The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-27
BY SAM DON.

THE announcement of the naval conference
was made last summer with trumpets of
pacifism with mutual declarations of love on
the part of the two main imperalst rivals
Great Britain and U. S. Macdonald and Hoover
issued a joint statement, a statement herald
ing "new era" in Anglo American relations.
How quickly have the mutual declarations of
love been forgottenl Did the "labor" Prime
Minister really ever did visit "our" shores?
A visit so quickly forgotten, not mentioned
and not referred to- The peace" maneuvefs
were merely prelude for the present extremely
sharpening relations between England and the
U. S.
Why is it that at this naval conference it
is SO difficult to keep up the mask of paci-
fisnn, and the rivalries between the various
imperialist powers, especially between the U.
S. and Great Britain, have come out in the
last week SO sharply, even before the opening
of the conference? The answer is clear. Be-
cause the maturing contradictions of world
capitalism (the contradiction between the pro-
ductive forces and markets, the contradiction
between decaying capitalism and socialist pros
perity in the Soviet Union) are sharpening at
such speed that it is difficult to hide the
differences but on the contrary the conference
itself becomes the arena of immediate war
preparations.
AS one correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
expresses it in the following idea at is less
expensive to maneuyer at the conference for
naval strength and superiority than at war"
The political resolution of the Central Execu-
tive Committee correctly states, "the confer
ence is field for maneuvers for favorable
position for the opening of the armed strug
GLE
Crisis An Important Factor.
The most important factor in sharpening
the imperiast rivalres at the conference is
the present crisis in the country which in
tensifies the general crisis of world capital
ism. On November Is, Hoover in one of his
first official statements on the stock exchange
crash stated "among other things" that Tex
port must be stimulated, and on December
in his address to the conference of business
leaders stated more definitely, another Of the
great balance wheel of stability instead of
balance, read: the contradiction be'-Teen the
productive forces and contradiction Of markets
must be solved through an offensive to pene-
trate the world market and prepare for war;
is our foreign trade"
The above statements Of Hoover were
greeted with shouts of desperate opposition on
the part of all the imperialist powers, especi
ally that of Great Britain. The resolution of
the Political Committee of the Communist
Party of the U. S. A., states correctly under
the pressure of the econc -:ic crisis, the foreign
policy of the U. S. government carrying
through its drive for expanded markets, must
sharpen considerably and find its principal
strategy in maneuvers looking towards re-
grouping of forces, towards breaking up the
combinations hostile to its imperalst plans,
and securing allies in the coming struggle be-
fore all with Great Britain while itself as
suming hegemony of the mperialist drive
against the Soviet Union. This is the main
significance of the naval conference opening
soon in London my emphass).
The capitalist press finds it ever more diff
cult to cover up, for instance, the struggle
between France and Italy as really being