The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-02

ton OF oil in southern Italy.
Reviving the League of Nations.
The United States has become a
part of the whole European system.
Comrade Varga Gales attention to the
fact that the League of Nations is
again becoming an issue in America.
The tremendous drive to put over the
Box Peace" Plan. =. the 1924 plat
forms of both Republican and Demo-
cratic parties. the active part
taken by U. S. Ambassador Kellogg
in the present conference of premiers
in London, all these things show which
way the wind is blowing. And the
outcome is war.
But America is a peaceful nation
Did we not, shout the philistines, take
the lead in the calling of the famous
Disarmament Conference at Wash
given to the Conference should not
blind US to its content. at is pro-
bable that the Washington Confer
ence will make not for peace but for
war;" declared Thomas F. Willard, in
confidential memorandum written
for the State Department.
A Coup d'Etat.
The Washington Conference was a
simple aggressive maneuver. Europe
is puny field for the exploits of our
imperialists. For years now they
have had a vision of empire. whose
eastern outposts lay far across the
broad Pacific. In the quaint, pictur-
esque, and (incidently) enormously
wealthy land Of Old Cathay, Wall
Street and the United States Govern
ment have been pursuing a policy
of late, calculated to fairly bewilder
the average worker or farmer, toiIing
away in the seclusion of isolated"
America. China, wrote MiIIard, in
another Of his confidential memoranda
sis the central factor in American
Foreign Policy" China is also a
factor in the policy of other national
imperialisms. These policies clash
one with another. War is the certain
consequence. The Washington Con-
ference was a mastery coup d'etat on
the part of American capitalism in the
struggle for strategic advantage in
the far East.
The proposals regarding ornaments
were showed into the background in
the Washington Conference; the
American representatives refused
even to discuss them until various
Pacific Coast and Far East questions"
were disposed of. Japan was put
abruptly on the defensive. The in
volatility Of American interests in
China was urged and insisted upon.
Even the proposal for Limitation of
armament, apparently so innocent,
were a part Of the American offensive
against japan. All military experts
concur that, especially considering
the present Industrial background Of
the two countries, the naval limitation
agreements made by the conference,
tend inevitably to the relative
weakening Of japan and the relative
Strengthening OF American Capital
ism.
A Fight for Empire.
The Japanese have been made to
feel that the United States govern
ihcHI 10 uctci uiihcu W DdCh up oil lHe
schemes Of American Big Business in
China. The fight for empire is de-
clared. There is the threat Of war
and the danger Of war in every line
Of the Washington agreements.
China is the greatest market in the
world for the absorption of surplus
capital. She has coal. iron. anthony,
lead, oil, cotton. rice.... and, above
all, plenty. of cheap human labor.
What group of money-mad American
financiers would hesitate to lead us
into the most perilous adventures in
the face Of such a prospect!
But American capitalism comes late
to the Chinese treasure house. Much
OF the treasure has already been
narcaled ont The limited States nra-