The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-26
The Inperialists' Pacifist Offensive Against
Mobilization of Workers for August First

In the midst of their offensive against the Soviet
Union characterized by the attack of their Chinese mrcenar
les ana the speeding of preparations in the states
bordering the republic of workers and peasants the imperial
lists have launched double offensive against the working
class IN their home countries First they have let loose
campaign OF suppression arrests terror and jangs
wholesale SCALE especially in France and Czechoslovaka
In Berlin the sociademocratc leaders are preparing their
police to attempt larger scale the repetition of the Nav
Day massacres In the United States this phase the often
sve against the workers takes the form of prohibition of
demonstrations wholesale the case of the dem
onstraon before the Chinese consulate and continuation
of the drive against the labor unions striving to organize
the unorganized masses in the war industries.
second offensive enanating from the statesmen and
diplomats of the capitalist world is also going full blast
That the pacst offensive whole series of aneuvers
procamaons and hypocrca pattude calculated create
the illusion that all danger of passed. that the proa
nation of the Kellogg pact the Stmson and BRAND maneu
vers are guarantees of peace.
Hoover the avowed representative of imperialism in the
United States and Macdonald the ociademocrat who car
ries out the mperiat policy Of Britain aid the pacist
offensive by talking about the slowing up their cruiser
building programs Such procamatons have been repeated
at intervals and with variations since the Washington
naval conference of 1921 During that entire period
of eight years the mperias powers have continued build
greater nave pile up greater ornaments and increase all
the armed forces Such talk only camouage behind which
more intensive preparations made for wagng mperast
This imperalst pacifst offensive is nothing more than
smoke behind which the imperas powers continue
their drive against the Soviet Union and attempt
teract the worldwide preparations that under way
mobilization of the working class August First for strikes
and demonstrations against mperalst and for the
tense of the Soviet Union.
But the class conscious workers will not be deceived by
such gestures the part of the mperast statesmen
German workers that herocaly defended themselves
against the socafacsts of the second international in the
uniforms of Berlin policemen preparing for mighty
strikes and demonstrations in defense of the Soviet Union
The French Masses in spite of the frenzed raids and whole
sale arrests by the police will fight for the streets fPars
and other cities August First In every other European
country there will be outburss of fury while in China
behind the lines OF the imperast hrengs the
organizing strikes and movements in defense of the
Soviet Union
The mass pressure of the workers has forced the i'm
periast statesmen to retreat from their open provocaton
against the Soviet Union and try to carry out their con-
spracies under the cloak of pacifism.
The answer of the workers to this dupicty of the
perast must be great concentration of August
First more determined drive against imperast and
in defense of the Soviet Union.