The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 12

Page Four DAILY WORKER,!” . ~ APRIL ° | 1931 Aa as 0 sg = Imperialist War and May Day r (Continued from Page One) .- its in all “disarmament” rences that will throw the ad- ge in armament to the nation h the highest developed indus- trial manufacturing machinery dur- ing the coming war. The war spe- cialists are maneuvring on the ba- sis, not alone of securing the heavi- est armament for the beginning of the war, but also on the theory that modern wars are really fought by armaments that are made while the war is in progress, This means, of course, the theory that the na- tion with the biggest and most nodern machine factories, will win the war in the long run. ‘The imperailist preparations for war are intimately connected with the present economic crisis. Every big finance capitalist, every big capitalist “stateman,” every high officer of the army and navy, every war specialist knows that the conguest of foreign markets by force of arms is the inevitable re- sort of every imperialist capitalist government in the world in the effort to get out of the economic crises of capitalism. Everyone is feverishly preparing for that way out of the present economic crisis. The world market, in which the capitalist class must sell the stolen products of surplus labor of its “own” working class—these world markets are limited. These markets are already monopolized. The world is already divided up into imperial- ist colonies and spheres of influence controlled by the various capitalist imperialist governments, Each cap- italist country must expand its markets, must expand its fields for the export of capital. But each can only expand by forcibly taking away such territory from some other state! Thus the generals and the admir- als become the final “travelling salesmen” to force theit way by bicod and iron to a market for the stolen loot of their own capitalist system. War Against Soviet Union! But the biggest of all of the con- tradictions arising out of the brutal system of capitalist exploitation and plunder is- between the capitalist world (all imperialist nations), and that portion of the world which has broken sway from the capitalist systen—he Union of Socialist Sov- iet Republica. “Why can we not, we capitalists, 211 get together, or at least a big group of us capitalist nations—to make war against the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics?”—ask the blood-thirsty French imperialists under Briand and Poincare. “Why cannot a big group of capitalist governments get together and throw their whale military weight into war to destroy the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of the Soviet Union?” ask Hamilton Fish, the American fascist, and Mathew Woll, the fascist “straw-boss” of the capi class in the American Pave Way to War. ‘ive for tmperialist war fgainst the Union w Socialist So- viet Republics is being pushed for- ward in the most feverish manner ery worker has seen, and many have wondered about the wild cam- paigns of lies that flooded the pros- tituie press of capitalism during the past fourteen years o f the Russian Revolutio: The crazy stories of zation of women,” etc., of the ye gone by, were not forgot- ten before floods of new lies were poured forth to poison the work- Img class in regard to the world staggering victory of the workers of Russia against the capitalist class. Only recently we saw a flood of woncerted lying in all countries about “religious persecution” by the yovernment of free workers and farmers of the Soviet Union against Bhe priests of the old Czarist ays- bem. And this plot of lies was than there 4 ie 4: aeagd Ll g i i ded fascist dictator, the same U. 8S. U. S. government which supports the hangman of China, Chang Kai- Shek who murders working class children because thelr fathers are Communists—this same U. S. gov- ernment cannot recognize the free workers‘ and peasants’ government of Soviet Russia which is so “cruel” to capitalistic profits. This refusal to recognize Soviet Russia, and the constant harrassing and interfer- ence with trade with the Soviet Union are intended as support to the intended attempt at COzarist and capitalist restoration in Russia. Three years ago the capitalist class in most countries was per- vaded with the idea that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was about to “degenerate” through the gradual breaking down of the so- cialist system and the regrowth of the capitalist profit. system. But the Five-Year Plan—the plan for the building of enormous industries on the socialist basis, and the so- clalization ef agriculture—did not fail as the capitalist conspirators hoped. On the contrary, the enor- mous success of this system became clear already in 1929, The impend- ing triumph of the Five-Year Plan drove the capitalist war-makers into a fury of disappointment, rage and fear. The policy of armed in- tervention in the Soviet Union be- came the dominant thought of the capitalist world. Of the “capital- ist” world?—yet,—but the main conspirators and agents of this cap- (Continued from Page Two) ment. As they reached the fourth landing, sounds of movement and happy voices came from within the flat where the Harrigans had lived. Jack knocked. “Come in,” and Mr, Harrigan swung open the door. “What’s happened?” Mary asked. Mrs, Harrigan and the two oldest children were busily putting things in place. “Didn’t they turn you out?” “Sure, and they did. But a bunch of men and women come. They said they were from the Unemployed Council, Well, they stirred up tho neighbors, and all together, we put the things back.” Harrigan chuck- led, his hands pulling excitedly at the frayed lapels of his jacket. “The cops come, and tried to stop us, but we proved too much for ’em You should have seen the way those big niggers and square-heads just lifted the bluecots out of the way!” “Mary,” Mrs. Harrigan pushed a chair into place. “It* was a sight I'll never be forgetting. The law already had us on the sidewalk when down the street comes marching about twenty peoples earrying banners and shouting: ‘No evictions of Unemployed.’ They told us they’d just got word what was happening and how about put- ting the furniture back? .They said they’d done it more than once. So we said sure. Then the leader spoke a few words to the neighbors, and—” she caught her breath, “in twenty minutes everything was back up the stairs!” Mary and Jack stared about. “Can you beat it!” “And that ain’t all,” Mrs, Har- By ROBERT MINOR italist world became those agents of the capitalist class within the labor movement—the so-catied “So- clalist” parties! The Second Inter- national, the International of the “Socialist” parties of all countries, became the most reliable: agents of the capitalist class to prepare for armed intervention against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The “Socialist” party of the Uni- ted States, which the workers have already learned to know as the striké-breaking agents of the bos- ses in every labor struggle where they can secure influence—the “so- Down Tools May 1! By MYRA PAGE wage-cut was posted on all bulletin boards, The mills were In ferment. The storm was brewing. Men went about their work with sullen faces, groups gathered itm corners to whisper, then quickly disperse when a fore- man or stool hove into sight. Strike —Strike on May First—was in the air. In the finishing department, where the women worked, the com- mittee worked frantically. Signs appeared in the toilets and by the timeciock.” Organize Against the Wage-cut.” But Mary held back. By Wednesday the mills were plastered with dodgers and the sidewalks and docks marked with crude lettering, “All Out on May First, the workers’ holiday.” “Strike against the wage-cut, demonstrate for unemployed relief.” The local press noted with horror that even walls of public buildings had been painted with red signs during the night. The Soviet Hammer and Sickle on the postoffice—what was happening in Smoky City! From Florida Graynor wired hourly instructions to his mill sup- erintendents, and the mayor and city council—“Prevent the Walk- out,” “Smash the Demonstration.” Thursday night Jack confronted Mary, his face working. “Tomorrow morning, we’re going out. And I ain’t staying behind.” Mary dropped into a chair. “But it’s crazy-crazy. What about our ids? And all those hundreds wait- ing to take our jobs!” “No, they ain’t. Pete says the un- employed ’s going to stand back of us, and help keep out—scabs.” “Oh you and your Pete! Next thing he'll be telling you that some- cialist” party of Morris Hilquit, Abe Cahan, James Oneal and the Rev- erend Norman Thomas, welocomed the agent of the war conspirators, the Russian Menshevik, Abramo- vitch, and actively supported his efforts to raise funds for the pre- paration of armed intervention against Soviet Russia. In 1930 the workers’ Government captured those of the conspirators who were within the Soviet Union, both the “engineer” conspirators of the “Industrial Party” and the “Sociv#s* conspirators, Grohman, Sukhanove, Sher and Co., of the friends of Hillquit, Oneal and Thomas. The confessions of these cowardly Menshevik . conspirators has been put before the world, and all of these confessions show that the scoundrels actually. sabotaged the building up of the workers’ Socialist industries for the admitted purpose of preparing the way for imperialist military intervention to destroy the greatest attainment of the working class in all history, the building of the free Socialist so- ciety in Soviet Russia. In the meantime, the United States Government, together with Fish, Woll, Hillquit, etc. continue the drive for war on the Soviet Union. The United States Govern- ment has dictated to the Canadian Government an embargo against the products of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. The fed- eral government has ordered the A Sto day they'll take the smoke out of | the sky and let the sun through!” “That’s what he does say!” Jack broke in eagerly. “He says science could do it now, if the owners weren’t so chinchy. He says when we take over the plants—” “Jack McFarney, you're going plumb out of your mind!” “Naw I ain't, neither. I’m just waking up. It’s you what’s too stubborn and scared to see.” He took'a step toward her, half threat- ening, half ple-ding. “Mary—you— you—ain’t gona—seab?” She raised her fists. “Don’t you dare. You're quitting. Somebody’s got to feed the kids, ain’t they. Somebody—” Choking, she ran out of the room. Downstairs the Harrigans were busily preparing to celebrate their first May Day. The whole family was to march with the East-side Unemployed Council. » . 7 May First. The storm had broken! As unemployed councils and dele- gations from the ships paraded be- fore the mills, the plant gates open- ed and steel workers tun across the yard and gathered by hundreds in the street. “Strike] Strike!” Mar- shalled in rough columns they marched in slow time around the plant, while others from the sheet, rail, and blooming mills joined them, A shout went up as the first women streamed out. Mary was not among them, In the finishing department the women hung back, uncertain what to do, “Keep your places” the fore- man thundered. Mary with a few others ran to the window. ‘The marchers below called up to them. The cops were already swinging their clubs. Something went through Mary. The dam broke, She heard herself crying, “Come on, women, outside!” A tumult broke loose, drowning her words, “We got to all stick together now!” With the others she raced down the stairs. For an hour they circled the mills, singing, shouting. Again and again the police drove their horses into the lines, only to be swept back. Negro woman and an Italian youth, Yesterday she would have resented it, But today—today was different. She took up the chanting to a tune she knew! “Solidarity forever, for people, Red and signs stuck forest. Jack, spying Mary, wormed expulsion of the trade represen- tative of the Soviet industries, American capitalism, even though forced to accept orders for machin- ery for the Soviet Union through the extreme need for a market, nevertheless indulges in the most abandoned sabotage, or high prices, delay of delivery and impeding cre- dit, etc. Imperialist war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the dearest plan of the criminal war makers of Wall Street and Wash- ington. What to Do About It. What will the workers and the impoverished dirt-farmers do to fight against the imperialist war policy of our government of trust- magnates and bankers? Mas protests and mobilization of the toiling classes must be organ- ized. The international solidarity of the working class must be estab- lished for action against the imper~ ialist governments of all countries. Above all, the strengthening of the workers’ class struggle against capitalism—the building of the revo- lutionary trade unions, the building up of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League to mass proportions, and the more vigorous prosecution of the fight against wage-cuts, speed-up and unemploy- ment, the building of an organized mass movement of the Unemployed Councils, the building up of the uni- ty of Negro and white workers and @ mass struggle against the oppres- sion of the Negro people—ihese are the very best means of present struggle against imperialist war! No Pacifist Ilusion! The combatting of all pacifist il- lusions must be carried on more ag- gressively among the working class, A pacifist working class is the eas- iest victim of the war-makers! The “socialist” preachers of pacifism are the best recruiting-sergeants cf the open militarists. It is not an acci- dent that the capitalist government now smilingly tolerates the pacifist propaganda that used to be consid- ered “unpatriotic.” The tactics of the working class in the presence of actual war must have not the slightest touch of pa- cifism! Those who wish to destroy war must not bury themselves in prisons as “conscientious, objectors!” War cannot be prevented that way! Life itself has shown that war is ended by making war against the imperialst war-makers! When the capitalist government mobilizes for war, it being clear that the captalist government has the power and can succeed in (Continued on next page) his way to her side. “Mary!” He grinned unsteadily and gripped her arm, A man climbed on a monu- ment.facing the square and began to speak. “Fellow-workers and comrades—” “Who's that?” she inquired. “That,” Jack spoke with pride, “that’s Pete.” “Today,” the speaker continued, “we workers of Smoky City, em- ployed and unemployed, have come here to demaiid our I No wage-cuts! The-right of -o niza- tion—Immediate relief for the un- employed!—” Shouts echoed from the walls of the public buiidine “Together with our sailor comrad from Germany and China who've marched from the ships at the docks we’ve come to join in the international demonsiration of working class solidarity around the world...” The crowd pressed in closer, “The farmers of this state have sent a delegation to greet us!" “We are demonstrating our protest against imperialist war—” A wind from the bay blew back the smoky fumes. High on the hill glistened the Graynor maniona