The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
BY F. HECKERT

THE Communist Parties and the revolutionary
trade unions are preparing for August 1st,
the international fighting day against war.
Why is this necessary? Is there any danger
of war? Are not all the leading statesmen of
the capitalist countries in favor of peace?
But if this is So why did the German Minis
ter for Defense, Herr Groner, jump up nervous
ly when his colleague, Herr Wirth, declared
that the question should be raised, whether, in
view of the general need and the economic crisis
some saving should be made in the military
budget? Why have the government of the
French Republic spent 1900 million gold francs
on concrete works and latest guns on the Alpine
frontier and in Corsica? Why did there take
place in England on July list great air-man-
euvers at which 1913 airplanes demonstrated
before 100000 spectators how quickly a iorti-
fled pirates nest can be destroyed with bombs?
Why was a similar demonstration carried out
in Italy on an ARAB village" specially erected
for the purpose?
Perhaps someone will say that it is only
joke when the Times" reports that in the
neighborhood of Peshawar 5000 heavy bombs
were dropped from English aircraft on the
native villages or when the same thing hap
pens in Indo- China or Nicaragua? Perhaps
these are only trifling incidents arranged just
to amuse the public during the silly season.
full of talk about peace; but it is well-known
fact that in the capitalist States the pacifist
talks and assertions of the will to peace
on the part of the capitalist statesmen are part
and parcel of the war preparations. Some
times however the fog lifts, and then we get
a glimpse of what is really taking place. At
the celebrated Naval Disarmament Conference
at London, the Italo-French antagonism was
quite plainly revealed. The delegates had hard
ly returned from London when Mussolini in
terpreted all the peace talk of the Conference
in the following words:
words are very fine, but rifles, machine
guns, ships, aircraft and cannons some
thing still finer; for right without might
is an empty word, and Macchiavelli said
that the prophets without weapons perish
Naturally there are people who say, Mus
solini is only crazy fascist, who takes any
notice of him? But what did the social demo-
crat Otto Horsing, the President of the Reichs-
banner say, at demonstration in Magdeburg,
not long after Mussolini had been singing the
praises of weapons?
"The international labor market, before
all the German, will take decided turn
for the better. when Bolshevism is abol-
ished. Here lies the root of all the Ill.
The people of Russia, numbering hundreds
of millions, represent the great mass of
buyers which world industry lacks. There
fore, it is the task of all the civilized coun-
tries, and not the least of Germany, i'm
mediately and with all means to create
possibilities of work; to revive the home
market in order that economy can recover
and the finances be restored. 1t is only
thereby that we shall be able to maintain
the cultural progress of the goth century.
But cultural progress will not be MAIN
tanned so long as Bolshevism wthdraws
hundreds of million of men from the world
market and from world culture"
Does that not plainly indicate the direction
in which the war tempest will break loose?
We read in the Simon Report that England
must firmly retain in its hands the outer de-
Tense of India against the enemy on the North
ern frontier. Here also the direction is plainly
indicated. Or let us take the case of the return
Of king Carol of Rumania, the man who is in
the pay of the French war industry, and who is
provided with military instructors. Or take
the case of the fascist upheaval in Finland,
which has placed the old enemy of Soviet Rus
STA, Svnhufhud, at the head of the government,
while at the same time furious terror is
raging against the Finnish Communists with
the object of exterminating them. Or Pilsudski,
who does not even permit the Seim to meet,
in order that not the slightest light should be
shed on the dark doings Of his militarists Are
all these merely chance occurrences?
The capitalists pre- airing to redstribute
the world. The colonial peoples and Bolshevik
Russia are to be the objects, the BEAR so to
speak, whose skin is to be divided. But why
are the capitalist powers arming against each
other? They know that it is one thing to kill