The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-13
Cruiser Building Continues With Aid of
Labor Takers

WHEN lust before August First President Hoover and
w Premier Ramsey Macdonald announced that they
would discontinue their cruiser programs we said that these
procamations only gestures part OF the international
pacifist offensive against the revolutionary preparations
being made for strikes and demonstrations against imperial
ist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union
1t was certainly absurd to suppose that at time when
the imperaist bandits of the world through their puppe
Kuominang government in China under Chang Kal-shek
were openly melting against the Soviet Union the two
biggest mperaist powers would abandon preparations
That we were correct in estimate is proved by
circular letter sent by the Metal Trades Department OF
the American Federation of Labor describing an interview
of James OConne head of the department and John
Frey secretary of the Moder Union with Hoover
on the subject of the posponement of cruiser building The
circular says in part
1T was President belief" the circular that
future would be possible to know whether
agreement reached with Great Britain relative to
naval construction If an agreement was reached the un,ea
gram before actual parity of navies was estab-
shed If it proved impossible then
the probabilities were that this knowledge
time the laying down of the keels in the
three yards originally planned
In plain words Hoover the labor Geutenans of
American Imperialism that there will be delay in cruiser
building
All of which proves that Hoover president, still re-
tains his lying powers assiduousy cultivated during the
eight years he secretary of using his depart
ent statistical information for systematic Justification
facts in order to bolster the illusion OF republican pros
perity.'
Just as his glorcation of naturalization his talk about
the necessity workers increasing production that they
could get more wages resulted swelling the ranks of the
unemployed frightening hours and beating down
his talk today about limitation of ornaments and the bless
ngs of peace brought about by the Hooveran in
America will result in intense competition and
periaist the ruling class for which he speaks has
its way.
Furthermore just naturalization of industry the
fierce drive against labor the United States is
of consolidating or, familiar military term se
curing the (meanng the industries of the country
in preparation the day when imperialism will try to solve
contradictions its difficulties by so the
alternating pacfist and ngoistc talk of today is another
phase of the preparations.
And the entire bureaucracy of the American Federation
involved in this mperiaist conspiracy
official part of the governmental machine.
effective fight against the danger involves at
the time uncompromsing relentless struggle to win
of labor away from the poisonous influence of the
Green's VOLS the OConnes and the Freys, who
lively engaged aiding the preparations for the inevitable
imperast Today these enemies of labor follow policy
delivering the workers bound and gagged the employers
through their class collaboration policies Tomorrow they
will help the government impose industrial CONSUMPTION upon
the workers. place them raons and declare strikes to be
treason punishable by death before firing squad This is
precisely where the policies of the reactonary officials of
the Federation of Labor are leading
The machinery for winning the away from this
reaconay leadership will be tremendously strengthened at
the Cleveland Conference for Trade Union Unity the last of
this month when center will be set up to coordinate the
actively of the militant unions the factory committees and
left wing elements of the reactonary unions into pow
erfu fighting force.