The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-25

W avert ILLS PERIL anu 10 save the cur
ture and independence of our father.
land. Let us therefore act up to our
professions, for did we not always
maintain that we will never desert
our country in the hour OF peril. We
maintain our solidarity with the In
ternational, which always recognized
the right Of every nation to national
independence and self-defence, and to-
gether with the International we con
denim all wars for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT"
At Disposal Of the Military.
All obligations and promises were
forgotten and trodden underfoot, and
simultaneously became the servant
of the German bourgeoisie, the servant
Of Wilhelm II. 1t adopted the Off
cial defence of the country" attitude,
and placed the powerful apparatus of
the Party of the cial-Democratic
press and the trade-unions at the dis
posal of the military clique.
There is not base action under the
sun which these betrayers Of socialism
did not commit during the first days
of the war. They lowered the red
banner of the working class and
brought it into dishonor. The "Arbei-
ter-Zeitung," the organ of the Austrian
Social-Democrats, wrote as follows an
August 4th, 1914: I'VE shall never
forget the day of August 9Th :. The
picture presented by the German
Reichstag, the representative of the
entire nation, will remain for ever in
the memory of the German peoples
and will be recorded in the annals of
history as day of mighty and proud
uplifting of the German spirit"
We Never Forget.
The proletariat will never forget
this day.
And on the Tenth Anniversary of
this day it will show It's fierce hatred
for the originators of the war. 1t will
not forget their helpers and lackeys-
the Social-Democrats, and will say
that, having made common cause with
the bourgeoisie, they must share with
it the contempt and the hatred of the
working class.
French socialists have declared that
they consider it their duty to defend
the independence and the inviolability
of republican Europe, which is thirst
ing for peace.
Belgian Treaohery.
The General Council Of the Belgian
Labor Party declared:
"ssooial-Democracy cannot be
made responsible for this terrible
bloodshed. 1t does not stop at any
thing to warn the peoples, in order
to prevent the mass competition in
ornaments, and in order to avert
the catastrophe which threatens to
overcome the entire population of
Europe.
- But the terrible evil is already
upon us, and fate has decreed that
our only thought should be: to do
our utmost to protect our territory
against enemy invasion.
We will put our heart and soul
into this fight, for we know that by
defending neutrality and the very
existence of our country, we are
serving the interests of democracy
and the political emancipation of
Europe"
British Socialist Betrayal.
The British Socialist Party said in
it's manifesto:
1.-THE great war, which was threat
ening us, has broken out. Austria's
attack on Serbia has drawn into the
struggle the Triple Alliance and the
Triple Entente, and our country was
drawn into the war by Germany's
declaration Of war against Belgium,
the direct cause of which was this
little country's refusal to violate the
neutrality guaranteed to it in the
interests Of the attacking Power"
The majority of the leaders of the
SocialDemocratic parties of other
countries with few exceptions) be-
trayed the working class with more
or less cynicism, adopting the view
point of their bourgeoisie, or descend
Labor Recruiting serseants.
ing to its level.
The socialist traitors converted the
big and powerful German trade-unions
into recruiting centers for the German
government, and trade-union leaders
acted as recruiting sergeants.
The French trade-union renegade,
Jouhaux, one of the present leaders
of the Amsterdam international, was
among the most ardent defenders OF
the patriotic bourgeoisie.
. The parties of the social traitors
made their members join bourgeois
governments Jules Guesde, Sembat,
Thomas, Henderson, Vandervelde.)
They used the authority of the Sec
ond International as a cloak for the
crime committed by the bourgeoisie,
and shared with 1t the responsibility
before the peoples. The theorists of
the Second Internationally
Victor Adler and others-undertoo