The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
STRESS NEED OF FIGHT
ON INPERLALLST WAR

is for the lineup for the coming
War. The struggle between France
and Germany, that between Italy
and France, and a multitude of
smaller conflicts, each have the
smouldering fire of war within them,
and the events which will fan the
sparks to a blaze are ahead. The
shifting of the scene of the greatest
struggle for markets and re-division
of colonial fields of exploitation to
the Pacific ocean brings forward the
antagonisms between Japanese and
American imperialisms. These anita
gonisms leading towards a bloody
clash for control of the Pacific can
not be reconciled, even though the
Wall Street oligarchy finds it posi-
BILE temporarily to make financial
ventures in China through Japan
,ese hands, while manoeuvering
against Japan and signing treaty
with the Marking butchers which it
utilities against Japan.
But of all the rivalries of imperi-
alist powers, anyone of which may
Under certain circumstances precipi-
tate the next war, the deepest is
the antagonism of all the capitalist
states against the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics. The mere existence
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics is a permanent obstacle to
the sterilization Of world capitalism.
The diplomacy of all Imperialist
powers is basically directed toward
precipitating bloody war for the
intended determination of the work
ers Republic as the means of catas-
trophic defeat of the world labor
| movement.
1t is clear that the honeyed words
of democracy" and peace" that
were used to entice the masses of
workers and farmers into the bloody
slaughter of the past War were no.
thing but monstrous, criminal lies.
The "War to End War" was only
a preliminary to bigger and bloodier
wars. Tales Of common culture"
Democracy" international JUS
tice, Saving civilization" ETC., were
just so much lying to cover up the
greed of the various national oil
garchies Of capitalists.
An important part of the prepare
ton for the coming war, as in the
last one, is the doping of the minds
Of the working class and farmers,
which is being carried on at larg-
err scale today than ever before. Just
as there was an epidemic of peace
conferences" preceding the last
World War, so now the imperialist
war-makers are holding "disarma-
ment conferences" with their loud
talk to cover up the. feverish in
crease of ornaments.
With each new hundred millions
spent for instruments of imperialist
murder, the imperialist murderers
call a disarmament conference"
But each disarmament. conference"
turns out to be for the purpose of
strengthening the armies and navies
of those powers which call the con-
ference as against those whom they
are preparing to fight. Each is a
huge propaganda scheme to drug the
minds of the masses with dreams
of "peace," so that these masses
will not rebel when war is made.
While actually engaged in war
against Nicaragua and in military
occupation of Haiti and Porto Rico,
the United States government called
the Havana Conference of good
WILL" to promote its intended con-
quest of Latin-America. With it's
armed forces actively intervening in
China, the Imperialist Wall Street
government proposes the 4Aellogg
treaty to "outlaw war;"
At the Geneva Conference "for
disarmament" the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics proposed immeol-
ate, general and complete disarma-
ment. When this was rejected, the
I Soviet delegation offered modified
proposal calling for limitation of ar
maments, but this too was rejected.
The furious anger of the imperialist
diplomats at the Soviet proposals
was due to the fact that they were
forced to admit that they had no
intention to disarm.
The existence of Capitalism is it.
self the decisive obstacle to disarma-
ment. The hypocritical pretenses
that capitalist nations are moving
toward disarmament" is only a
murderous lie. Disarmament can De
realized only by the overthrow of
capitalism, the establishment of the
dictatorship Of the working class.
Socialist" and "Pacifist Agents of
Imperialist War
Those who engage In spreading
the illusion that there can be peace
In capitalist society are conce.l-
ing and abetting the crime Of i'm
perialist wars. The worst criminals
In spreading this Illusion to blind the
eyes Of the workin gclass for the