Re Lea Hoover ‘isolationism’ no answer to peace struggle, says Foster The Hoover-Kennedy ‘ peace sentiments of the Ame the Communist party here. Foster said the MHoover-Ken- nedy speeches and their so- called isolationism were caused: by the series of serious defeats suffered lately by American for- eign policy. Their “isolationalism,” he warn- ed, does not imply that U.S. im- perialism is abandoning its policy of aggression, expansion and of world conquest. “The reverse is true,” he emphasized. He called Hoover “as much an imperialist as Truman or Mac- Arthur.” The ex-president would not, as he wishes the “gullible to believe,” simply concentrate .upon a “so-called defense of the Wes- tern Hemisphere.” His policy for the U.S. would remain an aggressive expansion- ism into Europe and Asia, with the ultimate end of an all-out war against the Soviet Union and the People’s Democracies in Europe and Asia, Foster warned. Foster said the Kennedy-Hoover “isolationists” would ‘apply the hard lessong of their serious de- feats by getting out of Korea “for the time being”; they would condition their aid to Europe, and as Hoover indicated, place less reliance upon the atom bomb. An important feature of their proposals, he said, is-an attempt to blackmail Europe into grea- ter militarization by threaten- ing to cut off all economic and military assistance. ; Foster said the American peo- ple were: shocked by the “highly ! disillusioning military defeat and its heavy casualty lists.” “The American want their boys dying in remote parts of the world for causes in which they have no interest,” he declared. There must be a sharp line of distinction between this “mass isolationism, or more properly ‘isolationist’ rican people, William Z, Foste National chairman the delegates despite his illness and received vention by John Gates, member of the out-going an ovation. line is a demagogic effort to thwart the growing r told the 15th convention of of his party, His speech was read to the con- national committee. NEW YORK Foster appeared briefly before speaking, peace sentiment of the list ‘isolationism’ of Hoover and his like,” Foster declared. the current mood of the nation’s masses. , 5 The key to US. he declared, is to be found in the frustration and desperation of the big capitalists, induced by the “hopeless decline of world capi- talism and the irresistible rise of world socialism.” spokesmen know that their sys- tem is “desperately sick and that they do not know how to cure it.” They are thrown into deep alarm and panic by the great war re- cord and tremendous postwar achievements of the Socialist So- viet Union. This panic is aggravated by the establishment of the People’s De- mocracies in Central Europe, the -historic victory of “the Chinese People’s Republic, the chronic ‘Sickness of capitalism in many countries, and now, he said, the frightening exposure of capitalist weaknesses in Korea and through Asia. This panic and alarm, Foster warned, are impelling Wall Street capitalists “to the fatal gamble of another great war.” people do not| They strive to achieve through woxld war what they have hith- erto been unable to win through policies of economic penetration, | political intimidation, atom bomb diplomacy, and the culti- vation of civil war in China, Greece and Korea. This, he said, is the reason they declared “the state of na- tional emergency”: to impose fascism on and _ wmilitarize the United States, and also through their domination of the UN, to! masses,” and the “phony, imperia- He said the basis of the peace movement is greatly broadened by foreign policy The capitalist rush the capitalist countries of the world into an anti-Soviet war. Foster said such’ a war, if Wall | Street could launch it, would be | even more disastrous for capita- JURIST WAS 95 SEATTLE Judge James IT. Ronald, 95, one of America’s oldest jur- ists and the oniy known sur- viving principal of the famous IWW murder trial growing out of the 1916 SS. Verona mas- sacre in Everett, is dead in Seattle. .-Although columns were given to his obituary, none of the daily newspapers even men- tioned the most famous case in which he presided during 40 years on the King county su- perior court bench. That case ended in the ac- lism than the “cold war” which American imperialism has been deliberately waging “with such unfavorable results,” He said war is not inevitable. “The American people, peace- loving and democratic, have the power to halt ‘the Wall Street warmongers if they will but make their peace will felt.” cWexsare,’ he declared, “also firmly convinced of the possibility of the peaceful co-existence of capitalism and socialism in the world.” Foster analyzed the heightened dangers to democracy by the de- Claration of national emergency which was, he said, a big step toward fascism. ‘He | warned that the power now held by President Truman could permit him single- handed, to plunge the country in- to war. Foster emphasized, too, that the dominant position of Wall Street throughout the capitalist nations of the world deepens the crisis of capitalism. ; Foster paid tribute to the Am- erican Communist party. “The intense crises and strug- gles of the present period,” he declared, “signify the death ago- ny of ‘capitalism and the birth pangs of oncoming socialism.” “The peoples of the world are making a gigantic leap forward.” He said the Communists were ‘fighting on the side of history. “This is why we face the situ- ation calmly, clear-headedly, ‘and unafraid amidst all the capitalist storm of frenzy, despair and des- peration.” qguital of Dan Tracy, whom the state tried to send to the gal- missal of first degree murder charges against 7 other IWW members and victims of the Vigilante attack. Official TIWW accounts of the historic trial indicate that Surviving principal of Everett massacre dies lows, and the subsequent dis-. dudge Ronald refused to bow to whipped up anti-labor hys- teria. Defense witnesses gave ° the jurors the facts about the free speech fight which started during a strike of Everett shingleweavers and reached a tragic climax when armed vig- ilantes fired on the Verona as it approached the city dock ‘with sympathizers en route to a mass meeting. Judge Ronald, a Seattle res- ident for 68 years, was one of a number of leading ‘attorneys and jurists, who spoke out for the right of the convicted na- tional Communist leaders to bail pending the outcome of their appeal. A deeply religious man he was disturbed at the trend of world affairs and the prayers of his final days were for world peace and brother- hood. by Duncan DUNCAN, B.C. A $2 per day across the board increase and a guaranteed daily minimum rate of $17.50 for fal- lers and buckers is the demand of Local 1-80 International Wood- workers of America.