The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-10
Urge Labor Leaders"
Get Together and Stop
the War in the Pacific
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY host of nteIectua very glib with their tongues,
and rather apt spinning theories, meeting in the
have gathered peaceakers But they after the
of the American Pacific fleet had passed Wall
Streets warships off in Australian waters so paci-
fists may talk their hearts content and not be charged
with transgressng the murder plans Of the imperasts
One of the offerings that has come out of this INSTITUTE
is that there must be meeting OF the labor leaders OF the
Pacific nations to aid in preserving peace in this part OF the
world
Just who these labor leaders" are who must come
gether not told. And mention is made OF how
they will preserve peace.
Labor leaders fall into two groupings when the
begin thunder their messages of death and destruction
Those who are for the present perast system that
wars and those who are against it, for its overthrow The
last clearly showed that there chance especially for
labor leaders, to occupy neutral ground.
Those who for the abolition of capitalism of which
imperialism is the highest stage either join the Communist
movement be closely sympathetic it, be
practically identified with it. There labor leaders,
few today but more tomorrow in the nations surrounding
will certainly not call them into conference That would not
be respectable 1t would carry with the dreaded Mos
cow faint.
Neither would the institute" be able reach labor
leaders who out-and-out mperaIsts which would in
cude of the present heads of the American trade uni
They willing to bask in Wall Streets golden sun
light
1t would however, be able to reach few "paoifists"
among labor officials who like talk against capitalist
until declared but who refuse to join in actions
against Luckily for the pacss the against the
next still be kept far they concerned in
the talking stage But unucky for them the last war is
SLl IreSn IN tne mnus OF many workers. lne pdytIouC
antics in that struggle still too wildly remembered
The institute has thus Iaboed hard and the delegates
have travelled far for nothing this all that they
produce The nations that they represent while they talk
slaughteng workers and students in China and Wagng
against oppressed peoples in other sections of the
globe. #4E Nt
The sterity of the institute" In its failure produce
anything but smokescreen of talk should be another
Ing the workers and farmers that the WAR Against
War rests in their hands Alone that they alone bring
end to imperialism that carries in its womb the that
to
Workers and poor farmers, everywhere thruout the
land cannot withhold for their enthusiastic
port of the significant demonstrations urged by the Workers.
(Communst) Party under the slogans, "Stand BY Soviet
Russia Hands Off China' The victory of the Workers.
Republics marked the first great defeat of capitalist imperial
ism at the hands Of the awakened Russian seeking
their liberation The daily growing struggle in China esab
fishes another milestone in the march toward the world be
ration of labor The Institute on Pacific Relations is but
afIy speck on the wheels of proIetaran progress.