The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Imperialists
Grid for W ar,
Says Pravda
But PrOIetariat Will
Turn Fight Into
Civil War
Especial to the Daily worker

The entire press here is almost fully
devoted today to the Goth anniver-
sary Of the outbreak Of the last i'm
perialist war; to its cause, and to
the struggle against the prepare
tons for fresh imperialist slaugh-
ter. Together with numerous ar
ticles, the newspapers are publish
ing authentic documents exposing
the real schemes of the meters of
war. The columns of the news
papers are filled with figures, facts
and illustrations of the four-year
bloody slaughter and the results
thereof.
An article in Pravda. entitled
War Against Imperialist War"
says; Twenty years and a whole
epoch divides us from the August
days Of 1914. But never will toll
ing humanity forget the monstrous
slaughter organized by the i'm
perialist cliques-in the name of
glory-but in the interests of ex-
change, of kings, magnates, trust,
capital and feudal dynasties.
Imperialist Deceit
All the wounds inflicted by the
years of imperialist war have not
up until now been healed. And
what preposterous hypocriticaI reas-
ons have not been utilized by the
ruling classes for the purpose of
driving workers and peasants to the
battlefields!
German imperialism provoked
the war under the disguise of the
high aim in the struggle against
Russian barbarisrn';; the Tzarist
regime in the name of the de
tense Of the slavs'; French i'm
perialism in the name of the great
ideas of democracy; the gun manu-
facturers of Great Britain in the
name of progress and Justice
1.-THE whole of Europe is strewn
with the millions of graves of VIC
tins OF the imperialist policy of the
ruling classes. Endless rows of
crosses are rising in all parts of the
globe-Verdun, Champagne, the
Somme, the Marine, Vogueses, Cali
cha, the plains of Poland, the Au-
gustovo forests, the Carpathians,
the Trans-Jordan Sands and the
African jungles. Ten million men
are lying dead They were killed
because German imperialists wished
to rob their rivals. They were
killed because British imperialists
wished to retain their spoils and
rob others. They were killed be-
cause the interests Of small group
Of capitalists and landowners of
France, Tzarist Russia, Austro-
Hungary, Japan and the United
States demanded it.
Fear Revolution
"They were killed because the
bourgeoisie sought this war for
safety from the revolutionary prole-
tariat. They were killed because
the object was to drain the blood
Of the rising working class, main
tanning power in a small group OF
civilized exploiters of hundreds of
millions of toilers in the colonies.
They were being killed for over four
years in the name of last war.
This false capitalist legend was
zealously advocated by bourgeois
pacifists and ocial-democratic de-
ceivers."
Continuing, the Pravda states:
Aren't the exploiters of all coun-
tries of the capitalist world, which
is shaking under the powerful
shocks of the class struggle, now
dreaming of fresh slaughter?
U. S. S. r. Peace Policy
"But the great Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics is on guard. Boil
shevism gave to toiling humanity a
powerful weapon against war. The
peoples of the U. S. S. R. have
created an invincible bulwark for
peace. The great importance of the
struggle of the U. S. S. R. for peace
is recognized now as the most prom
inent by representatives of the most
diverse circles of the capitalist
world. This is testified to in state
ments made by Lloyd George and
others, published today in Pravda.
All pay tribute to the invariable
policy of peace of the Soviet gov
eminent, backed by the invincible
power to the country of Soviets. If
the U. S. S. R. had not existed, the
imperialists would already have
long ago thrown the entire world
into fresh bloody abyss.
"Scheming a fresh counter-revo-
lutionary war, the capitalist world
is preparing itself for catastrophe
defeat, because the entire world is
rent into two camps. All that is
best in humanity is already now
gathering in the camp of socialism,
for no fascist terror can save the
meters of war from a blow from
the rear, from disintegration of
their reserves, from their defeat at
the front and on their own rear"