The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Geneva, Disarmament and ImperiaIst War


upon the sessions of the preparatory TOR
the league of nations disarmament conference.
For once in its life league forced deal with the
ton basis which will leave no room for doubt
in the minds of millions what nations and what
these nations stand for marizaon and prepare Tor
imperaist
the mperast their satellites face the spokesman OF
and peasants of the Soviet Union Maxim
the question of world disarmament IN terms
simple and understandable that the mperalst dpoCS are
left breathess-and fearful
The proposal of the Soviet delegation that all
tons abolish their armies and Notifications. 1t proposes
that disarmament conference arranging details not
later than March, 1925 and that disarmament shall be completed
within four-year period
league nations that instrument of world imperialism
has been turned into forum for the time being for the discussion
of the danger.
So the conflicts between the imperast nations
become that the able by nsstence the
necessity struggle against mpeas deepen the d.
visions the mpea ranks and appeal over the heads OF the
imperast rulers directly to the worlds working class
VIII the imperiaist disarm? Does the government
of the Soviet believe that the mperaist nations will dis
arm?
Certainly not,
Imperiaist and capitalist stions only against each
other but against work class and the colonial peoples
ares of all instruments for the suppression
of the masses.
Navies especially truments Tor the conquest Oh CO.
lonia countries.
In the invasion of the Uni~n which followed the
luton and which all imperalt took part we have
classic example of the huge scale of mpeass armed
forces against those millions of the working class who were IN
military working class of whole nation Al TER 1t
had defeated the native ruling class and taken power
The invasion of the Soviet Union by American British
French Japanese and Italian armies simply the
the policy of the of the armed forces of mperast
smash strikes prevent organization of workers.
ETC.
AT one end of the chain are The Colorado strikers
and the police in Pennsylvania at the other
the nvason of the Soviet Union the armed aggressos
against Chinese revolution the conquest of Nicaragua etc.
The intensity and of the class struggle determines the
lengths to which imperialism goes IN modifying Its armies and
navies against the working class
The imperast spokesman reply the proposal of the
Union attacks its motives They will that the
Soviet Union maintains huge army that will not disam even
tho the mperas nations do that it conducts continual cam
pagn against the mperaist governments ETC.
The socialdemocras will join this chorus and by doing
will again that they enemies OF the masses and OF
the However, the social democrat leaders
great supporters of disarmament-in words
But by giving verbal approval disarmament proposals
these leaders substitute words for struggle against i'm
pram and the danger Just England Macdonald and
the right wing of the labor party the enemies
the Chinese and Indian peoples in France Jouhaux supports
imperast government while French Communists to Jail for
fighting its bloody program in Morocco and Syria.
Imperialism the period of and revolutions and to be-
leve that Imperialism will darm is to believe that the mperi
ats will surrender to the working class and acknowledge the
supremacy of the revolution.
the imperast spokesman Geneva must explain why
disarmament and this the mperast
spokesman will twist and wrigg for this point they have
been impaled by Litvinoff's accurate thrust.
will the leaders of the second international do
painful squmng the proposal of the Soviet Union deega
ton designed also these hypoca hangeon of the
for such impossible attainment the abolition
of mperas ornaments at time when Imperialism rules the
world outside of the Soviet Union and the main line of struggle
Imperialism the Soviet Union that the Soviet Union
delegation to Geneva is fighting
Union delegation Geneva throw posi-
BILE obstacles the of the mpes offensive the
workers peasants expose the brutal anti
workngcass character of the mperast make
harder for imperialism to drive the the shambes of
imperat the social democrat leaders either
support the struggle against mpera by their refusal
themselves before the working aiding
the mperiaist murderers.
At Geneva the Soviet Union delegation does the ques
ton peace under Imperialism which actually peace
with Imperialism by the surrender of the working class to it, This