The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
COMMUNISTS NOT.
PAClFISTS;AR ARE.
FOR Gil ASS War.
Case Explained by n.
w. Lacquer
By HARRY CANNES.

BY HARRY CANNES.
Member of National Executive
Council of Young Workers League)
Compulsory military training is the
object of the present anti-pacifst
campaign. The failure of the citizens
military training camps for the past
two years, and the probable miscar-
riage Of the plan this coming season,
is goading the Chicago Daily Tribune,
the National Security League and a
horde of other -imperialist organ
izations to an attack on all pacifst
and communist elements.
The war department Of the United
States government has issued orders
for a mobilization of 100000 troops
for war training. The present in
cumbent in the navy department an
nounces his aim to be a large and
/ ship-shape navy commensurate with
the Washington armament confer
ence provisions. Just what this
means, how ineffective it is for a cur
tailment Of war forces is shown by
the action of the British Labor Gov
eminent in sanctioning the building
Of destroyers of $500 tons, when the
Washington agreement limits the ma
tons involved to destroyers Of 10000
tonnage.
CooIidge's War Plans.
The president has urged combin-
ing Of the war and navy department
for more efficiency than is at present
possible. Another of the great prob
lens facing the imperialist govern
ment of the United States is the mob
ilization of an army of eight to nine
million in case of war, and the plan
Of the war department is to train a
large enough officers corps in the
universities and high schools to be
able to throw trained body into ac-
ton at the call of war.
These vast war, preparations are
the basis of the hatred evinced from
the militarists in the United States
when the imperialist form of the
American government is pointed out
by the young Communist as well as
by the pacifist students. In the uni
versities propaganda carried on
against the students military training
corps has aroused the United States
army officers who are paid to carry
on the understanding. The Com
munist anti-military work conducted
by the Young Workers League in the
factories mines, mills, offices, IN the
grammar and high rhools, designed
as it is to arouse tie working class
youth to militant action against
wars, has especially met with the
hatred of the militarist hackers Of
American capitalism.
In order to brighten the student
pacifsts, the charge is being made by
The Tribune, the News, the Herald
and Examiner, as well as by the Off
GERS at the head of the Reserve Off
GERS Training Corps that all anti
military propaganda emanates from
Moscow and is under the direct su-
pervision of William a. Foster.
Communists Not Paei6sts.
It is true the entire Communist
movement of the world is definitely
anti-military in so far as capitalist
wars are concerned. But there is not
the least faint of pacifsm in the Com
munist anti-military program. AS
Trotzky has said, "In the Wars OF
the Capitalists we are fpaciists, but
in the wars of the working class we
fight unto the DEATH" 1t is this kind
of anti-military activity that is driv-
ing fear into the hearts of the Junker
gang now trying to stampede the
American working class into prepara-
ton for a new war.
That the present anti-pacfist and
red-baiting exertions undertaken by
the combined capitalist press with the
official sanction of the United States
army and naval department has
deeper significance that the limited
agitation of the university students
and the Young Workers League OF
America is strilSingly shown by an
examination of the dominant impe-
rialist position the United States has
assumed in the past decade.
u. s. a Jingo-lmperiaiist
Beginning with the Spanish-Amerl-
can war the United States entered the
world arena as a jingo-miiltarist and
imperialist nation. Since then 1T has
assumed the master hand. The close
az the world war found it on the PIN
nacle Of finance Imperialism. AS has
been pointed out repeatedly by COM
munists the world over, the military
forces of a nation develop In the
ratio that it grows imperialistically.
Where. for some reason or other, this
military growth is retarded, frantic
efforts are made by the capitalists to
speed no their Notifications and to
INCREASE ornaments of every kind.