The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-23
The Havana Conference 1.-The Naval
Armament Race = Peace or War;
By Fred Ellis

partment's program, is Tar more
frank.
Testifying before the Naval At
fairs Committee, Admiral Hughes
made some important admissions.
Asked by Congressman Vinson:
t'Wasn't it fact that Great Britain's
submarine program was taken into
consideration Admiral Hughes re-
piled: 81 would say yes" e
Congressman Gambrill then took
up the matter: Now that the bars
are down on the subject, I'd like to
ask if, in preparing this program, con-
sideration was not given to the fleet
Great Britain would have in 1872"
Admiral Hughes replied: "Yes."
Imperialism's Class Enemies.
Since battle fleets are not built for
anything else than war. and in a war
between Great Britain and the United
States the navies would play de-
eisive part, it seems clear that Brit
ish and American imperialism are
arming against each other.
They arm also against their own
working class and exploited farmers
and against the colonial peoples. The
United States is experiencing in what
is yet very narrow field in Latin
America, the beginning of mass re-
volts such as have shaken British i'm
perialism in China and India. AS
American policy eliminates in wider
and more brutal aggressions, as these
in turn are met with thousand San
dinos instead of one, the murderous
role of naval ornaments in colonial
wars will explain much that is now
covered with a veil of mystery to
millions of the masses.
No Place for Fourth Raters.
The Havana conference, the i'm
mense naval building program before
congress and the world imperialist
struggle cannot be separated. The
composition of the Wall Street dele
cation shows that the Pan-American
Union is no longer regarded as a
hodv to furnish places for fourth
rate diplomats. Morrow and Hughes,
the president of the United States
himself, are modified for this gath
ering which is watched so carefully
by all foreign offices.
Aggressive Expansion.
American Imperialism wants to ex-
rand its Iatin-American markets. 1t
wants additional sources of cheap raw
materials in n-America-it has
it's eyes on the oil resources of Vene-
zuela and Colombia-as we'll as those
Of Mexico-which Britain also needs.
1. wants additional fields for capital
investment.
American imperialism wants an
other canal through Nicaragua and
additional naval and military bases.
In all these fields American and
British imperialism face one another
as rivals--the guns Of their navies
are trained on each other when they
can be spared from massacreing
Nicaraguans, Chinese, Haitians and
natives of India. When the struggle
of the American and British masses
rises to a high point the guns of the
imperialist rulers are trained on
them.
Havana Means New Conflicts.
The Havana Conference marks an
intensificaticn of imperialist antag-
onisms, the preparation for new on
slaughts upon the Latin-American
peoples and increasing militarization
of the masses in the United States.
Wall Street government appears at
the Havana conference in more ag-
gressive roley-ccmmercially, indus
trially, financially, politically and
militarilv-than ever before.
The Havana conference is in this
sense war conference.
In the United States, in Canada, in
Great Britain and throughout Latin
America the Communist Parties have