The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-18

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CEVEN hundred and forty million
dollars are to be spent for additions
to the American fleet. The House
Naval Affairs Committee even went
so far as to vote 15-1 that this
gigantic sum of money be poured into
hell belching warships and cruisers
in a maximum period of eight years
whether there will be more success
full or unsuccessful Geneva disarma-
ment conferences or not.
What is the matter? Against whom
are 1--WE" preparing? Is Uncle Shy
lock about to save Nicaragua for
civilization. With so many peace
treaties being signed and so many
peace conferences being held, why is
the United States building the big
gest navy the world has ever seen?
There is nothing mysterious in
these appropriations. The dollar fol-
lows the flag and the flag follows the
dollar. They are both weapons of the
same imperialist clique. Ten years
ago it was German militarism. Now
it is British navalism. The noted
English writer, H. M. Tomlinson, let's
US in on no secret when he tells US
that: "The powers behind Congress
and Parliament appear to be prepar-
ing for war;
Nowadays we are hearing less and
less about Anglo-Saxon alliances and
friendship being the guarantees for
world peace. 1t is precisely in the
rivalry between tie downward-going
British imperialism and the upward
going American Imperialism, in the
clash for markets and the sources of
raw material now being sharpened be-
tween these two imperialist powers,
that one of the acutest sources of war
danger lies.
Coolidge's insistence on a huge sub
sidy by the government to the ship
owners is only another effective step
N mobilizing the machinery OF war
against Great Britain. Perhaps this
is an answer to the recently an
nounced plan of Big British corpora
ton to exploit and colonize in Bolivia
fifty million acres Of oil, mineral.
timber and farm land.
| - mill cfnr, thiQ
impending war. No social-democratic
treason will put halt to this threat
ening conflagration. At Geneva, So
Wet Russia has shown the way to
peace. Militant class war for the
overthrow of the capitalist class is
the only sure road to real peace.
THE Havana conference is q good
l occasion to take stock of the in
creasing danger of war. The Ameri-
can workers had better wake up or
soon millions of the best of our class
will be put to sleep forever. Ameri-
can imperialism is just running wild
and is marching headlong towards q
new capitalist war.
In the main there are four types Of
omens of the rapidly developing war
danger. These are:
/. The increasing military and
naval preparations.
2. The multiplying attempts to
prepare the vast Latin-American
economic hinterland for exploitation
by the Yankee imperialists.
8. The sharp ening attacks of the
standard of living and the working
conditions of the great mass of the
workers and exploited farmers.
4. The systematic attempts of the
ruling class to camouflage their inn
perialist war-maneuvers with So
called peace-conferences, treaties Of
amity, Lindbergh flights, extension Of
credits and generosity of financial
advice.
The American army is being
brought up to the highest point Of
efficiency. The biggest navy in the
world is being floated by the doves
of peace feathering their nests in
Wall Street. A tremendous chemical
warfare apparatus is being set up.
Plans are being laid for the most
powerful airfleet in the world.
There are already about five billion
dollars of American capital invested
in Latin America. Central and South
America, together with Mexico form
q vast economic hinterland for
American imperialism especially in
war against first class capitalist
power Here is marvellous reservoir
of the necessary raw material.
And the workers must be smashed,
their unions destroyed, their organi-
cations wiped out if the country is to
ha raal1v "ilnitedo in a war tn the