The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-02
The Objective of the Imperialist Drive
The Communist Program.

The Present drive against the 1Oorking class
aud its most Advanced section, the Communist
Party is no ordinary 1Oa9e-cutttng campaign.
There is tendency even among militant work
ers to look upon the capitalist offensive merely
as the result of the natural desire to take
advantage of the economic crisis and mass I'M
employment to reduce wages and increase
profits.
They fail to see that the difference between
the present offensive and the previous "open-
shop campaigns" american plan" drives, etc.
consists in the fact that American imperialism
has for its objective IN this offensiUe the de-
stuction of the 1Uhole historical and social base
of the living standards of the 1Uorking class.
The speech of Owen D. Young, spokesman
for the big capitalists, whose name has been
given to the financial plan which enslaves the
German working class to American finance
capital, with the enthusiastic aid of the Ger
man al-democrats leaves no doubt as to
their intentions:
Young said: "Det no man think that the
Icing standards of America can be permanent
IN maintained at 1neasurably higher level
then those of other ciUitzed countries"
By America Young means the American
working class and the working farmers. Does
anyone think that Young is proposing that
the capitalists reduce their huge profits? The
return to the big corporations of S163000000
in back taxes by the Hoover-Wall Street gov
eminent when millions of workers are jobless
and hungry is the answer to this question.
American imperialism has loaned billions
to Stabilize" the shattered capitalist systems
of the European countries. 1t has insisted
and the social-democrats of the Second Inter-
national and the Amsterdam international of
trade unions have gladly agreed that these
loans were to be guaranteed by the drastic re-
duction of wages and living standards of Eu-
ropean workers.
This has been done. Only the Communist
Parties and the sections of the International of
Labor Unions have led the working class in
struggle against these attacks. The social
democrats (Kautsky, Hilferding, Mueller,
Zoergiebel, ETC., in Germany, Vandervelde in
Belgium, Macdonald, Snowden, Caxton, etc,
in England, Jouhaux, Boncour etc. in France
Bauer in Austria, etc., have all Joined with
the capitalists and their governments to make
the working class bear the full burden of
Sterilization"
Now the leaders of American imperialism
demand that the American working class ac-
cept, be forced to accept the still lower living
standard of European workers in order that
their rulers can add to their swollen fortunes
at home and compete more successfully in the
world markets.
1hts IS no Ordinary Wdge-cuttng offensive.
IL IS the beginning of q new phase of the class
'cdr m a1hich the offensive of the capitalists
and their government has for its objective the
piptng out Of all Social economic, historical
and political factors which haze resulted from
the fact that in its rapid rise to position of
World domination American imperialism has
mad to bring IN from, outside its territorial
confines only one important commodity-labor
potOeY.
The American ruling class intends to DESTROY
every economic and social advantage that the
working class has gained from the fact that
American capitalism developed in huge coun-