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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
Prepare for the Propaganda Week
Against Imperialism and Social
Democracy.
BY D. PETRovsKY.

TRUE to the charge entrusted to us
1 by our teacher Lenin never for
one moment to forget the world war,
the Executive of the Communist In
ternational has decided to celebrate
the tenth anniversary of it's outbreak
by mighty demonstrations turnout the
whole world against Imperialism and
the socialist traitors.
In doing this we are not actuated
with the idea of tearing open the still
unhealed wounds. The view of the
Communist International is directed
towards the future, and it is making
every effort to mobolize the working
masses of the whole world for the
victorious struggle against imperial
ism-the cause of all modern wars.
But the struggle against imperialism
will only be successful if we really
take to heart the lessons Of the past.
The teachings Of the world war have
a special and actual Importance for
us at the present time, when a new
war is approaching nearer every day.
The old tale that the world war was
the last war no longer deludes any
body. The danger Of fresh bloody
slaughters is plainly visible to mil
lions. The germs of fresh slaughters,
are to be found in the offices of the
banks, of the syndicates and the
trusts. Preparations for fresh massa-
cres are being made in the factories,
workshops and laboratories; fresh
slaughters are being organized by the
general stats and administrations Of
the ever-growing armies.
The new war is approaching. The
ruling classes are directing all their
intelligence to the discovery of new
and terrible means of humiliation
and destruction. In order to prevent
this war there is required the united
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
Prepare for Communist Ana Week Against Imperialism and Social Democracy
Ten Years Of Mass Murder

the backs of the working class. The
working class, having already left
millions of fallen workers on the battle
fields, may wonder in anguish when
the capitalists will kindle new world
confagration. The monstrous lie Of
the bourgeoisie about 1.-THE last war"
and how the principles of justice and
humanity would triumph after the
war, has been burnt into the con-
seriousness of the most backward Sec
lions Of people. Capitalism is, by its
actions, making haste to prove the
correctness Of the contention of the
revolutionary leaders of the proletar-
lat, that the war Of 1914 was only the
first link in a chain Of imperialist
wars, which could only be brought to
an end by the international proletar-
lat, when they should be able to
mobilize all the working masses to
vanquish imperialist war by de-
cisive civil war against capital, and
thus annihilate the very cause and
source Of wars, the class domination
Of capital.
Six years have passed since the
time when the victors triumphantly
celebrated their cannibal victory, pro-
claiming, over the bones of millions
of victims, the victory of civilization,
eternal peace, and the development Of
international agreements, under the
leadership Of the League Of Nations.
Now it is clear even to the blind, that
capitalism has given no peace, that it
could not and cannot give peace.
The wounds Of the war are still
bleeding. The millions of participants
Of the war, invalids and cripples, have
not yet forgotten the horrifying pic
lures Of the war and capital is already
preparing new great wars. 1t is not
only preparing them, but, as rehear-
sails, it makes small wars and military
expeditions. Since the Versailles
peace, the cannons have never re-
NAMED without work, expeditions
have been undertaken into the CO.
lonial countries, against the "self-de-
termined" natives. A large portion of
Central Europe is an armed camp,
Belgium, French and English troops
mixed with colored soldiers, have been
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terests of the cliques of imperialist
rivals. And when, after the war,
those crises arose which the congress
es of the End International had spoken
of before the war, then the End In
ternational did not devote itself to
"expediting the overthrow of the CAPT
talist domination" but to the strug-
gle to defend capitalism against the
revolutionary fight of the working
masses.
These flunkeys of Imperialism and
fascism now venture to assure the
masses that they will reply to war
with the strike. Through these as
tsurances they not only mask the pre-
parations for war, but take immediate
part in them. The Macdonald gov
eminent which faithfully preserves
the traditions of English imperialism
strengthens the military power of the
British Empire. The French friends
of Macdonald vote the military cred
it's and help French imperialism in the
realization of its predatory plans.
We are therefore obliged to brand
mark the pacifist assurances Of the
leaders of the End International as a
conscious attempt to overcome the
watchfulness of and lull to sleep the
masses of the people, by which means
the unhindered preparations for the
new war will be secured. And our
Week therefore must not only be
directed against imperialism, but also
against the preachers of social recon-
Citation, who mask and conceal the
military preparations Of the ruling
classes. In order to secure the sue
cess Of this week, It is necessary, not
only to rally the masses of the work
ers who follow the Communists to
the active fight against imperialism
and socialist treachery, but also the
workers and peasants of the sup
pressed peoples Of the colonies and
semi-colonies, who have all expert
enced the horrors of the so-called
Great War" on their own bodies.
We must begin at once with the or
ganizing Of committees of action. It
is desirable to include in these com
mittees, not only representatives of
the trade unions which follow the r.
|. L. U. and representatives of the
Communist Youth, of the Peasants
international, Of the International Co
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
Brazilian Revolt
Uncertain Yet; May
Collapse Shortly
Especial to The DAILY WoRKER)

Especial TO The DAILY WoRkER)
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 2S.-The
Brazilian revolutions days are num-
bered, and the movement, almost
purely military, Is breaking down so
rapidly the soldiers and officers OF
the rival forces are fraternizing on
the so-called battle lines.
These assertions are based on in
formation from persons who have
been in the revolutionary zone, which
is virtually confined to the limits Of
Sac Paulo.
Rebel air planes, however, flew
over Santos yesterday, dropping pam.
phlets and circulars agitating their
cause. Some OF these fell on the
decks Of Brazilian warship in the
harbor. The president of Sac Paulo
state, who fled in the early days OF
the revolt, has taken refuge on this
warship, the Minas Geraes.
Business is naturally affected in
Sac Paulo and at Santos the banks.
stock exchange and customs house
were closed.
Casualties have been few IN either
1880
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
FIRE AND REHIRE
AT Low WAGE,
ELECTRIC PLAN
Foreman Gives Facts to
Daily Worker

The executive heads of the West
ern Electric company have decided to
discharge twenty-five thousand Of
their employees and re-hire them in
few months at a reduced wage, ac-
cording to information confdentially
given the DAILY WORKER by
Western Electric foreman.
This foreman was asked by q
friend for job. He went to one Of
the officials Of the company and
asked to have his friend placed in a
position. The Western Electric Off
cial replied that he could not do so
because the department heads and
officials, at a meeting, had decided to
discharge $4,000 employees, and take
them back later at a "re-adjusted"
or reduced wage scale.
This confirms the charge made By
the DAILY WORKER in its expose
of the Western Electric anttunion
slave driving system, that thousands
of men are being discharged with
out reason, and their places being
from another source.
The Western Electric company 10
putting it over" on the employees by
lowering the general standard Of nv
ing without Justification Production
for the coming year will admittedly
be high. The Western Electric fore.
man said to the DAILY WORKER.
They are installing the stop-watch
in the Western Electric plant. They
are making every minute Of the
workers time bring them profit, and
at the same time they are trying to
carry on a general wage cut in such
way that the workers will ignore
the DAILY WORKER expose and
will not strike. The Western Electric
fears strike.
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same zeal as Millerand and Poincare.
The pacihst fables about the pos
sibility Of disarmament, of agree
ments, Of international tribupals to
prevent conflicts, only screen the en-
ergetic preparations for war. Ma
lions in possessions of strong navies
are not averse. to a serious general
Limitation of territorial armies; ma
tions which have prepared stocks of
ammunition for many years to come
are trying to bring about limitation
of the production of poisonous mate
rails for suffocating gases, in order
not to be outstripped by other nations
in the same field.
The League of Nations, whose APP
pearance was heralded as the begin
ing of new peaceful era, has proven
nothing else but a plaything in the
hands Of imperialist nations, or an
arena for their covert struggle.
The Communist International has
necessarily unmasked the real sub
stance of the League Of Nations, it has
shown the deception of the bourge-
oisie and its social-patriotic agents,
and now this bourgeois deception
ought to be clear to everybody.
The epic of the Ruhr stands out
as the most striking illustration, and
the most telling proof, of the falsity
Iof the bourgeois pacif1st speeches, of
the bankruptcy Of the peaceful
policy Of bourgeois circles.
The logic of events steers the re-
parations policy again into the chan
mel of imperialist conflict. The class
of interests inevitably grows. The
centrifugal forces in the development
Of world capitalism. become more and
more rampant. (America, Japan,
Britain and the colonies, with their
growing young capitalism, Britain and
the American capitalism, etc.
Tens of millions of killed, wounded
and manned, enormous amounts of
wealth annihilated, moral deteriora-
ton, poverty, degradation,-all this in
order that the world may again face
the inevitability of ever new wars,
ever more menacing, more horrible
in their destructive power-this is the
logic Of imperialism,
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stationed there in the service Of the
capitalist system. The poverty Of the
masses, the DISCRIMINATION of econ
omic relations, lack Of reconstruction,
Notwithstanding all efforts of the
quack doctors of capitalism, arrogant
military rule, the foul cancer Of
militant Fascism, the Unsuitable APP
petite Of great and small capitalist
states, ruled from behind the scenes
by financial kings, by committees Of
the key industries, by banks and stock
exchanges, mad competition in
ornaments, screened by pious pray
ers about limitation of armament, a
rush for ever newer means of ami
hilation of human beings-this is
what capitalism has given us after the
war, war which was called, by one
of the servants of capital, one of the
organizers of the world slaughter,
the former French president Mil
lerand, "the most glorious Of all the
wars"
Hopes Of the possibility Of success
full reconstruction of the world econ
omic organism are definitely buried
by the occupation of the Ruhr, and
new inevitable military conflicts,
which no parliamentary or extra-par-
liamentary combination of bourgeois
parties and the Socialist satellites will
be able or willing to prevent.
The two great nations of the En-
tente, welded together" in struggle
for the great common cause of saw
ing civilization from "Prussian militar-
ism"-France and Great Britain, are
making ready to attack each other.
The antagonism of their interests
grows daily, and becomes manifest
everywhere. In middle Europe, in
Asia Minor. in the Balkans, in North
ern Africa and in Eastern Asia. Great
Britain watches with the greatest
alarm the growth of French territorial
armies and aerial squadrons, the milit-
airy conventions entered into by
France. Similarly, the elements of i'm
perialistic conflict between the United
States and Japan grow necessarily.
Thousands of inventors labor over
the problem of finding devilish means
Of determination, the governments are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
Ohio Labor Hammers
Militarists' HELD;
Slashes at Weeks

CLEVELAND. July 23.-Mobiliza-
ton day, Sept. -, gets the hammer
from Ohio churches and labor organ
izations who united in a strong protest
against the mobilization scheduled by
Secretary OF War Weeks. The Ohio
council Of churches protests against
this glorifcation Of militarism in a
ringing rebuke to Weeks.
The Cleveland Federation Of Labor
also voted to protest to Weeks, de-
claring that labor would have none
OF his schemes for the next war. The
league Of Women Voters OF this state
similarly sent its respects to our war
chief advising him that they are un.
alterably opposed to the public cell
ebration of the war spirit in any man
ner.
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Operative Union, Of the I. w. R., but
also representatives Of such organiza-
lions as the Union of Ex-service men,
the War-Invalids Union, etc. In other
words, every effort must be made in
order that the demonstrations shall
be of really impressive character
and as far as possible include the
whole population.
While striving to bring the broad
masses into the struggle against the
danger Of new war, we must
insure that our demonstrations shall
not assume the character of pacifist
manifestations, the noise of which in
no way disturbs the ruling classes in
carrying on their affairs as usual.
Our whole agitation and propa-
ganda must be dominated by the idea
that the war can only be prevented
by revolution; and If war breaks
out 1t can only be ended by opposing
1t by militant methods, that is to say
by, converting the imperialist war in
to the civil war for the capture of
power by the workers.
Therefore the fight for the Union
of Soviet Republics must occupy a
very important place in all our pre-
paratory work. The workers OF the
Soviet Union, led by the Communist
Party of Russia, succeeded under
Lenin's leadership in freeing them
selves from the imperialist war by
means Of revolution, that is by civil
war, as a result Of which the power
of capital in one Of the largest coun-
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striving to discover the military sec
rets of each other, and to out
do each other in inventiveness. An
English Minister openly declares, in
the House of Commons, the necessity
Of creating an air fleet to defend the
fatherland, which would be able to
withstand the attack of the strongest
air power near enough to make such
an attack possible"
In 1914, on the eve Of the outbreak
of World War, there were seven
million men under arms in all the
countries of the GLOBE In 1921, after
the Versailles peace and the disarma-
ment Of the vanquished countries, the
number of all the armies Of the world
on a peace footing had reached eleven
millions, |. e., they increased almost
twice. The United States spent for
military purposes in 1914, $4,000, 900
pounds sterling, in 1920, Sol 100000.
The military expenditures Of England
grew between 1914 and 1920 more
than three times. France maintains
an army larger than the pre-war Ger
man army, although her population is
one third less. In the Union Of Soviet
Republics, there is one soldier to
every 100 persons of the population.
There has never been such ratio
even in the notorious militarist Prus-
STA against which the Entente con-
Quoted, from 1914-1S, the last, the
"just" war.
But faster than the number Of men
under arms grow every day the power
and the force Of those means OF ex-
termination which the nations will
use against each other when the in
evitable new war comes.
Preparations for that war still con-
tinue, independently of whether a
bourgeois group heads the govern
ment or camoufiaged labor" govern.
ment screens the real mainsprings of
bourgeois government. The govern
ment of Macdonald is preparing dread
naughts and building aeroplanes in
the same fashion as was done by the
governments of Curzon, Baldwin,
Lloyd George and the others. The
government of the left Bloc will serve
the god of imperialist war with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
THE GREAT SOCIALIST BETRAYAL

PROCLAMATION socaDemocac (socast) in the
- Reichstag, August q, 1914:
1--WE face with the impending fact OF The
We choose today
for the defense of the necessities Of
country
the future freedom of people, much,
everything triumph Russian despot
blood of the best Of its
country Now will
good sad the hour of need we Will
nc Fatherand In danger"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
Chester Organizes
New Workers Party
Branches to Fight
BY ARRAM JAkIRA.

CHESTER, Pa, July 2S.-An IN.
tensive organization campaign is now
being carried on by the Workers Party
of this city. The results are already
apparent. A lively English branch was
recently organized and thru it's initia.
tive joint membership meeting was
held last Friday night and City Cen
trail Committee organized. Steps are
being taken to organize Lithuanian
Branch and to reorganize the Polish
branch.
Chester is we'll known as an Omen
Shop city despite the fact that it is
quite an Industrial center. Chester is
well known with its ship yards and
textile mills. Unemployment is steadi-
ly increasing and many morkers are
now walking the streets in search of
work.
At the last general membership
meeting plans were worked out for an
extensive election campaign and for
securing of signatures for the placing of
the names of comrades Foster and Git
low, the Workers Party candidates for
President and Vice-President respect
lively on the ballot.
Thos. Foley, SIG Parker Street, was
elected secretary Of the City Central
Committee. He is also the secretary of
the English Branch. All workers of
Chester desiring to join the Workers
Party or wishing to get information
about the organization should commu-
nicate with comrade Foley at the above
address.
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and heroic efforts Of the workers of
the whole world.
"The refusal of military service,
the strike against war, etc." wrote
Lenin on the list of November, 1914,
lis a simple piece of stupidity, mis-
cradle and cowardly dream of an I'M
armed fight against the armed bour-
geoisie, longing for the humiliation
of capitalism without desperate CT
vii war or number Of wars"
These pitiable cowardly dreams
are more out of place now than ever.
We will not avert the approaching
war-tempest by resolutions, declara-
tions and avowals.
War can only be averted by the vic
torious revolution of the workers,
which will overthrow the power OF
capital, at first in European and then
turnout the whole world. The demon
STATIONS in the weeks campaign
against Imperialism and socialist
treachery must therefore pursue the
task of mobilizing the workers of the
whole world, under the banner Of the
Russian October Revolution, to the
decisive struggle against capitalism
the original cause and organizer Of
new slaughters.
The fight against imperialism will
naturally be fight against the So
cialist traitors. The honeyed words
of the heroes Of the End International
in the year 1914 regarding the fight
against war could only appear as a
piece Of sheer stupidity. In the year
1924 we have no longer to deal with
cowardly dreams, but with conscious
and brazen betrayal.
Before the world war the End In
ternational had given a number of
promises to protect the banner of pro-
letarian solidarity against fracticidal
wars. At the Stuttgart Congress it
recognized it to be the duty of all
workers, ito fight with all means
against the preparations for war on
sea and land, to expose the class char
acter of bourgeois society and the
motives which actuate it to support
national antagonisms, and to refuse
to give any financial support to this
policy" This resolution recommends
energetic and united action, "in or
der by, every means to avert war"
In the case of the outbreak Of the war,
the congress recommends that use be
made of the crisis called forth by the
war, Gin order to stir up the most
profound social forces and expedite
the overthrow of capitalist DONNA
tion." The same ideas were repeated
by the congresses in Copenhagen
(1910) and Basic (1912).
Independent of the resolutions Of
the world congresses, the socialist
parties of the various countries,
among them the Labour Party OF
Great Britain, which now has the
reins OF government In its hands,
have sworn not to permit a world
catastrophe.
But in the fearful days of the end
Of July and beginning of August, 1914,
when the world slaughter began, the
socialist parties Of the End Interna-
tional handed over their red flags to
lend a sacred appearance to the world
war which was undertaken in the In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
HEROIC DECLARATION OF THE BASLE
MANIFESTO THE SOCIALIST FORGOT

THE Second Socialist International Congresses Stuttgart
and Copenhagen presented these guiding principles
for the proeara Of all countries In against
whenever about to break tho duty the
working class ts representatives
supported by the unlyna activities their international
particle Of influence they
practicable outbreak Of
ln the nevertheless 10 then
duty work to bring the speedy
might political brought
by the stir the people and by this sbo
ton OF the capitalist cIasss
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Theses for the Tenth Anniversary Of
! the World War.
(Theses for agltators.)
|. Results Of the War: Prospects of
New Wars.

THE years Of war experience, and
the post war disillusion.capitalist
of the world hurled the people into
fratricidal war. Contending among
themselves for the colonies, for the
markets, for. spheres Of investment
for their capital, the imperialist clique
perpetrated the dreadful crime which
was forseen by the theoreticians Of
socialism, and awaited with terror by
the proletariat.
The years Of war experience, and
the post war establishment, shat
tered all the illusions of. grandeur
with which a servile theology had
clothed the terrible picture of war
The masses of the people learned by
bitter experience what was really
meant by such phrases as "the last
war" the fight for civilization" for
the Sacred rights Of the people," for
democracy and the liberation of op-
pressed peoples"
The roar of artillery, the bursting
Of shells, the suffocating gases, the
misery of millions of refugees, the
heaps of corpses, the epidemics Of
disease during and after the war
this is the face of capitalism which has
been stripped of it's mask in the eyes
Of the people. Capital now stands
before humanity in all its repulsive
nakedness. In place of the mountains
Of gold which were promised to the
workers by the capitalists after the
victorious conclusion of the war,
which they called a righteous" war,
the last" war, etc., the capitalists
undertook determined offensive
against the working class. In a num-
Der of countries the eight hour day
was lost; workers organizations were
destroyed in debauch of Fascism,
and all the. burden of the post war
taxes, levies and reparations, fell on
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Wealthy OH Man Sued.

George c. Priestly. 81. said to be
the largest individual oil operator in
the United States, and national COM
mitteeman for the progressives from
Oklahoma during the Roosevelt cam
paign Of 1912, was named defendant
in mysterious s250.0OO damage suit
fled in superior court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
whewl Won't Get Rlehl

BERLIN, July 20. Professor
Miethe, who claims TO have developed
a process of making gold from mer-
curry, admitted today the cost was
more than 100000 a pound.
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