The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-06
COMMUNIST CONVENTION
TOLD OF PLANS FOR new
IMPERIALIST WORLD WAR
Leading Committees Selected by Delegates;
Discuss War Danger, Comintern Reports
Summary Of Bedacht Report Continuation of
Lovestone Speech Is Published
Defend Soviet Union"
Is Urged by
Speaker

The imminent danger of a
new world imperialist slaugh-
ter and the measures which
the working class, led by the Com
are to take to combat it,
were discussed in the report on the
War Danger, made by Max Be
dacht, member of the Political Com
mittee of the Workers (Communist)
Party. This was the first report in
the opening business session of the
Party Convention Monday night at
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and
Irving Place.
A summary of the report fol-
lows:
As result of the world war
American capitalism has strength
ened itself tremendously and its
position in the capitalist world.
Its economic gains have created
For it the possibility of a more
rapid accumulation of new capital
than ever before. This fact is
pressing the American capitalist
class into more and more aggres-
sive policy of expansion. The rap
idly accumulating new capital
must find market.
As a result of the imperialist
policies of expansion followed by
the American capitalist govern
ment we are confronted with a
very serious conflict between
American ends British imperial
ism. The expansion of American
imperialism, the acquisition of a
colonial empire can only take
place at the expense of British
imperialism and it's colonial en-
pire. American imperialism de-
mands the redistribution of the
territories of the earth in it's favor.
And British imperialism demands
the status quo with changes here
and there in its favor.
Inroads Into Latin America.
Aside from this Brit
ish conflict, the policy of imperial
ist aggression followed by the
American imperialist government
leads to more and more open and
intense military and political con-
quests in the Latin American
countries. The Monroe Doctrine,
used so long to preserve the ter
ritories of the Americans for the
capitalists of the United States,
is now used to consummate final
ly the aim of swallowing these
territories as direct or indirect
dependencies or colonies of the
United States. This creates a state
of permanent war carried on by
American Imperialism against the
peoples of Latin America. The
present military expedition in Nj
caragua is classical proof of this
fact.
American imperialism, also as
result of its hunger for new ter
ritories and in class solidarity with
other imperialist powers, makes
itself an important part of the
forces attempting to suppress and
defeat the uprisfngs and revolu-
tionary struggles of oppressed
colonial and semi-colonial peoples.
Thus American naval and military
forces have contributed decisively
to the struggle against the revo-
luton of the Chinese masses and
have helped to cause and support
the treachery of the bourgeois
nationalist leaders.
Naturalization.
The acceleration of accumulation
of new capital is brought about by
systematic increase of efficiency
of production, by decentralization.
This naturalization is primarily
an intensification of the exploita-
ton of workers. decentralization
has as it's result permanent and
expensive unemployment, relative
and positive lowering of the wage
standards, and waste of the life
of the workers. These results of
naturalization react with the mas
ses of the workers in the form of
a readiness and desire to fight
against capitalist oppression.
This results in an intensification
of the class struggle.
The capitalist class on its part
reacts to this phase of the results
of it's naturalization policy and
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