The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30

ganizing a travesty of a fight for
peace, a protest against the peril of
war, which will be nothing but a farce.
They want to divert your attention,
to lull you into security, so as to be
able to tie you hand and foot and
throw you to the moloch of militarism
Do not believe them, expose them
Confront them at every meeting with
the question: will they want to fight
against war, why do they vote war
credits and for the bourgeois govern
ment, and why do they support the
capitalist state?
The experiences of the last ten
years must not be lost During that
period we had occasion to watch pa
cifists, both socialists and bourgeois,
in all parts of the world. There is
nothing to choose between them. Did
we not have the example of American
pacifists, who during the first part of
the war; shed pious tears over the
bloodthirsty evil doors of Europe, and
subsequently helped Wilson to deal the
final blow at Europe in order to en-
able capitalist America to get fat and
strong at it's expense? Did not we see
the French pacifists, radicals and So
cfalists at work in the Masonic lodges
preaching the brotherhood of man,
and after August 4, 1924, preaching
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Germany
Have we not had enuf of German so
cialists like Kautsky, Hilferding and
others of that ilk who during peace
time are waiting for war with tears in
their eyes, and during war time are
even clutched at Wilson, just as they
are clutching now at the mildly i'm
perialist notes of Ramsay Macdonald
who is practicing his pacifism on the
backs of the people of Germany. To
gether with the French bourgeois pa
citist Herriot, Macdonald has re-intro-
duced Entente control over the dis
armament of Germany, while continu-
ing at the same time to strengthen
and increase the armament of Great
Britain. Pacifsts for peace during
peace time; but in war time they give
whole hearted support to their govern
ments. On an International scale they
crawl before the strong and mighty
and help them to crush the weak. So
cialist pacifists have been completely
demoralized by this decade Of wars
and revolutionary commissions. There
is nothing left of their former naivete.
Today they are sharp business men
closely connected with the ruling f.
nancial and military clique Of every
country; they are deliberately using
pacifist phraseology for the deception
Of simpletons.
Today the main pacifist field of ac-
ton is opposition to revolution, and
particularly to the Red Army. Pa
cifists are against revolutionary vio-
lence, rebellions and civil war. But
the bourgeoisie is armed, and the
working class is not BY fighting
against the arming of the workers, pa.
cifsts support capitalist militarism,
and thereby pave the path for future
wars. All the more disgusting are
their references to humanity and cul-
ture. When pacifists are confronted
with the accusation that they sup
port the militarism of their respective
bourgeoisie, they invariably refer to
the Red Army. They mean to infer
that the existence of the Red Army,
which was created by the workers of
Russia for defence against imperial
ism, is justification for the arhna-
ments Of the capitalist states for the
purpose of annexations and for crush
ing the revolution. Pacifists remained
silent when the armed force of
France, Great Britain, the u. S. A.
and other countries occupied Odessa,
Murmansk, Archangel and Vladivo-
stok. But they were very indignant
over the violence of revolutionaries
against their oppressors. Today the
excuse of the pacifists is that there