The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1934, Page 6

| asain Page Six Daily,QWorker GRUTRAL ORGAN COMMHINIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST NTERMATIONMES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUND 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, E EPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 15th Street, New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 4-79 54. Telephone Cable A Manhattan, 8 months, By Carrier: $5.00 3' m Weekly, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934 Green - Strikebreaker! HE strike-breaking activities of William Green and Joseph P. Ryan during the Frisco general strike were so open and ob- vious that even the liberal Nation was forced to call both of these gentlemen strike-breakers. “Most shameful of aH,” says the Nation ed- itorially, “William Green made himsalf a party to the strikebreaking . .. Mr. Green’s statement ..+ Was superfluous if it was not actually treach- erous. It had no other purpose than to stimulate sentiment against the rank and file who had forced the strike in opposition to their conserva- tive leaders. At the same time that Mr. Green was helping to deliver the workers into the hands of their enemies, Mr. Ryan, president of the I. L. A. also played the strikebreaking game.” It would be interesting to know how the So- cialist Party leaders will attempt to justify their position on the strike, which was to the right of the liberals. The New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, reporting the strike, Saturday, July 21, sang the following paeon of praise of Mr. Green's strike- breaking “A yeal bombshell, however, has been cast into the ranks of the strikers by the statement of Wil- liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, which is being maliciously construed as repudiating the strike.” By what trick of journalism or oratory can the Socialist gentlemen justify this united front with a strikebreaker? Every sensible and sane person who read Green's statement knows that Green re- pudiated the strike. The New Leader goes further in Green's action: “Green merely states what is technically true: That the A. F. of L, nationally did not order or authorize the strike, and that the strike is local in character, possessing no national significance (from the point of view of the action of labor throughout the country).” Here the Socialist leaders aid in the strikebreak- ing. The strike has no national significance, they reason, and from this idea flows the anti-labor policy of refusing to unite with the Communists in rallying to the unions throuchout the country in support of the strike. Although the New Leader issued statements for- supporting Armed Forces Rule S222: In Minneapolis {Continued from Page 1) work in May by their present lead- ership under conditions that soon revealed that the employers had the upper hand. Portland Dockers Firm PORTLAND, Ore., July 26.—Union Jongshoremen today refused to re- turn to work through a state hir-| ing hall set up by Governor Meier. all unions, Friseo Vote For Arbitration Union, Association, the press and the lead-/ tion of literature and furniture by ing officials of the Roosevelt ad- ministration to divide the ranks of | ing hand in hand with the police. the maritime workers and isolate | the longshoremen nave failed. i The open shop drive has been| home of Violet Orr, one of the checked in a decisive manner. The| Communist candidates in Rich- main result of the historic mass| mond, and in her absence smashed | struggles of the last 80 days on the | the furniture and defiled the place. | Pacific Coast is that the employers| The same procedure was followed and their organizations have been| in the home of William Selles. Po- | compelled to abandon temporarily | lice arrived after the vandals had | their attacks designed to destroy! left and arrested Selles and his! not only the waterfront unions but | 19-year-old son. The longshoremen’s committee is} BN now preparing a resolution estimat- | Lyons, rooming at Moore's, was ar- ing the strike and its results. resolution will deal in detail with | tulozich was entered while he was mally supporting the strike, its real support was given to the line of William Green. The Socialist leaders helped stab the strike in the back “Great Blessings” OOSEVEL Secretary of Agriculture Wallace sees great blessings in the drought which is gripping 25,000,000 people in its clutches What is the blessing Mr. Wallace sees in the devastation of the drought? The drought, it appears, has completed what the Roosevelt A. A. A. farm program set out to do—to destroy “surpluses. The country, admits Wallace, any resewwe of corn, wheat, milk or cotton. This means rising prices in the cities, ruin and disaster for the millions of small farmers who have no produce for the markets, and on orgy of profit- eering loot for the rich farmers who could afford to store crops, and the commodity speculators in Wall Street and Chicago. Wallace defends the A. A. A., saying that if not for the A. A. A. destruction of hogs last season there would not now be a supply of badly needed corn. What insolent and stupid sophistry this is! For it was none other than Mr. Wallace and his agents who are responsible for the destruction of 33 per cent of the last year’s corn crop through govern- ment agreements! is now without * . ALLACE is striving desperately to conceal from the .drought-stricken farmers that it is the Roosevelt A. A. A. which has left them helpless and defenseless before the furies of the drought. He is striving to hide the bitter truth that the A. A. A. insanity of destruction has strengthened the position of the big Idhdlords and Wall Street monopolies at the expense of the majority of im- poverished, small farmers. . * . 'HE drought only finished what the A. A. A. be- gan. Wallace reaffirms the Roosevelt policy of crop destruction, the policy which has brought ruin to the small producers and agricultural tenants, and subsidies and profits to only the handful of wealthier farmers. ‘The masses in the cities need food, milk, bread. The millions of toiling farmers are ready to pro- duce it for them. But both the toiling farmers and the city workers are robbed and exploited by the Wall Street monopolies in between. Wallace is an agent of Wall Street and the big landlords. His main interest is profit for the monopolies and rich farmers. The mortgage-ridden, drought-stricken farmers have in Roosevelt's agent, Wallace, a capitalist enemy. Against him and his Roosevelt program of crim- inal crop destruction, the workers and impoverished farmers must form a fighting alliance of struggle. Join the Communist Party! 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK,N.Y. | Please send me more information on the Comme- nist Party. the Industrial; ber of raids, searches and destruc- these roving fascist bands work- Gangs Enter Homes | ©, T. Moore’s residence was treated in the same way. Vernon The home of Andrew Bar- ‘The | rested. One of these gangs entered the/| SAN FRANCISCO, July 26—The Roosevelt Board anounced today that the longshoremen had voted to accept the arbitration plan. The longshoremen’s committee has worked out plans to meet the arbi- trators. Only the longshoremen have voted, however. Seamen, members of nine unions, were not drawn into the voting. The Mediation Board is still trying to hand the leadership of the seamen over to the reactionaries. eae aa By BILL DUNNE (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—The | longshoremen’s strike committee,) just previous to the balloting on the question of a return to work, | passed a resolution calling for the Telease of all strikers and organ- | izers and all political prisoners ar-| rested and jailed in connection with the maritime workers’ strike and the general strike. | The efforts of the Waterfront Soin With Imperialist War N the question of government arbi-| tration and the manner in which| the maritime workers should ap- proach, judge and protect them- selves and their unions against this reserve weapon of the employers and their government. The steady campaign of slander, provocation and Intimidation di- rected against Harry Bridges and other militant leaders of the water- front workers by the press has had little effect on the rank and file. Street Car Strike Continues The strike of the Market Street streetcar men continues and is be- coming more effective. A certain number of cars are operated only from 6 am. to 7 p.m. and then only under heavy police protection and with two special police sta- tioned at practically every inter- section. Each day the number of passengers carried grows less. The terror by what the Hearst press calls “mysteriously organized across the bay, there were a num- (Continued from Page 1) beginning of the last imperialist world slaughter. August 1 this year ironically presents the world with another Sarajevo, with another mobilizing of troops in the “Suropean capitalist lands for a Inew imperialist world -laughter. Workers, farmers, fighters for peace! We must act now against war! August 1 this year must be the mightiest anti-war mobilization the United States has ever seen. Socialists, A. F. of L. members, all workers, join with us in a mighty anti-war demonstration in your city on August 1. Socialists! Demand that your leaders immediately answer the United Front appeal of the Communist Party! We must NOW without the slightest waste of time, without any hesitation, mobilize our UNITED forces against war and against fascism! Down with imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! Down with the mad fascist dogs! Demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann, Paula Wallich and all other anti-fascist prisoners! Support our German and Austrian brothers in their revolutionary struggles against fascism! at home. Furniture was smashed and books and literature burned. ‘The police came and arrested Bar- tulozich. In San Mateo, a building in which workers’ meetings had been held, was broken into and the in- terior gutted, even the lighting fixtures being destroyed. In Modesto a meetong place was demolished by a gang of 25 armed with axes, clubs and crowbars. Two workers were driven out of town. | made a public announcement of a rumor that a certain business man was “harboring radicals.” The chief stated that he would not be respon- sible if “aroused citizens took the action they have already threat- ened.” George Anderson, I. L. D. attor- ney whose life was threatened by the “vigilantes” if he did not with- | draw from the defense of Commu- | nists, defied them and appeared in | court Monday, as the trials and| groups” continues. In Richmond,! hearings of the nundreds of ar-| | rested workers and organizers be- | gan. For General Strike (Continued from Page 1) and for union conditions on the job.” A mass meeting of all painters has been called by the Protective Association at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, Satur- day at 10.30 a. m. Alteration Painters Join NEW YORK.—Executive commit- tee of all locals of the Alteration Painters Union have issued a call to all members to strike on Monday, July 30 in solidarity with the mem- bers of District Council 9 for the $9 wage scale and the six hour day. Relief Workers Picket NEW YORK.—Fifty workers rep- | resenting the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Employes, the Federation of Engineers, Archi- tects, Chemists and Technicians and the Recreation Leaders Association icketed the City Hall yesterday de- manding re-instatement of all work- | ers fired from the relief projects. A delegation was elected to present the workers’ demands to Mayor LaGuardia. In Burlingame the chief of police | Y. Painters Vote DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934 ‘Dimitroff Calls) ANY SPARK! For Mass Fight to Free Rakosi DIMITROFF NEW YORK. George Dimitroff, heroic acquitted Reichstag defendant, calls upon all workers and all honest-minded people the world over to raise their voices in protest against the des- potic imprisonment of Matthias Rakosi, and the evident intention of the Hungarian government to murder him. | “I am very particularly interested in the fate Dimitroff declares, “not only be- cause he is a fellow-fighter, but also kat- because he is a good personal friend | of mine. I cannot find words strong enough to express my great in- dignation against this political prisoner being further held in prison | under insignificant pretexts after | he has already served the mon- Strous ‘sentence passed against him of 8% years hard labor. They now intend to again pass sentence against him because of his political | activities in Hungary 15 years ago. |This is not even what is called a legal murder. It is simply the as-| | sassination of a political opponent. | | “The government clearly wishes to | wreack vengeance upon Rakosi for | the Soviet dictatorship in 1929. The | whiteguard bandits who at that |time had murdered thousands of | workers are not only enjoying per- | fect freedom, but are even occupying governing positions. By its fear of | liberating the workers’ leader, Com- rade Rakosi, the Gamboes Govern- |ment shows that in view of the |growing unrest of the masses in Hungary, it does not feel at all | secure. This monstrous attitude of | the Gamboes government against a political opponent must meet with | the stormy protest of world opinion, “It is the duty of every worker, |of every honest-minded individual, | to demand the immediate liberation of Comrade Matthias Rakosi.” Slash Relief. As Lists Rise 'To New Peaks, NEW YORK.—As applications | for relief continue to soar through- | | out the country, relief payments |are being continually slashed, re-| | Ports from urban and rural centers | show. Relief officials in Boise,| |Idaho, put through a 64 per cent cut in the month of June. Water- bury, Conn., slashed relief 40 per cent. Four cities in Connecticut show an increase of four per cent on relief in the one month period from May to June, yet the amounts paid out were cut 20 per cent. From the South come reports of widespread relief cuts . Despite an increase of about half on the relief rolis in Greenville, S. C., a textile! | center, following the N, R. A. order | — From Moscow, | of Matthias Rakosi,” | } FRANCE Conceal Capitalist Propaganda By MILTON HOWARD N THE recent and present events along the Pacific Coast, the enormously rising strike activity of the workers everywhere, we have an un- usually fine laboratory, so to speak, ‘to cut cotton production and pay- rolls by 25 per cent, relief. pay-| | ments were slashed 26 per cent.| Relief payments were slashed in | Little Rock, Ark.; Baltimore, Md, | | and Louisville, Ky. Fort Smith, |Ark., had an increase of ten per cent in the number on relief, but} cut total payments by 20 per cent. | Werk relief has been totally stopped in Omaha, Nebraska, and the issuance of clothing and house- hold necessities has been stopped. | In Chicago, relief lists were cut | six per cent. New York City under the La} | Guardia hunger regime is carrying | | through a policy of firing all single | relief workers and married couples and a 20 per cent wage cut is planned on work relief for the month of August. Pennsylvania's expendi- jtures were cut about one fourth for the month, South Carolina’s by one-third. In Ohio total expendi- tures were substantially cut ex- cept at Akron where the rubber Workers are organizing, and at Toledo, where a hard-fought strike left officials fearful of slashing the relief rolls. | | relief NEW YORK. — Average pay on relief jobs in the state of New York | has been slashed from $63.17 for |the month of May to $51 for the month of June, accordng to the three-month report of F. Daniels, Director of the S. E. R. A. = » The number of workers employed and the amount of wages paid out for the months of April, May and June were reported as follows: Total Workers — Wages Aprril . + 196,230 $11,758,663 May + 197,425 12,471,722 June 224,920 11,573,687 Union Taxi Drivers Assail LaGuardia’s Report on Industry NEW YORK.—Five hundred taxi drivers meeting yesterday morning | at 915 Eighth Ave., unanimously de- nounced the report of the Mayor's Survey Commission as a move to drive 20,000 drivers from the indus- try through the Boston Card (blacklist) System. The meeting was called by the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York. It was pointed out by ‘Samuel Or- ner, president of the union, that the report put the stamp of ap- proval on the Board of Taxi Cab Control which Seabury, the Fusion- ist, used as a political football to defeat Tammany Hall. Harry Cantor, one of the leaders of the union, and Frank Baker were arrested at Sam Katz's Garage, 613 E. 13th St. for distributing handbills advertising the meeting. They were both released on $25 bail. Their cases will come up in Essex Market Court, Tuesday, July 31. In an attempt to head off the militant struggles of teh hackmen @ new move, headed by the Social- ist lawyer, Matthew Levy, is afoot to set up an A. F. of L, union of hackmen. It is reported that Wil- liam Green, the A. F. of L. presi- for testing the words and deeds of the Socialist Party. It is to Socialist workers, particu- | larly, that I should like to speak. Particularly the Socialist workers who read the New Leader, weekly Socialist organ, whose issue this week is devoted to reporting the) great San Francisco general strike. $s Se ge 'HE Socialist Party naturally is- sued a statement “supporting” the strike. Being a party that claims the allegiance of the work- ing class as a revolutionary party representing the interests of the working class, it could not do other- wise. But there is support and support. A rope also “supports” a hanging man, We Communists insist that the leadership of the Socialist Party by its theories and deeds is on the side of the capitalist system. To many this is not an easy thing to see. This is because the Socialist Party plays a special role in sup- Porting capitalism. It does not come out openly and say: “We are in favor of capitalism.” On the contrary, the Socialist Party differs from the other two capitalist parties in that it comes before the masses as a party whose objective it is to change society, abolish capitalism, and build So- cialism. But let us examine in just what way we are justified in saying that in the recent general strike the So- cialist Party, despite its protesta- tions of support, really worked in the interests of the employers, In order to help the strikers win their fight for their immediate de- mands, it was the duty of a revolu- tionary working class party to coun- teract the propaganda of the em- Ployers and the government. It was necessary to show to the work- ers the class forces at work, and the way to strengthen the forces of the working class. At the center of this task was the necessity for exposing the class character of the Roosevelt govern- ment, the class relation of the em- Ployers to the armed forces of the state, and the strike-breaking role of the entire government ap- paratus, In short, it was necessary for a truly working class party to help the strikers in their fight against the agents of the government by revealing to them the great truth which Marx first laid down in the Communist Manifesto, that every capitalist government, including the Roosevelt government, is essen- tially “‘the executive committee for | becom the ruling class.” The first service which the So- cialist Party did to the ruling class and their government was to strenuously conceal from the work- ers tlje fact that the Roosevelt government and the ruling. class are one, united in a common class objective, the maintaining of the exploitation of the workers, _ In this particular struggle it was desperately necessary for the em- ployers and Roosevelt to hide from the workers the fact that the en- tire government is the instrument through which the employers carry through their wage-cuts and their dent who disavowed .the Frisco General Strike, has sent word to William B. Mahoney to commence the organization drive. exploitation, This is why Roose- velt maneuvered to stay away from Pledges of Support | Tnisiswhy the A. F. of L. leaders, secretly working to break the} strike while they were leading it,| sent telegrams to Roosevelt asking him to settle the strike as an aloof, Epps Pa apant in the class strug- gle, If the Socialist Party were to do its duty in the San Francisco strike it would have tried to ex- pose these tactics and reveal the unity of the Roosevelt government. with the capitalist class. Instead, in its entire analysis of the strike it zealously strove to maintain the bourgeois illusion that the Roosevelt government is something above and apart from! the exploitation of the capitalist exploiters. For example, in its official state- | ment on the strike, the National; Executive Committee of the Social- ist Party writes as follows: “In San Francisco apparently +++ prominent business men have usurped the police powers of the city government. ., .” The statement continues: ‘The | same reactionary business and! Political interests that rule San | Francisco and California have suc- | ceeded in having the military and | police powers mobilized in behalf of their selfish aims.” ‘ And Norman Thomas, comment- | ing editorially in this same issue! of the New Leader, declares indig- nantly: “It is the employers who arro- gantly demand that the public shall back up their legal rights against the interests of the public hy means of troops, police and deputy sheriffs, no matter what these arms of the government cost in money, and possibly in blood.” Here we have in these quotations the typical method of the way the Socialist, Party seems to attack capitalism when it is actually pro- tecting it. For in these quotations | all the righteous indignation, all} the verbal assaults on the employ- ers, are nothing but verbiage which never reveals to the strikers that which they ought to know—that the Roosevelt government is the tool of the employers, the instru- ment through which Wall Street carries through its dictatorship. Notice how subtly the Socialist Party leaders and Norman Thomas convey to the strikers and the en- tire working class that it is the employers who are responsible for their criminal activities in winning over the government to their side! Before the employers “succeeded in having the military and police powers mobilized in behalf of their Selfish aims,” the Socialist Party leaders would have us believe, these military and police powers of the government were some supra-class, above the battle, neutral force in the class struggle! The ‘Socialist leaders do not help the strikers by revealing to them that Roosevelt is the arch-strike- breaker in the capitalist state ap- paratus, but, on the contrary, paint a picture where the capitalist state, which Marx and Engeis described as “the oppressive instrument of the exploiting class,” has suddenly e an impartial arbiter in the class struggle between the workers and their employers. It is in this way that the Social- ist Party leaders, despite all their pretended support of the San Francisco strike, aligned them- selves with the employers in the propaganda drive to deceive the workers into placing their hopes in the impartial judgments of the Roosevelt government, the govern- ment which really leads in the organization and execution of the strike-breaking activities of the entire capitalist class. peg amit | bar Socialist Party supported the strike-breaking propaganda of the scene in order to give the im- pression of being above the battle. the employers in other ways. | the It is the great political signifi- Socialist Party Stand on General Strike Reveals Support of Capitalist State Power Bolster Influence of Green, the Leading Strike-breaker that it marks the rising struggles of the American working class | against the yoke of the N. R. A. codes, The N. R. A. has already been exposed by the Darrow an- alysis of the N. R. A, as the in- strumentality through which the Wall Street monopolies were driving forward to intensify their exploitation of the masses, and tighten their monopoly grip on in-| dustry. | But Norman Thomas and the So-| | cialist Party in this issue of the New Leader assist in maintaining the yoke of the N. R. A. by pre- tending that the strike struggles of workers are not directed against it but rather in favor of a more stringent enforcement of it!) For example, the leading edi- torial in the New Leader declares that the source of the strike is not in the intensified wage slavery in- troduced by the N. R. A. codes, but rather in the fact that: “\-. , the working class is act- ing in its anger over the chisel- | ing and sabotage of the codes by the exploiters of the workers.” And the leading special comen- tator of the New Leader on the} San Francisco strike, Benjamin| Meiman, writes: “Had the Federal government enforced strict observance of Section 7-a of the N. R. A. the trouble would have been averted. +. Section 7-a can and should be enforced, with or without a code.” And then finally, the most sig- nificant of all, the New Leader commentator asks: © | “It the Federal government so | weak that it cannot compel the | employers to obey the law?” In these statements we have in all its essentials the strike-breaking propaganda of the employers, that the salvation of the workers lies in the enforcement of the N. R. A., the very instrument through which the exploitation of the working} class is intensified. More, in the question which the | New Leader correspondent asks, he is already laying the basis for a! movement towards a “stronger government,” a government which will “compel the employers to obey the law.” But what is this stronger gov- ernment which will “compel the employers to obey the law?” Since when is it that the law and the employers and the govern- ment have different interests? Is not the law the capitalist law, in the interests of the capital- ists? Is not the government the capitalist government, the gov- ernment which enforces the wishes of the employers and pro- tects the system of wage slavery? Is it not clear that we have here @ political theory which is prepar- ing the way for a Fascist govern- ment? Do not the Fascists base their propaganda upon the illu- sion that the capitalist state has interests other than the interests of the capitalist class, and that the workers can use the “neutral” cap- italist state against the capitalist class? Ck ee ardent declarations, there- fore, of the Socialist Party lead- ers in support of the strike only masked political conceptions hos- tile to the interests of the strikers and the working class. It is the peculiar qualities of the ideas propagated by the Socialist Party in this situation that they supplemented in every detail the propaganda requirements of the capitalists and their government in thé breaking of the historic Pacific cance of the Coast general strikeCoast General Strike. On the World Front sd By HARRY GAN Another Sarajevo? The Rifle Is Raised August 1 This Year HE vest pocket Napoleon of Austrian fascism, Chancel. lor Engelbert Dollfuss, Musso- jlini’s agent, was slaughtered by the Nazis who want their fascist dictatorship estab- lished combined with the rule of the Krupps and Thyssens | Germany. Again the murder gangs fall out and butcher one another. But this time the murder may turn out to be another Sarajevo. The Nazis |are deliberately shooting into the | Powder magazines of Europe in or- der to explode it into a new bloody imperialist war. Mussolini has al- ready mobilized the entire armed forces of Italian fascism in order to seize Austria on the pretext of Preserving its “independence.” As the Communist International pointed out last December, the im- perialist bandits, unable to solve the rapidly deepening crisis of world imperialism, unable to bridge the growing chasm of catastrophe, are on the verge of plunging the world into a new bloody, criminal im- perialist war. oN eeme 'HE slaughter of Dollfuss (himself the murderer of the Austrian workers just as Roehm, Heines and Co. were the butchers of the Ger- man proletariat) was the handiwork in }of the Hitler forces in Germany, ‘The German ambassador in Vienna was party to the plan, and person- ally tried to arrange the safe-con- duct of the Nazi gangsters to Ger- many. At the same time, on the German border near Austria, the Austrian Nazis had mobilized over 3,000 heayily-armed men for' invasion. We can be sure, also, that tens of thou- sands more of picked Nazi troops were ready for the war adventure, and are ready at this moment, It is a race now between German and Italian fascism as to who swallows Austria as the first step to more gigantic battles for imperialist plun- der and for war against the Soviet Union. Pes ei THE desperate situation in Gere many prompted the Nazi blood- hounds to attempt to seize Austria, The battle has only begun. Through- out Austria civil war is raging be- tween Nazi forces and troops loyal to the Starhemberg-Schuschnigg pro- Mussolini regime. No one can now say whether this sporadic gunfire may not at any moment be drowned out by the roaring of cannon, the howl of bombing planes, and the actual beginning of the greatest and deadliest imperialist world slaugh- | ter. The working class of the entire world is now confronted with war in the making—not with the danger of war—but with all of the prelim- inaries to an imperialist blood-bath, The events at Sarajevo which led to the last imperialist war almost 20 years ago to the day were mild compared to what is now taking place in Austria, Your eae ‘HE struggle’ against imperialist war is now a struggle not against armies preparing and making ready for war, but against the imperialist~bandits with their rifles raised and their finger on the trigger. August 1 this year may be not only the anniversary of the first im- perialist world slaughter but the day of the next world butchery. Never has the cry to rally the working masses against the impe- rialist war danger been so necessary, so great as it is right at this mo- ment. If the toiling masses are to be mobilized to stop imperialist war, they must be mobilized now. Every Communist, every militant worker, every enemy of imperialist war, must exert every ounce of energy at his command, to sound the alarm, to rally the forces of revolutionary struggle against war, in order to stay the bloody hand of the im- perialist bandits. UGUST Ist this year will take place under the blackest clouds of war ever to threaten humanity, if it does not take place amid the torrential showers of bullets and cannon fire. The time to stop the imperialist robbers from plunging the world | into oceans of blood is indeed short. In this time, every worker, every fighter for peace, must do all he can to awaken the workingclass, to mass the revolutionary forces against war. American imperialism is not re= maining quiet in this situation, True, the newspapers are silent on the Roosevelt government's war preparations. But we can be sure the War Department already, in the light of European news, is massing its forces, is moving troops, is radio= ing its battleships, preparing, in ors der to insure any advantage to Wall Strect that may grow out of the next imperialist war. Sse LM IS this fact we must bring to the minds of the American work- ers. The bloodshed that may break out at any moment in Europe ime mediately will affect every American worker. The next imperialist war will be a world war, and American imperialism will not at all wait as long as it did in the last one to plunge into the battle in order to profit by it. August 1, under these conditions, is not another demonstration against war. It is a massing of the workers’ forces against a war that may explode at any. moment. August 1, this year, must be, withe out question, the mightiest mobilizae tion against war that this country has ever seen,