The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-28
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

used by the delegates to the Geneva
disarmament" conference cannot
conceal the tremendous struggle for
naval supremacy, itself an expression
of the struggle for world domination,
whose chief center today is the
Pacific area.
But if the diplomats (and some
times the admiralty are careful, the
correspondents are not 1t is true
that they weave into their articles
the stereotyped usages by which q
mantle of protection is thrown around
official spokesman, but the cold
blooded character of the calculations
which precede each official utterance
is obvious. For the correspondents
are patriots and each does his bit to
boost the game Of his imperialist
bosses.
At Geneva the diplomats are gam
"A bling with the lives of millions of
workers and farmers. With Ameri-
can Imperialism playing an aggres-
sive role, the naval strategy of the
next war is being worked out.
America and Great Britain are the
two main antagonists Japan is
buffer, an ally, or an enemy, as the
bloody game proceeds thru its vari-
Gus stages.
The immediate stake is the power
to conquer and rob 4O0,000,000 Chi
nese workers and peasants and seize
the intellectually valuable natural re-
sources of the nation.
1 AMERICAN imperialists have not
"A been blind to the fact that China is
the richest prize ever glimpsed by
the buccaneers of the ruling class.
Let J. Selwin TAFT, Chairman of the
board of directors Of the Washington
and Southern Bank of Washington,
D. c., speak for his class;
q. CHINA PRESENTS THE
GREATEST INDUSTRIAL AND
COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY
NOT ONLY OF THE WORLD To-
DAY, BUT THE GREATEST
WHICH THE WORLD HAS EVER
SEEN. With a population of four
hundred and fifty millions of peo-
pie, according to the latest esti-
mate of the Maritime Customs, it
! has a national debt amounting in
round numbers to one dollar per
/ head of its population, or less than
one-twentieth proportionately of
/ the debt Of her neighbor, Japan.
/ Were China to borrow up to the
same figure as Japan, that is, over
/ $50 per capita, she could add to her
debt the unimaginable sum of S.
550,000,000 (gold), the total of
which would suffice to build 170,-
/ 600 miles of railway at the liberal
estimate of $4,000 gold per mile.
Some few years ago an investi-
/ cation of the effect which Chinese
railroad development had upon the
commercial growth of China showed
that between the years 1900 and
/ 1907 an increase of As per cent in
/ Chinese railway mileage had
4 brought about an increase in the
net imports and exports amounting
/ TO $50 per cent during the same
period. Suppose we were to extend
these figures and estimate the fu-
/ ture business of China on the basis
Of an expenditure on her railways
equal to $50 per capita of her popu-
lation. Can you form any idea of
what volume her business would
then be? The result would, it
must be confessed be unintelligible
to the ordinary mind if placed in
plain figures"
4 Quoted by James DoIsen in THE
I Awakening of China" Emphasis
Mine.)
1 GREAT Britain and Japan have been
" even more alert since the Russian
/ Revolution rescued that rich country
and its people from the clutches of
the imperialists and the rivalry for
robbery privileges in China has be-
come intense and lies at the base Of
the struggle for the control of the
Pacific. So powerful is the position
of American Imperialism due to her
4 geographical isolation, her tremend-
Gus natural resources and national
] NN0AeAA ~ ENhtAGAY anu WIG AOW BOiltA-
cal development of the American
workingclass. coupled with the ire
mendous efficiency of American in
dustry, that American imperialism
appears at Geneva relatively un-
worried by the woes which beset her
rivals.
co far June 26) the American dele
- cation has not felt it necessary
to make the slightest concession to
Great Britain, but has acted in
manner which is little short Of openly
provocative.
But the uncertainty which char
acterizes the relations between capt.
talist states at present and which
produces seemingly endless sue
cession Of alignments and re-align-
ments, maneuvers and counter-man-
euvers, is to be seen also in the
Geneva discussions.
This uncertainty, however, has