The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26

NE most infamous OF all wars known to history
4 has, for the last two and half years. been de-
vastating large part of the earth. This war is
destroying the most valuable inheritance of man
kind; it is threatening bury under its ruins every
thing of which Europe boosted at the beginning of
the twentieth century.
Why those people suddenly beginning to speak
of peace, who had dreamed of tramplng the whole
of Europe under the iron heel of their armies? Ger
many and her allies not speaking of peace be-
cause conscience has awakened in the mind of the
German Ministers, even because their forces are
exhausted
No! Nothing has changed in the mind of the
Ministers who have condemned the flower of their
nation to death only that they may, conquer
territory, only that they may rake in profits
for the capitalists of their country.
Not love of peace and not weakness have forced
the governments of Germany and Austro-Hungary
to make offers of peace. 1t is the threat of revou
tion which is growing beyond their control that has
decided them to take this step.
Our comrades, the proletariat of Germany and
Austro-Hungary, have long ago taken up the fight
against the devastations of war. They were the
first to nscribe their banner the slogan dear to
us: down with the war;"
For two years they have fought bravely and ten
aciously under this banner The German govern
ment has thrown them into prison and has fired on
the crowds IN the street. The blood shed for the
of freedom, for the of mankind will not
be absorbed in vain, not without fertzing the bar
rem soil, as is the blood of those who die on the
battlefield In Germany, the army of the proletariat
which has risen to fight for the restoration of peace
is growing from day to day, despite all violence.
The voice demanding that the war be stopped, is
heard more and more distinctly, sounds more and
more threatening The of the peoples wrath
are dashing, with greater and greater violence
against the walls of the palaces. This angry is
causing thrones to totter.
The governments of the countries fighting against
beginning to speak of peace. 1t is not diff
cult to see on what they reckoning. They are
making proposals of peace to their opponents. If
their enemies reject the peace negotiations they will
say to their nations 1--WE have done everything in
power to put end to the shedding of blood.
You for yourselves that the possibility of put
ting end to the is out of hands. We
are being attacked, we must defend ourselves"
The success of this manoeuvre would be death
blow to the movement of the German workers
against the war. The flames of war are flaring up
with fresh vigor. New streams of blood, new piles
of coTpses, victims called 10 the colors! How
will it all end? When will this madness cease?
The whole manoeuvre of the German government
is based on the presumption that the German proe-
tariat is alone in its struggle for peace. The Ger
government has staked everything the hope
that the workers of Russia England and France viii
not support the workers of Germany in their de-
mand: Down with the war;
1t is the popular movement alone which has COM
. PEELED the governments of the countries fighting
against to make offers of peace. Only the peo-
pie compel the governments of Russia, England
and France to accept these offers of peace. VIII
the call Of brothers, the German workers, find
echo among the Russianworkers? Will the Rus
sian workers support them in their great and diff
ficult struggle for peace?
The moment has when the fate of Europe is
to be decided. The question is to be decided as to
whether the offer of peace made by the govern
ments of the countries which fighting against
us, is to be step towards peace towards a fur
Their ntensifieaton of the fury of war. This ques-
ton is the point of being decided, and
keep aloof from this decision in whose breast
heart still beats, whose brain has not ceased to form
. clear thoughts whose conscience is not dead.
Comrades! Which Of you has not in his mind,
cursed this present. futile inhuman war? Any cry
emitted between four walls is useless, when what is
needed is action.
Every day Of the war costs $4,000 human lives.
Every hour the war continues demands the lives of
thousands of human beings and destroys the hap
piness of thousands of families. Every hour by
which we hasten an armistice will hundreds Of
comrades and brothers from perishing.
III Is n crime 10 keen client at such n tnna TIa