The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
WORLD CRISIS IS
LEADING TO War
OF IMPERIALISM
Boss Govt BUSHES War
Preparations

In Williamstown, Mass, where
the big intellectual guns of the
bosses have gathered to discuss
world political problems, the discus
sion is now evolving around the
question of the world crisis leading
to war. While all of the professors
admit the present world depression
is leading to war, some of them,
mainly to fool the workers, say there
are ways out. Professor c. Delisle
Burns, former member of the 'La-
Dor" government, takes the view
point that was is inevitable. An
swering him, with WORKOUT argu-
ments, was Professor Edwin f. Gay,
head of the Department of Econ
omics and History at Harvard. The
brilliance of Professor Gay consists
in saying that "Since war would be
a mistake, it won't happen" At the
same time Gay kept on enumerating
all the factors leading directly to
war-growing world rivalries be-
tween the imperialist powers; strug-
gle for markets. "The economic
pressure already existing will doubt
less be increased" he admitted.
This discussion calls to mind the
statements of Herbert Hoover's
brother, who is a professor of en-
gineering at Leland Stanford Uni
versity. Professor Hoover said was
is not only inevitable but necessary
for imperialism. He said the better
the responsible heads" of govern
ment understand it the more they
will prepare for it. Imperialism, he
said, must have colonies. He favored
arming to take them. President
Hoover shares the same views
more, he speeds war ornaments to
carry them out.
With the crisis shrinking the
home markets in the United States
to an enormous extent, the struggle
for new world markets is becoming
the foremost topic of discussion
among the leading bosses and their
intellectual highlights. This is the
vital point behind the feverish war
preparations, to the tune of a bill
lion dollars, now going on in the
United States. James D. Mooney,
ice-president of the General Motors
Corporation, in an interview Thurs
day, before he left for Europe, ad-
mitted the headlong rush to war in
the struggle for world markets. He
said:
american exporters face the
hardest task in the history of our
overseas trade, which was to be ex-
pected in view of the economic and
political fo sors at work during the
past year."
In their war preparations, anc
struggles for markets, the bose:
do not talk much. They act. At the
same time, they attempt to keeI
these actions from the workers
view. 1t is rare that the capitalists
admit the nearness of war. The fac
that it is an everyday topic shows
the urgency of the immediate dan
ger of nperialist war. With tn,
naval "treaty" passed, the imperial
list governments have lost no TIM
in building up their war machines
They are rushing headlong to war
There is way out, but it is not the
way suggested by Professor Gay
His solution" is merely a matte
of intensifying the basic antagon
isms of the imperialist powers
namely, more classification, cutting
production costs, the better to VIII
world markets away from competi
tors, and in general magnifying tn
violent efforts of the imperialists
The way out is revolutionary work
ingclass organization against i'm
perialist war and for the overthrow
of capitalism. Steps towards thi
end must be undertaken now, b,
every worker, consciously organizing
against imperialist war, and for tn
overthrow of capitalism. The Sovie
Union has shown the "way out,
Pacifist and ultra-imperialist tall
are the smoke-screens useful TO
the everyday war preparations O
the imperialist bandits.