The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-21
BY WILLIAM F. DUNE.

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lance for the working class by the
delegation from the Soviet Union.
Into the sessions devoted to
strengthening the capitalist economic
front against the worl1ingclass, the
extension of trade agreements,
negotiations between gigantic inter-
national trusts, discussion of tariff
problems and preparations for plac-
ing still more of the burdens of
sterilization" upon the masses, the
Soviet Union delegation has pro-
jected the two questions:
% Does the capitalist world
recognize the existence of another
system opposed to itself which has
maintained itself for ten years?
(2l What are the intentions of
the capitalist gOvernments-peace
or war?
HERE in the United States there
~ is undoubtedly a strong tendency
to underestimate the Importance of
the appearance of the Soviet Union
at Geneva and the negotiations that
! have taken place there. But Euro
pean diplomats, who had planned to
turn the Geneva conference into an
offensive against the Soviet Union,
and who heard gleefully the news
of the raid on the Soviet Union Trade
delegation offices in London, know
that just as the raid itself has be-
come boomerang shifting sorely the
heads of British imperialist govern
ment, so has the Geneva conference
become a forum from which the So
Wet Union delegation broadcast to
millions of workers the contrast be-
tween their policy of peace and the
war policy of the imperialist nations.
THE bluff of the imperialist nations
has been called. Their represen-
tatives know only too we'll that sub
stantial alienation of the economic
diseases of Europe, without Russian
participation, is impossible.
They whistle to keep up their
courage, but the clear formulation
put forward by the Soviet Union
delegation has gone straight to the
hearts of the European workingclass.
Gregory Sokonikov put the issue
squarely: Either economic relations
with the Soviet Union or armed in
PREVENTION as in China-war or peace.
The responsibility rest upon the i'm
perialist governments, not upon the
worker and peasant government
of the Soviet Union.
THERE are other important aspects
of the conference which have not
escaped the notice of the capitalist
press correspondents who know
something of the labor movement. 1t
is, when all is said and done, in the
labor movements of the various coun-
tries that the Soviet Union finds its
strongest allies.
The New York World correspon-
dent reports:
Meanwhile agreement between the
Russians and the International Labor
Office, whose leaders are mostly So
cialists, has been advanced by private
conference. Heretofore the leaders
of the Second International have been
the most active opponents of the
Third, but now some of them are de-
termined to secure Russian coopera-
ton in their work"
THIS is another way of saying that
the mass pressure for support Of
the Soviet Union and it's anti-im-
perialist struggle is forcing even
sections of the refornlist leaders TO
abandon their position of unrestrained
hostility.
In it's directions to its various sec
lions for their activities in connection
with the Geneva Economic Confer
ence published in international Press
Correspondence for April %, the fol-
lowing paragraphs are to be found:
"The order of business of the Con-
ference does not contain single
question representing the require
ments of the working class Of Eur
ope. The unemployment problem has
been barred from the agenda. On
the other hand, the Conference will
be used for the purpose of preparing
an attack on an international basis
against the wage and labor condi-
tions Of the working class, an attack
which the workers of the world can
only meet by the creation of an IN
ternationally united and militant
trade union movement.
'But it is not only for this reason
that watchful eye must be kept
on this Conference by the working
class. II is in close connection with
the menace Of war, which it is the
duty of the international working
class to combat. At the same time
there can be no doubt that the IL
lusions entertained by the Second In
ternational will be cruelty dispelled
by the outcome Of the Conference
Furthermore, the Conference demon
strates to the working class che
existing imperialist antagonisms,
which contain the germs Of armed
conflicts between imperialist groups
and which can be solved only by the
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