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daily except Sunda: SUBSCRIPTION RATES: WHEN WAR COME Article 9 ‘This is the ninth and last of a series of articles (compiled by the Social and Economic Depart- ment of the Red International of Labor Un- ions) which give in clear outline, the forecast of what war will bring, the conditions that will ensue and the histéric developments that will mark the transformation of the capitalist war into civil war ,develovments in which every worker will find it necessary to act as an agent of that transformation. Let all understand, then, that the developments which are today “but forecasts, will tomorrow be grim realities —which must be faced. Answer the war makers today in mass demonstrations—Editor. F course, capit ary var with force of its’ milita War is under- taken to di on the minds of the workers wi dope, to exterminate their vani in order to n the revolu tlonary movement of the proli * But this work must be r wed stubbo and resolutely again a. agi and with self- ‘ing activi- ties, the mes e must be carried to the work- ers, to all the soldiers, All talk of “boycotting war must be exposed. There must not be any con- cessions on this score Here is what Lenin wrote during the last war: “Now that the war has begun, it would be useless to turn our backs on it...people at the front be- gin to think, begin to question things far miore than they do at ‘home-’ We must go there and organize the proletariat for the final objective, for it is utopian to think that the proletari reach it by any peaceful means.” Or elsewhe: “A refusal to bear arms and a strike against war, ete., is simply foolishness, a wretched and cow- ardly myth of struggling unarmed against an ‘armed bourgeoisie, the fiction that capitalism can be destroyed without a desperate civil war or series of wars.” The Role of the Revolutionary Vanguard. In the wars of the future, which would involve the entire population, these factors will become more significant and more widespread in their effects. In the meantime, dependent on the scale and tension of these contradictions, this unno- ticed underground work among the masses may evoke a widespread movement and response, may bring about a mighty change in even a shorter period. As Lenin remarked, it is in war time that “a rapid change occurs in the feelings of the mass- es, when the backward strata of the proletariat in the space of a few months, sometimes in as many weeks, turn into an army of millions strong following the lead of the revolutionary vanguard of the workers.” There is no doubt at all that the present de- velopment of the’ Communist Parties and the revolutionary unions will enable them from the very commencement of hostilities to achieve’ sub- stantial successes in this struggle and definitely stant danger, not to speak of the firm resolve, | there is no other way, that there can be no other nau ~7956. table 7K ly : 1 > $6; » $3; > ths, $1; ti Borough sae. ae eee Se a sheen, ‘The Tiger Cannot Change His Stripes! —by BURCK Red. By Jorecs Bos prevent the declaration of a war itself. Of course, the fact that the Communist parties, ommunist International and the Red In- ional of Labor Unions exist, is a tremen- dous stride forward in comparison with 1914. The experience of the World War of 1914-1918, the ce of the Russian Revolution and the revolutionary wave in Western Europe has not been lost on the workers: It has left its ible impression on the minds and in the consciousness of the working class. Neither should we lose sight of the fact, how- ever that the bourgeoisie has also learnt much from the experience of the tempestuous years of the post-war period. In many respects the bour- geoisie were far quicker at grasping the signifi- cance of this experience than the Labor move~ were more conscious and systematic in a ing it. Their forces are more concentrated by far, Their technical means are more powerful. They will e to fight for their very existence! Meantime, far shrewder ways of dividing and hoodwinking the masses are being devised; every effort is being made to bring the workers under the idological influence of capital. In the capitalist countries, the Communist par- ties, even the best of them and the largest nu- merically, still have to contend with the over- srowth of ‘“‘socialist” traditions and the lack of experience in illegal work. The Test of Fire. We must therefore struecle resolntely against all illusions. As Lenin urged we must expose the > niious and compicteiy ine. catch- word that ‘we shall not allow war!’” Unquestionably, war will sift out, and lead to the final secession of all the Rights, opportunists and conciliators (including those who have al- ways used “left” phraseology): When with the declaration of war the Communist Parties will be inevitably faced with the necessity of continuing on an illegal footing, of conducting illegal activi- ties on a wide seale, with all the hard work, con- this will entail, all the democratic humbugs, all the opportunist scum will immediately show themselves up, All those elements lacking a true revolutionary outlook, who have not been through the fire and heat of the struggle, will show their true char- acter. Thus, war will be, so to speak, the touch- stone. It will throw aside all who waver and fluctuate, all who are chance-“Fellow-travelers.” But in the meantime it will continue to attract and make an intimate appeal to the thousands upon thousands of new workers to join the revo- lutionary movement, workers whose eyes will be opened by the war, who will realize from the bitter experience of the grim realities of war whether they be at the front or in the rear, that way, of putting a stop to the devastation, the misery, the ravages and horror of war than to struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist system, The End WAR PREPARATIONS IN THE PACIFIC imperialist Japan advances toward the Soviet Union on the Manchurian front, the sham battle between Hoover and the Navy League is only a screen to cover up increased ‘armaments. The present war in Manchuria and the war moves against the U. S. S. R. hasten Hoover's armament increase. The imperialist United States government has let out contracts for the building of 5 new destroyers for the navy department, as announced by Secretary of the Navy Adams, on Sept. 29, 1931. Contracts are ts follows: One Destroyer. Builder: Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine. Cost: $2,626,000. One Destroyer. Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corp., Quincy, Mass. Cost: $3,034,500. One Destroyer. Builder: Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. One Destroyer. Builder: Navy Yard, New York. One Destroyer. Builder: Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington, on the Pacific Coast. All 11 destroyers voted by the last Congress will cost together about $10,000,000, and con- tracts for the remaining 6 of these destroyers will be given out before long. For the U. S. Navy as a whole the government spent over $375,000,000 and for the army $350,- 457,000 in 1930, In air forces, the United States boasts that it now “leads the world,” with 1,752 airplanes, 27,324 officers and men, and an expen- diture of $110,000,000 in 1930. Only France with 1,667 planes approaches the United States in strength of air forces. In all, the United States spent $707,425,000 for e>maments" during the last fiscal year. This is only what is officially admitted. It leads a list of 60 nations in the figures on world armaments prepared by the League of Nations in its latest year book. War Department Activities on Pacific Coast. The Secretary of War in his annual report for 1980 shows that millions of these dollars are spent by the U. S. government on the Pacific Coast and in the islands of the Pacific for the equipment of war bases. For the Panama Canal Zone alone the war department spent $11,264,000 in the year ending June 30, 1930. Up and down the Pacific Coast from the Canal Zone north to Alaska, special activities of the war department are seen in the expenditures and appropriations of the budget. Recent ex- penditures for the Canal Zone include such de- tails as: plans for fortifications, armament of fortifications, submarine mines, seacoast bat- teries, searchlights and electrical installation: find seacoast defenses for signal, engineers and ordnance departments. The war department is also “continuing the work of building the Madden Dam to in- crease the storage of water available for use in Gatun Leke, Panama Canal.” This involves large expenditure. Further up the coast, the war department has tecently completed the building of military roads @t the Presidio of San Francisco, California. It has appropriations for work on the following tivers and harbors of the Pacific coast: Columbia River of Oregon and Washington; Snohomish River of Washington; Sacramento River, California; Oakland and Richmond Har- oors of California; San Joaquin River and Stockton Channel, California; Seattle and Ana- tortes Harbors of Washington. West of the mainland, 2,000 miles out in the Pacific Ocean, lie the Hawaiian Islands where the U. S. government has established one of the most completely fortified naval bases in the world, and 5,000 miles beyond are the Philip- pine Islands, also a war base. Recent expendi- tures of the war department in the Philippine Islands include the building of a giant power plant at Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the most completely equipped base in the Pacific and its extensive fortifications and defenses are maintained by the War Department. That the Pacific Ocean is the next war center is admitted in an article by General William Mitchell in the capitalist weekly magazine, Liberty, of June 27, 1931. Pleading for more air forces, he writes: “The United States is the only great white power whose shores are washed by that ocean the Pacific). Asia contains more than twice the population of Europe. Europe could help us very little in a contest with Asia... . “In the Pacific there are potential air bases on the Aleutian Islands, the islands on the coast north of Puget Sound, the Hawaiian Islands, . . . the Galapagos Islands, Cocos Islands, and other small islands that are within an aero- nautical stone's throw of the Panama Canal. “Alaska is the key point to the Pacific, be- cause from there aircraft can operate from a base equidistant from either the Asiatic coast or the American coast. Modern airplanes can fly from New York to Peiping, China, by way of Alaska in 50 hours.” Thus predicting the part air forces will play in the war of the Pacific, Gen. Mitchell con- cludes: “We must have an organization that will strike at the enemy's heart with our own air force before he can hit us.” And the enemy, he says quite plainly in the article, is the Soviet Union Var has already begun in the Far East against the Chinese masses and against the Soviet Union and the United States is well prepared to take part in this war. - Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! P O Box 87 Station D New York City Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party Name Address . Coeeeee reer ererererr rere y Pye err ered Ciey,, Btate Occupation - Age. Mail this to the Central Office, Communist By HARRISON GEORGE. HE Tammany tiger, its fangs dripping with the blood of murdered workers, attempts to pose as an innocent kitten! Mayor Walker is “going to the rescue” of Tom Mooney! He, Mayor Walker, head of the gangster-underworld ma- chine that rules the City of New York, head of the “tin-box” ring that stinks to heaven with graft, protector-in-chief of the cops that frame up women as prostitutes is—Save the mark!—stepping out as “hero” to denounce the frame-up against Mooney! Workers, did you ever see such supreme gall! Such a mess of filth and crime trying to perfume itself with palaver about “justice must be done’? Tom Mooney, whose case has become a symbol, and justly so, of capitalist class frame-ups against the working class, a case that BELONGS TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKING CLASS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, has this bucket of slime poured over it by politi- cians who ought to be in prison instead of Mooney! Where, workers, was Mayor Walker in 1917, when the revolutionary workers and soldiers of “Kerensky’s Russia” went storming down the streets to demand of U. S. Ambas- sador Francis—“RELEASE TOM MOONEY!” It was THAT, workers, which SAVED MOONEY’S LIFE! Where, then, was Mayor Walker! “I have long been interested in your case and convinced of your innocence,” says this dandified prince of gangland! ROT! You, Mayor Walker, and your Tammany machine, CARE NOTHING ABOUT MOONEY! You knew he was in- nocent, of course. But only NOW, when your machine of graft and corruption, your numberless “tin boxes”—that the Daily Worker exposed long before Mr. Seabury became po- litely interested—is in a tight fix; only NOW do you seek by dirty maneuvers to get into the spotlight as a “champion of justice”! Capitalism sent Mooney to prison. And you protect capitalism with your every act—even this one! And such is the hell of capitalist prison, with its long years of drab despair, that even the militant Mooney is induced to grasp at such “help,” offered hypocritically by his enemies, We can understand it, workers. We have not done enough for Mooney. And you who have never worn your heart out behind a set of walls and bars year after FORE 53 No! We must build a GREATER movement for Mooney! For the Kentucky miners, for the Imperial Valley victims sit- ting beside Tom Mooney! For all those sedected by capital- ism as its prey! We must fight better and with ever greater numbers against capitalism, because only a stronger and greater MASS fight against CAPITALISM will break the fangs of capital- ist “justice” that hold Tom Mooney and all the rest! But what shall be said of this representative of capital- ism, Walker, bosom friend of Mooney’s very jailors! What unspeakable vileness will capitalism not do to keep the work- ers subject to it? On the one hand—THE USE OF TERROR AGAINST THE WORKERS! On the other hand DEMA- GOGY, clever LIES! Deélarations of “justice”! Look, workers, what all this is meant to COVER UP! The whole working class is stirring with revolt. The starv- ing millions of unemployed are sending their delegates to MARCH ON WASHINGTON! Strikes against wage cuts are breaking out everywhere! And to this rising revolt the capitalists are replying with TERROR. More than THIRTY “MOONEYS” are being framed up in Kentucky. The Scottsboro “Nine” await death! The Atlanta “Six”! (Let us not forget the Centralia boys of 1919 still in prison! Nor the Imperial Valley victims of yes- terday!) .Must we name the whole list to show you that capitalism is still capitalism, and that the Tammany Tiger is its vilest agent! But there is MORE! While the demagogy of Hoover's “adequate relief” is meant to deceive the unemployed, the weapon of terror is used against the unemployed! The Pon- tiac leaders of the unemployed are lashed with whips! In every city the police brutality against the starving grows! The Dreiser Committee is indicted for lifting the lid of hell in Kentucky! In Chicago the Communist Party is bearing the brunt of savage police attacks! The Communist Party, leader of the struggle against WAR, of strikes against wage cuts, for Unemployment In- surance, of every REAL struggle, INCLUDING THAT FOR MOONEY’S RELEASE—is subjected to the pressure of ever growing attack. And to put a cloak over all this, capitalism, using such a fitting tool as Mayor Walker, COMES OUT AS THE LEADER OF THE FIGHT FOR MOONEY! What mockery! Walker who yesterday took the bloody hand of the fascist Grandi, the murderer of the workers of Italy; Walker, whose own hands are red with the blood of Steve Katovis, of Levy and Gonzalez, is tomorrow posing be- fore the limelight as the rescuer of Tom Mooney, more “heroic” even than Mooney himself! No, workers, such as Jimmy Walker will never free the host of Tom Mooneys they themselves have stuck away to rot behind prison walls! Tom Mooneys of America will be freed by the workers, and ONLY the workers! Just as the workers will beat back every assault on their leaders, in jail or to be semt to jail in an effort to step what cannot be stopped—THE REVOLUTIONARY OVERTHROW OF CAPITALISM! Statement of the TUUL on the. Lawrence Strike torious in the future struggles. The fighting spirit of the Lawrence workers guarantees this. The major lessons we must learn are first, that the struggle can only be successful if it. is car- ried on egainst the treacherous leaders, as well as against the bosses, whose agents they are. And secondly, that we must, have better organiza~ tion before and during the struggle, and over- Communist Party U. 8. A Party, P. O, Box 87 Station D. New York City.. At, nearly six weeks of heroic struggle, the Lawrence textile workers have been driven back to work without being able to defeat the 10 per cent wage cut. The strike was broken not only through hunger and wholesale arrests but primarily through the strike-breaking and the treachery of the United Textile Workers and the AFL. officials, The Lawrence textilé workers in this strike maintained their splendid fighting traditions ac- cumulated through decades of militant struggle. From the beginning to the end, the 23,000 work- ers stood solid almost to a man. It was only when they recognized that the A.F.L. and the U.T.W, leaders, through their skillful and cun- ning treachery, had trapped them, had prepared the defeat, that they went back as a body, almost es they had come out in the most spontaneous strike. The Lawrence textile workers could have scored a victory in this struggle. The workers were united and ready to fight to a finish. The militant struggle they carried on for over five weeks is proof of this. They were defeated first because they did not yet know that the militant phrases of Watt and Reviere, Muste and Shul- man, were but a cover for the united conspiracy of the mill owners, the government and the yel- low labor fakers, to defeat them at all costs, When they found that at the critical moment, at the order of the mill owners, the U.T-W. lead- ers came out openly and told them to go back to work, they were not able to again regather their forces for the continuation of the fight. The defeat was also due to the failure to build the organization of the workers prior to the strike. The failure to build united front committees in the mills, the failure to build their own union— the National Textile Workers Union, Had this been done, it would have been impossible for the U-T.W., the A.F.L:, to ‘mislead and betray the Lawrence textile workers, The weaknesses of the General Strike Com- mittee and the NTWU in the conduct of the strike made it more difficult for the workers to smash all their enemies. The chief mistakes were undue legalism, lack of firmness, loose organiza- tion, and the inability to develop the united strike activity. " The Lawrence strike is of the greatest signifi- cance to the workers of the U. 8: If we learn the causes for the defeat, we will be able to be vie front of the rank and file in all phases of the, come.the reliance on spontaneity. We must de- velop the unity of the workers and build the fighting organs of struggle from the ranks of the workers themselves, The Lawrence workers will very shértly be able to turn this defeat into 4 new advance if they learn these lessons, and prepare for the next struggle. This must_take the form of a fight against discrimination, for local demands in each mill and department. They must build their millt committees, build the National Textile Workers Union. ‘The mill owners encouraged by the blow to tthe Lawrence workers, may become more brazen in their attacks: But they will find that, the Lawrence workers will know better now how to answer and defeat them, In the name of all workers, we salute the fight- ing spirit of the Lawrence workers: Their strug- gles are an inspiration to all workers. We pledge our support to help them to build up a powerful organization, to drive out the bosses’ agents from their ranks, and to smash the bosses’ attacks, National Executive Committee, Trade Union Unity League. - Tell This to ’Em A comrade send us in a little story which we take editorial liberties with in chopping up, and we beg his pardon, but we think he won't mind: There is an open man-hole in the crowded street, with a section of iron pipe curved around it to guard against accidents. Above it extends @ pole on which a Red Flag is fluttering in the breeze. Below it, hung on the iron pipe, is a sign— “MEN AT WORK” A chap eyes it all thoughtfully from the curb, then disappears. Shortly he returns with a nice white paper on one side of which he has smeared wet paste, and, on the other, something written in large letters with lamp black. He watches his chance and then pastes it right below that “Men at Work” sign. Again on the curb he sure veys it. It now reads: “MEN AT WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY FLAG UNDER WHICH THERE IS ANY WORK.” Cee cen Princes And Perfumes A French comrade reminds us “Les extremes se touchant,” or in plain English, “Extremes meet,” which of course may be carried too far, but in this case it fits, as per the following: “The making and peddling of perfumes has come to be the chief occupation of many mem- bers of exiled Russian royalty. One Russian prince, Prince Matchabelli, has devoted many years to creating subtle scents for the delight of the most fastidious women . . Prince Vasili, said to be nephew o the Czar and the son of Grand Duke Alexander, is the road rep- resentative for the Matchabelli perfumes; while his wife Natalia sells them over a counter at the Bergdorf Goodman store, where they were previously sold by Grand Duchess Marie.” This is from the New York “Beauty Shop News” ot Oct. 15 But while interesting, it doesn’t tell the whole story. You see, perfume is created by a combination of perfume essence mixed with a substance called “skatol” which holds it and makes the smell last This “skatol’’ is, be it said, the oily quintessence of the most'smelly material —excrement, dung. Ks So it is quite natural (and after all they are not extremes, except both are extremely offensive) to find that Russian princes and skatol have found their way together into the perfume business along Fifth Avenue. Ain’t Capitalists Sweet? A littie letter which the N. Y. Times of Nov. 6 publishes as a sort of a “capitalist-erocodile” (O, certainly, the capitalist press make use of the varmint, comrades!) reproved the obviously dirty deal that is being put over on unemployed sten- ographers. “The method is to apply. to an otherwise reputable employment agent .to send prospective applicants for stenographic positions, having several call after usual office-hours, when they are required, ostensibly, to show their skill, but in fact to turn out full-page letters with carbon copies, evidently in answer to recent inquir- ies—Steno.” Isn't that delightful? to white collar workers? ers’ Union! Ain’t the> bosses sweet Ask the Office Work- Capitalist Morality Or perhaps it might be “capitalist legality’— it matters little. Anyhow a comrade noted that the cops removed the Red Fiag froth the build- ing up in Harlem where our brave young com- rade, Edwards of the Y.C.L., laid in death and from which he was buried. ‘The display of a Red Flag is contrary to cap- italist “morality” or “legality” or something. Anyhow it was removed by cops. But the same comrades noted that the same cops, with the same “morality” and the same “legality” (which of course aren’t shared by Com- munists), in spite of the fact that capitalist “morals” and “law” forbid prostitution, never molested the six streetwalkers who—poor vic- tims of capitalism that they are—approach men on that very same block, nor do they disturb the brothels that abound on both sides of the street. Rather Interesting But it is out of our reach. Wespeak about a cople of books which the miserable publishers won't send us without Five Bonesa book. And we haven't the money in spite of all the won- derful yarns about “Moscow gold.” They are two books published--by Harper & Bros., the first one, “They Told Barron,” and tha second, “More They Told Barron.” Barron, you should know, was a newspeper financial reporter who became owner of the Wall Stiset Journal, He was a devil for keeping records of every- thing any financiar told him, writing it down and filing it away, When he died these not:s were gone over and published in the booxs we mention, but can’t buy. So we have to tell you about what they say in the words of Bu.ion Rascoe, who reviews thém in the N. Y. Sun cf Nov. 14: 2 “It showed to what extent the gambling spirit pervaded the whole scheme of industry and the development of natural resources, 14 showed men into whose hands had fallen the resources of 2 great nation playing with these resources as irresponsibly as so many urchins shooting craps in an alley... . In the main, stock-rigging, sell-outs, double-crossing, prt- vate feuds and chicanery seemed so much a part of our financial system tha tone won- dered how the system had ever survived such doings.” ts . Hold your horses, brother, it hasn't survived! But he goes on to quote some ofthe words of the books themselves: ~ “October 11, 1909, F. H. Prince sald: ‘John D. Rockefeller is worth a billion, He makes his money by simply tipping out $500,000,000 of securities, then the market goes down and he takes them back at his leisure. Of course the market cannot stand the weight of his selling.” fee Then, since that sanctified fraud of the League of Nations is just getting down to Business of making war while proclaiming “peace,” we go back to the words of the Sun réviewer: “Among the revelations of the post-war era, the most extraordinary has to do with Ed- ward L, Doheny’s part in launching the League of Nations to protect his oil properties in Mexico.” : Of course we already know that capitalism 4s rotten with chicanery from top to, bottom. But we are glad that one of its own darling boys openly admits it and proves it so conclusively. 4 oR j

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