The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

TO THE WORKERS OF THE
WORLD AND TO THE OPPRES-
SEQ PEOPLES OF ALL COUN-
TRIES!
Workers, Toilers, Oppressed of all
Countries!
THE Communist International APP
Apeals to you all to join in a mass
protest against imperialism which is
threatening the world with the in
calculable misery of new world war.
Almost thirteen years have passed
since the beginning Of the first great
imperialist war. Up to the present
time humanity has not yet completely
recovered from the terrible destruc-
ton of this war. Hundreds of thous-
ands of cripples and millions of in
valids from this wretched slaughter
still throng the streets. The rivers
of blood which drenched the fields Of
| Europe and Asia have hardly dried
And the whole world still trembles
in the commissions of crises whose be-
ginning is to be sought in the first
world war.
AND now the mouths of the guns
"A are smoking once again! The still
i powerful imperialist clique has begun
a war of determination against the
4 Chinese revolution. Over ITO war
ships are lying in Chinese harbors.
Tens of thousands of soldiers, Japan
csc. British, American, have planted
their boots on the soil Of China
watered with the blood and sweat of
/ the much tried masses of the Chinese
/ people. The most important towns
are in actuality occupied by the "civ-
ilized" hangmen. The great Yangtze
river is thronged with gun-boats and
cruisers. The harbors are occupied
by the capitalist robbers. China is
blockaded by their fleets. Manchur-
ia is occupied by the japanese army.
In alliance with the vile reactionary
Chang Tso-lin the imperialist armies
are carrying on a destructive war
against China. The imperialist pow
ers are jointly carrying on war
against the Chinese people without a
declaration Of war, without dignified
formaIities and despite their own dis
agreements.
AND they have also begun to pre-
n pare the war against the Soviet
Union. The unparalleled raid upon
the Soviet Union representation in
Pekin, the demolition and plumber
ings, the arrest and the maltreat-
ment of the arrested, the siege of the
Shanghai Consulate by Tzarist white
guards, British and Americans, the
obvious provocation of the Soviet
Union-all this points to the exist
ence of a systematically carried out
plan initiated by the imperialist sea
pirates.
MOT for nothing is British imperial
~ ism striving to fling the British
working class movement into chains,
to rob the trade unions of the pro
letariat of their rights. British i'm
perialism wishes to secures "peace" at
home $50 that it can exercise its mill
tary "heroism" undisturbed abroad.
MOT for nothing is the French
~ bankers clique carrying on war
campaign in France. France is being
turned into a military camp. She is
being armed with all speed for new
bloodbath, for the new catastrophe
which the imperialist politicians are
preparing, for new conflicts over the
division of the spoils and new in
tervention against the proletarian
revolution!
MOT for nothing do all.the forces of
" capital unite now against the
Chinese Revolution and against the
bulwark of the working class move
ment-the Soviet Union. A new blood
bath is being prepared which will be
still more criminal, still more bloody,
still more murderous than the war of
1914.
THE preparations for this bloodbath
L are being concealed by the League
of Nations, the most hypocritical in
situation of all times and all
peoples. The League of Nations is
league for the enslavement of the
peoples by the imperialist murderers,
it speaks of peace and conducts war,
it speaks of protecting the weak and
destroys them, it speaks of disarma-
ment and arms feverishly, in one hand
it bears the olive branch of peace and
\ in the other a sword drippinp with
the blood of millions of victims Of
the imperialists in Syria, Egypt, In
dia, Morocco and China.
THE preparations for this bloodbath
are being concealed by the leaders
of the Second and the Amsterdam
Internationals who speak platonically
of peace but who concentrate their
chief energy upon the struggle
against the bulwarks of peace, against
the Soviet Union. They favor and