The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

These are the facts. This is the un-
adorned truth.
SoeiaI-democrat Failure.
The Social-democrats held out a
promise that as a result of the war
there would be just, democratic and
honorable peace between all peoples
They lied. They consciously and de-
liberately deluded you. They certain
ly knew that the peace would be die
tated by the victorious imperialists.
The dishonorable war, conducted by
the bourgeoisie with the dishonorable
cooperation Of the Social-democrats,
could end only with a dishonorable
peace. This peace was drawn up at
Versailles, where the victorious rob.
bers placed their iron heels upon the
necks of the robbers they had van
pushed. Germany and her allies were
ground underfoot and dismembered.
In order to justify such an enslave-
ment-an enslavement that is not less
ruinous than the war itself, the Social
lists of the victorious countries, the
Hendersons, the Renaudels, the Van.
derveldes and the others, repeat the
parrot cry of the bourgeoisie: Ger
many is being punished for having de-
sired and having brot about the war.
What imposture! What idiocy Even
were it true the the Hohenzollerns
and the Hapsburgs were solely re-
sponsible for the warts a people to
be punished for the misdeeds of the
government which oppressed it? Is
the German proletariat to be mas
sacred for the treachery of the Ger
man bourgeoisie?
international Greed.
The Socialists Of the Entente coun-
tries believe that it is just to snatch
bread from the mouths of the Ger
man workers, of their women and
their children, as punishment for the
fact that the German bourgeoisie
annihilated these workers brothers,
husbands and fathers, or made
cripples of them. But can any honest
man in his right mind imagine for
one moment longer that responsible
ty for the war rests exclusively with
Germany and Austria-Hungary? Do
we not know Of the Unsuitable greed
of the English bourgeoisie, the op-
pressors of colonial people? Do we
not know of the loathsome greed Of
the French Bourse? Did not Czarist
Russia, in alliance with France and
England, strive to steal Constan-
tinople and the Dardanelles?
The imperialist war was the result
Of the clash Of the unleashed greed
Of both groups. All of them mobil-
lied for the war. All of them hoped
that new apportionment of the
earth's surface would result. All
strove for plumber. All of them
thirsted for booty. The ruling classes
in both camps are responsible for the
war, for its continuation over a
period of four years, for its sacrifices
and its destruction, for its idiotic out
come at Versailles. And more than
trifing degree of responsibility
rests upon the shoulders of the
Social-Democratic politicians, the
patriotic union leaders, bosom COM
panions Of the bourgeoisie, the
haggling agents of imperialism, the
socialist attornies of the Versailles
peace, and brands them with the
mark Of dishonor.
October Saved Russia.
One country alone took no part in
the disgraceful proceedings at Yer
sailles, either as victor or vanquished.
The working masses of revolutionary
Russia, under the leadership of the
Communist Party, had overthrow
the bourgeoisie, had taken govern
mental power into their own hands,
and had led the country out of the
He'll of the war. The Bolshevik gov
eminent broke down the iron doors
behind which the Czarist diplomats
worked, made public their secret
documents which unmasked the
treacherous activities of the entente
governments as well as of the gov
ernments of the Hohenzollerns and
the Hapsburgs. There remains not
one particle of doubt, that had Rus
STA allied herself with the Entente
and continued the war, as the social
revolutionaries and the Mensheviki
wanted her to do-the already ex,,
hausted country would have become
British-French colony, northern
India. Only thru the October (No-
vember, 1910 revolution did Russia
find its salvation