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fi Page Four PART L. rovocati elings of world im- n of war by {promise as regards ia, that is that certain tempo y concessions by Great Britain to America (the Young Plan, question of naval arm aments, ete.) were bought at the |form these tasks for the American bourgeoisie, The same shameful role is played by small groups of renegades of Communism beginning with Brand- | {country are calling upon the workers not to demonstrate against impe: alism on August Ist. By this they show thvir true role. Precisely at the time when the international pro- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU DAY, AUGUST 1, 1929 ocialized industry and socialized |openly announced their intention of | griculture. The Soviet Government turning the share in the manage- | continued disarmament proposals | ment and administration of the rail- and its adherence to the Kellogg Pact aimed to expose empty paci-| Soviet Government, into the hands of Russian White Guardists. It is "Thesis of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.A on the War Danger and the Tasks of the Communist Party direction of struggle against the workers and peasants of China. The Chang Kai-Shek Government has way held by representatives of the |carned the hatred of th> masses and | the confidence of the imperialist masters by its role as hangmen of this sense the struggle against war cannot be separated from thi class struggle. On the’contrary, this) struggle against war is a part ot the general proletarian’ struggle for’ the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, perialism the war danger takes on a, Price of a joint pact against Soviet conerete form. This was clearly fore- |Russia, American imperialism has seen by the Communist International when it called upon the workers of for the strug- danger of war. Al- thesis of the Sixth ss on the international gle against the ready in th World Cong situation, it was pointed out that} the third period, in which the con- tradiction between the growth of the productive ces and the contraction of markets’ become particularly ac- centuated, is inevitably giving rise to a fresh series of imper $ mg the impe ars of the imperia the USSR, wars of national libera- tion against imperialism and im- erialistic federation and to gigantic s battles.” Further, in the theses of the Sixth World Congress on the War Danger it was ted that “the antagonisms between the imperialist wers in the struggle for s are n more shart pressed. more n than the antagonisms between the imperialist powers is growing the orincipal antagonisms that is divid- ng the world into two camps”: “These two fundamentally h camps” as it is said in the pro- gramme of the Communist Interna- tional.” ... “the camp of the im- perialist states and the camp of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR. The difference in class struc- ture and in the class character of the government in the two camps, the fundamental differences in the sims each pursues in internal, foreign, economic and cultural policy, the fundamentally different courses of their development brings the capi- talist world into sharp conflict with the victorious proletarian state. Within the framework of a formerly uniform world economy, two antago- nistic systems are now contesting | ggainst each other: the system of pitalism and the system of social- The class struggle, which githerto was conducted in circum- stances when the proletariat was not in possession of state power is now conducted on an enormous and really world seale; the working class of | Sstrive to turn them already helped and is helping now the Chinese government. American ancial advisers are now counsel- ling the Chang Kai-Shek govern- ment,—substantial loans to the Nanking government have already |been forwarded by the Wall Street government. Thus the American government is one of the principal ors in the war against the Union. Parallel with military prepara- tions there went on the idological pre for an impe t again: Soviet Unic bourgeoisie in all countries seek by means of hypocritical phrases, speeches, de ions and pacts to | deceive the toiling mas: to the facts of the real‘situ , and un- der the cloak of pacifist pl and “peace” policy tematical in favor of a The war against the Soviet Union, , | League of Nations created as an im- tic alliance in defence of rob- les and for the peri bers’ peace of Versa |struggle against the world revolu- tion has become a rument for the preparation and carryii jwar against the Soviet U | The Kellogg pact, the spec | American counter-part to |League of Nations, created as an |instrument of the American struggle |for world hegemony, jened as a weapon agai (es The imperialists are only able to carry on their war policy thanks to the active collaboration of interna- |tionai Reformism and Social Demo- jeracy Social Democracy in this last | period hes not only launched a cam- |paign of slander upon tic Soviet | Union, but has begun to participate jactively in the ideological and mili- |tary preparation for a war on the | USSR | “The reformists were exposed as |social patriots and chauvinists al- |ready by the World War of 1914-18, |Since then the policy of Social |Democracy has ripened into open |social imperialism. In all decisive questions the leaders of Social ler and Trotsky, who continue their propaganda against Soviet Russia, letariat is organizing world-wide {demonstrations against imperialist war and for the defense of the So- fist slogans and to destroy the il- lusions of the possibility “to out- law war” and for complete disarm- clear that the Chinese hirelings of|th> Chi...:e workers and peasants world imperialism acted as agents|and as the tool of the imperialists. | In its position t:ward imperialist’ Thermidor propaganda, trying to | jconvince the workers of the world|Viet Union they are busy spreading the world has now its own state—|Democracy and of the Amsterdam the one and only fatherland of the|trade unions have not only become international proletariat. The exist-|the defenders but the active champ- ence of the Soviet Union and the in-|ions of imperialism. They have de- fluence it exercises upon the toiling|Veloped their greatest activity in and oppressed masses all over the |Support of imperialist war prepara- world is in itself a most striking ex-|tions against the Soviet Union.” that there is no longer a proletarian di¢tatorship in Russia, which can only mean that if the imperialists ttack the Soviet Union the workers of the world have thing to do with the Soviet Union, This counter revolutionary Thermidor propa- ganda is being spread in the United States by a handful of Trotskyites in their orgs: “The Militant.” Ob- jectively the same counter revolu- | tionary character is assumed by the propa~anda of Love. ‘one against the Communist International, the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. In a period of imminent danger of war against.the Soviet Union Love- stone’s propaganda about the “de- generation” of the C. I, about the nnin core” in the Soviet Union y and in the Communist Inter- nat 1, is nothing less than a coun- ter revolutionary propaganda direct help to the international bourgeoisie in their war preparations against the Soviet Union. The counter revolutionary char- acter of this propaganda is mani- |fested very clearly in the attitude of these groups toward International Red Day, August First. The Trot- skyites and their adherents in this defeatist propaganda trying to dis- rupt the forces of the proletariat and disarm them in their struggle ' against the war. Practically the same position is assume’ by Love- stone and his followers in the fac- tional documents that they are spreading throughout the Party. Their answer to the Party’s appeal to the American working class to organize and strike on August Ist, is to call it “empty talk,” and to spread propaganda against t h e strike on International Red Day, thus treacherously attempting to break the proletarian ranks and re- vealing the same defeatist attitude as the Trotskyites. 6. In spite of all provocations on the part of world imperialism the Soviet Government has demon- strated time and again that it is determined to follow a peace policy. The aim of this policy ig to protect the work of building up Socialist economy in the U.S. S. R., the pro- gress of which is revolutionizing the world. The Five-Year-Plan of the Social Industrialization of the coun- |try, adopted by the Soviet Govern- |ment, is a new and decisive step in ithe direction of the construction of of a counter revolution and not as agents of the Chinese masses. Jap- | anese imperialism already controls | the Southern part of the railway. | Japan has a dominant influence in Manchuria, which is practically its | economic colony. Thus the seizure | of the Chinese Eastern Railway, far | from being an act on behalf of the | | Chinese masses, is not only an act ‘ ‘ n- | in behalf of the counter deveolution- | demnity to educational purposes in| ary White Guardists of Russia but | China and renounced all maintenance | on beha'f of imperialism, of troops in China, The Chinese eae Government, basing itself upon the| 8. The Government which began | defeated White Guardists, remnants | this attack on the workers and peas- | of Kolchack and other murderers of | ants of the Sovic Union, this so- | the Russian workers, wanted to ex-|called Nanking Government headed | ploit this attitude of the Soviet | by Chang Kai-Shek is a government | Union in order to seize control of | of the counter revolutionary Chin- the Chinese Eastern Railway and to|ese bourgeoisie which has already transform it into a base of opera-| drowned in a sea’ of workers’ blood | tions of the counter revolutionary | the first wave of the Chinese revo- | murderers against the Soviet Union. | lution. - The Nanking Government | The Soviet Government made the|represents the most reactionary | agreement of 1924 for Russian- Chi- | strata of the Chinese bourgeoisie, nese operation of the railroad as a/| that is, the big landed interests, the | measure to prevent the railroad fall- | so-called compradores — merchant | ing into the hands of Japanese im-| capital linked up with aggressive perialism and Russian counter rev-|foreign capital in China, and the| olution. Even now Chiang Kai-|new industrial bourgeoisie of China | Shek end Chang Hsueh-Liang did| who try to solve their class prob- not take possession of the Chinese | lems in alliance with American, Jap- Eastern Railway for China but|anese and British imperialism in the | ament in capitalist society. 7, The Soviet Government’s policy best demonstrated by the pol- of friendship and peace toward China in spite of all provocations. It has renounced all rights growing out of the imperialist treaties made | by Czarist Russia; it gave up all extra-te-ritorial rights in China; it igned its share of the Boxer in- w | cialism. 9. Every war is but a continuation of class politics by other means. Therefore, as pointed out in the res- olution of the Eighth Plenum of the E. C. C. IL, “The proletariat must carefully study the historical and po- litical class meaning of each given war and give special study to the role of the ruling class in all the countries participating in the war from the viewpoint of the interna- tional proletarian revolution.” The proletariat takes no pacifist position as regards the war. The proletariat must know that war is inseparable from capitalism, that ts, the “‘aboli- tion” of war is possible only thru abolition of capitalism, that is thru the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by armed uprising and proletarian wars against the bourgeoisie. The pro- letariat is for a class war of the toiling masses against the oppres- sors, for a revolutionary war for So- It supports also the na- tional~ revolutionary wars against imperialism, which are a part of the proletarian world revolution. In an imperialist war, and especially in the war of imperialism against the Soviet Republic, the proletariat takes the position of the defeat of its home capitalist government. In j}war, and its vanguard, the Com- war, the proletariat, and its van- guard, the Communist Party, starts from the understanding that every imperialist war is a war against the working class, against the toiling masses. As regards a war against the Soviet Union, such o war is tk” imperialist war par excellence against the workers of all countries and against Communism all over the world. A var against Soviet Russia is a clear class waz. In every im- perialist war the workers in each country work for the defeat of their home government, for the transfor- mation of the imperialist war into a proletarian civil war against the bourgeoisie for the purpose of es- tablishing a dictatorship of the pro- letariat of Socialism, In the war against the Soviet Union, which is an open bourgeoisie counter revolu- tionary class war against the pro- letariat, the proletariat not only fights for the defeat of its own im- perialist government but actively \supports and fights to secure the victory of the Soviet Government, to secure victory to the Red Army which is not an enemy army but the army of the intérnational pro- letariat against imperialism, * (To be continued.) August 1, ‘International Red Day---a Turning Point in the History Today, fifteen years after the out- ‘break of the world war, the revolu- |tionary masses of the world chal- lenge the imperialists who are driv- ing forward to another world war. The war against the Soviet Union has actually begt1, the imperialists using as the spearhead of the attack the blood-streaked hireling govern- ment of Chiang Kai Shek. The |growing response of the working masses to the call of the Communist International to set aside August 1 as a day of struggle against imper- ialist war has forced the capitalist governments of the most powerful |States to try to conceal their war | |Preparations under the most hypo- critical pretenses, Secretary | State Stimson “reminds” China and the Soviet Union that they are sig- of | } Poland, Finland, Austria, arrests, | |Suppression of newspapers and wholesale murder goes on in an ef- \fort to stop the strikes and demon- | strations set for today. In. Bul- garia the Communists are forcibly | suppressed and all the leaders are in prison or dead. In Germany the | social democratic assassins of the | working class whose comrades and |teachers murdered Liebknecht and |Luxemburg becau-e they fought | against imperialism and war, have issued edicts against working class demonstrations. In Britania, that |other social-democratic government under Ramsey MacDonald, an-| |nounces through its “home office” \that “ample arrangements have been | | made to prevent any demonstrations | Thursday (today).” | ot the Class Struggle |the workers will down tools and| PATSY RUTH MILLER. In spite of the military rule es- tablished by the prefect of police | the working class sections of Paris | will pour forth hundreds of thou- sands in the streéts. In Vienna the masses will defy the social-demo- cratic police. In Berlin the veteran fighters in the revolutionary forces, at the head of the working masses will strike and demonstrate in spite | of the crders of the social demo-| cratic chief of police. In Hamburg} fill the streets that have run red Erlanger-Tyler Stage Many Productions L. ERLANGER has made an ar- rangement with George C. Tyler by which they will be asso- ciated in the future in the production of plays. This association be- gins immediately and curing the coming season they will make eight or nine presentations, Among the productions plan- Combine to grave, which will be given its first performance at the Playhouse in Great Neck, L. IL, on August 31, coming to the Knickerbocker Thea- tre on September 28d. | “Sweet Land .of Liberty,” a drama by Philip Dunning, author of “Broadway” and “Night Hostess.” | This will open at the Nixon Theatre, Pittsburgh, on September 30, com- ing to the Liberty Theatre in this city on October 7. “Trevelyn’s Ghost,” a farce by | Dwight Taylor, a son of Laurette with working class blood in many risings since the world war. In London, . Lanarkshire and other places the workers will defy the MacDonald agents of imperialism. Everywhere the masses will hurl de- | fiance at their oppressors, play temporarily entitled “The Mixed Jury.” This is a piece by Fred Ballard, author of “Young America,” and “Believe Me, Xan- ned are the fol- 4 ae, This will be produced in lowing: Mrs. ap . Fiske in a new Fes BElnages “The Rosebush of a Thousand Years,” a dramatization by Cath- erine Chisholm Cushing of the story of the same name by Mabel Wax- nals, which also will be done in ‘ And here in the United States the | October. fression of the profound crisis of.|(Theses of the Sixth World Con- | natories to the Kellogg pact only the world capitalist system and of the expansion and intensification of |gress on War Danger.) The Policy of the American Fed- |as an excuse to try to mobilize the |powers against the workers’ and the class struggle to a degree hith-!eration of Labor is a policy in| peasants’ government with the erto without parallel in history.” The world bourgeoisie hopes to take an end of the Soviet Union, this constant reminder to the op- pressed workers of every country to follow its example and to drive their capitalist class from power; it hopes to crush the Soviet Government, to transform the U. S. S. R. into an imperialist colony, to irtelude its vast internal markets in the world capi- talist system, thereby to try to solve the main contradictions of the third period—the contradiction be- tween the increased productive ca- pacity and the restricted internal markets. 2. As the War Danger Thesis of the Sixth World Congress states, “events of recent years have shown that the main front in the policy of all imperialist powers is directed more and more openly against the Soviet Union.” The growing an- tagonisms between the capitalist powers do not prevent a common imperialist attack against the U. S. S. R., although this common attack is actually bound to cause a deeper development of the inter-imperialist antagonisms. On the one hand the imminent danger of war on the Soviet Union is demonstrated by the wat provocation in Manchuria. On the other hand the sharpening inter- imperialist antagonisms, a clash be- tween the imperialist groups of powers in the struggle for world supremacy may take place at any moment. 3. The attack of the Chinese war lords against the Soviet Union on the question of the Chinese Eastern Railway is not a separate event, but tions against the Soviet Union. For a long time the imperialists of the world have been preparing for an attack on the Soviet Union. The military pacts between Poland, Rou- mania, Lithuania, and Finland, or- ganized under the aegis of British imperialism, the military agreements between France and Poland, France and Roumania, the financial support given by American imperialism to Poland (the Wall Street financial _ advisers reorganizing Polish fi- ), and financial support of the ist governments of Balkan and Itie states by American imperial- 1, the fascistization of small bor- states, etc., give us a picture of A long planned attack of the im- alist powers against the Soviet ion. In these military prepara- “the political and financial sup- American imperialism plays very important role. Such an attack as the present rovocation of the Chinese war rds. could not have been planned ithout the approval and participa- , of the American government. is probable that the latest “under- Landing” between Great Britain and nited States is based on a ogm- a link in the chain of war prepara-| {complete support of American im- |perialism and of attack against the | Soviet Union. The Greens, |Wolls, daily hurl new slanders jagainst the Soviet Union and call upon the workers to support the war {program of the U. S. government. | And their solidarity with Wa'l Street \is sealed by the appearance of the | whole Executive Council of the A. F. of L. At West Point the chief mili- |tary academy of U. S. imperialism |and by preparation in the launching of new battleships. | The Socialist Party and its lead- ers, the Thoma and Hillquits, |preferred to the working class that {the Kellogg Pact, and the new Young Plan is a policy of peace, | thereby openly trying to prepare |the American workers for support |of the coming war of American im- perialism against the Soviet Union. The so-called “left” Social Demo- {cratic or Reformist leaders are the most dangerous enemies of the labor movement! For it. is they, who, under “left” phrases seek to save both the bourgeois and Right reformist leaders in critical situa- tions. They also attack the proletar- ian dictatorship of Soviet Russia and the Communists in all countries in order to mislead and confuse the workers and to assist the bourg- eoisie in carrying out its war policy. In the United States the recently formed Conference for Progressive Political Action with Mr. Norman Thomas and Muste at the head, are making strenuous efforts to per- GET YOURSELF A COSTUME AND A TICKET FOR THE MOONLITE CRUISE DO NOT FORGET FRIDAY AUG. 9th, August 18 Daily Worker 4 » | LN y Pleasant Bay Park me Watch for Announcements picnic and | American imperialism at the head of the interventionists. The hireling government of China, under instruc- tions of its imperialist masters, ap- peals to their own league of na- |tions against the Soviet Union, as {an excuse for intervention on the part of the vassal military states | bordering the Soviet Union on the | west. | Meanwhile there continue the un- |derhanded diplomacy, the intrigues of capitalist statesmen, the rational- ization of the armed forces, the com- petitive race in armaments and the | terrific speed-up, wage cuts, length- ening of hours, and the resultant thrown upon the industrial scrap heap and only the strongest of the young take their places. Industry everywhere, especially in the United States, is so organized that in a |few hours it can be placed upon a war basis. These frenzied war preparations are accompanied by an increase of capitalist terror against the work- ing class, Every force of reaction is mobilized today against the work- ing class preparations for the strug- gle against war. Paris is today an armed camp, the military forces patrol the streets, the iron windows of the boulevard cafes are closed, In Czecho-slovakia, off SF Bols 10c. Sixth On The Road To with an Introduction by the Central Committee, pr ess La handbook for every ‘American (1) Important excerpts from the (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY DISCOUNTS OFFERED To cap the infamy of the social demonstrators their international executive board, meeting in Zurich, issued a vile pronunciamento sla‘ dering the Soviet Union and |ferring to the debased imperialist |flunkey and murderer of Chinese | workers and peasants, Chiang Kai | Shek, as the head of a “revolution- | ary government,” and tells the | world that it takes “great satisfac- tion in the fact that the govern- | ments of two great powers, Ger-| many and Great Britain are now | controlled by socialists.” The “socialist”? government of | |Germany mobilizes its social-demo- ‘cratic police in an effort to repeat jthe fascist attacks perpetrated |against the worke:s on May Day, unemployment of masses of work-|While the “socialist” government of | production, “Songs I Love,” Veloz rs. Middle aged and old men are | Britain continues the terror rule in| and Yolanda, Dave Apollon, with his | |India and other colonies and aids the Lanarkshire mill owners try to starve a half million strikers back | into the slave pens with a 12% per cent reduction of their already starvation wag>. The “home office” announces that it will have particu- | larly heavy concentration of forces to prevent the strikers participating | in the August 1st demonstrations. | This offensive of the entire capi- talist class will be met today by a counter offence on the part of the working class under the leadership | of the Communist Parties and in hevization CPUSA Communist C. I. Congress ‘ ON QUANTITY ORDERS! -/and march to Union Square where response to the call of the Com- | munist International for a day of | mobilization of forces against im- | workers in every center will observe | this day with great mass demonstra- | tions. In New York City the work- | ers will down tools at four o’clock iG In “go | Lubitsch’s screen comedy, one of the features at the Film Guild Cinema This Is Paris,’ Ernst the main demonstration will be held against imperialist war and in de- fense of the Soviet Union. This day will mark the decisive turning point where the workers |. a z take the offensive in the struggle | Jou, in “Fashions In Love.” against the imperialist war-mongers. | Compton is co-starred. . | Wednesday, Thursday and Friday ~~ | Lew Pollack, assisted by Henry! |Dunn, Alice Weaver and Doris} | Walker; Jean Russell, with the Jack | |Donahue-John Boyle Girls; others. | |Feature photoplay — “Prisoners” | starring Corinne Griffith, this week. Fray | ber Vaudeville Theatres PALACE New York Theatres. Bill Robinson, Frances Williams, Chas, W. Hamp, Fanchon and Marco| » E. F. ALBEE Brooklyn Theatre. revue, Harry Holmes, Joe Mendi and | Béches and Rubyette, Joe Frisco, Long Tack Sam and company, Charles W. Hamp, Bernice and Emily, and Maxine and Bobby. 81ST STREET Feature photoplay—Reginald Denny N. T. G. with his Midnight Revels.) in “His Lucky Day,” talking screen Feature photoplay—Adolphe Men- comedy. JUST OFF THE PRESS July Issue The Communist A Magazine of the Theory and Practise of Marxism-Leninism THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST IM- PERIALIST WAR J H. M. WICKS THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION—AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION A. LANDY RIGHT TENDENCIES AT THE TRADE UNION UNITY CONGRESS : WM. Z. FOSTER GASTONIA—THE CENTER OF THE CLASS STRUG- GLE IN THE “NEW SOUTH” eee WM, F. DUNNE THE YOUNG PLAN The Reparations Conference and the War Danger “ A. FRIED The New Reparations Plan, by .G. P. FURTHER NOTES ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKES CYRIL BRIGGS « CAPITALISM AND AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA (Continued) Vv. I, LENIN ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY B, VARGA . 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