The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
A Pan-American Swindle

eminent of Bolivia to wage war against Para
quay, the United States government, through
its imperialist swindle, the Pan-Americar
union, offers to mediate the conflict The
war-monger, the apostle of wholesale murder
of the peoples of Latin-America, with i'm
measurable insolence, offers to pass judg
ment upon its own crimes of internationa
banditry.
The Bolivian government, dominated b,
Standard OIL the Equitable Trust Co., tn
Guggenheim interests, the National Lead
Company. with investments of more than one
hundred million dollars, becomes the tool of
the despoilers of its raw material, the ex-
aploiters of it's people in the new and sharp
turn of Yankee imperialism to extend It's
power in the South American continent. 1t
mobilizes into armies its own population in
order to have them kill and be killed for the
glory of the imperialists of the United States
of North America
The real cause of the present conflict is
not, as the spokesman of the Paraguayan
government seem to think because the war
party" got control of the Bolivian govern
ment, but because American imperialism
wants to reduce every Latin-American state
to the level of vassal In the world wide
struggle against its great imperialist rival,
Britain, and to secure sources of raw material
and markets, the United States fights for
the subjugation of all Latin-America. The
border warfare between Bolivia and Para
quay that threatens to develop into a world
war first involving Bolivia and Paraguay,
then Argentine on the side of Paraguay,
which is, in many respects, a part of the
hinterland of the Argentine; then other Latin
American countries will be swept into the
conflict through imperialist intrigue of one
or the other or both of the two biggest rival
world powers then finally the United States,
England and the rest of the capitalist and
colonial world.
That the Bolivian-Paraguay conflict con-
stitutes one of the powder magazines that
may explode with detonation that will rock
the whole world is clearly revealed by the
frantic actions of the Pan-American confer
ence at Washington, Che mediation offer of
Argentina and the activities of the League
of Nations When the League of Nations
under domination of Britain and France
cautiously offered to intervene, Kellogg had
the imperialist puppet who serves in Wash
ington as Cuban ambassador issue state
ment that no infringement of the Monroe
Doctrine would be toerated-in plain words
piece of arrogant defiance to Britain to
keep hands off any controversy in the
Western hemisphere. Then the government
of the Argentine republic proposed to act as
arbitrator simultaneous with the announce
ment that the Pan-American conference
would offer its Services as mediator" The
government of Paraguay, feeling itself the
victim of an unprovoked attack and under
the pathetic illusion that any so-called i'm
partial body would decide in its favor began
accepting offers to mediate as fast as they
came. 1t accepted the Argentine proposals,
also the Pan-American proposals. After a
days hesitation Bolivia also accepted the
Pan-American conference proposals. Thus
. the Pan-American conference, dominated by
Yankee imperialism, is the only mediator"
that has been accepted by both Paraguay and
Bolivia. This signalizes diplomatic defeat
for England and the League of Nations, also
defeat for the Argentine republic which,
although largely influenced by England, also
has independent interests of its own that i'm
pels it to pursue foreign policy with regard
to it's own development. To be sure, in Ar
gentine there is proceeding a struggle be-
tween British and American capital for a
dominant position.
Although both the belligerent nations have
accepted mediation" proposals of the Pan
American conference this does not Indicate
that the war will be stopped. Warlike &C
tivites still proceed apace. They will probably
continue until Bolivia, as the, tool of Yankee
imperialism, feels itself in a position to make
reparations demands that the disputed terri
tory in the Gran Chaco be annexed to Bolivia,
thereby placing the recently discovered oil
lands in the hands of Bolivia and also obtain
ing port through which can be shipped the
raw material extracted from Bolivia by the
Yankee trusts. Paraguay should not be so
stupid as to imagine that the Pan-Amercan
union intervenes for any purpose other than
to complete the Bolivian steal, in behalf of
United States trusts.
The peoples of Latin-America should place
no trust in the Pan-American union, which is
only an agency of Yankee imperialism In
x-nIn