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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
Against the War Danger
WAR AND THE WORKING CLASS
Imperialism Breeds Wars.


In this manner the stimuli towards
redistribution become more numerous
and new imperialist war becomes
more likely. Imperialism without
war is unthinkable; it is only through
war that it can be restored. To do
away with militarism without having
destroyed imperialism would be as
bad a beginning as to do away with
the Pope while retaining Catholicism.
Imperialism cannot exist for any
length of time without war. On the
other hand, every war that is waged
by imperialist powers must of neces-
sity be an imperialistic war, a preda-
tory war
1t is also to be seen from the gen.
eral sociological theses which Lenin
took from Marx and developed. Poll
tics are the concentrated expression
of economy" as Lenin said on several
occasions. Imperialistic policy is
consequently nothing but the "con-
centrated expression" of the economy
of finance-capital. "War is merely
the continuing of politics by other
(violent) methods" This celebrated
assertion. Of Clausevitz was taken up
fully and completely by Lenin after
Marx and Engels. From these two
sentences which link economy"
politics" and war" it will be seen
that the present-day war is the ':con-
tinuation" of the policy of imperial
ism, in other words, it is thoroughly
and completely the work of robbers
and exploiters.
Puppets of Imperialism.
The disproportion between the
hugely inflated military budget and
the general level of economy is very
pronounced in COUNTRIES adjoining
Russia, for instance, Poland and Rou-
mania. The secret of their excess
sive arming is that they play the
role of Fascist Mamelukes for the
great imperialistic sharks, such as
England. While they parade their
military power, they bhlEave them
selves like lackeys dressed in their
masters clothes. Naturally, the
masses of the people in these coun-
tries must bear the heavy burden of
their governments military zeal.
I,enin did not only take a naked
formula from Clausevitz, Lenin
backed it up with the richest con-
crete contents of the epoch. Leniu
welded it with the theory of imperi-
alism into a complete whole. In
Lenin's hands it took on that salts
flying, militant, revolutionary char
acter and at the same time illumi-
mated the way Of the fighting pro-
letariat with beam of the brightest
rays.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
A COMRADES FUNERAL
written After the Death Of Comrade
Chessick OF Philadelphia
By BERTHA KANTOR,

A comrade died, a soldier of the
revolutionary ranks of the United
States. A plain, sincere worker one
of those who remain in the back
ground, doing their duty quietly,
earnestly. He was one Of the many
who build our movement.
He had no relatives, but he was
never lonesome. Relationship stronger
than that of blood, forged in the
struggles of the revolutionary prole-
tariat bound him to his comrades.
When he died he was brought to
the Party headquarters. His COM
rades came to take last look at
him. They pledged themselves to
contirIe the work he left, to fill his
place with greater energy. Thus they
expressed their sorrow.
Again at his open grave they gath
cred closely together and sang the
International. The powerful melody
reverberated across the cemetery
grounds. Old ladies who came to
weep over the graves of their loved
ones were drawn to the scene, for
never before had they witnessed such
a funeral. Here in the Kingdom of
Death, triumphant life broke in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18

In fact the passengers generally felt that all travelling
restrictions were due the dread of the Bolshevks This
opinion was also accepted by Frenchman who could
talk some English By the time the train reached the
Ruhr district of coal and iron discussions had at
racted practically everyone in the who could speak,
or understand, the English language. Thus we passed
thru Duisburg and ESSEN the Pittsburgh of the Ruhr
and host of other cities that have been the ceners of
titanic struggles of the German steel workers and coal
miners for power against the oppressor in Berlin Paris
and London, not to forget Washington and New York
There must be affinity between Steel coal and
coats for here along the banks of the Allegheny and
the Monongahela, long bearded goats in large numbers
Craze quietly along the hlsdes But here in the Ruhr,
the cottages with the countryside including the goats,
do not look sooty and full of dirt the envrons of
Pittsburgh Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, or any other
American steel town or coal mining center
We pass thru the Ruhr during the late afternoon and
evening Quite late night hit of Belgium,
with the of stations famil arized by the world
war. Everywhere 'Tours thru the Battlefields were
being advertised The trenches have been carefully
served thru the udicous of concrete Every posi-
BILE nducement is given to the tourist trade that brings
hundreds of millions of dollars annually to Belgium and
France the chief favorites aho is claimed there is
falling off of American visitors this year. 1t is planned
send of thousands of members of the American
Legion the gathering of this organization in Paris in
September, to make up for any deficiency.
At Lege, Belgium, train of Belgian cars pulled
alongside our own With the Polish German and French
cars that made up train had quite colec
ton for a few moments in this station
American Passports Get Recognition.
The Belgian officials in brilliant uniforms, do not take
the trouble open up American passports, they
hold them in such respect With others they more
careful
1t is after midnight when cross into France.
Before seven o'clock in the morning begin to touch
the outskirts of Paris
The last view of the open country that of French
farmer swinging his scythe in bayfield, ripe for the
cutting Even here therefore, backward methods in
use by an impoverished peasantry. In France, in
Germany and Poland, the Communist Party has great
influence among the farming population.
Of this to learn later in the day visit
ing the headquarters of the French Communist Party
here Paris and the offices of its central organ the
L'Humanite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
w OMEN
POISONING OUR WOMEN WORKERS

New York State factory inspection
in 1926, found that wood alcohol was
used as a solvent for shellac applied
to lead pencils, for shellac on picture
frames and for the stiffening of hat
frames and panama hats. Most of
this work is done by women. Arti-
fetal flower manufacture is another
well developed industry in New York
State where wood alcohol is used as
solvent for dyes. The parts of the
flowers are dipped into the dye and
hung up to dry while the solvent
evapcrates. Women are employed in
FL these industries, and inspectors
have found that inflammation of the
skin OF the eyeEds is very common.
According to ore authority it is not
enough to provide ordinary ventila-
ton in workroom where wood alco-
hol is used. At least three times the
usual airspace is required for safety
where this solvent is used. The symp-
tons of wood alcohol poisoning, which
may end in death or complete blind
ness, are familiar to all from the
many cases which occurred soon after
the passage of the prohibition amend
ment. Industrial poisoning is of ex-
actly the same character
Danger to Children.
In dealing with the problem of wo-
men in poisonous trades, it is neces-
sary to take into consideration, first,
that women are more susceptible to
poisons as compared with men, and
second, the possibility of the trans
ference of the poisoning from the
mother to the offspring.
1t is a striking evidence Of the greed
for profits of the American capitalist,
and the indifference of the govern
ment to the health and welfare of the
workers, that in this country, the
wealthiest and most prosperous in the
world, there is almost no effort to
study and control the danger of indus
trial poisoning; while in Germany,
Holland and the Scandinavian coun-
tries, extensive studies have been
made and preventive measures under
taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
CO-OPERATIVES


MOSCOW, (By MaiD.-A report
of the International Labor Office in
Geneva to the preliminary committee
of the World Economic Conference,
gives some figures in regard to the
extent of relations on an interna-
tional scale of Agricultural and Con-
sumers' Cooperatives.
The British Wholesale Society, as
the most prominent importer among
cooperative organizations, established
already in 1881 in Denmark, buying
centre for dairy produce. Since then
trade relations between the English
Wholesale Society and the agricul-
tural cooperative societies of Den
mark have considerably developed. In
1925 The English Wholesale Society
bought up 20 per cent of the entire
Danish butter export. The English
Wholesale Society buys dairy produce
also from the dairy cooperatives of
Finland amalgamated in the ''Velio"
Society. Similar relations exist with
the Soviet cooperatives since 1922.
Up to 1925 these relations were
kept up on the part of Soviet Russia
by the Centrosoyuz and since then by
the ,Selskosoyuz through the Maslo
centre Society of Soviet Russian
Dairy Cooperatives). In 1925 the
English Wholesale Society imported
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
"Just Aims a Myth.

1t is one of Lenin's immortal
achievements that he indicated of
which policy the war of the modern
powers" is the Continuation" Len
in showed that only the regime of
imperialist exploitation and nothing
else can be Continued" with the
bloody slaughter of war. This gave
Lenin the possibility of attacking
with the strength of a ,Prometheus
the Social-Chauvinists, the Centrists
and the Opportunists of all shades,
to expose and scourge all the under
hand accomplices of capital, from
whose brains emanated the Gust
aims" of the war, which never had
any existence, and who gave the
workers the idea that shells from
Krupp's and Schneider-Creuzot
would promote the growth of democ-
racy, who spread the vulgar legend
"of the defence of Belgium's neutral
ity," who circulated the lie that the
imperialistic slaughter had not a
class origin.
Lenin's Mastery Analysis.
Lenin's merit was that he proved
why Imperialism must inevitably lead
to huge wars of destruction. He
thereby exposed the nauseating talk
of the preachers of pacifism who di-
verified the proletariat from the right
path and who, like the "Paneuropa"
gasbag, Calergi, gave the assurance
that imperialism could "get along"
without war. That it must not of
necessity have its logical Continue
ton" Lenin proved masterfully and
irrefutably that it is possible to fight
against war only if one fights for
the revolution and under the banner
Of the proletariat and in no other
way.
The whole of Lenin's doctrine con-
corning war was not exhausted in ex-
posing the nature Of imperialistic
warfare and it's showing it's .preda-
tory character. Sundry remarks, in
dications and articles Of Marx, the
creator of scientific Socialism were
transformed by Lenin into harmo-
NOUS whole, into doctrine of the
social-historic types of wars. n
Special Types of War.
Wars, "the use of armed forces"
occupations, attacks" defence"
"irredentism" (the violent changing
Of State frontiers) these were
experienced by humanity in the dis
tant past, all these are ranged on the
scroll of history, they are today be-
ing enacted and will be again in the
future. From the standpoint Of rev.
dictionary Marxism, it would, how
ever, be absolutely inadmissible and
quite fruitless if we forgot the spe-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
F A K NJ ER s
BIG BUSINESS RKED BY BACKWARDNESS OF FARM
PLANS WAYS TO MAKE FARMER INTO A SERF

great problem is how to prevent this
maximum production, which is to the
national advantage and to the advan-
tage of the individual producer, from
injuring the relative economic position
of either the agricultural or industrial
group as a whole"
This problem is insoluble in an
economic order organized for the pro-
fit of small but enormously wealthy
minority rather than for the mutual
interchange of the products of farm
and factory workers.
"The time has come in the life of
the American people," Jordan warns,
"as it has come before in the history
of all great nations, when we must de-
liberately and wisely formulate a na-
tional agricultural policy. We must
make up our minds as people wheth-
er we are going to continue to sacri-
flee our agricultural development to
our temporary industrial growth, as
we have been doing, or whether we
are going to adopt the safer and wiser
course of bringing our agricultural,
industrial and commercial life into a
well balanced and cooperative rela-
tionship."
Jordan sees this problem as a real
test of democracy and in sense he
is right. The solution can be worked
out only if American democracy is
capable of extension into the newer
field of economic government. Co
operation between farm and factory
can be worked out under farmer-labor
control of the economic forces of the
nation. Otherwise these forces will
be the playthings of great financial
overlords now dreaming of world en-
pire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
THE FUTURE
BY d. MARETSKY (Moscow).
TIT

III.
The reconstruction and develop
ment of imperialistic economy bear
within them the premises and fac
tors of a new war. During the post
war period, the competitive struggle
among the powers has not slackened
but became more intense. The prob
lem Of procuring raw material has
become critical for number OF
States, while the desperate fight for
markets has grown extremely sharp.
The coming to a climax of the main
problem for capitalism, namely, the
procuring of markets, is distin-
guished by the following features:
the disproportion between the posi-
bilities of extending the machinery
of production and of the small basis
of effective demand on the part of
the masses; the dropping out of the
Soviet Union as free market from
the sphere of capitalist world econo-
my; the Versailles peace" condi-
tions, which laid political ban up
on the possibility of extending the
economic territory of the van
uuished countries; the progress made
in the industrialism of the colonies
and protectorates, their political
awakening, etc.
The necessity for a redistribution
of the world is perernptorily de-
manded by the inequality of capital
list development, which under i'm
perialism becomes not, as some be-
lieve, modified but aggravated, a
fact which has been demonstrated in
particularly striking manner dur
ing the postwar period Inequality
of capitalist development under i'm
perialsm disturbs the economic bal
ance of the whole globe, balance
which can only be restored by vio-
lent redistribution Of the world. The
imperialst States with their highly
developed powers of production are
thirsting for supplementary" extern
sion, for the supplanting of their
fellows" and striving for Gust"
division Of the places in the sun. On
the other hand, those countries, in
which no means can be found of car
rying out Sterilization" successfully
and which threaten continually to
sink into chronic stagnation, show an
inclination to save themselves by
winning new spheres of influence
and exploiting them thoroughly. FL
nally, the vanquished countries, as
their convalescence progresses, begin
to feel the revival of their dormant
instincts, of their imperialistic appe-
tite; colonial theology and thoughts
of Just revenge" are croppfhR M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18

butter from the Soviat Union 20 the
value of over 10000 pounds before
trade relations were broken. In 1921
the English Wholesale Society estab-
lished with the dairy cooperatives of
New Zealand a joint distributive or
ganization which financed the distri-
button of New Zealand dairy produce
in Great Britain. In 1924 imports
from New Zealand amounted ~--or
G950,000.
Danish Efforts.
The Society of Swiss Consumers
Cooperatives has also direct relations
with the Danish agricultural pro-
ducers cooperatives. Last year it
imported mainly butter from Den
mark.
The Anglo-Russian Grain Export
Company, was engaged in the Coz
lection of Grain, before trade rela-
tons was broken. To this company
belong on the Soviet Russian side,
the Centrosoyuz, the Selskosoyuz and
the Vsekobank (All-Russian Co.
operative Bank, and on the British
side: the Wholesale Society and two
private firms. Wheat export to
Great Britain increased from 1872, 800
two-cwt. bags between the English
Wholesale Society and the wheat
pools in Canada and Australia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
NEW CALIFORNIA PIONEERS

sad strains of the Song of the Volga
Boatmen, with the rushing waters of
the Russian River and the leaping
flames keeping time, bring to mind
thoughts of far away Russia where
both the workers and their children
are free. Young Communists turn to
gaze into the river and the reflection
these waters will ever touch the
shores of the country for which the
river is named, carrying with it the
Pioneers feelings of solidarity.
Good Discipline.
One Pioneer tells of the camp and
Of the control commission which has
decreed that there shall be no noise
between 10 p. m. and a. M, before
WHICH time Pioneers can be seen sit
ting quietly on the banks of the river
fishing. The effectiveness of the con-
troll commission was demonstrated
when some careless league members
left watermelon rinds lying on the
grass.
Around the fire, there is dancing,
Finnish love songs, French songs,
funny Chinese songs and poetry for
the entertainment of those present
Pioneer Director Florence Thomp-
son tells of the work of the Pioneers
and how the Northern California Sub
district Committee of the Young
Workers League will help in this work
and build up and unity not only the
Pioneers but the Young Workers
League.
Astronomy.
The flames flare up brightly with
the singing of the International after
which Pioneers begin to creep away
to their tents. AS the flames down.
some Pioneers remain to ask ques-
tions about the big dipper, the north
star, and Venus which is hanging
low in the heavens ON tthe opposite
side Of the river.
In the morning the big baseball
game between Berkeley and Fort
Bragg ends with success for Berke-
ley. Pioneers from San Jose, RED
Wood City, San Francisco, Oakland
and Petaluma, together with others
from Berkeley and Fort Bragg cheer
their favorites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
By R. HOFFMAN.

BY X. HUFFMAN.
In an address read by DR. Alice
Hamilton, Professor of Industrial
Medicine in Harvard Industrial
School. at the last Women's Indus
trial Conference held in Washington,
she pointed out the great dangers that
confront women workers from indus
trial poisoning.
New Danger Since War.
According to DR.. Hamilton the dan
ger has increased MANIFOLD since be-
gore and during the great war. There
have been many changes in the type
Of solvents used in industry, Great
ing a new danger in rubber factories,
and in factories using varnish, lac
quer, shellac, and other coatings. Be-
fore the war, lead and a limited num-
Der of explosives were considered the
chief dangers.
The pottery industry carries with
it great danger of lead poisoning for
the great number of women and girls
who are employed in it. American
potteries are by no means model fac
tories; in fact, they fall far below the
standards maintained by many indus
tries for which a strict factory by
giene is not nearly so necessary.
Printing and type foundings are
other industries where women find
employment and where the danger of
lead poisoning is very serious. Even
more complicated and much more
dangerous is the work of producing
ntho-transfer paper, where women
are employed in busting finely ground
lead colors on prepared paper. In
such factories complete protection is
almost impossible.
BenzOl Causes Anemia.
The most dangerous and difficult
poison to control, tar-coal-beuzol, has
spread widely through industry, dis
placing the much safer petroleum SOL
vents, naptha and benzine. Benzol has
proven especially poisonous to many
women in these industries.
The National Safety Council has
published report of study of ben
zol-using industries in which it is
stated that during 1922-25, Is deaths
from benzol poisoning and SO nom
fatal cases occurred in "a plants. Dur
ing 1926 at least Z more died of ben
zol poisoning. Of 81 cases of severe
poisoning, 40 were women, and of SO
deaths, % were women.
1t is probable that benzol is one of
the poisons which is more dangerous
for women than for men, and especial
ly dangerous for young girls, as it
destroys the elements of the blood,
thus causing anemia. The blood loses
its power to clot, and when a slight
injury to a blood vessel occurs, the
blood keeps oozing out Victims of
benzol poisoning have hemorrhages
under the skin as we'll as from the
nose, the gums, the stomach and in
testines. Women suffer additional
danger through excessive monthly
hemorrhage.
Profits VS.. Lives.
Wood alcohol is another American
poison Grain alcohol could be sub
stituted, but for many preparations,
such as varnishes, wood alcohol dries
more quickly. Quicker evaporation,
however, means that the air of the
workroom becomes more quickly poi
soned, and the life and health of the
workers are thus endangered solely in
the interest of greater profit for
the boss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
Bourgeois Travellers Also
Blame ''The BOIsheviks" for
Many Passport Regulations
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

OUR train begins picking up Americans returning to
the United States it passes thru Germany on it's
way from Berlin to Paris.
There doesn't seem to be much American" for in
stance about the young sitting in the seat opposite
in the compartment that occupied European trains
divided into compartments that seat from six to ten
passengers each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
By NORMA BURSLER.

Bright flames of the Northern Cali
fornia Pioneers camp fire on the
stony shores of Russian River at
tract to it the visiting league mem
bers in time to join in Hold the
Fort" The blaze lights up the faces
of the crowd Of more than score of
adults and about so Pioneers of many
nationalities: Russian, Jewish, Let
fish, Lithuanian, Finnish, American,
Portuguese and Mexican.
From the group, a lad of about 6
years arises and says manfully: "a
few years ago in Berkeley, group of
Finnish children were organized to
learn to read, and to write Finnish.
We didn't like this so we'll and Moth
er Bloor came along and organized
us into Young Pioneer Group" He
also tells Of the development into the
present Berkeley Pioneer groups with
Approximately 40 members. Another
Pioneer steps from the crowd and
plays a harmonica solo and is fol-
lowed by girl from Fort Bragg who
tells similar story of development
from a Finnish study group into a
large Pioneer group with it's varied
activities.
Always Music.
Gone is the long ride through the
hills and over the bridge spanning
the Carquinez straits, the ride
through the picturesque Sonoma Val
ley, the rafting Ford, and its burned
out bearing. We league members lis
ten.
A Pioneer takes his violin and the
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cial historic characteristics of every
war, if we allowed their distinguish
ing and special features to be lost in
the colorless "lore" of war ain gen.
eral," which takes it's place outside
of history and of class. The war
which waged by Ghingis Khan is not
the same as that carried on by Ma
poleon, the historical significance of
Garibaldi's campaign is very differ.
ent from the war operations of Mar
shall Foch; the Red Army fought a
war which was altogether different
from that fought by the armies OF
imperialism.
(To be continucd)