The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-24
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to assert their claims"
These hopes are vain. The millions
of workers and peasants in the Soviet
Union are ready to die in defense Of
their own Workers Government. AS
for intervention, anybody who has
taken a look at the Red Army knows
that it will be no easy matter to cross
the borders of the Soviet Union. And
if the capitalists place guns In the
hands of the European and Ameri-
can workers, they will have a revoIu-
ton on their hands.
But such reports are indicative Of
the way the wind is blowing. The
threat of capitalist intervention
against the Soviet Union is growing
greater every day.
A FASCINATING and instructive
n essay is that of T. H. Wintring-
ham in the August, 1889, issue Of the
British Labour Monthly, called mo-
dern Weapons and Warfare" Here
are some Of Wintringham's conclu-
Sions:
Military technique has developed at
a more rapid rate during the last
four years than during the first four
years Of the World War.
This development does not auto
matically strengthen Imperialism.
The development of modern mill
tary technique makes the military
forces of the capitalist class more
and more dependent upon uninter-
rupted industry at home.
For example, the air forces Of an
imperialist army are a highly refined
mechanism whose effectiveness can
completely be destroyed by any reyo-
lutionary or enization among the
machinistS or mechanics.
An airplane squadron with its
workshops and equipment is a very
complex economic group, needing
wireless parts, delicate instruments,
chemicals, light metal alloys and q
dozen other things. II a supply Of any
of these is held up, the squadron is
helpless.
These conclusions are only a few
examples of the way in which Win
tringham applies a MARKHAM analysis
to the problem Of modern military
technique. He shows how the prob
lem of the overthrow Of the capitalist
class is. far from being the hopeless
one SO diligently pictured by the
"revolutionaries" of Social-Dernoc-
raey.
THE New York Times carries a Sc
ries Of pictures supposed to show
how the prisoners of the Nazis are
being treated. We do not see any of
the tortureS or brutalities. We see
only few kind Brown Shirts smiling
in a genial way at their prisoners.
We see pictures Of food being brought
to the prisoners, etc.
The New York Times is obviously
engaged in a campaign to minimize
the extent of the Nazi terror which is
still going on at full blast against the
working class. The pictures in the
Times are a deliberate distortion Of
the facts. The article by Egon Erwin
Kisch on this page, gives a true pic
ture of the fascist sayagery now go
ing on in Germany.
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HERE is a sentence OF Trotsky's from
IL a recent issue of the Trotsky sheet
in New York.
Says Trotsky: STAINS faction has
raised itself on the wave Of reaction
against the October Revolution"
Read this sentence. Read it again.
What does it say if not that the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union is
counter-revolutionaryP And if the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
is nter-revolutionary then the
whole Soviet Government Is counter
revolutionary! And if the Soviet
Union is counter revolutionary, then
the workers and peasants who Just
completed the Five Year Plan are
counter-revolutionary! These are the
Implicit conclusions of Trotsky's
The only alternative conclusion Is
that the workers and peasants Of the
Soviet Union are being forcibly kept
in subsection to the Soviet Govern
nent. ...' :a-
In either case, Trotsky's statement
says exactly what all intervention
say.
Trotsky's statement is an indirect
call to the workers of the world to
overthrow the present Soviet Govern
as being reactionary. The natural
Of Trotsky's statement Is
that intervention is revolutionary
necessity
Trotsky is exactly what. Stain says
he is, the leader of the advance
guard Of counter-revolution."
BOURGEOIS economists have long
v sought TO define the difference
between proper investments and
speculation. The Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation may be able to
help them in this respect. The R.F.C.
lent so million dollars TO the Mis-
souri-Pacific Railroad and it's sub
salaries when 1t was obvious all the
The RF.C. loaned the road three
time that this road was bankrupt.
million dollars a few weeks ago, az
ter the road had declared that IL was
unable to meet interest payments on
previous loans. The financial experts
Of the R.F.C. have refused loans to
thousands Of small home Owners be-
cause it would be "unsound."
Obviously, to lend so million dol
lars to Morgan railroad knowing
full well that the money never will
be repaid is proper" investment, and
Lending the people some Of their own
money so that they can avoid losing
heir life savings is 'unsound" specu-
alton