The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-01

gress, their motive being that by
doing S, they might be held by the
International to have committed
hostile act against it.
In this most shameful manner,
then, did the splitters of the Nor
wegian section of the International
expose themselves. A few days after
these splitters had broken off ne
gotiations with the Soviet Union
an official statement appeared in the
organ of the Factory Workers In
ternational containing the Execu-
tive's decision that any agreements
whatever with the Russians" were
forbidden.
The leadership of the Swedish Pa
| per Makers Union sabotaged the
negotiations with the Soviet Pa
permakers in exactly the same way.
In reply to the invitation to at
tend the papermekers' Congress > of
the U. S. S. R. in 1929, the Swedish
union officials replied, declining on
the grounds that they had no time
to come across.
! Hilferding's social-imperialist the
DRY is designed to give a foundation
to the preparations for imperialist
war inasfar as it affects the chem
ical industry. This treacherous the
DRY of the peaceful evolution" of
the chemical industry into Social
ism is combined with traitorous ac-
tivities on the part of the Social
Democratic and reformist trade I'M
ion officials. These activities of
theirs are seen in the daily strug-
gle of the workers against the en-
ployees which they sabotage, in
their policy of industrial peace
and in their work to prevent any
, struggle for unity. These activities
reveal the Social-Democrats and the
reformist T. U. officials as simple
agents of the chemical kings, as
agents of Imperialism. Every work,
er who looks squarely at these plain
facts of the activities of the So.
cial-Democratic and reformist T. u
bureaucracy in the chemical work.
ers' moveient must inevitably ar.
rive at such a conclusion.
a. The Chemical Workers Will Yet
Be the First in the Fight.
On International Red Day hun.
dreds of thousands of chemica
workers will march out on demon
stration.
From the chemical workers the
. wage slaves in other industries will
expect an answer: How far are they
, prepared to take part in the genera
, struggle against the class which j:
feverishly getting ready to looser
t upon humanity fresh imperialis
| butchery and to undertake armed at
5 tacks upon the land of the Soviets
, On that day the chemical work
. ers must answer the question as t.
how far they are prepared, upol
the call of the revolutionary T. U
movement, to rally to the defens
Of the one country building Social
ism and to take part in the prep
: arations for Transforming imperial
ist war into civil war. 1t is ex
pected Of them that they will he'll
:. to tear the mask Of pacifism from
!. the face Of the Social Democrat
, allies Of capital ard Imperialism.
, The workers of other industrie
> will be entitled to demand an an
swer to this question from the work
: ers Of that branch of capitalist in
Q dustry which is manufacturing tn
8 most appalling means ever conceiv
j ed for the destruction of men an
r doing SO in the interests of the bour
geoisie.
n The chemical workers of the cap
talist countries, on International Re
y Day, will, to man, stand on thi
r side of the barricades, shoulder t
f shoulder with the entire revolution
n airy working class, against the in
h perialists and their Social Iemocra;
&c tools. sa,t