The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-21
WORKERS PARTY
SPEAKERS WILL
ATTACK NEW WAR
Workers to Gather to
Protest Bolivia
Paraguay Fight
Clash of Imperialists
Scheme to Drag Labor
Into World Carnage

World warl The real danger that
soon millions of workers in Amer
lea and England, yes. and other ma
tions, will be flung at each other on
gas-drenched, explosive-torn fields
in North and South America or Eu-
rope! This is the danger against
which the workers of New York are
asked to protest, in a great mass
meeting, tonight, at p. M, at the
Central Opera House, 9th st. and
Third Ave, under the auspices of
the Workers (Communist) Party of
America
This meeting follows closely after
two other meetings. Speaking be-
fore the National Defense League"
a few nights ago jingo Admiral
Plunkett demanded that the naval
lace against Great Britain go on
without restriction. In the name
of American Imperialism, Plunkett
demanded naval bases galore, more
cruisers, "many times Fifteen new
cruisers" for the death grappIe be-
tween American and British imper-
ialism. Other speakers On the same
platform condemned Communism
and the Communist movement, which
they realize is the most serious
threat to their bloody program.
War Makes Profits.
Another meeting, soberer in color,
held the night before last, was that
of the military organization of the
metal manufacturers of America.
They heard General Billiard recount
with gusto all the profits sure to
pour into the treasures of the steel
trust and munitions manufacturers
from the preparations for the next
/ war.
The Workers Party mass meeting
comes as congress juggles two i'm
perialistic laws--the appropriations
/ bill for more cruisers, a part of the
naval race with Great Britain, and
the Kellogg war pacts, miscalled
peace pacts-an attempt by Ameri-
can imperialism to replace the Brit
ish-dominated League of Nations
with one controlled by the United
States.
The meeting is held as an army
of Bolivians faces an army of Para
guayans in disputed region of
South America. American bankers,
Gil companies and mining companies
dominate Bolivia, and order the war,
while England and the League of
Nations seek to build up opposition
to the United States in South Amer
lea to prevent the huge land steal
which the Bolivian henchmen of
Wall Street are trying to manage
At any moment this South Ameri-
can war of the champions of u. S.
imperialism with the Paraguayans
may result in drawing the principals
in the struggle-United States and
England.
Recognizing that the Bolivia
Paraguay war bears much the same
relation to the next world war that
the Balkan situation did to the last,
the Workers Party calls mass
meeting of workers who own no oil
wells in South America, who have
no munitions to sell to the U. S.
navy, but who may soon be ordered
to die for these interests, to stage
gigantic protest against the war
against the first battle of such a
war, however well hidden as a Bo-
livia- Pan aguay conflict.
Good speakers will be on hand to
analyze the situation, to explain in
detail the causes-and the most
probable results in worldwide car
n 6 e-of the Bolivia Paraguay
struggle. Among these speakers
will be two members of the Secr~-
tariat of the Workers Party, Jay
Lovestone and William 2. Foster;
the New York district organizer Of
the Party, William w. Weinstone;
the editor of the Daily Worker,
Robert Minor, and the director of
Negro work in the Workers Party,
Otto Huiswood.