The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
By EDMUND GRANTZ

By EDMUND GRANTZ
AUGUST LIST is a day of militant proletarian
II warning, a day of mobilization of the work
ing class forces throughout the world for the
resistance against bloody imperialist reaction
and war--especially so the preparation of war
against the Soviet Union-the workers social
list fatherand.
'The War to End Wharf.-The war of 1914-1S
was the result of unrelenting antagonisms in
rotting capitalist system. The capitalist
countries with the aid of the social-democrats
the betrayers of labor, spread the illusion
among the working masses that the war of
1914-18 would end all wars because it would
aid them in overcoming the existing antagon-
isps. But war proved to be poor medicine.
Now, more than ever before, do the work
ers realize the truth of Lenins words when,
in November, 1914, he wrote:
Imperialism has put the fate of European
culture to the hazard; after the present war,
if it will not be followed by series of
cessful revolutions, will come other wars.
The legend that this is the last war is an idle
and dangerous fairy-tale, a piece of petty
bourgeois mythology"
The war of 1914-18 did not eliminate the
danger of new wars. On the contrary, it was
increased and intensified. That we clearly see
by the number of ncessant wars on smaller
SSSAS
war epoch
Deepening Crisis.
Today, sixteen years after the slaughtering
and Gripping for life 20 millions of workers
the capitalist world has still not recovered
from its consequences. These consequences are
the expression of continuous general crisis in
capitalism.
Amongst the capitalist countries there is a
wilder than ever before cut-throat competition
in the struggle for new markets to dump their
goods. The pressure against the working
class is intensified. The brutal application of
speed-up; cutting of wages, frightening of
hours; numbering of workers by the bosses
government and their police is becoming worse
from day to day.
The crisis is swelling the ranks of the I'M
employed Fresh millions of workers are
thrown into the streets to starve.
But, while the economic crisis is spreading,
and deepening all over the world, seeping into
the economic life of one country after another
the growth of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics stands clear and solid. This is one
of the main facts that incites the imperalists
of the world to make war against the work
ers' fatherland-the U.S.S.R.
The rapid strides that the Russian workers
and poor peasants are making in accomplish
ing the socialist reconstruction of the Soviet
Union through the Five-Year Plan of indus
trialization, the collective farm movement
and reorganization of agriculture at an I'M
heard of rate-is the second factor that incites
the imperiast powers to war against the
Soviet Union.
U. S. Imperialism Takes Lead.
The Soviet Union is now closed to capitalist
exploitation because the workers and poor
farmers there masters of their own destiny
The imperialist powers have no excess to the
Soviet markets, therefore, their intrigues and
preparation for war against the Soviet Union
That is why they are trying their damndest to
hamper the progress of he socialist construc-
ton in the workers fatherland.
American Imperialism takes the initiative in
all attacks nthe Soviet Union. Witness the
embargo being places on Soviet imports into