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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
American Imperialism in the Preparation of intervention
Workers! Defend the Soviet Union! Demonstrate May

b. eak up meetings. The Cooperative State is
largely based upon oceupatiOnal groupings and
so is the Soviet State. If Communists appeal
to Lenin the last word in knowledge, Fas-
cists make the same appeal to Mussolini. The
catechisms, creeds, and guides issued by the
Fascist Party remind one of the endless theses
issued by the Communist Parties. If one is
required TO render blind homage to Stain,
similar homage must be rendered to Mussolini.
Punishment and imprisonment as punishment
for Party dissent is the in both Russia
and Italy"
The Socialist Party leaders, while openly pre-
pairing for the imperalist intervention and even
speaking of an international war as being not
worse than the proletarian dictatorship, at the
same time declare that there is not the slightest
danger of war against the Soviet Union, that this
is merely an invention of Stain to bolster up a
tottering regime. The Reverend Norman Thomas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

other war moves are accompanied with
similar disgusting hypocrisy Stimson's notorious
intervention in aid to the Chinese nilitarists in
1929 in the Chinese Eastern Railway affair was
declared to be ''to preserve peace under the
Kellogg Pact masking the real intention to seize
the railway for American Imperialism not only
from the Soviet Union and from China, but also
from Japan. The church campaign in 1880 was
lin behalf of the prosecuted priests; the "arti-
dumping" campaign is Gin the interests of pre-
serving the standards of the American wage
worker; the ISLANDERS of forced labor in the
Soviet Union" are "in behalf of the oppressed
Russian toilers"
But behind the hypocrisy. the real purpose
by such leading capitalist newspapers as the
Chicago Tribune" which brazeny propagan-
dies for war against the Soviet Union. A typi-
cal example is the following from the New Bed
ford Times" organ Of the textile interests:
1--WE would point out emphaticaIy that the
United States must not delay or hesitate in
such matters. 1t is of fight now against
the Soviet or to be devOured by the Soviet
after we have been reduced so to be unable to
fight. And with proper economic campaigns
against the USSR let us not forget plenty of
ornaments"
Or the following, from a speech of member
of Mr.. Hoover's cabinet, Mr.. Wilbur Secretary
Of Interior:
"One of the great people of the earth is de-
Hberately trying to work out large social and
economic programs for the mastery of its vast
terrain along new and untried lines. Our eco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

Abramovitch, plenipotentiary of the Mensnevih
and executive member of the Second Interna-
tional, was a welcome visitor to the socialist"
party of America in 1925, 1928 and in 1890 When
he arrived in New York in January last year. he
Immediately wrote an article for the New York
Times. declaring that capitalist America was a
wonderful land but that in the Soviet Union
there were ten million workers unemployed. Then
he appeared at a reception given by the $50
cialiSt" leaders, and delivered speech in which
he used these significant words:
THE NEXT YEAR OR so WILL BRING
GREAT SURPRISES TO THOSE PEOPLE
WHO HAVE BECOME PERSUADED THAT
THE BOLSHEvIKS WILL REMAIN IN pow
Err FOREVER"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Why the American Workers Must Defend the USSR

But it will be the most serious mistake if we
rely upon this process taking place automatically
Almost as serious a mistake would be to rely
only upon the Exposure" in words of the crimes
of the social fascists. We must find those con-
crete slogans and forms of struggle which will
link up the struggle against war with the strug-
gle for the everyday demands of the workers.
In the U. S. we have used for this end the slogan
mot one cent for war, all for unemployment
insurance" This has proved very popular.
We must explain constantly to the workers, in
a popular, easily-understood language of the
workers themselves, in terms of their own life
why it is that they suffer under capitalism, and
why it is that in the Soviet Union there is no
economic crisis, no unemployment, a rising
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Behind the HypOcrisy-War

nomic, social and political philosophy inevita-
bly, must wage a gigantic and fundamental
struggle with theirs"
When the recent embargo was placed by the
u S. against Soviet pulpwood, President Hoover
made a public declaration that this measure
was ''not aimed at Russian trade" But one Of
his own chief supporters, the New York Herald
Tribune" Immediately exposed this hypocrisy,
saying:
President Hoover has added his own as
surance. that the new regulations are
not aimed at Russian trade. The official
assurances must be regarded as more 'diplo-
matte than real"
Or consider these words Of Admiral Pratt,
Chief of Naval Operations of the U. S. Navy,
who said:
"The world in which they (the USSR) live
and the one IN which we live are so totally
different that the two cannot exist side by side
indefinitely without great compromise one
side or the other or war ultimately may result"
When we add that for over 10 years the u. S.
Government has refused all normal international
relationships with the Soviet Union, that in all
this time it has officially had an embargo against
the sale of airplanes or anything which could be
used for war purposes and an embargo on all
long-term credits (Which some American banks
we're anxious to give). it becomes clear that the
fundamental policy of American imperialism
points directly and undeviatingly towards war
against the Soviet Union. The only question at
issue is when will American imperialism decide
that the moment most favorable for its own
particular aims has arrived
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
A. F. L, Aids Intervention

obvious that the gold credits resulting from
the dumping of goods produced by convict
forced, underpaid and under-nourished labor
in the USSR, contribute an additional supply
of funds readily available for the purpose of
conducting Communist propaganda and sub
verSive activities in this as well other coun-
tries to the detriment of our democratic ideals
and free institutions"
These are the same William Green and Mat
thew Vol who, on behalf of the three million
workers in the A. F. of L. promised there would
be no strikes during the economic crisis who
have accepted twelve billion dollar wage re-
duction for the American workers during 1880,
who actively break all strikes that occur in spite
of them, who give their approval to the mon
strous system of prison labor in America, to the
cold-blooded shooting of prisoners as occurred
few weeks ago in the Illinois State Prison, who
approve the chain gangs in the Southern U. S.
where thousands of worker prisoners are rented
out by the state to private capitalists who keep
silent on the horrible lynchings of Negroes in
America, who fight against all proposals for
unemployment insurance for the ten million
jobless.
These gentlemen have the brazen effrontery
to speak of forced labor" in the USSR and of
the free institutions of the government that
executed Sacco and Vanzetti, has kept Tom
Mooney in prison for Is years. and which is
ruled by the famous "59" biltonaires
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
PLOT WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION

writes on November 90, during the Industrial
Party trial:
Soviet Russia's charge of European plot
against her has not been supported by evidence.
1t seems improbable on the face of it In view
of Franco-Itaan controversies and other
quarreIs between capitalist nations"
On December Is, the New Leader gives its
columns to an American engineer for the defense
of Ramzin. 1t says:
"On the day when the communication Of the
sentences was reported, H. w. Brooks a con-
suting engineer in New York, who was with
Professor Ramzin in Europe when the latter
was supposed TO have arranged the plot, de-
cIares that he knew nothing of such plot.
Brooks is of the opinion that the confessions
were arranged by the OGPU. the soviet secret
police, as farce to strengthen the Stain
dictatorship"
The Reverend Norman Thomas, in the name
of socialism, assures his readers in the issue Of
Jan. II, 1881, that the Soviet trade unions are
merely organs of dictatorship over the workers,
that to-day their unions are scarcely more than
company unions in relation to the state"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Plan To Repeat GLORIOUS" Achievements of 1913

Let us never for moment forget that Amer
lean troops participated in the interventions Of
19l8-19l9, in Mur1nansk Archangel and the Far
East American money and military and medi-
cal supplies backed Kolchak, Yudenich and
other white guard bandit attacks upon the So
Wet Union. And American imperialism counts
these pages Of its history among the glorious
achievements of its armed forces, placing the
name of ''Murmansk" alongside of 'Verdun" on
the Victory Arch" built in New York City with
the approval of Socialist" Assemblymen) to
greet the returning troops. What American i'm
perialsm did in 1918-1919, it is now preparing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

standard of living, full social insurane. We
must explain how the workers of the Soviet
Union gained their victory. what are the pre-
requisites for the building of socialism
We must connect the Russian October Revolu-
ton up with the experiences of the workers in
our own countries In America, we must explain
to the masses that we also, in the U. S., helped
to found the Soviet State, when American work.
ers in the interventionist army in Murnansk,
fraternized with the Red Army and went over to
their side. We must show how we in America
have share in the Soviet victory. through the
strike of the Seattle longshoremen against lead
ing munitions for Kolchak, through our Hands
Off Russia" committees, through our great cam
paign of the Friends of Soviet Russia organiza-
ton during the days of the famine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

to repeat on larger scale.
Preparations for Intervention have been the
subject for constant conversations between the
U. S. and European Powers. When the late
London Naval Conference was In Its difficult
moments, Harold Price Bell, London correspon-
dent of the Chicago Daily News, forecssting an
agreement in spite of all difficulties argued thus:
"Hovering over the London Conference is
the shadow Of the Soviet Union, driving the
representatives Of the different countries to
agreement, at least on common measures to
meet this common danger. This is doubtless
one Of the principal subjects Of discussion be-
hind the scenes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
White Guards Prepare

In the New York State military forces, there
is special company composed OF Monarchist
emigreS, receiving military training not only for
use against striking American workers, but also
for prospective future service against the Soviet
Union. The capitalist press lovingly describes
how many ex-princes, ex-counts, ex-dukes, and
ex-generals there are serving as private soldiers
in this company,
The capitalists do not have an easy task in
rousing the masses against the Soviet Union.
The American workers en- masse have always
had an instructive sympathy for the U. S. s. r.
They also have an instructive diStrust of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Bv EARL BROWDER

THE capitalist world is feverishly preparing for
1 war. Torn asunder by its own antagonisns
between the different imperialist powers, under
the pressure Of the deepest economic crisis IN
history, with its temporary postwar Staolhzaton
rapidly disappearing, and above all with the NIL
lions of starving masses having before their eyes
the example of the Soviet Union with its UMPIRE
cedented growth of economic life upon So
cialist basis. inspiring them by its very existence
to similarly reorganize their own life as the only
escape from the miseries of capitalisnl-under
these conditions, world capitalism is making a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
The USSR-The Workers Fatherland

We must in all its phases contrast capitalist
America with Soviet Russia and show the masses
that the USSR is their Fatherland. We must
rouse their class consciousness, the understand
ing of the historical mission of the working class
the confidence in the power of the working class
to achieve this mission, and fighting energy and
enthusiasm which will finally bring them into
battle with the class enemy.
We must fill every worker with the conscious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

capitalist press. Particularly now, when they are
experiencing the full glory of capitalist prosper
ity" are their eyes turning more and more to-
wards the Soviet Union and its inspiring
progress
The left social-faScist, Music, returning re-
Gently from trip across the country, reported
that the only subject which really arouses en-
thusasm among the workers of the U. S. is the
Soviet Union and its Five Year Plan" 1t is
therefore necessary for the capitalists to find
other instruments for turning the masses against
the Soviet Union These they find in the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, the socialist" party
and the renegades from Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Mobilizing For War BY Demagogy and Lies

Thus the United States drives toward war. I
is spending 80 per cent of its enormous budget
for war purposes, for the army, navy, air forces,
war pensions and interest on war debts Mean
while it refuses the slightest aid to the starving
ten millions of unemployed and the several mil
lion starving farmers Billions for war; but not
one cent for social Insurance." is the slogan Of
American imperialism.
Mobilizing the masses for war. the capitalist
press is engaged for the past year in a gigantic
campaign of lies, SANDER and demagogy The
masses are told that the Five Year Plan is fall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Renegades Join Anti-Soviet Front

Into this united front of war preparations
against the Soviet Union, an honored place is
reserved by the capitalist press for the renegades
from the Communist Party. Lovestone became
one of their heroes when in 1929, it was an
nounced upon returning from Moscow that he
had escaped" from the dungeons of Stain and
the GPU.
The renegades are, for their brief moment,
specially valued by the capitalists, because they
carry forward the same policy under the very
label of Communism They attempt in prac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Fish Praises the SOcial-Fascists

1t is no marvel therefore, when we review the
heroic work" Of the socialist party and of the
ton Fish, chairman of the notorious Fish Com
mittee of the U. S. Congress, declared that the
socialist party was legitimate respectable poll
teal party which should not be harmed in any
way, and gave warm testimonial to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor as the principal sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

ing, but at the same time that it is the cause of
the crisis in the capitalist countries. The farm
ers told that Soviet wheat caused the agraran
crisis, and Soviet operations on the grain ex-
changes caused the recent drop in the price Of
wheat The millions Of unemployed are told
that their misery is the result Of diabollcal
plot by the dictator" Stain. The religious
masses are told that in Soviet Union hundreds
of thousands of priests are murdered In cold
blood every year by the GPU. Free use is made
Of the most shameless forgeres to bolster up this
campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

tice to carry out the advice given in the liberal
weekly New Republic to take Communism
away from the Communists" in order to save
capitalism. Lovestone issued the slogan: De
fend the Soviet Union by overthrowing the
Stain regime" The very slogan of defense of
the Socialist Fatherland is thus to be turned
into an instrument for preparing the interview
ZIONIST war And that little group of oppor-
tunists which operates under the banner of
Trotsky joins in with the cry: "The Soviet Union
is under the despotism of the murderer. Stain"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

port of Ramzin and Co. At this very interest
ing meeting held in the palatial Hotel Pennsyl-
yania, November "a, Mr.. Algernon Lee presided,
the Rev. Norman Thomas sent a letter of en-
dorsement, Mr.. O'Neal participated and Mr.
Morris Hllqlit was the main speaker. Partici-
pating were Mr.. Ingerman, representing the Rus
sian Menshevik, and representatives of various
socialist. fascist and reacHonary groups of Rus
sian emigres.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
The Role of the Mass Political Strike

We must explain the role of the mass political
strike in the preparation of the revolution, and
show the workers how, already in the past, in
our own experiences we have the beginnings of
such struggles, as in the Seattle General Strike
OF 1919, which placed the strike committee in
charge of the city for several days, and the SINH
lar experience of the same year in Winnipeg,
Canada.
We must make all the problems of the develop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

understanding that with the approach Of the
revolutionary crisis that will be precpitated by
the interyentionist war, he must be working,
fighting unit in the army of the proletariat,
which will deliver blow after blow to the rotten
structure OF capitalism and over its ruins will
raise up, in the countries now ruled by capt.
talism at the cost of the starvation Of millions
those next Soviet Republics which will unite in
fraternal solidarity with the existing Union Of
Socialist Soviet Republics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

Then the farmers, worse off than ever, were
told that the Farm Board was failure and must
discontinue its operations. But we know the
real object of the Farm Board which was ex-
posed in "Prayda" Of April 9th. The Farm
Board really had the object, approved by Presi-
dent Hoover, to establish a military reserve of
wheat, for the intervention against the Soviet
Union and it achieved its object very success
fully The Farm Board was headed by Mr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
The Socialist Leaders Knew of Intervention Plans

There is not the slightest doubt that the lead
ers of the socialist party in America knew of the
sabotage work and Intervention plans including
the date set by the French General Staff They
carried on an agitation even stronger than that
of Kautsky. And when last November, the lead
ers OF the Industrial Party we're placed on trial
before the proletarian court in Moscow, the So
cialist party leaders held meeting of protest
in New York. They openly declared their sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Socialists Financed Anti-Soviet Sabotage

of money away from New York. Perhaps some
of it came from the same source as that testified
to by Sitnin, in the Industrial Party" trial. who
arranged while in America for commissions" on
Soviet cotton purchases amounting to 100000
per year, to finance the Industrial Party. At any
rate, we know that the Jewish Socialist Verband
raised $4,000 for him, because they boosted of
it in their report to the socialist party congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

The American Federation of Labor boasts that
it is the most consistent and stubborn enemy of
the Soviet Union. 1t rebukes some capitalist
circles for their treason to capitalism in doing
business with the Soviet Union. 1t repeats in its
press every lie and SANDER printed anywhere in
the world. 1t speaks from the same platform
with the patriotic societies, American Legion, and
other cnauvinist and fascist organizations. 1t
endorsed the Popes attack, the Fish Committee,
the Whalen forgeries, the anti-dumpng cam
paign, the "forced labor" SANDER, and every
preparation for war.
william Green, president of the A. F. of L..
declared:
"The A. f. OF L. is in harmony with the
policy recently reaffirmed by the State De-
partment- :. Russia was charged with Dump
ing pulpwood in our markets produced by poll
tical prisoners forced to labor in lumber
camps"
Matthew Vol, vice president and anti-Soviet
expert, speaking before the American Coalition
Of Patriotic Societies, said of the Soviet Union:
''There IL In that regime something which
makes it impossible for our nation to hold with
it the relations common to friendly govern
ments. She Is seeking to destroy our institu-
tons, break down our industries. :. . She is
constantly sending revolutionary experts into
our country Illegally in the guise of trade ex-
perts, students !. each one a courier each
a professional asitator in the cause of Commu-
nism and worldwide revolution. 1t must be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
The 'Left Wing" To The Rescue

special role is therefore found for cleft
wing" in the socialist party and the A. F. of L.
This role is played by the Music group, or Con-
ference for Progressive Labor Action, as it calls
itself 1t protests mildly against "the present
increase in the vigor of the anti Russian attitude
of some socialists" New Leader, jan 80 and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

ment of the struggle against war, for the trans
formation of the imperialist war into civil war
seem intimate parts of every workers own ex-
perience, as natural next steps in his own de-
velopment and the development of the American
working class. We must gather the workers into
the broadest committees and groups, for discus
sions of achievements of the Soviet Union, the
building OF socialist industry, the collectiyizaton
OF agriculture the socialist organization of every
phase of workers life
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

France stands at the head Of the Intervention
ist forces But behind her looms the sinister
power of the most powerful capitalism America,
which is moving surely, step by step, in the same
direction. And it would be a great mistake to
suppose that France is leading America in this,
the supreme question of world politics. The
U. S. A. has its own entirely independent line,
designed to subordinate the anti-Soviet front to
its own hegemony, and to make the attack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28
Wall Street Has It's Own Line

against the Soviet Union also serve to promote
its special struggle against its impersst rivals.
The ripeness of the capitalist world for war
was recently expressed by spokesman of Amer
lean capitalism, Senator David A. Reed in the
following words:
81 believe that if it were not for the appre.
hension of Bolshevism. the countries Of Europe
would be at each others Threats this very
minute"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

war against the Soviet Union, to destroy this
menace to its existence and then more fiercely
to proceed to the armed redistribution Of the
world which it so desperately demands, and to
carve up the rich territories of the Soviet Union
as the solution OF It's crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-28

eminent Of a small minority which has taken
advantage of special conditions to gain and
hold power. 1t enjoys power through force
and terrorism. Its reign of blood is almost as
abhorrent as war among nations"
There spoke the bold interventionist, true dis
ciple of Karl Kautsky, and equally true repre-
sentative of his own class, that of the American
millionaires to which Mr. Hillqut belongs in his
own right.