The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-21
Socialists Propose An.
Amended Slavery for the
Victims of Imperialism
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

DHE socialist party has at last is
L sued what purports to be an Of
fetal declaration on U. S. imperial
ism's aggressions against Mexico,
Nicaragua and China.
The contents of the statement are
interesting, in that they further re-
veal the milk-and-wat liberalism
of an organization that still stries to
sail under the name Socialist"
For instance, the Socialist Party,
in the homeland of American impe-
rialism, demands the immediate re-
vision of the unequal treaties
against which Chinese anger is ris-
ing" The Chinese national revolu-
ton, under the leadership of the
Kuomintang, is demanding the COM
plete abrogation of all these treaties.
Thus the Socialist Party, which still
claims to be party of social revolu-
ton, demands less than the Chinese
nationalists. In fact, the American,
British and Japanese imperialists
would be very happy If the Canton
ese revolutionists would agree to
the mere revision of the treaties"
imposed under the guns of warships
and at the points of bayonets. But
this is not the first time that the So
cialist Party has acted as a propa-
ganda agency of the imperialists.
1t is also of great interest, how
ever, to note that it took the so
cialiSt ofIicialdom more than two
weeks to act in the Nicaragua-Mex-
ico-Chinese situation, and that the
product of the collective brain ap-
pears, not in the official organ of
the party, The American Appeal,
issued in Chicago, but in the New
Leader, published in New York City
as the expression of the Hillquit-
Oneal-Cahan wing of the party.
1t was during the Christmas week
end that Rear Admiral Julian L.
Latimer, appointed dictator over Mic
aragua by the Coolidge-Me llon-M Nor
gan regime in Washington, began
landing the marines, loyal imperial
list soldiers, on the shores of the
Central American republic. But the
New York socialists were so busy,
bolstering up the reactionary attack
on the left wing and the Commu-
nists in the needle trades, that the
New Years weekend passed and
half of January was gone before
the socialists finally issued their
statement in the Saturday, Jan.
18th, issue of The New Leader.
This emphasizes again that the
socialists have three centers around
which they gravitate. The national
Office is still maintained in Chicago,
evidently for lack of initiative 10
dump it elsewhere. The local So
cialist movement in the nations Sec
ond city has disappeared. But the
. Chicago Office is very clearly iso-
that maintained by the socialist con-
gresham, Victor L. Berger, in Mil
waukee, around his daily, The Lead
er, and the eastern group that takes
its leadership from Abraham CahGn
and his Jewish Daily Forward. The
Chicago editor writes his own views
on American Intervention in Mica
ragua, Berger is silent both in con-
gress and in his paper, while the
New York clique has finally issued
the statement signed, 1.-The Social
list Party" in which the plea APP
pears that:
Every lover of peace, as well as
every lover of American honor,
must be profoundly concerned to OPP
pose the ruthless policy of economic
imperialism backed by the use or
the threat of force upon which the
Coolidge administration has EN-
barked."
This appeal would doubtless in
clude Coolidge, Kellogg, Latimer
and even j. Pierpont Morgan, him
self, since they all claim to be
lovers of peace" Coolidge said so
in his speeches at Kansas City, desi-
eating a memorial to the victims
Of the last great slaughter, and also
at Trenton. N. j., commemorating
the victory of the colonists in the
revolutionary war of 1776. The
whole plunderbund Is also strong for
American honor" That is why,
they claim, great section OF the
American navy is now hemming in
Nicaragua along both its western
and eastern coasts, to protect life
and property" in the name and for
the glory Of American honor.
But this is only to be expected
from the socialists who prefer the
capitalist state of the proflteers to
the Soviet State OF the workers and