The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

Tor a place among, or even above, the great Euro
pean powers
Preparedness parades were the order of the day.
Patriotism the watchword and such subversive
acts the organization Of exploited workers must
be discouraged
Two birds could be killed with one stone
The rabbIe could be shown that it was unwise to
follow men who against imperialist war and
reless in their efforts to strengthen the organiza
tons of the workers.
Some threw bomb into preparedness par
ade in San Francisco
Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, after the
American workers had torn the moose from their
necks, still waste their lives away in California
prisons.
The House of Morgan had its way The working
class was driven to the shambles, one by one their
scanty privileges vanished under the pressure of
war necessity" Mooney and Billings became num-
bers on the prison roster
1916-Mooney and Billings-Amercan imperial
ism was ready to enter the world war and begin
new epoch in its struggle for world domination
In 1920 the fever was still at a high pitch
in the United States and Sacco and Vanzetti were
two among the thousands of workers suspected of
revolutionary tendencies who arrested impris-
Oned and deported.
Iney were hed Tor seven years by the 1nQuSlt0rS
held until their march to the sacrifical altar, and
the burnt sacrifice of their bodies would fit into the
historical mosaic of the American frame-up.
When they murdered their deaths marked
as had the torture and deaths of other victims of
the classic frame-ups the entry of Americas ruling
class into new period
The House of Morgan militarized the American
masses for "a war to end war"
But Sacco and Vanzetti uttered their last
words in the Massachusetts death house. the rumble
of heard by those workers whose
senses have been sharpened by their battles in the
first line Of the class struggle
1927-Cinders which once were Sacco and Vanzetti
"a world war in the making. The offensive against
the Soviet Union ensts the best minds of the
British ruling class The defense of the fatherland
of the worlds workers becomes the duty of every
proletarian.
The drive of American imperialism for world
domination is on In full force. The Morgan adven-
ture in 1917 has paid huge dividends. Tribute is
paid to Wall Street in golden streams
Small trickles diverted to bride and debauch
the official leaders of the labor movement They
sell themselves to American Imperialism while
everywhere the labor movement is being beaten
down.
Once again the American ruling Glass; leaving one
epoch and entering another, christens its new pro-
gram with the blood of worker sacrifices.
But this time the working class will understand
No longer shall the criminal conspiracy of silence
on the part Of the miseaders of labor serve to make
these frame-ups appear arbitrary Incidents some
thing separate and apart from the whole struggles
of the exploited masses.
The Third National Conference of the Interna
tional Labor Defense will at one and the same time
link historically the frame-up system of American
imperialism with its bloody assaults along the whole
front of the class struggle, and forge against it a
weapon that and will be welded by the work
ing class to the end that the high priests of Wall
Street will find their affairs barren of worker sac
rifices from now until the might of the workers
shall overturn forever the edfices which so many
of their comrades have died.
To American imperialism the Third Annual Con-
ference of the international Labor Defense will say
eve have read the record and it is too long"
mot another workers name shall be numbered
there"
"Our purpose is to defend but you will find that
art of the world working class movement as we
proudly claim we have learned well the lesson that
he best defense is the strong attack"