The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-04
~. S. Arms For War
Hoover Speech Shows

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a construction expenditure of up
ward $1,2O0,OO0,0OO."
Not only has the standing military
forces been groomed to a war-foot-
ing, but Hoover points out that the
national guard has been rendered
more effective than ever" War
aviation is being advanced, both
in outright military form and under
the guise of government supervision
of civil flying.
Speaking of the growing economic
crisis, Hoover's message attempts to
cover up the mass drives, now I'M
der way and planned on a larger
scale, against the standard of liv-
ing of the working class by repeat
ing the WORKOUT slogans of "con-
tinued prosperity"
He admits slump in such indus
tries as coal, lumber, leather and tex
tiles. But the fact that steel pro-
duction in the country has dropped
to so percent and below; the fact
that car-loadings have gone so low
that every capitalist organ admits
crisis at least as severe as the
1920 slump when 100000 unem-
ployed workers tramped the streets;
the existence of a severe agrarian
crisis; the 40 percent of unemploy-
ment in the building trades; the
hundreds of thousands of auto work
ers thrown on the streets these
glaring facts were tactfully omitted
by the the imperialist executive in
his message to congress.
He told the capitalist parliament
airy body about his organization of
his fascist economic council. Hoover
intends to depend more on his open
fascist grouping of capitalists, rich
farmers and labor takers in dealing
with the nationwide wage-cuts and
increased speed-ups, than upon con-
gress.
Hoover particularly urges further
imperialist aggression in Latin Amer
lea, and a sharper struggle for the
control of the world markets.
He presses the question of build
ing of a merchant marine to COM
pete for the world shipping trade.
The Kellogg pact is becoming the
instrument of American imperialist
hegemony as against the League of
Nations controlled by British i'm
perialism.
The message says Washington is
helping to maintain the docile, re-
dictionary government of Rubio
Ortiz in Mexico
Hoover points with pleasure to
Wall Streets domination in Chile,
Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicara-
qua and Haiti. 1T is my desire"
says the capitalist president, ito es-
tablish more firmly our understand
ing and relationships with Latin
American countries. :"
Further suppression of the Hal
tian masses is requested by the
presidents message. He asks for
the appointment OF a commission to
shackle Haiti more firmly to Wall
! Street.
The one instance in which the
Soviet Union is mentioned in the
message is when Hoover says: ''The
only Indebtedness of foreign gov
ernments to the United States now
unsettled is that of Russia and Ar
menia." The question of recogni-
ton is hushed up amid the war
preparations against the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics.
Hoover asks for control of the
tariff in the interest of the big
bankers and industrialists. He
recommends tax reduction for the
leading imperialists, which together
with the proposed smashing wage
cuts planned against the workers, is
intended to aid the capitalists in the
present depression.
classification of the railroads is
one of the measure that Hoover