The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-02
BY BURCK

tionary upsurge of the masses and their militant
organizations Prosecutions, deportations and
murder OF militant workers are being carried on
In an atmosphere OF patriotic propaganda and
especially In anti-Soviet propaganda throughout
Latin America. 1t is important to remember
that none OF the countries controlled by the
United States have recognized the Soviet Union,
nor are they engaged in commercial relations
with it.
The struggle between British and American
imperialism for the control of Chile is of ire
mendouS significance for each of them, not
only from the economic and financial point of
view, but also, and especially at the present
time, from a military and strategic viewpoint
The Panama Canal would, in time of war, espe-
cially war against Great Britain, be closed to
the United States In that case the Strait of
Magellan and the longer Cape Horn route would
be of tremendous strategic Importance for the
ocean routes between the Atlantic and Pacific
Besides, Chile has rich deposits of two i'm
portant war materials, nitrate and coal in
addition to copper, iron and food products The
United States is extending its control and hege-
mony of Latin America in its war preparations
against its rivals and especially against the
U. S. S. R. all along the Pacific Coast of the
fleet and the military schools by United States
is, therefore, Of decisive Importance Chile has
the biggest naval force in South America This
Is why Wall Street is striving to bring Chile
under its military wing. American naval and
air instructors have been secured for the mill
tary institutions in Chile. The United States
is utilizing its control over the Pan-American
Union for this purpose. Referring to the i'm
portance OF Chile as a military strategic point,
an inperialist writer recently said "Chie's
neutrality her aid will also be of much greater
significance than they were during the Euro
-pean war. And this is matter Of some i'm
portance to Pan-Americanism"
1t is an indisputable fact that the present war
situation and the great danger of an immediate
military invasion of the country of the dicta-
torsh1p OF the proletariat is drawing Latin Amer
lea nearer and nearer to war under the hege-
mony Of Yankee imperialism The native bour-
geoisie and landlords, the exploters and op-
pressors of the toiling masses, are only serving
the interests Of their political masters-British
and Amercan-in the preparation for this war
The whole of Latin America will be turned into
huge field Of war activities The raw ma
terials, food products ports, canal routes the
workers and peasants flesh and blood, all will
be modified in the capitalist crusade in their
the world This is the greater danger that con-
fronts the Latin American masses and it is
against this danger that we must fight most
determinedly. We are against the Japanese
bandit imperialst war on the Chinese people.
Japanese Imperialism is the daily enemy of the
workers and peasants of China and therefore
also of the Latin American masses This is why
we must wage a relentless struggle against it
and prevent the shipping of war materials to
imperialist Japan against our Chinese brothers
At the same time we must wage relentless
struggle against American Imperialism and its
native supporters. We must not allow the Wall
Street bandits to wage war against our father
land, the Soviet Union. We must defend the
Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union. 1t is
the task of the revolutionary organizations of
the working class to organize for struggle against
the imperalist war, for the defeat of imperial
ism and the rule of their native regimes in
Latin America. for the victory Of tsas ssraxian
asuta-fuapsraslist rspulutaon.