The daily worker., 1930-07-22


ahead, under the innocent disg
sion, authorized by congress a
is going, it is said, "to
strengthen the nation by mob
ilizing sources of supply and to
eliminate profiteering."
Every worker has reason to
be alarmed about this tricky busi-
ness. And for this reason to join
with his fellow workers in the pro
est against the war preparations
IN August 1. When it was being
'iscussed in the U. S. Senate on
anuary 6, even Senator Dill adj
mitted that this move, then in the
'orm of a resolution that was later
adopted:
Property Must Be Paid For.
"Is all a part of the agitation that
has gone throughout the country to
make the people think that if there
is another war, under some plan of
this kind, we are going to draft
property the same as we draft men
Property cannot be taken without
paying for it."
The resolution, very carefully
worded so as not to arouse antagon-
ism at present, but which will face
the workers with the fact that dur
ing the war Hoover is now prepar
ing, in the form forced labor for
the miserably low wages now paid
to soldiers, in the whole of industry,
in text says:
"That a commission is hereby
created to study and consider the
feasibility of equalizing the burdens
and to minimize the profits of war,
together with study of policies to
be pursued in event of war, so as
to empower the president immediate
ly TO mobilize all the resources of
the country"
These tricky words can and do
/ tile snv number of schemes against
the workers. The resources of the
,s.v4vry," may also include labor,
and we have only to look at what
the capitalist congressman said in
discussing the resolution.
Wainwright, for example, who
claims partial authorship along with
Senator Reed for this movement
against the workers, said:
"The price of everything. in
cluding labor, must be stabilized
at the outset, and drastically reg
ulated throughout the war"
The "Universar Trick.
1t must be understood at the be-
ginning that the Draft Act, which
wa put into effect in the last war
under the pleasant title of uni
versal Service" is still in force, and
can be used tomorrow to draft work.
ers into the army. Now it is planned
by the bosses to get some law ir
spite of the constitutional bat
against compulsory labor, to con
script labor at low wages-anc
again it is brought forward a:
universal service"
But allwho went through the pas
war, know that the service was no
UNIVERSAL" the rich mems son;
getting into soft and safe places
and the rich men becoming richer
and richer from the blood of tht
bsttlefields.
Now a new scheme is put out, un
der the title of universal con
scription of the resources" of tn,
country. But if anyone thinks tina
this is going to include capital, tn,
fact that the U. S. Congress strucl
out provision to conscript capital
before they passed the resolution
should show clearly that the gov
ernment is not going to take capi
tai" without giving it whateve
profits the capitalists and their gov
eminent agree on.
No, the new thing to be o"nf+-'
in this new "univers,
is labor. As Senator
the U. s. Senate, Jan. 6:
IF we are to have a universal
draft of men, then the men who
work at home ought to receive
some pay, food, clothing, that the
men get who go to war. The men
who were exempted made the best