The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-29
The Greatest Danger to the
Working Class

So terrific is the momentum generated IN
the drive of the imperialist powers toward
another world war that many class con-
scious workers, even a considerable number
of revolutionsts, fail to perceive its lmml-
nent danger. In such situation the gravest
menace to the whole working class is the
danger of yielding to pacifist ilusions-suc-
cumbing to the poison propaganda OF the
liberals, pacifists and social democratic
agents of Imperialism who indulge in dirty
sermonizing to the effect that we are living
in an era of peace and democracy. Closely
akin to pacifsm, and symptom of its wide
spread permeation of the working class, is
the tendency to underestimate the speed
with which the world is being driven toward
the next war That danger manifests
itself in an underestimation of the events of
the past few weeks, particularly since the
signing of the Kellogg peace pact at Paris.
Every lackey of imperialism, from the
avowed spokesman of the type of BRAND,
Kellogg, Chamberlain Tor his substitute
Cushendun), Tanaka to the miserable apos-
tates in the camp of social democracy, the
Otto Bauers, the Kautskys, the MacQonalds,
the Hillquits the Thomases, is engaged IN
open or covert assaults on the Union OF So
cialist Soviet Republics. Ever since the con-
vening of the Sixth Congress of the Commu-
mist International, when the representatives
of the vanguard of the proetarlat through
out the world-the general staff of the whole
revolution-met and decided the chief task
of the proletarat of the world is to combat
the war danger, the reptile press Of Europe,
particularly of those vassal nations of I'M
perialsm bordering the Soviet Union, has
been foamng at the mouth like bloodhounds
and violently traducing the Soviet Union. In
this assault they we're abetted by the con-
gress of the second international, where
some of the leaders of that organization of
traitors to and assassins of the working
class declared that the existence of the Sow
let Union was the greatest menace to the
peace of the world. At the identical time the
imperialist powers are trying to Guido one
another in villifying the workers and peas
ants government, they are using every trick
known to diplomatic duplcity to strengthen
their Individual positions at the expense of
their imperialist rivals
Since the signing of the Kellogg pact,
which was conceived in an effort on the part
of American Imperialism to weaken the in
fuence of the League of Nations and pre-
vent it, under the domination of England,
from building a bloc of European nations
against the United States, events have
moved with amazing rapidity. Simultaneous
ly with the signing Of the pact came the an
nouncement of a secret naval agreement be-
tween England and France. This was deeply
resented at Washington as a move against
the United States. Then came the assembly
of the League at Geneva and the action of
the German representative Count Won Berns-
dorff, in refusing to approve the decisions
of the commission dealing with the question
of a preparatory disarmament conference.
The revival of Germany, with the support of
Wall Street capital, enables the capitalist
class of that country to play what appears
to be an independent role, and without doubt