The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04

from China islone that cannot be set.
tlet without war, The United States
Is ready for that war. Hence the re.
cent maneuvers Of the feet in far
eastern waters-and it's subsequent
friendly visit to Australia American
Imperialism Is prepared to fight Eng
land but she wishes to detach England
srom Japan at all costs, and evidences
| or Australian-American entente, to-.
gcther with the Canadian situation,
are calculated to make England think
twice before she throws in her lot
with Japan. Our party must conduct
a relentless campaign against Amerl-
can militarism, inside the military
| training camps and out. The spread
Of Communism in the army, as shown
IN the cases OF Crouch and Trumbull,
Il Of great significance, and ii is es
recially significant that they are sta
toned in colonial possession. We
mist expose the imperialist purpose
>. navy days. and defense days"
und VIC must tear the sham from of
snch slogans as "the yellow peril"
Limitation of immigration etc, so
that the working class may respond
10 our fight against the coming war
Imperialism and the Capitalist State.
SO. The bourgeoisie develops an
eTermorc powerful state machinery
| FOR Tho execution OF its financial
schemes. for armament, for colonial,
.ar inundated areas and spheres of
.nGuencc administration. and for sup
preston OF class conflict At home.
81. The Intervention Of the power
sul imperialist state machine in DOM
as,ic labor conflicts (iliunctions. use
CT force in strike breaking, compui-
sorry arbitration etc., the growing
drain of militarism and colonial wars
and occupations, the imposing of the
gigantic state apparatus, the sharp
ching conflicts leading to a new world
war, the growth of unemployment due
10 industrial stagnation at home and
export of capital on an ever increas-
ing scale, The use of the lower wages
and living standards and longer work
ing hours among the subject nations
and "Dawesinedv European workers
to depress working standards and
wages at home all these tendencies
work counter to the tendency to cor
rupt the "aristocracy Of labor" and
Identify it with Imperialism, and they
begin 10 make clear to the working
class the irreconcilable opposition Of
imperialist opportunism to the gem
eral and fundamental interest of the
labor movement
IS. It's enormous profits thru the
exploitation of backward peoples en-
ables it to bribe and corrupt main
leaders Of the working class and even
create privileged industries and
branches Of Industry, thus creating n
fairly numerous sietocracy OF labor.
Thus there is born the union Of op-
oortunism and Imperialism, which in
the United states expresses Itself in
the imperialist, nationalist and class
collaboration policy of the leaders OF
he American Federation Of Labor
and in Latin,America in the policies
of the Pan-American Federation OF
Labor. The creation Of privileged
sections Of the working class leads to
.heir separation from the broad mass.
es Of the workers. This splitting UP
If the working class Is very marked
IN The United States and is an import
ant contributing factor emphasizing
The division between skilled and un
skilled, organized and unorganizedr
Negro and. white, foreign and native
| etc.
SO. The American capitalists have
also succeeded in corrupting with
sOme portion OF their surplus profit
leaders Of the working class in some
Of the colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries. 0glesias in Porto Rico and the
Porto Rican socialist party. Morones
in Mexico and the Mexican labor
party. De LaSelva in Nicaragua; the
leaders of the Central American Fed
Grafton OF Labor; the fascist elements
in The Cuban Railway Brotherhood,
s'r.l
American Imperialism and Labor
Aristoeracy.
81. In the United States, npror-
tuEism is ripe and oyerripe. The be
ginnings Of a counter tendency are
making themselves manifest. This Is
to be noticed in the growth of a la
Dor party movement the platonic re-
sponso even to the abstract amalgam-
alton campaign, the marked tendency
OF the seamen to break down their
isolation, etc.
49, Imperialism develops inceras
ingly it's own contradictions which on
the domestic field present themselves
in the form of parasitic. stagnatine
aud even decadcnt form OF capitalism
The capitalist is reduced TO coupon
cutter. The oligarchy becomes so
email and so powerful that It is pos.
sible to neutralize whole sections OF
the former supporters OF the sbour-
eeoislo. poor farmers, petty bour-
genisic, etc. and to win away whole