism towards the Soviet Govern- ment under a “Left” mask. The war danger during the last year has pro- vided several examples of these methods; especially in the work of the German social democrats. These examples were no less clearly ex- pressed by the allies of social demo- cracy, the Trotskyites, e. g. in their phrases about “Thermidor,” “kula- kization,” ete. The so-called Left leaders of so- cial democracy were characterized by the VIII. Plenum of the Comin- tern as the most dangerous enemies in the labor movement. This char- acterization has been completely con- firmed by their, treacherous policy during the past year and by their behavior at the Brussels Congress of the II. International. It is pre- cisely they who, under “Left” phrases, seek to have both the bour- geoisie and Right reformist leaders in critical situations, by describing the Soviet regime and the Commu- nist world movement as enemies of the proletarian united front, as ene- mies of “world peace,” as “allies of reaction,” in order thereby to mis- lead and confuse the workers and to assist the bourgeoisie in carry- ing out its war policy. 6. Events of recent years have shown that the main front in the policy cf all imperialist powers is directed more and more openly in Great Britain, in the Dominions|“peace” of Versailles, and for the | 2@ainst the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution. But in view of the sharpening antagonisms be- tween the ifuperialist powers them- selves, a clash between the imperi- alist groups of powers in the strug- gle for world supremacy is possible even’ before this war breaks out. Just as the world war of 1914- 1918 led directly to the victorious proletarian revolution in the former ezarist empire, to the development of the liberation movement in the colonies and to uprisings and revo- lutionary mass moyements among the Eutopean proletariat, so a new war will rouse a mighty revolution- ary movement that will embrace the ‘industrial workers of America, the broad masses of peasants in agra- rian countries and the millions of oppressed peoples of the colonies. However, the crisis of capitalism— the sharpest expression of which is ‘war—many give rise to broad re- volutionary mass movements, even before the open conflict breaks out. In such a movement, as in the daily struggles, the Communists must strive to rally, organize and lead the masses, with the aim of fight- ing, by means of revolutionary ac- tion, for the conquest of power, for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship. Even if the Communists in the European countries do not succeed in sharpening the daily struggle for the most urgent demands of: the ‘workers to the point of an open struggle for power, for the over- throw of the bourgeoisie—and only through the overthrow of the bour- geoisie in the most important coun- tries can imperialist wars be pre- vented—nevertheless, the constant combining of this struggle with the fight against imperialism will con- siderably augment the activity of the workers, and will make it con- siderably more difficult for the bourgeoisie to. prepare for or em- bark on war. It is clear that a postponement of the imperialist war measures by the mass actions of the proletariat will create conditions that will considerably facilitate the transformation of this war into civil war and the overthrow of the im- perialists. In any ease, the grow- ‘but against the Communists and the' ine Leftward development among Misleaders in the American Labor | Unions By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER But Cronin came to grief. By a strange chain of circumstaaces he was exposed several years ago as a detective, employed by the Bureau of Industrial Relations at a salary of $200 weekly. Known as “Opera- tive 03,” he spied upon and reported the activities of Philaceiphia unions generally. He was tried and pelled from his union for “gross | valty.” Later, as a member of m of Hayward and Cronin, he circularized the employers of openly soliciting them and strikebreaking detective Cronin is merely an example of the crass materialism and cynicism of the corrupt labor leadership car- ried to its logical conclusion. He was exposed by accident. How many | more are there like him among the reactionary officialdom? His case * illustrates how easy it is for a la- bor official to sink to the level even of a detective once he starts taking money from the employers and capi- talist politicians to betray the work- ers. Cronin was little, if any worse than his bosom friend Feeney. Cronin and Feeney, not to mention dozens of others, are strong reasons why the Philadelphia labor move- ment is weak and demoralized. Cleveland and San Francisco. | Examples could be multiplied from various cities of corruptionists in | the building trades and in the bur- jeaucratic cliques closely allied to |them. Thus in Cleveland in 1917, | during the joint trial of Charles B. | Smith, president of the Building | Trades Council, and John G. Owens, secretary of the Cleveland Federa- tion of Labor, there was exposed the familiar system of grafting and be- trayal of the workers and of labor officials growing rich at the game. ther of the accused denied re- | ceiving money, but both argued that it came voluntarily and was per- missible. One business agent, Wm. | Comintern”; (d) propagation of de-| A. Findlay of the Hoisting Engi- neers and former international of- |ficer of the Steam and Operating Engineers, testified during the trial that it is proper for a labor official to. take money from employers if he |gets it legitimately and not by sac- rificing his principles. Smith was found guilty and Owens acauitted. This was a compromise verdict, the jury being unable to agree upon either conviction or acquittal for both. Smith did not take the stand in his own defense. A resolution of the Building Trades Council hypo- critically defended such action on the part of this labor “martyr” as follows: “Resolved that it is the sense of this meeting that it is not necessary for him to take the stand to retain himself in our confidence or that of ur‘cn labor.” San_Francisco, for a feneration, was the most strongly organized trade union center of America. The building trades were the heart of |the movement. The boss of the whole \situation was P. H. McCarthy, Gomp- ers’ wheelhorse on the Pacific coast. McCarthy played the game on all fronts. The usual system of graft | prevailed locally and nationally. | With the assistance of the union- baiting United Railways Co., he was \elected mayor of San Francisco. In the national elections of 1920, Mc- Carthy, together with such labor | “skates” as Farrington and Tetlow, |issued a public letter endorsing the | reactionary republican, Gov. Frank O. Lowden, for president. Signing the letter also were dozens of manu- facturers, bankers, lawyers, mine owners, grain dealers, politicians, ete., headed by the multimillionaire “open shopper,” D. R. Forgan, Bill Dooley Sez Did you see anything in the New York Times or Graphic or Journal about the speedup in our plant? ¢ the truth about the strike we had a couple of months ago? Neither did I. That's why I read the Daily Worker. And that’s why I’m send- ing « greeting to the “Daily” on its fifth birthday. Yes sir, that’s MY paper! a il a yt lag a ag oe the proletdriat and the toiling masses generally and the powerful development of the national revolu- tionary movement in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, provides a broad foundation for the growing influence of the Comintern and for the intensified struggle of the Com- munists against the whole policy of the world bourgeoisie—a policy which leads to increased exploitation and oppression as Well as to the greatest sharpening of war conflicts. To Be Continued