The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-16
By II. NJ. WICKS.

WHEN Owen D. Young, millionaire
W president of the General Electric,
and trusted co-worker of j. P. Nor
gan and Thomas w. Lamont, re-
turned to the United States from
the Paris conference called to re-
wise the Dawes plan he was ac-
claimed by the capitalist press and
all the eminences of American i'm
perialism as the herald of the dawn
of an era of peace and goodwill
upon the earth.
At that time the Communists
alone charged that the Young Plan,
far from solving the problems arts
ing out of the last world war and
overcoming the antagonisms that
had tremendously developed since
the Versailles treaty of a decade
ago, was an instrument of American
imperialism that would bring into
sharp relief all the conflicts between
the powers.
At that time we were denounced
as the sole enemies of peace in the
world. Especially vindictive were
the social democrats in repeating
their SANDER that we Communists
alone were the greatest menace to
peace in the world.
Seldom has history so fully vim
Dictated our analysis within so short
a time. The events transporting at
the Hague, where the statesmen and
financiers of the imperialist powers
have met to formulate the practical
details for putting into effect the
Young Plan, reveal that pact as the
pivotal point around which for the
moment there revolves all the an
tagonisms of the capitalist world.
WHAT is there about this Young
" Plan, this great pacifist often
sive, the exalted achievement of
Messers organ, Lamont and
Young, that so arouses the fury of
that great lover of peace and orna-
ment of the second international,
Mr.. Phillip Snowden, chancellor of
the exchequer of His Majesty's '1a-
Dor" government?
Why do the British social demo-
Gratis, Mr.. Snowden and Mr.. Hender-
son, assail with such venom that
identical pact which their American
comrade of the second international,
Mr.. Morris Hillquit, praised? Have
they not heard that their comrade in
New York, when he learned that
Mr.. Young was on the high seas
bound for home after the Paris con-
ference, joined in the hymns of
praise sung by the New York Times
and other organs of big capital?
Let US take few samples of COM
ment on Young's return from his
labors at Paris. P. J. Philip, writing
in the Times, said:
"Owen d. Young, private
American citizen, will always be
remembered in Europe as the man
who made the peace he has
shown Europe and the world how
way might be fought out of the
tangle in which the world war
left it,"
Mr.. Hillquit ST Ike feelingly of
Mr.. Young as a fellow citizen who
had attained g--,,-t eminence. Said
the leader of the second interna-
tional forces in the United States
"Mr. YOU g has rendered sig
nal service in international rela.
tions, conductive to peace and good
will among nations. ! believe that
persons who perform such public
service should be honored by their
fellow citizens"
That sainted leader Of yellow So
cialist thuggery and gansterism, the
comrade of the right wing labor
leaders who, in the interest of the
employers, organize murderous as
saults against workers who will not
sell out to the bosses, the Rev. DR..
Norman Thomas, last years socialist
party candidate for president Of the