The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-15
American J)ltlrnatum to Europe

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merce and the American mer-
chant marine"
Sixth:
g marine corps the main
tenance in readiness of an expe-
dictionary force"
Seventh:
ITO organize the navy as far as
possible SO that expansion only
will be necessary in the event of
war"
Eighth:
ITO replace all old cruisers with
modern cruisers of 10000 stand
ard tons displacement, carrying
8-inch guns, and, in addition, to
build similar cruisers"
Ninth: .
"a system of outlying naval
and commercial bases suitably dis
tributed, developed and defended,
is one of the most important ele-
ments of national strength"
Tenth:
ITO maintain and operate a
system of naval districts organ
lied for rapid expansion in war;"
Eleventh:
"To acquire accurate informal
ton pertaining to- the political,
military, naval, economic and in
dustrial policies of our own and
of foreign countries"
The most powerful imperialist
country in the world declares in
these eleven essential points of the
statement of the navy department
that it is building navy second to
none. And that declaration is not
only plan. Hoover's election and
the solid majority of the republican
party secured in the last elections
in the senate and house are guaran-
tees that American imperialism will
carry out the constructive" and
peaceful work of naval construc-
ton.
Senator Borah, the chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee of
the senate, has already disclosed
that the senate leaders" are al
ready agreed upon early passage of
the naval construction bill. In other
words, the senate will pass the To-
ship, quarter-billion bill previously
adopted by the House of Represen-
tatives. But this will only be the
first step to be carried out in De-
cember still under the Coolidge ad-
ministration. The second step will
be carried out by Hoover himself
the realization of the three-quarter
billion program of II cruisers.
And American imperialism is al
ready taking steps to carry out the
other part of the big imperialist
program expressed by Coolidge.
Senator Tydings of Maryland has
announced that when congress re-
assemblies in December, he will offer
a resolution expressing the sense of
the senate in opposition to any
more loans by American banking in
terests to European nations which
are maintaining large military es-
tablishments--so says Washing
ton dispatch in the New York
Times.
The capitalist press is jubilant
over the militaristic plans of the
United States government. Pre-
paredness is once again the slogan
of the day for the American mas
ter class. Wall Street is going mad
in its Hoover boom," reaching al
most every day new climaxes in its
stock exchange turnover. The re-
publican government is ready to
safeguard its capitalist prosperity"
with all means and at all costs. The
working class of the United States
must watch very carefully every
move of the government. The Com
munist Party must denounce and
fight every step of American i'm
perialism in the course of it's policy
of war preparations. The growing
aggressiveness Of American imper-
ialism in suppressing the peoples of
Latin America and China and in
struggling with the other imperial
list powers for world hegemony must
be met by the working class with
increased activity, increased organ
ization, with higher stage of con-
seriousness of the revolutionary
class struggle.