The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-11
Told You So

III "oilu peace at CnS OPEN
ing OF the AmerScaa Legion conven--
tlon. General Pershing of the U.
,. A. and General Allenby of Great
frltaln praised the Kellogg pact as
a peace instrument, but urged their
respective governments to keep their
powder dry. Allenby said that the
two nations should stand together.
what he meant is that if both i'm
perlallsms could arrive at some
agreement whereby they could con-
duct their present business of gen.
eral pillage without having to re-
sort to war over the spoils it
would be much better for the plum
derers. Unfortunately, however.
for the imperialists, such on ar
rangement is somewhat utopian.
Is predicted in the Daily Worker,
- the Kellogg pact has given a de-
clded impetus to war preparations.
indeed, it is very likely that one of
the main reasons why this fake was
pulled by the United States was to
smoke out France and England, who
had Matched up an offensive and
defensive alliance on land and sea
directed chiefly against the United
States. This has been successfully
accomplished. Now the world knows
what England and France so vigor-
ousiy denied for awhile, that every
soldier of France is also a soldier
OF England and every British battle
ship a French ironclad.
kELLOGGS movements at the
peace conference were suspicious.
And his visit to Ireland, while To-
noring England, made suspicious
more dumbfounded. To ali but thu
wilfully blind it was as clear as
crystal that the United States was
not aiming at world peace but issu-
ing a challenge to Great Britain
and the League of Nations. Now
William Randolph Hearst has struck
another blow for his country bv nm
earthing the actual treaty between
England and France, which resulted
IN his man, Koran, getting a notice |
to quit French territory. This should
make Willie feel good. Willie is
never happier than when he sue
ceeds in helping to precipitate a
war.
IL is sheer folly to think tina. there
can be world peace under can
italism. War is indigenous to the
capitalist system and until the work
ers of the world smash this system.
establish the rule of labor and build
up Socialism which will automat-
lcally do away with the causes of
war, there cannot be peace. The
working class are the chief suffer
ers from war. But they cannot
have peace by merely protesting
against war. The road to peace is
through class war.
THRIFT is not always the shortest
road to wealth. It is not a bad
way to help the bankers enrich
themselves, but for the average
worker it means denying himself
What he needs when he can enjoy
it in order to have it when he can
not enjoy it. However, this is not
what / intended to call attention to.
Four armed youths made more in
one recent hour than any four-un-
.ess they be the four Wall Street
boys who are supporting AL Smith
could make in several ordinary life.
times. These youths invaded a Jew
elry establishment in the Sparkling
Forties and went away with S275,-
900 in jewels.
pERHAPS they will be appre
! hended, and it is also possible
that they may spend several years
in some penal institution for using
direct action in acquiring COM
petence instead of playing the mar
ket in Wall Street. Then again it
is possible they will not be caught,
but will live to enjoy the fruit of
their initiative. The police. will
surely search for them, though the
same police make no attempt to ap-
prehend the employment agency
sharks who rob the unemployed Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars an
rually. Such is justice in a capital
list society.
NURING the world war we were
- told by patriotic preachers, lay
and clerical, that the great massacre
had powerful moral effect on the
youth of the country. 1t made he
loes out of towards and transformed
crooks into paragons of honesty.
But quite the reverse has been the
case. Twelve years ago Tommy
Hewitt was hero in the uniform
of the French flying service. He
was risking his life for Morgan's
millions. Today Tommy Hewitt is
not hero. He is guest in one of
New York's penitentiaries, because
he thought that hero's check
should look good to the Biltmore
Hotel even though there was moth
ing behind it but the war.
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