The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-08


sive, will be our Soviet Union. On
the other hand there is the Chinese
national revolution which is not an
imperialist factor in this way, but on
the contrary is an anti-imperialist
factor. In such a situation what do
we do? In such situation we find
that it is necessary to prepare the
working class for different tactics
from the tactics which were employed
by the workers in the last war and a
different tactic from that which was
employed even by the best of the
revolutionary workers and leaders in
the last war, because this different
situation brings an adjustment of
tactics.
THE capitalist class, the conscious
elements of its leaders Of capt.
talist imperial policy, are making
preparations according to the differ
ent character of the coming war. We
find, for instance, throughout Europe
and to a certain extent in America the
development of a careful cultivation
of special bodies, military bodies eX-
clusively composed of bourgeois eie-
ments or elements subservient TO the
bourgeois. Some local military units
springing up with the conscious en-
enlargement of the states of the i'm
perialist powers with the knowledge
that the war that is to. come will re-
quire military cadres which cannot be
shaken by revolutionary agitation and
revolutionary conditions. We find
throughout Europe a movement of
this sort which even goes so far as TO
undertake with it work among the
women Of the petty bourgeois and
even the working class for the mobili-
cation of reactionary elements against
the revolutionary circumstances that
will come. We find the capitalist
powers showing every understanding
pf the differences of the present SIT
uation by doing what they call
STRENGTHENING the rear" WhaJ do
we mean by Strengthening the rear?
They want to have peace in the rear
while they hurl the working class into
war on the front. For instance, the
British trade union bill which was
passed in the last few weeks after
the general strike A trade union
bill which makes it illegal to have
another general strike under any cir
cumstances, either in time of peace
or in time of war. We find that bill
put through with the real collabora-
ton of the reformist leaders, making
a long strike towards tying uD in a
tight chain of war discipline the en-
tire British nation for the coming war
period. We find under the Italian
terror against the working class, end
less laws Matchmaking" trade
unions, as they call it. Laws by
which the working class and so-called
working class organizations are made
into automatons Of capitalist machin-
cry are being multiplied. This is
the preparation of the rear for the
coming war. The French military law
has just passed by which the whole
population, men, women, children, and
you might say, down to babies, are
put under the military discipline of
the French military authorities, in the
case of declaration of war. That ex-
tends throughout the colonies in the
heart of Africa. Today we find that
when the rulers of France sign a
piece of paper declaring war, the rule
of the military authorities is auto
matically established over every
worker in every factory, who can be
shot if he strikes, and over every
kitchen and dining room of every
French working class home, even to
the extent that a women doing her
homework is under military command
during the war period. We find Japan
going through something similar.
Germany abolished the 8-hour day
and preparing laws for the prevention
of strikes, fast developing, in the
same war. And then we see Eng
lands flunkey nations (Roumania,
etc. developing their own internal
machinery for the prevention and
suppression of the national Minority
Movements which threaten these gov
ernments in the case of war. That is
the mobilization of the rear.
ITO Be Continued