The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-25
The kellogg Instrument of Imperialism

Standing in the historic east room of the White House
at Washington Herbert Hoover formally promulgated the
kellogg repeating the deceptive phrases about the out
lawing of war, "as national policy"
History plays peculiar pranks upon its instruments the
human puppets who at various times personfy the interests
of certain groups and classes of the most ronic that
the for the formal of the enforcement
of the pact should at time when the mperaist pow
with the United States government playing leading
endeavorng to of determination against
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
But then the Kellogg pact was conceived an instru
ment against the Soviet Union The renegade socialist
Aristde BRAND for long time defender of the French
bourgeo responsible for initiating the conversations
with Coodges secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg which
led up the adoption of the pact at Paris last September
1t the reply of the mperast to the Soviet
demand for complete and immediate disarmament The
lection of the Soviet proposal for disarmament exposed the
hypocrisy of the mperialist statesmen who talking
peace while preparing greater ornaments for
There second motive impellng the United States the
attempt take the lead in world reaction from the League
of Nations dominated by its mperiaist rival Great Britain
At the time the pact formulated in Paris there not
created there intended to be any machinery for its
enforcement Hoover in his speech yesterday repeated the
Paris twadde of Kellogg who with Coolidge sitting
the platform about the moral force OF the pact The pact
itself merely the pretext for the United States mperass
form alliances with other capitalist states against
the Soviet Union and against its rival Britain facilitates
plots sinister ntrgues evidenced today by
the which it being put by Stmson order to
cea the activities of the United States in supporting the
drive of the Chinese bandit hrelings against the Soviet
Union.
While from imperalst Washington the Kellogg pact is
proclaimed while the imperiaist powers engaged in
drive against the workers and peasants republic the work.
of the world rayng to the defense of the Soviet
Union The tremendous sharpening of all the inherent con-
tradicons of capitalism the increased exploitation degrade
ton and misery of the working class in the capitalist
tries producing widespread rehabilitation of the working
Masses the relentless drive of the mpeast powers against
the colonies and semcoones evokes antmperast revots
the part of the in those lands The capitalist
states of old Europe rembe before the great mobilization of
the the August First strikes and demonstrations
in defense of the Soviet Union and against mperast
The arrests in France in Czechosovaka, the attempts to
sfle the movement for August First not signs of the
strength of capitalism but of weakness evidence of the
fact that the capitalist feels the precarouness of its
muchvauned sterilization and furousy striking at the
workers because they fear such worldwide mobilization for
revolutionary purpose The reply to the Kellogg pact
must be tremendous demonstrations here in the United States
against the mperast danger and in defense of the
Soviet Union In every city and industrial center in the
country preparations being made that will make August
1st red letter day the history of labor struggles in
America