The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-21

N"AuHdh dJ Jue HlDduy LTlal OF the
expelled socialist assemblymen), or
who vote liberty arches in honor of
those who fought in Morgans war
(refer to wartime stand of social
list members of the New York board
of aldsrmen). When the socialists
Joined in the LaFollette campaign
in 1924 they adopted the slogan of
Back to 70" But the honor of a
revolution $50 years old, as well as
its traditions, while comfortably
placed in history's pages, have little
application today, especially in Mica.
ragua, Mexico and China, except as
inspirations for new and greater
struggles.
Socialists who seek an alliance
with the lovers of peace" mantling
themselves in American honor"
are always found on the side of the
moneyed crowd, and the socialist
party confesses this in its desire
for an amended imperialist slavery
for the peoples of China.
Even the Federal Council of
Churches and other pacifst organ
izations would hardly be guilty Of
claiming that American diplomatic
policy is now alternating historic
Chinese friendship with America"
Because the Chinese masses, until
the past two years, have been yoked
and forced to their knees by foreign
imperialism, in which the Wall
Street brand has played its brutal
part, that does not mean that China
has even admitted any friendship
for the United States. In fact the
Chinese place the American. i'm
perialists in the same category with
their British, French and Japanese
foes. The socialist party state
ment infers that If American gun
boats were withdrawn from Chinese
waters, and if the American dip
lomatic policy would dull the spikes
on the club of it's Dollar Diplo-
macy" then the oppressive rule of
the American dollar would be ac-
ceptable and the phantom Chinese
friendship would be restored. This
is to take the false position that
imperialist oppression can be adj
justed satisfactorily upon the backs
of subject colonial peoples. 1t is
an echo of the American Federation
of Labor theory that the capitalists
and workers, thru class collabora-
ton schemes, can cooperate to-
gether harmoniouly in the produc-
ton OF super-profits, with the
troublesome class struggle never
disturbing the reign OF class
peace"
The trouble with the whole theory
of the socialist party leaders, which
is not a socialist theory, is that
the situations in Nicaragua, Mexico
and China give the lie full in the
face to the socialist party nonsense.
American Dollar Diplomacy" has
developed in harmony with the
eeds Of the Wall Street imperial
SITS. This development is directly
ontrary to the interests of sub
ject peoples, and the inevitable con-
diet ensues. When socialists urge
: constructive cooperative foreign
policy" on the imperialist robbers,
hey place themselves in the comic
sections, only to be laughed at,
especially when they urge that their
measures constitute 1.-THE road to
honor and peace"
1t may be taken for granted that
American workers and farmers, who
still smart under the enforced
participation in the last war, will
not be fiimflammed by this rainbow
offering of the socialist party. Work
ers and farmers, as we have already
seen in the actions of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, the Denver
(Colo.) Trades and Labor Assembly,
and In the Minnesota Farmer-Labor
conference, instinctively reject the
honor Of peace" path under cap
italism, offered by the socialist
sirens, and launch their attack
directly against the profit monster
The fight against the socialist
soporiflc. is part of the struggle to
unite American labor with the peo-
pies oppressed under Dollar Dip