The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
PREPARING FOR WAR

ticular attention is being devoted to fifty COM
modities of prime war Importance, committee
having been appointed for each for the purpose
of following the state Of supply of the commod-
ity, etc. The surveys of the industries of the
country which have been sketched above have
also been developed for railroad transportation,
power, etc.
In order to harness the working class most
effectively to the industrial war machine studies
are being made to determine: First, the require
ments of labor; second the distribution of labor
in the various industrial areas of the United
States" page 16) But it is not sufficient to
find, out just how much labor is needed for
the war machine and where it is located. There
is one additional step before the working class
is completely harnesSed to the machines behind
the trenches.
1.-THE means by which industrial cooperation
between management and labor in the produc-
ton of the Army's supplies may be best secured"
page 16O Plans are being constantly perfected
so that not the least delay will occur in getting
the fascist American Federation of Labor leader
ship into the general staff of the machine
in preparing arbitration" and mediation"
boards and investigation" committees to crush
every sign of revolt among the workers, to
stamp out the least flame of rebellion against
the imperialist carnage in the ranks of the pro-
letariat. This is the industrial cooperation"
which our major and his colleagues are prepar-
ing in collaboration with the capitalist class, the
fascist labor bureaucracy, and the yellow social
faSciStS.
Quinton closes with the following:
"The war planning as described herein has
been under way for several years, and it is per-
tinent now to inquire about the success of the
effort as applied particularly to the contact
with industry in the acceptance of schedules
of production.
This question admits of but answer:
the periodic reports from district chiefs show
the whole hearted support given to the project.
This is a natural sequence, however, because
American industry is largely in the hands of
business men who actually took part in or
observed closely the conduct of the Great War.
We may expect their continued support, but
as the older men leave the picture, to be re-
placed by younger generation having less
war experience, the War Department must
stimulate increasingly the interest of industry
in this big undertaking." Our emphasis-E)
The capitalist class is preparing for the next
war The preparations not of a general
character but specific, detailed. elaborate, and
comprehensive. The next war is not distinct
possibility in the minds of the army general staff
puC certainty OF the near future. 1t is the at
tack on the Soviet Union that is being pre-
pared. In order for the working class of the
United States to do its utmost in the defense
of the Workers Fatherland it is absolutely
sential that its vanguard in the revolutionary
trade unions, the Trade Union Unity League.
and in the Communist Party be rooted unshak-
ably in the big factories, particularly in the
industries. The general staff and the capitalist
class have surveyed the industrial facilities of
the country. 1t is the duty of the revolutionary
vanguard to see that in every factory included
in these "plans" there will be rooted nucleus
of revolutionary workers who will lead the work.
ers in these factories against the mperialist war.
against the capitalist system which breeds war,
and in defense of the Soviet Union.