The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.

the minority, movement in the Brit
ish trade unions, featured the second
day of the world congress against
Imperialism. kThe Senegalese Negro,
Lamine Sent4lor, representative of
the committed for the defense of the
black race, Al 30 contributed valuable
information colorful, graphic
picture Of "a crimes Of French i'm
perialism IA Central Africa.
Reportr ON Imperialism and its
Conseaue Fees for the Colonial and
Serai-ColJshial Peoples, Ledebour an
swered Pertain charges that the con-
gress has Communist. He declared
that Id had fought against imperial
ism ipf Germany when it was at its
height, before and during the war.
LebedOur Tells of Stuttgart y
Conference.
"Twenty years ago at Stuttgart"
n lie said, eve discussed much the
game things as we are discussing
N now There We're two opinions rep
2 resented among the leaders of the
Second International assembled
there, One was that we could ella
borate a socialist imperial policy.
Then there were also revolutionists
who put forward much the same
ideas as we have here The Revision
lists, who held the imperial view,
were led by a well-known Dutch
leader. / reported for the opposi-
ton. After bitter struggle we sue
ceeded in convincing the majority
OPT to 108) that socialism and colon
ial policy have nothing more to do
with each other than fire and water.
Afterwards all national sections ex-
cept the Dutch voted for us.
MacDOnald's Imperialist Debut.
Gone on the English side who
voted against our amendment was J.
Ramsay Macdonald. But he lifted
his hand later in favor of the gen.
eral resolution against colonial pol
icy. ! feel like asking now: Ramsay
Macdonald, have yOu forgotten your
vote of 1907? Macdonald had a
splendid chance to apply the social
list position but he completely failed.
"At Stuttgart only one delegate
was KaTayama, from Japan, an I'M
perialist country. Katayama has
fought japanese imperialism consist
entity from that day to this, and |
say to you that as man of charac-
ter, as a socialist, as a fighter, he is
far superior to Macdonald.
Oppressed Nations Delegates in
Majority.
Here at Brussels the delegates
from the oppressed nations are in
the majority. This represents a ire
/. 9aendous advance. Only by the
closest cooperation of all elements
can our ends be attained. We are
for independence of all countries, in
GLIDING independence from man
dates, old and new. This last refers
to Gernany's bid for a League of
Nations mandate). But it is not
enough u pass resolutions. We must
act
II was glad to have heard Brock
ways words yesterday. | hope they
express the present attitude of the
Independent Labor party, and hope
also that the eatire British Labor
party can be woll for it.
Transport Workers in Struggle.
81 am glad than we have in our
midst, Edo Fimmen, the most inn
portant figure of the international
Federation of Transport Workers
for the transport workers are vital
point in the struggle against impe-
rialism. We must popularize the
idea of strikes against imperiahst
aggressions. We must prepare to go
forward with them. The resolution
which | shall present to you later
asks the congress to approve of the
general strike against Imperialism.
In England great strides have
been made in the workers actions
against imperialism The American
workers cannot be expected to do
very much at the present stage. Eu-
rope offers better possibilities. Here
we have a long tradition of working
class political education under the
Second International, whose secre-
tary, Friedrich Adler, unfortunately
attacks this congress as Communist
can only answer that | am sorry
10 see you, Friedrich Asher, in your
Present company.
Will Fight Alongside Communists.
"Now you know that I am not
Communists say that | shall
fight side by side with the Commun-
lists whenever and wherever they
take up revolutionary work. We can
all be prepared to have labels put
upon US. 1t does not matter. No
one can afford to ignore the power
full groups represented here. No one,
least Of all the imperialists, can af-
ford to dismiss this congress as Of
little Importance for the liberation Of
down-trodden humanity. The basis