The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06
Defending Seeks to Spur
World Imperialism to New
War Against Soviet Union
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

CIR HENRI W. A. DETERDING, director general o
the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company the British
oil trust, is out with plea for open agains
the Union of Soviet Republics
The Rockefeller of Great Britans oil industry shield
his demand behind the usual rapid awakening of public
conscience which he claims is taking place throughout
the capitalist world against the Workers and Peasants
Government. This was the language of the tory die
hards in England, we'll as the United States during
the of intervention financed by these countries
in 192O-21 1t has often been used since.
Sir Henri makes his demand look rather ridiculous
by accompanying it with the claim, voiced nowhere else
throughout the world, that there will be IAN early fall
of the Sovets from power" That prediction also be-
longs to years lost in the hoary past
The utterances of Sir Henri published at great length
the financial page of the New York Times Oct s.
important, however, since his is the voice. very
great extent of the Baldwin Chamberlain conservative
government in England, Sir Henri says:
In other country fate such that which has
befalen Russia would have been possible and the alb
of foreign Intervention has been caused by the
world and its long drawn out economic conse-
quences
Sir Henri nfers that that the world war is over
that capitalist Europe has recovered economically
to extent, that is good time to attack the
Soviet Union, especially its Tenth Anniversary.
Every argument advanced by Sir Henri, however
against the Soviet Union has been repeatedly exploded
and should receive hearing now, even among the
most backward workers prejudced by capitalist propa-
ganda.
FIRST-The fate that has overtaken Russia has been
the abolition of the oppressive rule of czarists indus
trial expoiters and landlords through being displaced
by the Of the workers and peasants who count
this change the most glorious page in all Russian his
tory.
SECOND:-Sir Henri doesn't approve of the con
fscaton of the oil and other industries especially the
oil industry He complains that the oil industry turned
to him, paper by the dethroned czarists was
confscated in June 1872 Sir Henri in shedding these
tears, doesn't receive the sympathy of the Stand
ard Oil of New York. that is buying oil from the Soviet
Government
THIRD-Sir Henri praises the capitalist exploiters
OF the pre-war compared to the ability of the
postwar of the oil ndustry-the Workers anC
Peasants Governmental conduct that industry, That
IS matter of opinion in which labor both inside as well
as outside the Soviet Union will not join As long age
as 1924 the British Trade Union Declaration to the
Soviet Union, declared The existing (Soviet economic
system has real vitality; it stimulate the economic
recovery which peace has made possible. Further
that the proportion of present production
compares very we'll with that of other continental coun-
tries"
FOURTH-Sir Henri declares that "the oil industry
IS too intricate and wants such attention to be
full that is the last industry that be by Com
munists by State" This industrial patriotism
be forgiven Sir Henri since he is in the oil business
1t is believed however, that there are other industries
intricate If it is intricate then more credit
to the Soviet Power since the oil industry in the Soviet
Union has grown rapidly than any other industry
since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
FIFTH: Sir Henri complains that petroleum products
exported from Russia still contain superior products
If this is true, then Henri ought be first to want to
buy Soviet oil and extract these superior products for
his gain.
SIXTH-Sir Henri uses these arguments as a basis
for combating the extension of credits to the Soviet
Union Here is revival of the old hope that the Work
ers Republic will be overthrow by financial blockade
But that has also failed.
SEVENTH:-Then Sir Henri speaks of the cost of
millions of lives that he claims Russia has suffered
due to the Soviets Sir Henri will again fool no one
The lives lost by the Russian working class were sacr-
feed in defending the Revolution against the nterven
ton armies financed by the governments of such bust
ness bandits Henri himself The British workers
know this if Henri doesn't.
Then Sir Henri concludes with Theories have ruled
these last ten years Let hope that years of sound
practice will have at least equal subsequent run"
Books of figures could be presented show that the
reconstruction Socialist basis of industry and agr
culture IN all their varying phases has been proceeding
most successfully in the Soviet Union Such figures
however convince profeers of the breed of Sir Henri
and their Of but necessity the need to
destroy the Soviet Government that is so successful
since it is the of the Soviet Government that
mpers the capitalist social order throughout the rest
of the world
Sir Henri does confne his anti-Sovfet hatred and
fear to propaganda. He is most active at this
moment in trying to force the French government like
his British government to break off diplomatic relations
with the Soviet Union
1t is Sir Henrs government with his consent and
applause, that finances hordes Of Spies ncendares and
assassns to make their way the border into the
Soviet Union and carry out the plans Matched for them