The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-20

Der or times are undoubtedly today sharper
than ever before. But precisely this very ma
turing of the conflicts between the two tradi-
tional rivals over the Pacific area the rapid ina
turing of the main imperialist antagonism be-
tween Great Britain ana the United States,
raises before all of them the destruction of the
Soviet Union which is the main obstacle to i'm
per.ast capitalist solution of the crisis and their
antagonisrns. eve refer the comrades again to
Stains statement at the 10th Party Congress)
What does this over-emphasis of the contra
dictions between the .imperalsts lead to? To
"1y the least, to a mere academic abstract &C
ceptance OF the main contradictions in the
world today to rob of concrete and practical
meaning the analysis of the G. I. that "thiS
growing conflict between the two systems (an-
tagonisms between the system which is build
ing up socialism and the system Of decaying
capitalism which is the kernel of contemporary
international relations affects the further de-
velopment of the contradictions within the im-
perialist world which have become particularly
intensified as a result Of the crisis"
Failure to see what today is the "kernei of
contemporary international relations" effectively
amounts 10 the Trotskyist -lysis that Europe
versus America is the central problem of capt.
talist world politics" CMy emphasis. d.
s. The Journalistic" mistakes reflected them.
selves very seriously in the political orgariza-
tional activities. A. characteristic example of 1t
is the following fact. The lew York Young
Communist League a couple Of weeks ago took
the initiative in arranging a united front anti
war youth conference. In order to make the
conference really broad the leader Of the
New York Y. C. L. and others proposed that the
question Of the defense Of the Soviet Union
should not be taken up at the conference. This
Is certainly the crassest and most dangerous ex-
preston OF the wrong tendencies in connection
with the estimate OF the present war in China.
The comrade could only see the acuteness of the
danger of war between the imperialsts but the
danger of war against the Soviet Union the
war on Soviet China, is not quite acute enough,
so that the question could be dropped" to make
room for broad united front. :. Instead of
seeing that the slogan OF defense of the Soviet
Union is one that can rally the broadcast masses,
he conceived of 1t as one that would narrow
the united front.
The National Committee of the Y C. L. i'm
rnediately corrected the mistake OF the New
York comrades
4. The outline of the National Agit-Prop De-
partment Of the Y. C. l.. contained the error
OF not clearly bringing out the conflicts between
the imperialist powers themselves and somewhat
mechanically separated the danger Of war be-
tween the imperialist powers -om the danger of
a united attack against the So-' Union Some
comrade in correcting earlier e. or Of over
emphasizing the contradictions betwe en- the i'm
perialist powers Corrected it by COM 9tely for
getting the conflicts between the nperialist
powers. For instance, the Freiheit carried a
leading headline Hoover sends N rines to
Shanghai to Help Japan
S. To speak merely in general phrases and
formulas that the main danger of war is that
OF united attack against the Soviet world is
by far not sufficient TIE growing antagonisms
between the two worlds which is the kernel of
the present international relationships must be
concretized to the masses on the basis of con-
trasting to the rnnutest detail the conditions of
the workers in the capitalist countries with the
conditions in the Soviet Union.
The smallest struggle OF the workers against
the miserable conditions here must be linked up
with the struggle against the war program of
American capitalism. Only in this manner will
the toiling masses see and understand that the
danger of war against the Soviet Union, war
on the Chinese Soyiets is really the greatest
danger confronting them today. Only then will
the slogan, Defend the Soviet Union" Hands
Off the Chinese Revolution" ITO Turn the I'M
perialist War into Civil War" assume living
meaning and become part of their daily strug-
giles.
AS yet our agitation and propaganda does not
fulfill this task.
While the Daily Worker was given facts to
prove the line of the Central Committee line.
Every printed line and word must breathe and
speak in concrete living terms which will con-
vince the masses of the seriousness of the war
situation.
The Western Worker in its February Is issue
presents its war story generally in a correct
way. But is too general Why American i'm
perialism Is mainly concerned at the present
time with war against the Soviet Union, to
crush the Chinese Soviets is not even limited at
We cannot take too much for granted in our
agitation. We must be anxious to convince the
masses And a mere reference to the Soviet
Union as 1.-The Workers ,Fatherlnad" will not
solve the problem.
Lenin said that the struggle against war must
be conducted daily, hourly. And V particular
ly suffer in our struggle against war from the
lack OF continuity and sustained activities Our
press met also give the lead in this respect
Here we might mention the following fact: The
February Is issue OF the Southern Worker, with
the exception of an editorial, does not carry
single news item or story on the war
More clarity In the ranks Of the Party on the
nature Of the war -'.uaton. Sharper strr~yle
against opportunistic. manifestations Contin-
uous organizational and agitatonal activity
placed in the very center Of all our Party &C.