The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
ImperiaIist "Peace" Movements


Conditions of domestic international conflict
exist threatened" -
Doesn't this sound like a quotation word for word from
typical description of the Soviet Union by some RUSSIAN
emeree monarchst or by Woodrow Wilson or Coolidge
or Kellogg by social democrat foreign or ooesc!
Haven't we heard precisely such description of the sltua
ton in Mexico when during the past years. United states
capitalists have thought the time ripe for military attacks
upon that country And isn't it exact repetition OF the
customary imperas explanation for the murder OF Ncar
ans and Chinese workers and peasants by u D.
If we hear Nicholas Murray Butler say:
he hand of every pIedgekeepng nation must be raised
against that which breaks its pledges"
what nation do we Immediately think of being described
by this arcmperast college president and politician as
.that nation which breaks its pledges?
of course it is not possible to hear American I'M
neras sneak this way without knowing that this is the
language of that propaganda which has become SO taa
in the advocacy of war against the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics and against any and nation OF Latin
well against the Chinese workers ana peasants fe'o
luton and other oppressed peoples
The two bills now before Congress- introduced in the
senate by Senator Cappe the other introduced IN the mouse
by Representative Porter called anwar proposals, would
lay the legal basis for the United States armed forces to De-
gin decision of the president to throw an IRON ring OF
blockade around nation might incur the dspeasure
of the United States fnancecapltalsts
The Capper and Porter plans, together with Morgans
participation and Youngs craftsmanship of the reparaton ex
pers and the adoption of the cruiser BILL are the latest EVIL
dence of the extension of United States mper1als war
preparations-sgna of the growing war danger as re-
suit of the aggressive mperalst policies which VIII be
pursued with increased vgor by the Hoover administration
These measures continue the of the Kellogg pact as
ostensbe pacs but as real integral parts Oh tne
war maneuvers of United States imperialism
The Capper plan proposes agreexent among the sig
natory powers the Kellogg pact to lay an embargo on
munitions of land in practice all supplies including food)
against any that might be adudged by the mperasts
to have violated the pact The to put into force the
boycott would rest hands of the president The Porter
resolution goes further to put into the hands OF the I'M
periast president the Wall Street government the a
thorty to declare unlawful the export of munitions or sup
pes any country where conditions OF domestic violence
of international conflict exist or are threatened
The Capper and Porter proposals further hypocrcal
pacst sanctions for systematic and permanent
and new domination of LatnAmerica by United States I'M
periaism These aim to make United States I'M
perasm arbitrator and thus to insure its being the dominant
world nperaist force These proposals indicate the IN
creasng executive power of the American capitalist govern
en which increase of executive in itself an I'M
poran and organic part of the war preparations OF the
United States These proposals clear manifestations OF
the increasing degree to which American imperialism IS being
involved in the complications of America ASIA anq
Europe and its being therefore ever more subject to the
difficulties and contradictions of world capitalism
These proposals would be only additional weapons in the
hands of the United States government to make
efficient mperast machine to crush revolutionary move
ments in the to wipe out resistance to United States
mperialists especially in LatinAmerca where there is
noticeable growing resistance to Yankee 1mperast DOM
nation These proposals would only extend the revouton
crushing role of United States imperialism from Latin
America to the rest of the world
Under these acts the United States will be able more
effectively the guiding center OF all mpealse
efforts to crush the Soviet Union
The overwhelming endorsement given such proposals by
the limited States Chamber of Commerce in its previous
referendum sheds only further light on the antWorklng
class character the mperast detectives these DIS
The usory pacifs pretensions OF these measures
and their source great danger to the American
the colonial masses the Soviet Union must be hammered
into the heads of the workers.
Of the A. F. of L. and the socialist party bureau
cacv render their heroc services to the mperasts IN
support of such measures
The Capper and Porter bills the most menaclng war
Their proposal is bound with the adoption OF
the cruiser BILL with the increasing efforts of American I'M
periaism to drive British Imperialism from the Euro
mean continental market with the clash of
mperast interests in LatnAmerica particularly with tne
significance the role of Morgan and Young in the repar
ons and debt questions They symbolic OF the woro
srikebreang and counterrevoluonary role OF the ag
gressve policies United States Imperialism as the cltade
Of world periaist reaction the most powerful enemy OF
the Soviet Union
Workers! Fight against the coming mperialst war
Support revos of ensaved peoples against u s. I'M
perasm Defend the Soviet Union! Do not be blinded by