The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-17
EUROPE GETTING
READY FOR NEXT
BIG BLOOD BATH
Nations boarding Up
Death Weapons
Especial to the Daily Worker.)


ing up ornaments in preparation for
the next bath of blood, is the conclu-
sion drawn by e. D. Morel, M. P. and
Chairman of the Union Of Democratic
Control after long investigation.
OF course Mr.. Morel blames France
now as the pacifists blamed Germany
before the world war. Their is always
some monster standing out from all the
rest, that must be destroyed. Yester-
day it was Germany, today it is
France. 1t never occurs to the befud-
died pacifists that the capitalist system
is responsible and that France is no
more responsible for the naturalization
Of Europe than any other capitalist
country.
Mr.. Morel is a friend of Ramsay
Macdonald and no doubt does not men,
ton in his report the facts concerning
the part played by MacDonald's govern
ment in bombing Asiatic villages for
refusal to pay taxes. His story is illu-
minating and interesting particularly
in view of the fiction sedulously cult
waited during the late war, that there
would be no more war provided we
went and killed enough Germans.
Eat present" said Mr.. Morel, there
is a more extensive output of war
materials than at any time since the
peace. The chief centers Of production
are the Skoda works in Czecho-Slova-
CHA and the Austrian state factories.
French money and influence are direct
ing both. The Skoda works own their
own coal mines and are manufacturing
and exporting huge quantities of war
materials.
1.-THE powerful Characterization
French firm owns rs per cent? of the
Skoda shares, and is making enormous
profits. This spring French invest
ments in this concern were worth
about e2,000,000. The managing di-
rector and the chief technical experts
are French, and there are influential
Frenchmen on the board"
"war material is now being pro-
duced in enormous quantities by the
Austrian state factories at the Vienna
arsenal, wollersdorf, Steyr, Herten-
berg, Enzenfeld and Blumau; also at
the Austrian Daimler factories at We
liner Neustadt. Privately owned arm
ament firms in Austria also are work
ing hard.
GIN the last fifteen months Jugo-
Slavia has been supplied by these fac
tories with 100000 Mauser rifles and
100 900, 900 rounds of rifle ammunition,
and, as these documents prove, with
1873 additional freight car loads of in
fantry ammunition. Thirty-six of these
were despatched last April and deli
vered at Lyublyana, and with them
went two freight cars full of machine
guns, twelve cars loaded with motor
lorries, twenty-four cars with field
kitchens, large numbers of field guns,
Frommer revolvers and acetylene re-
Electors, with other war materials.
"Roumania has placed large orders
for shells, Mauser rifles, ammunition,
searchlights and mine-throwers, which
orders are now in process of execution.
Eleven carloads of shells already have
been delivered to Roumania.
POLAND is also in the market on a
large scale, and these factories 1 have
mentioned already have delivered to
the Poles s5,OOO,OOO pieces Of ammuni-
ton (calibre 7.9 NM and "a carlods
of infantry ammunition, IA Of which
were despatched in February"
Mr.. Morel then turned to the meth
DDS by which Austria, a bankrupt
country financed by international loans
and controlled by the League of Ma
lions, has found it possible to carry
out such a huge enterprise as her
trade in ornaments.
"The means have been found for
her." he said, "by French capital,
directly or indirectly. And all these
purchases are being effected with the
proceeds Of French loans. Up to the
end of last year Jugo-Slavia had spent
1,74O, 100000 French francs in pur-
chasing field guns, rifles and other
war material, and 300,000,000 francs
more on airplanes, motor lorries and
so forth.
More Purchases Planned.
Negotiations are in progress for
further purchases. Roumania last year
bought field and heavy guns worth
100000 francs, and airplanes and
other material to the value of 100000
900 francs.
"Now, Austria is not an independent
nation in regard to armaments. Under
the treaty she cannot manufacture or
export a single gun, rifle or cartridge.
Her armament industry is under the
strict control OF an Allied Military
Mission, which calls itself the organ OF
liquidation. and is itself controlled by
the famous Council OF Ambassadors.
THE orders to the Austrial state
factories could not even have been
placed, let alone executed, without the
knowledge of the Conference Of AM
bassadors."
Sues Small For Salary
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 16.-Thom-
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