The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 10

PAGE -SIX eerie DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, SATURDAY, MAY 28 , 1932 The Socialist Party Gets Behind ‘the War Drive imperialism as to what had to be . the League of Nations gang of im- , breaking, scab-herding American By UW. M. WICKS. The point has now been reached done before the League could be- | perialist bandits, with whom Am- Federation of Labor leadership and moment the burst forth. when at any world war may new The actual fact of imperialist war and intervention against the Soviet Union is definitely on the order of the day. The bandit powers of the world have for been moving, some- ifie tempo, sometimes as they maneouver to ater share of loot from but nevertheless unmis- ixably in this direction. The devastating economic crisis, the most profound and deep in all history, t 1endously sharpened all the inner 1 outer contradictions ol capit In pur imperialism uses the § asa war machinery. That pitalist mewspapers d this role of the is proved by the] publicity given to all utter- ances of it lers Soviet Unien propaganda in et Union, the speech, de- exactly gns of war mongers against take a few of the and acts of the leadership. Mrs. ger came back from j Geneva, where she attended the | League of Nations conferences on limitation. of armaments, Praising the League the woman said: “Pear of a Bolshevist invasion keeps the Geneva conference from moving toward its objective ot limitation of world armaments.” Then, at the Socialist Party con- vention recently held in Milwaukee, the whole leadership utilized the hypocritical ge ture requesting United Stataes recognition of the Soviet Union to indulge in decep- tive lies about capitalist democracy as opposed to Soviet dictatorship. Charles Solomon urged “free speech” for White Guardists inside the Soviet Union. The Rev. Nor- man Thomas, socialist party can- didate for president, while paying lip service to recognition of “Rus- gia,” launched a tirade against the Soviet Union and demanded “free- dom for political prisoners.” All this was a prelude to the action of the Socialist Party con- vention in urging the United States government to join the League of Nations. The resolution adds that the United States should enter “under conditions which will make it a more effective instrument for world peace.” Mrs. Berger had al- ready given the official version of the Secong International lackeys of uit of its policy American | destruction | Nations, | come such an instrument of peace— of the Soviet Union. | and striving | There can be no other possible in- /erican imperialism is collaborating to take the lead in world reaction, the Socialist Party Japanese and Korean workers in Tokio demonstrating against their |ship of the Japanese Communist Party. terpretation of her slanderous state- ment quoted above. The League of Nations, with the coltoboration of American imperial- ism, has prepared large scale and intervention against the Soviet Union. The Socialist Party leader- ship ,by endorsing the League ot proves to its capitalist masters its anxiety to do its part in this crusade. Continuing and supplementing this treachery is the demand of Thomas for “freedom for political prisoners in Russia.” These prison- ers about whom Thomas is so much concerned are none other than. the depraved hirelings of French imperialism —the leaders inside the Soviet Union of the wrecking and spying agency of French imperialism who were laying the foundation for armed interven- tion inside the borders of the Soviet Union. Thomas wants this scum freed and Solomon demands free speech for them so they can carry on the work that was interrupted when they were caught in their vile conspiracies. In other words, while endorsing | leadership, demands of the Soviet Union that its workers’ government refrain from defending itself against counter-revolutionary wreckers and interventions, Thus, we see the Socialist Party continuing and intensifying its “ideological” campaign for inter- vention against the Soviet Union.., At the same time the Socialist Party leadership fully endorses the strike- | By GERTRUDE HAESSLER We have on hand over 60 pam- phlets at the present time, in addi- tion to a number of books, on the various phases of the problem of the impending war and the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Some of these pamphlets | have been intensively distributed in ‘connection with our anti-war cam- AMERICAN IMPERIALISM SUPPORTING JAPANESE ROBBER WAR - sating betave Japanese SF 4 in practice completely identifies with the fierce drive to aid in im- posing the Hoover hunger program <= bosses’ war drive under the leader- upon the American masses. Thus there is merged in one unified pro- gram the attack on the working= class nationally and internationally in pursuit of the fundamental im- perialist policy of trying to find a capitalist way out of the crisis— that is, by placing the entire burden upon the toiling masses and by fomenting imperialist war, espe- cially against the stronghold of the paign, but the popularization of the i teachings of Lenin on war, and the decisions of the Sixth Congress on the methods of struggle against the war danger, has lagged very much behind. What are the various phases of helping to,combat the war danger through literature? There is the problem of a thorough theoretical understanding of the problem and of the strategy of meeting it. This need is met by our theoretical lit- erature on war—the teachings of Lenin in the form of Volumes 2 and 3 of the “Little Lenin Library,” “So- cialism and War” (15 cents) and “The War and the Second Interna- tional” (20 cents). We have. the Sixth Congress Resolution in pam- phlet form under the title of “The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communists” (15 cents). Then there is our new pamphlet, “Towards Revolutionary Mass Work” (10 cents), which con- tains the E.C.C.I. Resolution quoted above. A study of these works, and a discussion on the theoretical as- pect of the war prcblem, will give all workers the foundation upon ‘which they can develop their prac- tical activity along the correct line and with the utmost clarity consciousness. But to reach the non-Party work- crs with our analysis of the-war | danger and to mobilize them for the struggle against war, we have a great deal of literature both of the | factual and of an agitatoinal na- | ture | About War. | “Chemical Warfare,” by Donald ‘A. Cameron (10 cents); “Women ; and War,” by Grace Hutchins (5 cents); “Life In the U. S. Army,” by Walter Trumbull (10 cents); ‘Revolutionary Siruggle Against ; War Versus Pacifism,” by A. Bittle- man (10 cents), and “Yankee Colo- and | working class of the world, the Soviet Union. As against this treacherous ine ot the Socialist Party and the im- perialist war-mongers the Commu- nist Party raises the fundamental slogan of class against class. On the basis of united front action of the workers in industry and the unemployed we fight against wage cuts, speedups, the stagger system, the “block-aid” fake, and struggle for unemployment and social insur- ance at the expense of the govern- ment and the capitalists. Communists’ Anti-War Policy As against the mass treachery of the Socialist Party in endorsing the League of Nations and trying toe conceal the war preparations of that instrument of imperialist war and intervention, we mobilize the masses for a determined struggle against war; the most immediate and pressing task of which is to stop the shipments of munitions, arms and all other material to Japan as the spearhead of the imperialist drive drive in the East and to France and vassal states which have prepared for intervention against the Soviet Union from the West. In pursuit of this policy we work for the setting up of united front rank and file committee on the decks, on the ships and in war industries, In all our work, as opposed to the pacifist deception that tries to cover up the war now actually be carried on in the Far East, we definitely popularize before the broadest possible masses the Leninist fight against imperialst war—to convert it into civil war. As against the Socialist Party policy of aiding the war mongers we now raise as a slogan, preparatory to putting it into practice the de- feat of our own bourgeoisie in any predate: ° war in which they en- gage so that in their weakness arising from defeat we can deliver the blow that will put an end to their regime of slavery, terror and war. The Workers Want to Know How to Defend the Soviet Union gives facts about war which every worker should know about. China “War In China,’ by Ray Stewart (10 cents); “Soviet. China,” by J. James and R. Doonping (10 cents); “Hell Over Shanghai (3 cents); “Japanese Imperialism Stripped” (the Tanaka Memorandum agains$ the Soviet Union) (5 cents); “Chae pei In Flames” (5 cents)—these de- scribe the actual war going on in China and through China against the Soviet Union, from every angle. Defense of the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union Stands for Peace,” by M. Litvinov (1 cent); “The Soviet Dumping Fable,” by M. Litvinov (2 cents); “The War of In- tervention Against the Soviet Union and the Second International,” by P. R. Dietrich (10 cents); “War Preparations Against the Soviet Union,” by Marcel Cachin (20 cents); “The Soviet’s Fight for Dis- armament,” - A. Lunacharsky (20 cents); “The Red Army,” by A. Al- red (10 cents)—all of these explain the danger to the. Soviet Uniorrand the efforts of the Soviet Unien to maintain peace. Conditions «Within the U.S.S.R. One of the best methods of de- fending the Soviet Union is to pop- ularize among the workers existing conditions in the workers’ father- land. We have at the present time so many of such pamphlets that it is impossible to enumerate them all. There are at least forty of them, covering practically every phase of life in the Soviet Union, and ranging in price from 5e to 50c, besides the newest books which have just appeared. These pamphiets have received hardly any publicity in our press, but some of them are almost sold out because of the demand of the workers for knowledge of the actual conditions under which the mics,” by Harry Gannes (10 cents),Soviet workers live and labor.