The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1932, Page 4

} i i { { DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1932 Page Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Ine., daily exexept Sunday, at 50 E. {10th Sts'New York City, NAY. Telephone Algonquin 4-7986. Cable “DAIWOBK. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: me year, $6; six months, $3 Manhattan and Bronx, New York six months, $4.50. two months, $1; Foreign: one ye: excepting Act to Defeat the War HIS August First, International Fightiny Day Against Imperialist War, occurs in the midst of a world-wide drive of the imperialist bandits toward another world slaughter o f the toiling masses. As the crisis of capitalism continues and deepens the imperialists are striving to add to all their crim nst the toiling masses the col 1 crime of another world w hat today is already under way in the Far East and directed he Chinese people and the Soviet Union. The statesmen of the world are today resorting to deceptive peace talk, just as their predecessors did in 1912 to 1914. The more these crim- inals pushed the world to the brink of the world slaughter the louder their protestations of peace. Those who talked loudest were g out the most adroit and debased trickery in preparation for the * war. -All the peace maneuvers then and now were and are for the purpose of establishing a background before which they could deceive the workers and farmers of their own lands into support of the war machine. At this time it is well to learn a lesson from the struggle of the bonus “army” in Washington. Unquestionably the vast majority of these men were fooled as boys in 1917 into believing that they were engaged in a mighty crusade to “make the world safe for democracy.” When the oily capitalists whose government had plunged the United States into the war told these boys that they were heroes, that thei rsacrifices would never be forgotten, that there would be nothing too good for them when they got back, most of them believed it. Today these boys who were promised everything are now men who face policemen’s clubs, tear-gas and bullets when they ask for a crust of bread. The same Wall Street bandit gang that plunged this country into the war of 1917 are at this moment engaged in fomenting war in the Far East —a war that is growing and unless there is immediate and decisive action will grow into a world war far surpassing the last one. There must be determined actions against the war mongers right here on the home front. Definitely connected with beating back the capitalist drive toward war is the fight for unemployment and social insurance, against wage cuts, against the terror and discrimination of the Negro masses. All out August First! Stop the shipments of ntunitions to Japan! Intensify the mass struggle against production of war materials! Build the revolutionary united front against hunger and impoverish- ment,. against fascism and war! Fight for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! Mussolini’s Secret Naval Building YWECTOR C. BYWATER, one of the the most tireless propagandists for British naval supremacy, has come out with an exposure of the fact that the fascist-war-mongering government of Italy is secretly engaged in construction of naval vessels prohibited by numerous naval “teaties.” ‘Those who have been reading in the DAILY WORKER the documents dealing with the manner in which war preparations of 1912-14 were con- cealed behind all kinds of exalted peace talk will recognize that such trickery, such double-dealing is not in any way an unusual thing. It is the tried and approved method of every imperialist power. It 1s the ap-. plication to war preparations of the Machavellian politics of every capi- talist state and of all capitalist diplomats whose one rule of conduct is to use words to conceal thought and action. What is of grave concern to the toiling masses of the world is the fact that the imperialist antagonisms have sharpened to such a degree that ¥ngland’s leading naval publicist rips the mask off Mussolini’s secret naval buliding activities. This is an attempt further to bring together France, the enemy in the Meditteranean of Italy, and the ruling class of Britain—a process that received considerable impetus at the Lausanne conference where the “gentlemen's agreement” was arrived at not to pay debts to the rival imper- jalist bandits on Wall Street. Another big reason for the attack against fascist Italy is the fact that the UnitedStates imperialists are striving to align Italy behind its own imperialist policies in Europe. Finally thé British naval “expert,” Bywater, lets loose such facts in order to anticipate the exposure of similar practies of Great Britain and to justify such action. HE admission by the Italian fascist dictatorship that it is now engaged in the construction of 14 warships, while its delegates have been making sham “peace” and “disarmament” gestures at the Geneva “dis- armament” conference, was coupled with the statement that other na- tions are doing the same thing. The imperialists expose each other's frantic war preparations while trying to shroud with secrecy and pacifist demagogy their own war preparations. These developments must be a warning signal to the toiling masses of the world. More than ever it is essential that this August First, In- ternational Fighting Day Against Imperialist War, be the signal for tre- mendous mass mobilization against the vicious war drive of the imperialist ruling powers. The action of August First must raise to a higher level and increase on an ascending scale the mass fight against imperialist war and in defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. More “Nationalizaton” Deception HE Milwaukee Leader, organ of Mayor Hoan’s anti-working class So- cialist Party machine, in its issue of July 21, editorializes on the bless- ings of government in business. It seems that one W. E. Mallalieu, general manager of the national board of fire underwriters, delivered a radio talk in which he said young | people coming out of school had less opportunity to start in business for \themselves because the government is engaging too much in business. ‘rhe socialist sheet instead of exposing the fact that decadent capitalism has no place for millions of youth, utilizes the incident to elaborate on ithe reformist Socialist Party’s “nationalization program,” and sermonizes thus: “Our friend of the board of fire underwriters is all wrong in what . ails the young folks just out of school. They do not suffer from too ‘ much government in business—they suffer from not enough govern- ment in business.” One of the most elementary principles of Marxism is the fact that mationalization within the frame-work of the capitalist state only strengthens the capitalists. All this talk emanating from yellow social- ‘ists, liberals, insurgent republicans and democrats about nationalization and state control over industries and banks meets with considerable favor among many capitalist elements. Especially is this so with regard to jventures hard hit by the crisis. In many instances governments, par- ticularly in Europe, take control of industry and banks for the purpose shouldering their bankruptcies upon the taxpayers. The former owners reimbursed with bonds which draw guaranteed interest from the ‘This is, as Comrade Manuilsky recently said: “the nation- of losses, the nationalization of economic downfall, leaving the to capitalism.” In general this slogan means greater concentyation of power in the hands of the capitalist state power, which exists only to enable the cap- Atalist class to impose by force its rule over the working class. It is an for perpetuating slavery that the socialist leaders would by their nationalization schemes, _ It has nothing in common with the Marxist-Leninist position which fmsists that the only way industry and national wealth can be made avail- able for the masses is by the destruction of the capitalist system and the of the Fale of the proletariat. « ALL OUP! AGAINST ESEY PERIALT, By L. M. BELL IN an attempt to save itself from the economic crisis, which hits Japan with the same mercilessness as it does the rest of the capitalist world, Japanese imperialism has launched a robber war against the Chinese people in Manchuria and Shanghai. Background of Invasion Half a century ago, threatened by the possible colonization of the island empire by White Imperial- ism, the Japanese feudal warlords started to “modernize” the country and followed the Western powers in industrialization and militariza- tion, Owing to the total absence of raw materials in the islands, the ruling class of Japan made the most strenuous efforts to maintain a big navy and a strong military force to make possible the securing of raw materials from “backward” countries and to complete success- fully with other imperialist powers in the sale of their manufactured products. This resulted in the extreme concentration of capital (seven concerns dominate almost all in- dustry, trade, traffic and banking in Japan) and the most brutal form of exploitation of the work- ing class. Meanwhile the posses- sion of land in the hands of a few landowners and the remnant feudalistic condition still existing in the village drive the Japanese peasants into greater misery, The economic crisis has thrown two million workers out of employment. Dissatisfaction among _ workers grows and the revolutionary wave rises throughout the country. Sought Capitalist Way Out Through the military occupation of Manchuria and the bombing of Shanghai, the capitalists of Japan sought a capitalist way out of the crisis. To quench the revolution- ary flames of the proletariat and poor farmers, they appealed for patriotic support of the war ad- venture, But this time the Jap- anese militarists made a serious mistake. t Instead of an outburst of “pa- triotic” feeling in the country, the workers, peasants; students and in- telligentsia of Japan, under the leadership of the Japanese Section of League Against Imperialism and the Communist Party of Japan, have from the very beginning fought against the robber in China and for the defense of the Chinese revolution and of the Soviet Union. The Japanese Section of the League Against Imperialism has 17 provincial committees. In Tokio alone, it has 14 factory groups, 70 street groups, 20 school groups and @ven groups in the military bar- Backs. The League Section has a fortnightly central organ which has reached a circulation of 4,000, it has also published a series of anti- imperialist paphiets. Held Anti-War Congress ‘The Japanese Section of League Against Imperialism called its first Congress in December last year in the imidst of the bloody war in Manchuria. In order to divert the attention of the white terror of Japanese Imperialism, the Congress was held in two separate parts. The Congress of the first group, which ‘ncluded the sectaridt and delegates from ‘Korea, the All- Japanese Peasant League, as well vin-dts Blection-Plat-.{ pounced upon by the police and arrested, as delegates from provinces, was Japanese Masses Stem Growing Revolutionary Movement Congress of the second group was held successfully from December Ist to 6th. Under the leadership of the Japa- nese Section of the League Against Imperialism and of the Communist Party of Japan, anti-war demon- strations were held and anti-war leaflets were distributed in the fac- tory districts of Tokyo, Osaka and other cities and even villages. A demonstration against war was staged by 1,00 students of the Im- perial University, 25 of whom were arrested. Strikes broke out in factories where war materials are manufactured. Agitation against war was even carried into military barracks, as a result of which 600 soldiers of the Shanghai Expedi- tionary Force refused to fight and 200 others revolted in Manchuria. | Consequently the Mikado govern- mnet arrested thousands of revolu- tionary workers and used the se- verest persecution against “dan- gerous thoughts” trying desperately to stamp out the rising anti-im- perialist movement of the Japanese masses, The recent trial of 202 Communists which resulted in one sentenced to death, three to life imprisonment and the rest to terms of three to fifteen years of im- prisonment marked an intensifi- cation of the Mikado Government's bloody suppression of the anti- imperialists. This terror against the anti-imperialists is aimed to crush the growing movement of the Japanese masses against the war on the Chinese people and against the steady march of Jap- anese troops toward the Soviet Workers’ Counter Olympics in Chicago Sportsmen to Struggle Against Imperialist War By B. K. GEBERT 0% July 28, 29, 30 and 31st the Workers’ International Sport Meet will take place in Chicago, which is organized in opposition to the bosses’ sport meet, known as the Olympics in Los Angeles. ‘The sport movement, as a whole, is minimized and underestimated by the working-class revolutionary movement in the United States. This is the last thing always con- sidered. And it is one of the very important factors in the lives of the working class of the U. S. The bosses very effectively use sports against the working class. In the call of the American Olympics Committee (of which President Hoover is honorary president and Henry Stimson, secretary of state, is honorary vice-president and Pat- rick H,. Hurley, secretary of war, and Charles F, Adams, secretary of the Navy, are active members, and on the Chicago Executive Committee we find the names of Democratic Mayor Cermak, Col. Frank Knox, General A. Davis and @ number of other generals,’ indus- trial magnates and bankers, in- cluding Melvin Traylor, of the First National Bank) this fact is fully recognized and stated very openly. They very definitely de- clare: “In zecent years there has been a surprising lack of social unrest in the U. S. Probably the most important factor in pre- venting general disturbances of any kind is the nation-wide in- terest and participation in ath- letic sports and games. The ideals of sport have left a definite im- pression on the character of the people of this country. For this reason, if for no other, our pro- gram merits the support of every patriotic citizen.” “The Baseball Magazine” carries a leading article with headline: unrest,” points out that “managers of huge corporations have adopted | baseball as an important factor in maintaining plant and efficiency and employes’ loyalty and avoid- ing vexatious and costly wage dis- putes.” This opa@m admission of the pur- pose of thé bosses’ sports must be seriously considered by the work- ing class. We fully realize the im- portance of building the L. S. U. to counteract bosses’ sports. The bosses realize the importance of the Olympics so much that according to figures given to the press, as to the cost of the Olympics, that the preparations for the Olympics alone will cost $6,041,000. This, of course, does not include traveling expenses, ete, This is just organizational expenses for the Olympics. And the bosses are doing their damnest to bring sportsmen from all over the world and to mobilize the masses to watch the developments of the sports in Los Angeles and bring as many as they only can to the Olympics proper. They esti- mate that 105,000 people will attend the Olympics. The Workers’ Sports Meet. And now as to our Counter Olympics. The preparations for our Sports Meet were not broad enough. They did not involve the masses. However, in spite of the many shortcomings, and weak- nesses, a large number of workers’ sport organizations have been won to participate. In the Chicago Stagg Field. Many workers give their full endorsement and co- operation. While the Olympics in Los An- geles will be held in the atmos- phere of imperialist war prepara- tions, the Chicago Workers’ Sports Meet will be held with a deter- mination to struggle against im- perfalist war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Worker sports- men of the Soviet Union were not “Baseball as a-cure for industrial . invited to the Olympics, The Com- Anti-Imperialist Struggle of the #202 Workers Arrested In Desperate Drive to? Pret te attack the Soviet Union. The capitalists in the United States, France and England are supporting this bloody slaughter of the Japanese workers by the Japanese ruling class. -.Task of U. S. Workers To stop the Japanese war in Manchuria and to prevent this from developing into a war on the Soviet Union, we, American toilers, should organize to support the re- volutionary workers, peasants and students of Japan in their struggle against the war carried on by their imperialist government. Mass meetings should be held through- out the United States to popularize the struggle of the Japanese masses among the workers of this coun- try. Revolutionary greetings should be sent to the Japanese masses pledg- ing our support to their struggle against imperialism. ‘The American should realize that the defense of these heroic Jap- anese comrades is an inseparable part of our work in fighting against hunger and war, in fighting for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Give full support to | the World Congress Against War to take place in Genéva on Aug- ust 28th! All out on August First, International Day of Struggle Against’ Imperialist War. mittee of the Counter- Olympics invited the Soviet Union sportsmen to come to Chicago. They were denied admission by Secretary of State Stimson, who is honorary vice-president of the Olympics. The officialdom of the Chicago Federation of Labor, as the A. F. of L. leaders everywhere, support the bosses’ Olympics and refuse to give any support whatsoever to the Workers’ Sport Meet in Chicago. But the masses of workers in Chicago and vicinity fully realize the international importance of the Workers’ Sport Meet in Chi- cago, Every worker in Chicago and vicinity shall consider it his or her duty to come and bring others to participate in the Counter Olympics, Join Labor Sports Union. Judging from the program ar- ranged by the committee, this will be one of the most important workers’ sports gathering in the U.S. The program is so rich that everybody who will come will enjoy it. In addition to the sports meet there will be greetings from work- ing-class organizations in Chicago a‘d an artistic program given by t,: Workers’ Cultural Federation. We must utilize the Workers’ Sports Meet in Chicago to build, strengthen and develop our as yet small Labor Sports Union into a broad mass organization. “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war hreaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- tied on now, daily, hourly.” : LEN! “The struggl- against militarism fs an extreme form of the clas3 struggle against war and against (nee reece ae | How the First World War Was Prepared PEACE TALK AS A CLOAK FOR WAR! PREPARATIONS Documents from the Period Preceding the First Imperialist World War EDITOR'S NOTE:—This is a continuation of the series of docu- ments the DAILY WORKER is publishing dealing with events lead- ing up to the World War. These documents are all from official sources, many of them obtained from the famous secret archives of the old Czarist government which were seized by the Bolsheviks shortly after the November revolu- tion of 1917. ‘These documents, newspapers re- ports and utterances of statesmen show how peace talk was used to cloak the preparations for the last world war and shed a revealing statesmen of the imperialist powers © ftoday who have already begun light upon the diplomats and in the Far East the next world war, Seat ANGLO-FRENCH MILITARY MEASURES Secret Correspondence Between Sir Edward Grey and the French Ambassador in London, M. Paul Cambon Sir Edward Grey to M. Cambon, | French ambassador in London. Foreign Office, November 22, 1912. My dear Ambassador: From time to time in recent years | the French and British naval and military experts have consulted to- gether. It has always been under- stood that such consultation does not restrict the freedom of either government to decide at any fu- ture time whether or not to assist the other by armed force. We have agreed that consultation between experts is not, and ought not to be regarded as, an engagement that commits either Government to ac- tion in a contingency that has not arisen and may never arise. The disposition, for instance, of the French and British fleets respec- tively at the present moment is not based upon an engagement to co-operate in war. You have, however, pointed out that if either Government had grave reason to expect an unpro- voked attack by a third Power, it might become essential to know whether it could in that event de- pend upon the armed assistance of the other. I agree that, if either Govern- ment had grave reason to expect an unprovoked attack by a third Power, or something that threat- ened general peace, it should imme- diately discuss with the other whether both Governments should act together to prevent aggression and to preserve peace, and if so, what measures they would be pre- pared to take in common. If these measures involved action, the plang of the General Staffs would at once be taken into consideration, and the Governments would then decide what effect should be given to them, Yours, etc.; E. GREY. 078 M. Cambon, French Ambassador in London, to Sir Edward Grey: French Embassy, London, se November 23, 1918, Dear Sir Edward, You reminded me in your letter of yesterday, 22d November, that during the last few years the mille tary and naval authorities .of France and Great Britain have consulted with each other ftom time to time; that it had always been understood that these cone sultations should not restrict the liberty of either Government to de+ cide in future whether they should lend each other the support of their armed forces; that, on either side, these consultations between experts were not and should not be considered as engagements bind- } ing our Governments to take action in certain eventualities; that, | however, I had remarked to you that, if one or other of the two Governments had grave reasons to fear an unprovoked attack on the part of a third Power, it would become essential to know whether it could count on the armed support of the, other. Your letter answers that point, and I am authorized to state that, in the event of one of our two Governments having grave reasons to fear either an act of aggression from a third Power, or some event threatening the general peace, that Government would immediately ex= amine with the other the question whether both Governments should. act together in order to prevent the act of aggression or preserve peace. If so, the two Governments would deliberate as to the measures which they would be prepared to take in common; if those measures in- volved action, the two Governments. would take into immediate consid- eration the plans of their general staffs and wolud then decide as to the effect to be given to those plans. Yours, etc., = PAUL CAMBON:. bc Fa ee Soe M. Sass. 10v, the Russian Foreign Minister, reported to the Tsar“in 1912: - England promised to support France on land by sending an“@x pedition of 100,000 to the Belgian border to repel the invasion of France by the German army through Belgium, expected by the French General Staff. GOVERNMENT me DENIALS fs Lord Hugh Cecil, in the course of @ question in the House of Come mons, on March 10, 1913, stated: There is a very general belief that this country is under an obliga- ¢ tion, net a treaty obligation, but an obligation arising owing to an as- surance given by the Ministry in the course of diplomatic negotia- tions to send a very large force out of this country to operate in Eu- rope. Mr. Asquith (the Prime Minis- ter): I ought to say that it is not true. — (TO BE CONTINUED) The Anti- Imperialist Reviedv articles in the Anti-Imperial- ist Review (Nos. 4-5) just re- ceived from Berlin, reveal world imperialism as having, through its irreconciliable contradiction, reach- ed the war stage. ticle “The War Phase of the World Economic Crisis and the Colonies” by L. Magyar, traces the frantic efforts of the imperialist countries to dam the tide of the deepening crisis. “ & comprehensive analysis is made of the effect of the crisis on colonial countries. The “struggle between the imperialist powers for sources of raw materials is going on and the struggle is not only on the question “as to who shall pos- sess, exploit and develop the sources of raw material, but also as to who shall be in a position to shut them up and _ suppress them.” The imperialist struggle for col- onies is explained by the fact that while profits and dividends are go- ing down, the colonial world banks, the concerns which operate in the colonial countries, are still able to pocket gigantic surplus profits. How American imperialism gets its strangle hold on Latin American countries is revealed in the article “U.S.A. Imperialist Investments in South America,” by Robert Dunn, based on the recent Senate inves- tigation, whose object was to save the higher ups from the anger of the small investors. V. Valnitzky in an article on “The West Ukraine and War,” and “Vanya-Vkov in “The Slovenes un- der the heel of French and Italian imperialists” tells how these coun- tries are used as imperialist step- ping stones; in the case of West Ukraine, by Po‘dnd for wer on Russia; in the case of Slovenia, for domination of the Balkan States by their rresent oppressors, French and Italian imperialism. While in these countrics the nat- ive culture is destroyed, as well as all economic independence crushed, through terror, Sovie+ Russia in every - way encourages the native The first ar- — culture of the small nationalities and leaves them free to choose their own government. As the re sult of such a policy, there exists the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, comprising 167 peoples and more than 200 languages, in what- was formerly the imperialist col- onial empire of the Czar. “The Solution of thg ational Question in tho U.S.8.2.” by Otto the Soviet Union” by B. Smeral i are the first of a series of articles which will appear in the Anti- Imperialist Review on how Soviet Russia is solving the national ques- tion. 3 There are several contributions by the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States. An article call- ed “The Farce of Philippine Inde- pendence” by Wm. Simmons shows. ing up the “independence,” prom= ised in the Hare Bill and the Hawes-Cutting Bills now before the United States Congress, as merely a means of getting ~ stronger hold on the islands. ; In the statement of the Imperialist League of the States against the brutal supprese sion of the Peruvian Naval Revolt, the “Apra” is declared to be in the camp of the reactionary eles ments in Peru, its ~~ogram charace. terized as nothing but support ‘of Sig % A Unger, and “National Freedom in i\ British Imperialism for interna- tionalism of the Panama Canal, against Yankee imperialism —but not against all imperialism, i The call to the workers and peasants of Curacao issued by the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States, and “indonesia and the World Economic Crisis” by” A: Dirja, show that the Dutch have little to learn from the more 0 erful imperialists on how to ‘tere rorize and oppress the colonigl workers and peasants, There is also in this issue: manifesto of the Cuban the League, Against Im) which should be c* particular terest to workers of the Yors j th