The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-15
The Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Conference Points
Way to World Peace
BY J. LOUIS ENeDAHL.


Japanese scholars who have identi-
fed themselves with the cause of
world peace" The nature of the
edition may be judged from the fact
that it contains articles from high
officials of the Mikado's government
that outlaws the trade unions in
that country. Among American
liberals andlpacifist contributors is
to be found the ultra-reactionary
Nicholas Murray Butler, head or
Columbia University, which alone
should damn such publication in
the eyes of every honest worker.
Scharrenberg says of this motley
aggregation:
These men, and many others
unite in saying that thoughtful CO.
operation can and must give place
to thoughtless warfare. In the
mercenary world of today universal
peace is still merely an ideal. 1t
will remain so until the peoples of
all lands learn to cultivate the spirit
of goodwill toward one another.
Lasting peace cannot be had by the
application of force. No war to end
war has ever ended war"
Such phrases, before 1914, were
continually being Matched by the
imperialist dove of peace nesting
on it's militarists in the Hague
peace Palace" financed by war
profteers, including the American,
Andrew Carnegie. At the same time
all the capitalist nations INDUCED in
an armament race that brought
them to the slaughter abyss COM
pletely supplied with all the imple-
ments of wholesale murder. Condi-
lions are no different today.
Now, as in 1914, there is only one
war that will end all wars. That is
the class war with victory perching
on the banners of the working class.
The American labor leadership,
as it exists at the present time,
doesn't believe in the class struggle.
1t generally accepts the kind of lib
eral and meaningless phrases that
Scharrenberg utters, which furnish
the best mask for collaboration with
the American ruling class against
the working class.
Scharrenberg is also secretary of
the California Federation of Labor
He has made several trips to the
orient, but hardly to develop unity
with the workers on the far side of
the Pacific. He has rather been in
strumental in formulating the immi-
grafton laws Of the American capt.
talist government that have alien
ated the sympathies of large sec
tons of oriental labor with the
American working class.
Scharrenberg is an "old party pro-
gressive" in California politics, the
kind of politics that has attacked
the workers with the worst state
anti-syndicalist law in the nation.
Scharrenberg joins with Furuseth
in fighting the radicals within the
union, crushing the very life out or
the membership of the organization,
so that merely skeleton remains
of this once proud union.
1t is against such leadership that
the working masses must struggle
in order to achieve unity, not only
unity on the job, to fight for higher
wages, better conditions and the
shorter workday; not only industrial
unity to array the American work
ing class against the American cap
italist class; not only pan-Pacific
unity to unite all workers in the
lands bordering the Pacific, but also
the world unity of labor for the de-
feat of all labor's enemies and the
ending Of the wages system.