The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

program into the struggles between
the imperialists and attempt to har-
monte the rivalries by ham proposals
of "outlawing war;" by the talk of
"peace" and "good will" and by the
support of such war instruments as
the League of Nations, the Pan-Amer
lean Conference and similar imperi-
alist organizations.
In the last analysis these pacifists
talk the same language as the inn
perialists, who also pose as pacifists
Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and
Clemenceau conducted the war in or
der "to bring about durable peace"
and ain order to end war for all time"
They deceived the working class with
their demagogic slogans in order to
get them to sacrifice their lives in the
interest Of imperialist profits. The
pacifists talk the language of peace
when all the facts show that the world
is nearer to war than ever before.
and hoodwink and blindfold the
masses and keep them tied to the
chariot of the imperialists.
Rev. Thomas Aids Deceit.
This despicable role played by the
pacifists is well brought out in the
columns of the "New Leader of
January IA in the discussion by Nor
man Thomas of some phases of the
present war situation. Thomas en-
dorses the resolution of Senator
Capper in the United States senate
that calls for the ''outlawing of war"
He greets the efforts of Secretary
Kellogg to form treaty with France
for the "outlawing of war" Even q
child knows today, after the expert
ences of the World War, the vicious
Versailles peace treaty, the intermin-
able series of disarmament cSnfer-
ences, that such peace treaties form
the basis for new combinations for
waglng a victorious struggle against
competing groups of imperialist ma
tons, that the proposed peace treaty
with France is intended as a weapon
against Great Britain, and at the
same time they are hypocritical man.
euvers of the imperialist statesmen
| to deceive the masses as to the &C
tual war preparation of the Amer
| lean government.
Referring to Nicaragua, Norman
Thomas declares that "our marines
should be ordered Immediately to stor
any offensive against SANDING and
arrangements should be made for
their wlthdrawal--at least as soor
as the new elections have been held. -
| Under the guise of pacifism he is
furnishing Wall Street bankers with
the very best reason for maintaining
the American marines in Nicaragua
and keeping that strategic country
under their control. Elections guarded
by the bayopets Of the American ma
rines mean elections Of such puppets
as Diaz and Moncado and the con.
tinuation Of the rule of Finance Capt.
tai and Big Business. Surely the
American bankers and the imperial
lists can welcome this proposal tc
withdraw the marines after eyerv-
thing is settled tremendously for
them, which means after the marines
have crushed Sandino's resistance
murdered the best fighters for Mica
ragua's independence, executed thou
sands OF workers and peasants, jailed
masses of others and established a
hired mercenary native constabulary
with American battleships near
enough at any time to resume the
terror. Then indeed American i'm
perialism can announce "All is peace
full in Nicaragua" with the same cyni-
cal brutality as the car after 1905
announced "All is quiet in Warsaw"