The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11
War Tension GroeVs


are coming into sharper and sharper collisions
in their fight for world markets, and that
hey are, accordingly, preparing for the next
imperialist world war, which looms closer.
Secretary of the Navy Swanson has al
ready asked for more sailors to man the new
battleships now being constructed with funds
taken from the Public Works Program (of-
ficially intended for housing, roads, schoolsD.
And this cry for an increased navy has
been taken up by Congressman Vinson of the
House Naval Committee. He wants Congress
to give him 5000 more sailors in the next
few months. And there is no doubt but that
he will get them.
A. the same time news comes from the Lea
n que of Nations and the Montevideo Con-
ference which clearly reflects the growing in
ter-imperialist antagonisms which are driv-
ing toward war.
Roosevelt's Secretary of State Hull down
at Montevideo strikes at Britain and France
by making it clear that American imperial
ism is determined to maintain its domination
over the Conference snd the Latin American
countries there. Hull asserts that the Con-
ference will mot become q Pan-Anerican ex-
tension of the League and by that re refers
to Britain and France
And France Immediately replied that it
will not under any circumstances permit any
alteration in the character of the present
League of Nations or the Versailles Treaty.
And this refers to the growing antagonism
between France and Italy around the Yer
sailles Treaty
The advancing war tension in the League
OF Nations, which now openly acts as the in
strument Of the British and French imperial
lists, is admitted even by Arthur Henderson,
leader of the Disarmament Conference at
Geneva, who said three days ago:
Our recent experiences at Geneva and
my conversations with the delegations
from many countries have convinced me
that the international situation is at this
moment more grave than it has been for
several years.
And behind al these diplomatic tensions
and conflicts and antagonisms the war prep
arations are going on day and night. Roose-
welt has already spent over one billion dollars
for war building, q peace-tinne record.
THIS places upon the Communist Party and
all mass organizations the responsibility
Of Immediately strengthening our anti-war
work
Let it not be forgotten for one moment
that the Soviet Union alone firmly and IN
equiyocally stands for peace. The recent
recognition by the United States, though
signal victory of the peace policy of the
U.S.S.R. and its Socialist triumphs in con-
struction, does not remove the fundamental
antagonism between the growing power of
the Socialist world and the declining CAPT
talist world.
The advance Of the world capitalist
crisis inexorably aggravates this basic an
tagonism and strengthens the drive toward
imperialist Intervention against the u. S.
S.R
The U. S. Committee Against War and
Fascism must renew the vigorous efforts
that marked its beginnings at the historic
Anti-War Congress recently held at New
York City.
THE Resolution on the Struggle Against
Imperialist War; passed at the 9th World
Congress of the Communist international
must become the property of the whole Party.
It must be studied and its contents mastered.
and put into action.
All important questions of foreign policy,
OF ornaments, of the introduction of new
weapons of war must be brought before the
masses of the workers and utilized for the
organization of revolutionary mass action
This is basic directive of the resolution.
In the light Of this, every war move of
Roosevelt, every appropriation for war prep
arations, all the political antagonisms and
diplomatic war intrigues of the irnperialist
powers, particularly the Roosevelt govern
ment, must be explained to the workers by
the Party Must Immediately become the
basis for the increasing of our organized
struggle against the imperialist war prepara-