The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-16

impetus in the formation of the
ton of the socialist party in
1917 and Debs and Berger were
the leaders of this left wing!
At least the spy Spolansky will
make Victor Berger snort. He, the
leader of the left wing at st. Louis!
Victor Berger, who was bitterly op-
posed to the anti-war resolution fore
ed thru the st. Louis convention by
the left wing, and only accepted the
resolution when he saw there was no
hope Of beating it, has been raised to
the position of the leadership of a
movement he opposed.
What Happened at ST. Louis.
In view of the putting over of the
Dawes plan by the American capital
lists, thus preparing the ground for a
new imperialist war into which this
country will inevitably be drawn, it
is worth while to recall what happen
ed at the st. Louis convention of the
socialist party about which spy Spoil
ansky makes such ridiculous blum
der.
The left wing socialists in the St.
Louis convention stood upon the Com
munist principle that the workers
should refuse to fight in the imperial
list war of the capitalists. The Am
erican capitalists were forcing US into
the world war in order to protect their
profits and investments. The left
wing socialists at st. Louis said: 1--WE
will carry on consistent and persist
ent opposition to this war. We will
oppose with all our strength conscrip-
ton laws which make us fight for the
capitalists profits. If we can mobilize
enough power, if we can draw into
the struggle with us great masses of
workers, we will turn the fight against
the war into struggle against the
government of the capitalists which
forces us into the war and drive it
from power and establish a workers
government"
That was the left wing socialist pos
ition adopted at ST. Louis. That is
the Communist position today in re-
gard to imperialist wars. When the
next imperialist war for which the
Dawes plan has prepared the ground,
develops, it will be the Communist
task to rally the working masses of
this country against such war. They
will urge the workers to answer the
new demand that they give their lives
to help Morgan get his profits by end
ing the system of government and in
dustry which creates imperialist wars.
But Victor Berger, as the leader,
why, by that time Victor Berger will
have joined his comrade, Noske, of
the German social democratic party,
as one of the chief defenders of cap
italism!
From or to Russia.
Spy Spolansky draws a vivid pic
ture Of the flow Of Russian propagan.
dists into the United States. If he
were really up in the spying business
he would know that in place of Rus
sian Communists coming to the Unit.
ed States, that the flow is in the other
direction. Russian workers, many of
them Communists, are shaking the
dust of the United States from their
heels.
These workers have had their ex-
perience with glorious American in.
situations. They have found that Am
erican democracy is fraud and
sham. They found that under this
boosted democracy there was a spy
system and police terrorism which
could Guido even czarist Russia. Spy
Spolansky and his like have taught
them what a sham and a fraud Am
erican democracy is when workers at
tempted to express their ideas on the
assumption that there was such a
thing as freedom Of speech, freedom
of press or freedom Of assembly. The
capitalist czars who run American in.
dustry taught them that they could
only work when the capitalist czars
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