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

World War is a damnlng lndIet-
ment Of the Social Democratic trait
ors. It compares socialist pledges
against capitalist war with social
ist support to the Imperiaistic gov
ernments, August, 1914. And, the
thesis shows, soelaI-democracy must
be destroyed that the proIetarlat
\ may be no longer betrayed In the
hour of crisis.
II. Who Is to blame for the Wharf.-The
End international as the Criminal
Abettor Of the ImperlaIist War.
When the war was over, when the
rapacious Versailles peace was being
conducted, the bourgeois bands, in
order to avert from themselves the
anger and scorn of the masses hypo-
critically occupied themselves with
| a search for those who are to blame
for the war. They wanted to place
at their door the responsibility for
the world confiagration. The procla-
nation of the German Emperor Will
helm as the one responsible for the
war could not erase from the con-
seriousness of the advanced workers
and peasants the firm conviction that
all capitalist cliques, all financial
captains of all nations, the bankers
of all creeds, the manipulators of fin
ance capital and heavy industry, both
in Germany and in France and Great
Britain, are equally to blame for the
world war. World capital, imperial
ism, in friendly cooperation with the
remnants Of the nobility, the dynas-
ties and the priests-these are the
real perpetrators of the slaughter,
The working masses and history will
never forget that, in the decisive hour
of military trails, throughout the en-
tire war and postwar period, capital
found in the leaders and function
aries of the End International willing
servants and aiders and abettors in
the work Of the world war.
End international Betrayed.
History and the working masses
will never forget that the End Inter
national criminally betrayed the inter
ests of the working class, the inter
ests of the toilers, the interests Of
humanity.
Long before the beginning of the
world war, international socialism had
foreseen its inevitabilty, had shown
its causes and factors, had outlined a
plan OF struggle.
Year after yeaI partial wars-such
as the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan,
the Italian-Turkish war-substantiat-
ed the warnings of international So
cia1ism.
Long before the imperialist war of
1914, International socialism had es-
tablished leading principles for the
attitude of socialist parties towards
the Interpretations of the imperial
lists and the conduct of socialists and
workers organizations IN case of war.
This was done at the International
Congresses Especially in the Stutt-
CART Congress of 1907, and the Basic
Congress Of 1912, and at a series of
national party conventions (Chemnitz
Congress of the German Social Demo
cratic Party, etc.
In passing a resolution on the war,
the End International took upon It.
self definite and unequivocal obliga-
lions.
Broken Stuttgart Pledge.
The resolution of the Stuttgart Con-
gress reads:
"The Congress deems it the duty
of all the workers and their re-
representatives. in Parliaments to fight
in every way against ornaments,
both on sea and land, to unmask
the class character of bourgeois
society, and the motives which i'm
pei it to maintain and support ma
tional antagonisms, and also to re-
fuse any kind of financial support
for such policy, and to strive
towards educating the proletarian
youth in the socialist ideals of inter-
national brotherhood, and towards
maintaining class consciousness
among them"
The resolution of the Stuttgart Con-
gress contains approval of the Activ-
tiles Of the Russian and Polish work
ers and peasants, who conducted
mass revolutionary struggle in order
to prevent Tzarism from conducting
the war, in order to put an end to it,
in order to make, to the people and
the proletariat, in the midst of this
conflict, an appeal for civil war.
III however, Notwithstanding all
these measures, the war has already
begun" so reads the end of the Stutt-
CART resolution, then 1t is the duty of
the socialists to make every effort to
secure its termination AS speedily as
possible, and to make every effort to
use the economic and political crisis
created by 1t in order to stir up the
most profound social forces and ex-
pedite the overthrow OF capitalist
domination"