The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1932, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932 “Peace By C. A. HATHAWAY F ONE were to read—and believe- the numerous “peace” pacts “so- lemnly” entered into by the nation: since the last war, the world certain- ly would appear to have been well protected against any new imperial- ist blocd bath until the moment of Japan's “unempected” invasion of Manchuria and Shanghai. Such illusions of security were treacherously propagated by many forces in all countries in an effort to break down the revolutionary vigilence of the workers who are un- alterably opposed to imperialist war. In the United States, a particularly dangerous role is played by the lib- eral groups centered around the “Nation” and New Republic” and by the “Socialists” headed by Nor- man Thomas. Their acceptance and enthusiastic support of the various “peace” pacts as “an outlawry of war,” as the “abolition of war as an instrument of national policy,” etc., has been and is a factor in disarming the workers in their struggle to prevent war. Dangerous Theories. John Dewey, for example, writing on the Far Eastern war situation in the “New Republic” of March 23, naively declares: “Lovers of peace should concen- trate attention upon the Peace Pact, C.A.H.); they should deny themselves the use of all methods of agitation and appeal which are contrary to its letter and spirit.” Professor Dewey is well known as one of the “lovers of peace”; it would appear that by invoking the Kel- logg Pact, which supposedly “out- laws war as an instrument of na- tional policy,” he was helping to stop the imperialist slaughter of Chinese men, women and children, and to prevent other nations from being drawn into the war. Unfortun- ately, such is not the case. Even Mr. Dewey apologetically ad- mits at the beginning of the article that all is not well with the Kel- logg Pact. He says: “The Pact should have been the conclusion of an irresistible public demand; to a considerable extent IT WAS THE TERMINATION OF THE MANOEUVERS OF DIP- LOMATS. There has always been the danger that the official adop- tion of the outlawry idea would turn out to be AN EMBALMING OF THE IDEA RATHER THAN THE EMBODIMENT OF IT.” ‘The so called pacifists, then, would have us confine ourselves to the “let- ter” and ‘spirit” of the Kellogg Pact. But Mr. Dewey is forced to admit that the “spirit” of the Pact is the “manoeuver of the diplomants,” ie., the maneuvers of one imperialist nation against another for markets, for territory, for advantage in ar- maments, and for preparations against the Soviet Union. As for the “letter” of the Pact, the “out- lawing of war,’ Mr. Dewey admits “an embalming of the idea rather than an embodiment of it.” Yet in true pacifists manner he would ask the workers—the only revolu- tionary opponets of imperialist war ~to “deny themselves the use of all methods of agitation and appeal which are contrary to its letter and spirit.” In other words he would have us shout, “Long Live the Kel- logg Pact!”, while the imperialist diplomats, who admittedly had em- balmed the idea of peace, were using the Pact for their war manoeuvers and to serve as a smoke screen to conceal their war preparations. War Preparations Aided, That this is the actual outcome of such pacifist nonsense can easily be shown. ‘The United States, as everyone knows, has concentrated its entire fleet in the Pacific—over two hundred ship, hundreds of air- planes and thousands of troops (in the Philippines and Hawai); it is openly threatening to launch a huge program of naval construction; it is quite openly preparing for war. But all this is being covered up and jus- tified by clever “peace” manoeuvers in which the Kellogg Pact sérves —-- East and t as the chief instrument. The “pacifist” gentlemen aid in hese manoeuvers. An editorial in the March 9th issue of the “Nation,” ‘or. example, gives its blessings to Wall Street. We presume from this that the bankers, Hoover and Stim. 3on are also included among the ‘lovers of peace,” among those who stick to the “letter and spirit” of the Kellogg Pact. “Through the Secretary of State,” says the editorial, “the United States stands out virtually alone today as the champion of private property,” atrocity stories, etc., which are also supported by the pacifists, particularly by their “so- cialist” wing. Peace Pacts as War Pacts. Peace negotiations and the result- ing ‘peace” pacts are not. steps to- ward peace. They cannot be so long as capitalism exists. The capitalists are interested in markets, territory, raw materials, fields of investment, etc., and the “peace” conferences are only one form of the war to wrest these things away from im- perialist rivals. CHURIA IS NOTHING BUT A POLICY OF SUICIDE.” (My em- phasis.—C.A.H.). This statement, and especially the present murderous war in China, with actual threat of war against the Soviet Union, show that the Nine Power Treaty accomplished nothing in the direction of peace, but only increased the antagonisms between the imperialist powers. The Versailles Peace and “Guarantees” |offered by the Convenant of the League of Nations have succeeded ON GUARD: THE RED ARMY PROTECTING SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION “We stand for peaceful labor. Let no one try to provoke us. We do not threaten, but we are al- ways ready to repulse an enemy.” —Voroshilov, Commander of Red Army and Navy. a the peace machinery that has been erected since the World War.” Norman Thomas, the “socialist” leader, contributed his bit toward preparing the masses to support the aggressive designs of Wall Street in the East, also in the name of “peace” when he declares in the “New Lead- er (Feb. 20th)! “The United States and the League of Nations in different ways are putfing some of the pressure on Japan which unitedly they ought to have put long ago.” This is exactly what the Wall St. bankers would say. Everything they do thty do in the name of “peace” or some other equally good decora- tion. When they loot South Amer- ican countries, they do it to main- tain “order”; when they loot China they do it in the name of the ‘open door,” and now, when they prepare for war in the East they do it in the name of “peace,” of the Kel- logg Pact—and with the blessings of the pacifists. In their war pre- parations against the Soviet Union, they use “forced labor,” “freedom of The Red Army will be a fitting “| answer to all attempts of the im- perialists to disturb the Soviet Union in the work of socialist construction. The Far Eastern Red Army stands on guard at the frontiers of the country.” —General Bleucher, Command- er of the Soviet Far Eastern Army. Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan shows very clearly the real motives behind the “peace” conferences of the imperialists when he gives his estimate of the famous Washington Conference of 1921 where an agree- ment was supposedly reached for the solution of all Pacific conflicts. “The Nine Powers Agreement,” says Tanaka, “IS EXCLUSIVELY THE REFLECTION OF THE SPIRIT OF TBADE RIVALRY. England and America wanted, by means of their great wealth, to smash our influence in China. The proposal of the limitation of armaments is merely a means of curtailing our military power and depriving us of the possibility of conquering the huge territory of China, ON THE OTHER HAND THE WEALTH OF CHINA WILL SE IN THEIR HANDS, EXCLUS- IVELY,. This agreement is a plan by means of which England and America wish to smxsh our plans. --,. THE PROPOSAL OF MIN- SEITO TO LY AVE THE NINE POWERS AGREEMENT IN religious worship,” the “sanctity of FORCE AND PURSUE A TRAD- only in keeping Europe in turmoil ever since they were signed. ‘The Kellongg Pact, conceived of and executed by th same pack of rob- bers, has had the same results—it has embalmed the idea of peace and has become an instrument of war—esnecially against the Soviet Union as was shown in 1929 when it was quickly invoked against the U. 8: S. R. in the China Eastern Railway dispute. The sincere efforts of the Soviet Union to bring about complete disarmament at Geneva were summainly rejected by the im- perialists statesmen, who do not want distarmament, but only wish to use “disarmament” conferences to fool the masses, while they pre- pare for war. The Chinese people and the Soviet Union obviously cannot be defended by following the pacifists who pious- ly and naively place their hope for peace in Nine Powers Agree- ments and Kellogg Pacts. The only way of struggle against war is the revolutionary Leninist way—the ruthless exposure of the pacifists, the mass mobilization of Stop the Robber Wav Against the Chinese People--Rally to the Defense of the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the Workers of the World > ” Pacts as War Instruments in the Far he Role of the Pacifists ae ease vonieuna MAN- 'The Las t World War-What It FOR THE WORKERS Dead Soldiers ......... Dead Civilians .. Wounded 10,000,000 eeeeeee 13,000,000 Shr as eoeess 20,000,000 Widows as Result ...... 5,000,000 Orphans as result ...... 9,000,000 FOR THE BOSSES Millionaires in 1914 .....c000. 60 Millionaires in 1916 .......... 206 Output of explosive indus- erie? & Dee seam S $ 50,000,000 RON ie ale aia ceo ee aka atts 1,000,000,000 Du Pont (explosives) div- idends 1915-1919 139,999,000 Copper Companies revenu- es (1915-1918) ...... 485,000,000 on capital stock of Bie clare dads a: sete caer asthe 250,000,000 While the pacifist were urging the workers to fight for democracy the businessmen at home were making profits of 100 to 1,000 per cent and even more. Armour & Co. meat packers in- creased profits from $13,707,000 in 1914 to 30,628,000 in 1917. An unnamed chemical company with steck amounting to $17,500 made a profit of $183,514 (1,328 per cent) in 1917. A coal company capitalized at $20,000 made a profit of $286,201 or over 2,133 per cent in 1917. In 1916 bituminous coal operators were getting profits of 18 cents a ton. In 1917 this jumped to 92 cents aton. Groceries made as high as a 236 per cent profit. And so on and on at the expense of the messes at home. (17,000 Factories Are Ready for War Production Today the United States stands ready to plunge into war with the greatest, most efficient war machine | the world has ever known. Besides | the actual arms in which the U.S. leads the world, we have what Nor- man Thomas gleefully called “plan- ned production.” The country has been divided into 14 districts. Each district will be assigned a quota of production. Speaking in New York last May 21, Payne, Ass’t Sec’y of War stated that a list of 4,000 items needed in war- fare had been prepared by the Army. Seventeen thousand factories are all signed up ready to start when the gun goes off. And even the plans for getting the raw material are ready. In the same speech Mr. Payne hinted that he is not waiting for war to start to test his plans. No! He said: “Congress must au- thorize the placing of small ‘edu- cational orders’ for essentia] muni- tions in peace time without advert- izing for bids. This must be done so that factories now producing peace time articles might know how to change over to munitions in a minimum time after Congress de- clared an emergency.” Blanks on which is written what each factory in the plan cin make in a short time are on file in the office of the United States govern- ment. The manufacturers have been educated. They have a “plan” also. The planned slaughter is ready to start. the toilers in the factories, mines and country in an eff. rt to prevent war, the struggle for the defeat of your own country—the United States —in the event of war, and the uti- lization of every possibility of tysa- sforming the imperialiee wer into a civil war, to wrest power from the capitalists and to establish a work. ers’ Soviet Republic. This alone will lead to the “outlawry” of war, to peace within a world soviet re- public of workers. dense wee eres m8 8 ssa aces ae ae eee