The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-13
BY LUIS ORTIZ.

and Paraguay, about the Chaco Bo-
real that had been almost forgotten
for more than so years before 1929
and that in that year 1929 almost
Brought these countries into a war,
has again brought a violent eruption.
Cannons and machine guns of both
countries are sowing death among
hundreds and thousands Of workers
and peasants who, blinded by the
provoking and misleading cry of the
agents of imperialism and the ma
tional bourgeoisie: can Outlet to the
Sea-; IAN Outlet to the Rio Para
quay; Bolivia Violates the Terri
i torial Sovereignty of Paraguay, etc,
throw themselves into a criminal war
for the exclusive gain of the imper-
. ialists and their national lackeys.
The agents provocateurs in the pay
of the Standard Oil Co., the Royal
Dutch Shell, together with the agents
of the gamonales Cbig Bolivian land
owners, Of the Paraguayan landown-
ers and the other agents of the ma
tional bourgeoisie, actively carry on
misunderstanding campaign which
tends to hide the inter imperialist
character of the war, which will
bring to the workers and peasants
of both countries nothing but death
and misery unless the imperialist war
conspiracy is exposed and defeated.
The Fight for Oil,
The Chaco Boreal territorial dis
pute came to the forefront again as
soon as the agents of the oil COM
panies made the discovery that this
territory has oil deposits. 1t then
became a coveted jewel to the i'm
perialists and their national lackeys,
who under all kinds Of preteXts now
incite both countries to wage bloody
war
The socialists and reformists of
4 both countries add their voices to
4 the general chorus of war meters.
although in a different key. True
to the treachercuS role of the Second
International and the Amsterdam
Pefcrmists they come to the help of
their respective bourgeoisie and i'm
perialist masters claiming that the
Bolivia Paraguay war will end the
crisis and unemployment; that an
outlet to the sea will develop new
Industrial and commercial life for
Bolivia, create more jobs, etc.
But these worthy disciples of Nc
Donald, Vandervelde, Bauer, etc,
forget" to remember that there is
unemployment and misery in Chile,
Peru, ETC., although those countries
have ports. have outlets to the sea. f"
War AS the Way Out of the Crisis.
When speaking about the Bolivia
Paraguay war we can not forget the
historical moment in which this war
is taking place. We can not separate
this event from the general interna-
tional situation, from the sharp strug-
gle now going on in the whole world,
n rem the deep antagonismS between
I the inperialist countries and their
7 struggle for redivision of the colonial
, and semi colonial world The Bolivia
Paraguay war gives us clear eX-
ample of the sharpness of the i'm
perialist conflict and a sample of
the program of the imperialists and
their national lackeys, and their way
out of the crisis
Dangerous Tendencies.
The Bolivia-Paraguay conflict has
been taken rather lightly by very
many Of our comrades, as some event
isolated from the general interna-
tiCnal situation, as some little war
between two small South American
countries, forgetting entirely that the
smallest conflicts in this acute situ-
alton of International crisis, of sharp
irnpcrialist rivalries may be the be-
ginning CT a worldwide conflict.
Whoever takes such view takes the
same v'aw pc'nt OF the socialists at
The cutbreok OF the world war. This
is to forget history. forget marxism
end take the point OF view of the
LIBERAL and pscidsts. actually in prsc-
tice to give aid to the imperialist.
II this struggle the imoerialists
mc5ilize the governments under their
&cntrol rs well as the oppositional
olit.csl groups,
u War Conspiracy in Chile.
. soma time ago the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Bolivia made a
sudden trip to Chile, where he held
a number Of secret conferences with
the Chilean government. What was
discussed in these conferences was
net disclosed but if we consider that
Chile produces nitrate Ca war pro-
tuct) in great quantities and that
the only inlet to Bolivia from the
sea is through Chilean ports we can
readily see what was taken up in
these conferences. That Chile takes
sides with Bolivia in the present war
Is essential or at least the Bolivian
government must get a promise CT
neutrality from Chile, that will
A~mit them the transport of war
-terials through Chile.
rgentina plays very important