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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
Bv ALEX BITTELMAN

The official pacfsn of the capitalist and imperial
list governments nothing else but cloak for more
intensified war preparations At the present time the
war preparatons of the inlperast powers directed
chiefly tn military intervention against the Soviet Union
Military intervention in the Soviet Union has be-
come the greatest menace The latest move in this
direction by the Hoover government and the American
capitalist class the so-caed proposal for oneyear
var-debt moratorium It proposal designed to save
German capitalism from the growing workers revolution
and to protect the investments of American bankers in
Germany Hoover & Co need German capitalism for
intervention in the Soviet Union
The var-debt moratorium bride to the European
capitast powers to accept the domination of American
imperialism and to accept its leadership in the war
against the Soviet Union Hoover's plan is a
move for war and intervention But, usual 1t Is
cloaked in words of peace
They Talk Peace ard Arm for War
Ever since the conclusion of the imperlahst war OF
194-s18 the irperiais governments are talking peace
IN fart the late war itself was supposed to have been
the last war Instead it laid the basis for sharper
irnperiais rivalr<ks and wars.
According to the information of the League Of Ma
tons which does not disclose the full amount spent
on ornaments by the imperast powers we get the fol-
lowing picture The European capitalist powers spent
on ornaments annually after the late war 3076 more
money than they did before the This despite the
fact that the victorious powers had forced the reduc
ton of ornaments in Germany and in the other de-
feated capitalist countries
Says Mr.. P jacobson former official OF the League
of Nations:
TN order to bring the ornaments of those coun-
tries the victors-A B.. down to the level obtain
ing in 1908 there would have to be an average re-
duction of approximately 80 per cent from the level
of 1928"
Especially great was the increase in the expenditures
on ornaments in the United States. The Army and
NAVY Budget in 1925-1926 was $52S7Oo 900; and $685.
900 900 in 1928-I929. An increase of "a per cent
In the first nine months of the fiscal year, 1881,
expenditures for national defense in the United states
amounted to the of $2124737OOO, or 10
er cent of the total expenditures of the Federal
eminent Seventy cents of each dollar spent by the
Hoover government went for preparations and arm
aments.
1t has been estimated that there are at present
under arms in the capitalist countries including active
reserves, SooOoooO or about 100000 than be-
fore the last"
This is the product of capitalist peace talks con-
ferences and treaties They talk peace and prepare
war And the more they talk peace, the more they
prepare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
Huff Of Capitalist Peace Pacts and Disarmament Conferences
one or any Of the countries subscribing to this proto
col as incompatible with its principles.

one or any of the countries subscribing to this proto
col as incompatible with its principles
This was the Soviet to the capitalist lies
Of dumping" end to the intervention campaign pre-
pared by the scare of the Red Trade Menace" Cap
itaism behaved capitalism should 1t rejected the
offer of the Soviet Union pact of economic
aggression Why? Becausue the police of capitalism
in the present of imperialism and decay the policy
of un-estraned economic warfare leading to for
the onopol;stic exploitation of colonies Because the
present policy of capitalism to the Soviet Union-the
country that is building Sociaisn-s the policy of ir
reconcilable antagonism, the policy of military inter-
venon to destroy the Socialist system which has
to take the place of capitalism all over the world.
Following out the line of policy proposed by Lit
vtnov in Geneva the Soviet delegation to the Wheat
Conference in London offered to join the wheatexport
ing countries in the working out of plan for the
distribution of the 1881 wheat harvest On this con-
dton: "kbat the possible methods of solving this i'm
portant question must not however lead to the lowering
OF the standard of living of the working masses This
clear answer to the charge of the American
imperalsts that the Soviet Union dumping" wheat
But the capitalists did not accept the offer of the
Soviet Union The most militant opponent of this offer
the delegate from the United States who declared
that the u S. will not join in any international wheat
pool whatever
Thus become revealed the contrasts between the
peace policy of the Soviet Union and the policy
of the capitalist states Thus it becomes evident
that the capitalist governments, led by the United
States, rushing headong into the preparations for
military intervention in the Soviet Union
To hide from the the very acute state of
imperalist rivalries the immnence of new mperiast
and in the first instance the preparations for mil
itary intervention Soviet Union, the mperiast
powers preparing for another disarmament confer
ence, scheduled to take place in 1882.
Whether it will actuaully take place or not is not
so material for the war-makers and ntervenaonsts.
important thing for them is to be able to tell the
their respective countries that the govern
ments working for peace and disarmament. The
servants of British imperialism, the British Labor"
government is already trying to Capitalize" the coming
disarmament conference to check its weakening in
fluence among the Hoover, too points to this
Conference proof of the efforts of his
for peace" Meanwhile they increasing ornaments
and preparing military intervention against the Soviet
Union.
That is why the August First anti-war demonsra-
tons called by the Communist Party must be made into
powerful protests against military intervention and
for the defense of the Soviet Union.
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Committee would not accept them as genuine"
But Whalen was meantime rewarded for his
public service by being appointed chief snooper
on Red movements for the Woll- EaSey crowd.
The close connections of this outfit to the
Fish Committee is further evidenced in the fact
that persons writing to Fish foc copies of the
hearings are told that the supply IS exhausted
and that thousands OF requests for copies could
not be filled At the same time casey and Vol
have hi dIeds of them for fire. distribution to
all their friends and monarchist sympathizers
at the oifice7 of the Civic Federation # you
can qualify super patriot and Red-hater
write in for your free copy of the 10 volumes.
Others who desire copies may obtain them from
the superintendent of Documents in Washing
ton for $685..
That the wholesale deportations policy of the
Hoover Administration is influenced by the Ma
tional Civic Federation is seen in the recent cleo
ton of w. N. Doak, Secretary of Labor, to the
post of Honorary Vice-Presdent. The desire of
the Vol body to deport every alien workers is,
under Doak, being carried out by the Hoover
Administration with more than the accustomed
ruthlessness Doak doubtless consulted Hoover
before he allowed his name to decorate the
letterhead of the Civic Federation, which has
always refused to per1nt its books to be ex-
amined by the National Information Bureau, an
agency for advising prospective contributors
about the trustworthiness of organizations max
ing public appeals for funds.
Join the nation wide protest against the i'm
perialist war which is being prepared against
the Soviet Union, Turn out in masses on Au-
gust l.
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The Army Knows the War Is
Coming
POISON GAS.


"The Covenant of the League of Nations
together with the Pact of Paris-make in my
mind the peace of the world more secure to-
day than it has been ever before. Fifty-four
nations have agreed that they will not resort
to war without submitting any dispute between
two or more of them to arbitration
1T is difficult to give any absolute affirma-
ton that war will never break out in the fu-
ture, however distant, but it can be assuredly
said that the Covenant of the League of Ma
tons has rendered forcible action by any ma
ton infinitely more difficult. and indeed more
perilous than it ever was in the past.'-(Sir Eric
Drunmond, Feb. l, 1917
FOR WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION.
There will be another war just as sure as
the sun rises in the East"-Maior Gener-' Ern-
est Kinds speaking to Denver H. S. cadets, No
vember 10, 1927.
''After every great war, there is return to
hatred of war in this country, which becomes
a dangerous situation War is a dreadful
thing-that is true, but our nation will never
change and there will be another war again"
Col Frederick @. Knagenshue speaking to
r. o. T. c. students, July 81, 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09

The washington Conference in 1921 for the "rnita-
ton of naval ornaments established limitations for
armament the 1t only fixed" the right OF the
United Stdates to naval equality with Great Britain
which resulted in the building of more warshps The
London Naval Conference in 1929 called again for the
limitation" Of ornaments, was complete flop from
the point Of view of armament reductions. 1t only
exposed glaringy the bitter naval between the
American British iperialsts and the determine
ton of the United States to fight and establish its sup
remacy on the high seas against Great Britain
The question of reducing ornaments on land Jared
no better at the hands of the capitalist powers. 1t
May, 1920 that the League OF Nations started
out more actively to deceive the with series
of maneuvers on armament reductions 1t appointed
a Permanent Advisory Commission" to investigate"
the possibilities of disarmament. The Commission re-
ported that they could find way to reducing arm
aments. Meanwhile the burden of ornaments was
growing and so the opposition of the masses to
irnperialst war. Hence maneuver by the League
of Nations. Commission, called the Temporary
Mixed Commission was set up in 1921 which was later
replaced by Coordination Committee" This fake
dragged on until September 1925, when it become OBJ
vious to the whole world that it fake and bluff
Consequently the imperasts decided to wipe the slate
and make start in the criminal game of talking
peace and making war The result the setting up
of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament
Conference" which is the Leagues disarmament fake
existing today.
What is the sum total of all these capitalist peace
and disarmament" efforts? Larger armies ana
an intensified naval between American and Eng
land France and italy tremendous growth OF war
air fleets and poison gas weapons an enormous swell
ing military and expenditures the sharpest rival
ries and economic warfare between the imperlahst
powers the inminence of new world mperlalist war,
with the menace of military intervention against the
Soviet Union being the greatest and nearest menace
The Soviet Union Greatest Factor for World Peace
The Soviet Union is the greatest factor making for
world peace today The other factors are the growing
determination of the exploited to fight i'm
periast with revolutionary means and the leader
ship of the Communist International in the struggle.
The Soviet Union is following persstently policy
of peace While standing ready to defend ITSELF with
the active support of the toiling all the
world from the attacks of the capitalists, the Soviet
Union has repeatedly challenged the capitalist govern
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ments to stop cheating the with fake maneuvers
and to undertake real disarmament.
In December 1927 the Soviet government submitted
to the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament
Conference of the League of Nations plan of disar
ament The plan provided for the dissolution of all
armies, navies and air fleets What happened to the
plan? 1t rejected, and the capitalist powers went
on preparing for
In the Spring of 1929 the Soviet government once
again proposed plan of disarmament. Taking up the
OBJECTIONS of the capitalist powers to the first prop
osaI of the Soviet Union namely, that total disarm-
ament impractical and "utopian," the Soviet gov
eminent challenged the capitalist powers to join in
plan of partial disarmament The plan provided that
the strongest powers should reduce their ornaments
by 500, the medium powers by 1870 and the smaller
powers by $50. What happened to this plan? This
also rejected The capitalists went on armng them
selves preparing war
It is highly significant that the two imperialst
powers, which preparing for war most intensivey
the United States and France, have turned out to be
the main champions of the mperaist pact to outlaw
and instrument of policy. The Kel-
logg Peace Pact is Kelog- BRAND pact the joint
product of the peace efforts of America and France
This peace" pact fits in very nicely, with the
plans of these powers as and screen for their
preparations.
The imperalist powers are trying to find way out
of the crisis by new wars and especially military inter
vention against the Soviet Union. Preparatory to mil
itary intervention, the mperaists are organizing and
carrying on against the Soviet Union. This
they doing by urging the boycott of Soviet goods and
the stoppage of the import of machinery into the Soviet
Union disrupt the FiveYear Plan of Socialist Con-
sruction. The Hoover government is playing Leading
role in this preparation for military intervention
Soviet dumping" and similar lies are supposed to
be the basis for the economic against the Soviet
Union The Soviet government succeeded in explod-
ing this lie also very effectively At the recent
Conference of the European Union Commission of the
League of Nations held in Geneva, comrade Ltvinov,
representing Soviet Union, proposed he complete
cessation of all forms of economic aggression He
had challenged the capitalist to sign with the
Soviet Union a protocol by which:
the parties undertake not to adopt in their relations
with each other any discrimination whatsoever and
regard the adoption in any of their countries of
special attitude initiating against the interests of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
And They Dare Lie About
Soviet "Barbarism''!

From the N Y. Herald Tribune of July ChapA
py dated, we take the following, which, Willis
some nice people" will say is astounding. we
must characterize as quite the thing to be ex-
pected from capitalism. The headline readse
Gagged NEGRO, BENT DOUBLE, JoHr-
ING 1,1OO MILES TO CELL.
Detroit, July 3-Folded into tiny coop wnere
his chin rests on his knees and his arms cannot
be stretched full length Ike Morrow Is headed
back to Texas and prison. The Negro was showed
today into heavy wire cage like those on the
rear of a dog -catcher'S cart.
THE cage is right over the rear wheels OF a
small truck. A grim-faced Texas prison agent
who broke his taciturnity only to excIaim, In
Texas we don't fool snapped two heavy pad
locks on the door that had closed on Ike.
ike was little bewildered. He had just fin
ished thirty days in the House of Correction for
petit larceny But prison cell compared to his
new quarters had all the expansiveness of the
great outdoors If they hit a bump Ike's head is
going to smash against that wire ceiling through
which the hot sun pours in If he lies on t4B
floor where the dust has gatheredhe will be
bruised.
"The prisoner in his 4 by 4 cage will be carted
through eight states-1100 long, dusty and
bumpy miles-before they pull up at Huntsville,
WOLCo 4he eoSaPSu TIC SllppSo lbs SIldCkleS anu
swan stream, eluding bloodhounds and bull
lets. This trip back is to be a lesson to him"
Yes "a lesson! The kind of lessons used
to terrorize and subject the whole Negro nation,
supposedly but not really freed by Lncolns
Emancipation Proclamation Look upon this
barbarity, American workers, white and black
Look upon it and vow never to stop fighting the
capitalist class which is responsible, until your
united power puts an end to the CURSED thing!
Negro workers, these are the capitalists that
want you to fight in their next war! Tell them
what you think of that by demonstrating August
First! Let them know that you don't foop'l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09

Two DictatOrships
By JORGE

There's dictatorship of the proletartat, a
rule of the working class, in the Soviet Union.
It is well that tbs revolutionary workers keep
this in mind in view of the necessity Of con-
tradicting a lot of hokum being peddled by the
capitalist papers.
The capitalist press, points in glee to some
Soviet rule penalizng workers who. having no
sense of responsibility to the working class az
a whole, are continually drunk or absent, or
walk off the job without considering the damage
their leaving their place empty may do, not
consulting the other workers or their elected
representatives, but acting enthusiastically.
Then these capitalist liars go on to say: "Seei
There's the liberty you would have if America
went Soviet! See the forced labor! worker
has no right to get drunk or to be absent or
quit his job! If he does he's punished by with
drswal of his ration card, by starvation" and
so on.
Firstly, the workers haven't the right" to get
drunk or be absent here! And with starvation
among the millions of 5obless any worker in
America who leaves his job faces starvation
and these millions have been FORCED to leave
their jobs
Their fellow workers have not approved, as in
the Soviet Union they do of the measures dis
ciplining the erring individual among them
the mass On the contrary, here in America
great factories employing tens of thousands are
closed, and these workers, the mass, are thrown
into starvation at the order of the approval Of
the mantle boss or "the management" the
private owner or owners for which industry is
run and to whom it belongs" In the USSR,
industry belong to the workers. and it is their
discipline which is enforced their initiative
which is building it up under the Five Year Plan
III. L.
talist dictatorship of the workers dictatorship
You are asked to show your readiness to defend
the workers dictatorship against capitalist arm
ed attack, by joining in the anti-war demon
startions throughout the country on August 1st.
You can't be neutral"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
The Battle OF Wildwood

named Reel who fired two shots at miners
wife when she was proceeding to join the march
in an attempt to smash the injunction. This
happened Immediately after the march began.
At the sound of the shots everybody started
for the spot whence the sound came and the
battle was on, Investigation reveals that Reels
criminal instinct first showed itself in 1919
Being among the first group to reach the spot,
I approached this gunman ReeD and demanded
to know why he fired the shots and why he
picked elderly woman to shoot at and soon
learned that the lousy skunk possessed no
scruples when it came to shooting.
Oh yes, with language that is unprintable,
Reel commanded that I Get around" and
pointed his riot gun at that part of my anatomy
where my breakfast would have rested Gf I'd
"a had any and pulled the trigger. but the
gun didn't go off
Of course didn't stand ION the spot for
him to get his second shot, but stepped around
the corner hoping to find piece of Irish Con-
fetti" but my search there produced nothing
better than the hope and he got another shot
at me. Again he failed to make perforation
in me for it "whistled" past me and down went
Bob Young, shot over the right ear.
By this time, all the gunner were banging
away. They we're being assisted by the bosses
from the mine and from safe place, the Big
Bosses" of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co.
we're pointing out the strikers. A couple of
hundred rounds were fired altogether.
AS threw Bob Young over my shoulder to
convey him to safe place and give him First
Aid" another miner went down by my side AS
soon as I got Bob in position to aid him, we
gassed out to face the gun music again.
But this time I placed under arrest and
forced to lay Bob on store porch where he
was permitted to lay for more than 30 minutes
without any attention whatever. This true
of all those wounded. Later they were loaded
coal truck like so much rubbish or garb-
age and hauled the 30 odd miles to a Pittsburgh
hospital before receiving any attention.
This briefly is the story of the battle of Wild
wood 1t is another incident to be recorded
in labors history and another score for the
working class to settle.
And we still say-To He'll with the Injuncton
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
BY TOM MYERSCOUGH

(NMU. Organizer, Allegheny Valley Section)
TO Hell with the Injunction! The same goes
for those who prayed" for it on behalf of
the Butler Consolidated Coal Co., the judge that
issued it in answer to that prayer" the sheriff
that accepted this boss weapon with which all
thought the strike could be broken and the
lousy degenerate criminals, yellow dogs" whose
guns took one life and wounded twelve others.
In addition, about 40 others were arrested.
The battle ragged for fully thirty minutes and
tho the toll was fairly heavy, the miners still
say To Hell with the Injunction and all it stands
for!
Only one yellow dog was wounded but when
it is recognized that all the guns and other
implements of war were in the enemys posses
sion, this is not to be wondered at.
The battle VIZ started by deputy sheriff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM.

That they (the peace covenants) will cause
war to cease is beyond the brain power of human
beings If we had now or could get to-
gether more tanks, airplanes, and munitions
than any other country, and faster than any
other country we could lay our cards upon
the table and say, there is our hand, can you
beat it? And there would be no war Ma or
General Hanson E. Ely. Commander of Second
Corps Area. U s. Army. Sept. 20, 1928.
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Tanks. Planes. Poison Gas for
Peace
GERMAN IMPERIALISM.

1T is the avowed policy of the Emperor (Wil-
heinz to preserve peace through the utmost
practicable preparation for war. His lete silver
jubilee was largely given up to unstnted ack-
nowledgement at home and abroad of his Maj
esty's success in this policy - The development
of the army and navy acts, and is intended to
act, as an outlet for the warlke spirit of the
nation"
Times Eitorial July 8, 1918.
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FIGHT STEADILY FOR REL !Er'

organize Unemployed Councils to Figh,
for Unemployment Relief. Organize the
Employed Workers Into Fighting
Unions. Mobilize the Employed and
Unemployed for Common Strug-
giles Under the Leadership of
the Trade Union Unity League i,
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