The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17

TIME American Appeal" the Of
4 fetal organ of the socialist
party, offers it's readers as the head
line of its leading first page article,
the following:
Congress and People Alone Can
Prevent War"
The article declares:
This position (that of the Coo
lidge administration is such that
unless the American people voice an
irresistible mandate for peace, or
congress acts to prevent a rupture,
or the Mexican and constitutional
Nicaraguan governments surrender
abjectly to American capitalism and
imperialism there will be a break
between these countries.
Mexico is the first line of offense
in its path. Once over that barrier
it will dominate Latin-America as a
base for further conquests F..
IF the people permit this first
step to be taken, America will earn
the honest hatred of the whole
world. We will turn the world
against us. We will place ourselves
in the position of the Germany, of
the kaiser and we will suffer the
same fate"
1t would be difficult for the Of
fetal socialist organ to depart
greater distance from socialist prin-
ciples without coming out actively
as the champion of imperialism it.
self.
Not one of the three possible al
ternatives to war advanced by The
American Appeal, can be realized.
First: The American "people"
cannot voice an irresistible man.
date for peace" because there is no
unity of interest that ties the whole
people together, not even against
war. Socialism teaches, something
that the editors of "The Appeal"
want to forget in the face of the war
danger, that "the people" are divided
into classes based on their economic
interests. The capitalists, speaking
thru the Coolidge Morgan adj
ministration, want war whenever it
advances their interests, or ito pro-
tect their property" The press, the
pulpit and other mediums of pro-
paganda help beat the middle class
into line to defend propertied in
terests that are also sacred to this
class, all defenders of the capitalist
social order. 1t is only the exploited
workers and farmers, the working
class, that can be definitely arrayed
against the capitalist war, and then
only when it becomes conscious OF
its own struggle for emancipation,
uniting it's efforts with the Cypress
ed colonials. The working class,
thru achieving its own emancipa-
ltion, abolishes war thru the aboli-
ton of capitalism. The workers
alone can voice ian irresistible
mandate for peace" thru their class
power. Labor's voice must be heard
in the trade unions fighting the
alliance of the officialdom with the
capitalist masters. That is one way,
right now, to build the war against
the war. Communists lead in this
struggle. Socialists in the trade
unions, especially in the needle
trades, make war on the Commun-
lists and launch campaigns of ex-
pulsions against them, thus becom-
ing the best allies of the capitalist
war. The fraudulent appeal to 1.-THE
people" is merely a mask under
which socialists try to hide their
real treason to the working class.
Second: The socialist "hope"
that congress will prevent a rupture
leading to war is merely another
sample of the infantile socialist
faith in capitalist institutions. 1t
grows out. of the belief that con-
gress is something to be captured"
some day at some election by an
aroused electorate-the phantom
people" Socialist party spokesman
like to turn their backs on all So
cialist teachings, especially that con-
gress is part of the capitalist state,
an instrument of oppression in the
hands OF the capitalist class, estab-
lished and bulwarked with grow
ing police power for the protection
of private property rights. 1t may
be said that no congress that has
ever sat In Washington has shown
itself more servile IN the face OF a
threatening war. The foreign af-
fairs committee OF the house Of rep
resentatives even voted against re-
questing Secretary OF State Kellogg
to appear before II and give infor-
nation that might be demanded Of
him. The constitution Of the United
States specifically states that Con
gress shall have the power to de-
clare war" But the house foreign
affairs committee, that must inform
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