The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-28
Geneva Another Warning to
the American Working Class

OInef winch Is lneVlJaDle unless III
perialism is smashed by the masses
in the imperialist nations and their
allies, the colonial peoples.
Further proof of the growing ten
sion between America and Great
Britain is found in the recent pro-
posal for a peace pact" between
France and America proposal
which gets joint support from the
political rivals, Poincare and BRAND.
This proposal, timed for the Cen
eva conference, is another blow at
Great Britain. That it is anything
else but a plan for peace will be APP
parent with but little consideration.
If American imperialism really de-
sires peace for herself and the inn
perialist world 1--WE consider in this
article only the inner @mperialist con-
flicts and not the general struggle
of imperialism against the Soviet
Union) the requisite procedure seems
quite simple. 1t would be sufficient
for immediate purposes for the two
most powerful imperialist nations
American and Great Britain-to sign
a treaty against war and agree to
move jointly against any other CAPT
talist nation, or nations, which dis
turbed the peace. The combination
of forces would be too powerful for
any possible grouping of capitalist
nations to challenge. But imperialism
is not pacifist and cannot be pacifist.
QUT at Geneva there is no talk, or
- even rumor of such an alliance.
peace pacts" with Japan, yes,
peace pacts" with France, yes, with
both these nations, yes-these ques-
tions are discussed and given wide
publicity.
Toward Great Britain there is only
hostility at Geneva on the part of the
American delegates.
Geneva is a danger signal for the
American masses. Ut will make no
difference if the diplomats find at
last some formula which will tone
down the atmosphere Of hostility.
There will still remain the unalterable
fact that American and British i'm
perialism face each other across a
chasm which will be closed only as
they come to grips amid the thunder
of guns.)
I'VE do not intend to give the i'm
" preston that here and there as
their interests dictate there may not
be temporary understanding and even
joint action as at Marking. But these
understandings will arise principally
as result of general imperialist hos
tility toward the Soviet Union and
the points and periods of agreement
in inner imperialist politics will be-
come less frequent and of shorter
duration.
Already the "big navy" interests
of America are gleeful. They fore
see tremendous program of naval
building in the near future and the
money now used to make refunds on
income tax payments can be easily
utilized for speedy and powerful
cruisers and auxiliary craft. The
plutocrats who now receive the big
refunds probably will be glad to
forego them in return for loud testi-
mOnials to their patriotism-an the
huge navy which will defend their
present holdings and wrest more for
them from colonial peoples and inn
perialist rivals.
The pressure of militarism upon
the American masses is bound to in
crease. American Imperialism, in
Latin America and in China, has
launched it's career of conquest. In
Geneva it speaks already as the ruler
of the world.
Accepting the decision of the last
Plenum of the Communist Inter
national, the Communist Party OF
America must make clear the lesson
of Geneva to the American working.
class and proceed more energetically
than ever before to prepare it to put
in practice in the most effective way
the feminist slogan of Fight your
own imperialism firstr'