The daily worker., 1934-08-16
BY MEMO
Continued
XII. The Path.

Continued
XII The Path.
A new world war is threatened The mperialists
needed the as excellent business, and they
need it today also for the same reason. Territory
and colonies, markets and sources of raw material
exploitation and oppression of foreign peoples war
and mass murder-what toier requires these things2
For whose sake is he again to sacrifice his bIood9
What interest has the worker, the peasant, the
ployee the small official and small trader, the
soldier and sailor, in this business of exploitation
when they themselves exploited in their own
country? What toiler believe, after the ex-
periences of the last two decades, that better lot
awaits him through mperialist and imperialist
peace? Who is there who still does not see that
war is only excellent business for the possessing
class, while the oiling people have to pay the ac-
count? Listen how the capitalist hyenas al
ready again scenting their prey, read with open
eyes what the Deutsche Bergwerkszeitung wrote
the outbreak of the war events in the Far East
February 4, 19S2)
"The stock exchanges of the world encounter
the events in the Far East not only with astonish-
ing calm, but in some cases with kind of
joyful hope which seems only to grow with the in
crease of the complications over Shanghai
When men were falling by tens Of thousands
at Shanghai the capitalist shares and profits went
up. with each new extension of the conflict we
see new shares and raw material groups come into
movement" wrote the above paper with the greatest
satisfaction. And the Oslo Morgenbladet recorded
"Will 1t come to war in the East? 1t may per-
haps sound brutal but for reasons Of economic i'm
provement, war would be very desirable. The
world is today not different from what 1t was be-
fore A war will enlarge the need for shipping ton
mage, will increase the risks of commodity trans
port and also raise prices, and with them specula-
ton would increase. (. But if it does not come to
war, then the world will have to wait for long
time yet for natural Improvement for this is still
far off,
Once against the capitalists are hoping to be
able to make money out of blood. A new war pros
perity is blosSoming. The armament industries an
nounce doubling of turnover, trebled profits, in
creased share capital and mounting dividends Not
for nothing did four American armament firms put
$250o00 in the pocket of Admiral Shearer when he
embarked on the vessel which was taking the Amer
lean delegation to the Geneva Naval Disarmament
negotiations Profting from the bitter position
OF want of the unemployed the capitalists wish to
force the latter to carry out their armament orders
and they find the most energetic assistance among
the reformist trade union leaders. But, whoever
eats of the fruit of imperialism, dies from it! With
really touching solictude the armament Industrial
lists are concerning themselves with creating work
in order, tomorrow, through the work created by
them to poison destroy and send to their death
millions of people.
chauvnism is flourshing for no war business
hourishes without patriotism. For the people
"treachery to the fatherand" is designated as the
most damnable crime, but for the rulers and own
ers permanent treachery to the fatherland is ex-
cellent business Up to 1911, Krupp had cast $4,000
cannon, OF which half exported to 90 different
"fstherlands." British warship was blown into
the air in the Dardanelles by British mine which
had been sold to Turkey British sailors were
drowned in order that English capitalists could live
Even during the World War, the industrialists of
all countries delivered war materials to the powers
opposing them at the time through neutral coun-
tries, well aware that these materials would the
next day be put into operation against their own
heroes at the front" The shamelessness of the
internationally linked armament industry was never
so blatant as today. The whole bourgeois press is
at their service in order to make the toiiing masses
OF the people smenable to pay in for ever new
armament orders
Must and will it be again as in 1914q mol If
the toli1ng masses of all countries stand united to-
gether and have faith in their power and their in
evitabe victory, it will not be so again If the
tolers draw the correct lessons from the last 20
wears and march forward in united struggle against
tne lmperialist war, it will not be 50 again, If the