The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-25

so also has the whole Of industry, to-
gether with its technicians and prac-
ticians in every branch of production,
been subordinated to war.
In the United States each of the
| y Federstions of Engineers has its
Committee of National Defense
working according to the directions
and orders Of the Secretary of the
War Department..
Every factory is an arsenal. The
mobilization of factories for the pro-
duction of military supplies will be
accomplished in half the time that
was required in 1914.
In this time of general crisis, one
single industry flourishes in every
country, the armament industry.
The capacity of war industry in the
principal states has increased by go
to 30 per cent. In certain branches
tanks and poison gases) the increase
is 5 OF 10 times above the figure for
the period of 1914-191a.
Imperialist France manufactured
$4,000 rifles month before and dur
ing the war. IN 1880 she produced
100000. She nultiplies the number of
machine guns. The manufacture of
more and more powerful tanks and of
long range machine guns has in
creased in the proportion of / to s;
that of cannon from to 10: that of
cartridges and of shrapnel has been
more than doubled. The same ap-
plies to England and the United
States.
Every industriahst is in the direct
service Of the Minister of War. A
department of the General Staff
commands, the industrialist executes
the orders. This is what was said by
Harley, president of American naval
construction during the war: Mod
ern industry, the chemical, netallur-
gtcal and electrical undertakings, can
at q moments notice start to manu-
facture engines Of terrible destruc-
tive power, all they need is to be sup
piled with raw materials"
The mighty naves. the complete
INFLAMMATION of the army, aviation.
chemical equipment, transport tall
these have been able to develop
thanks to the progress Of large scale
industry. The technique of the arm
les Is function of industry. Only
the economically developed capitalist
countries can possess immense and
efficient ornaments.
Small states such as the western
neighbors of the USSR have to i'm
port their ornaments. They are sup
piled by their suzerains and especially
by France. They have received 20
million dollars worth of rifles, SO mil
Ion dollars worth of shrapnel, Is
million dollars worth of machine
guns, 80 of cannon, 20 of technical
and engineering material, a total Of
more than milliard francs. Further
the Rumanian and Polish loans now
being issued in France are intended
chiefly for the manufacture of war
materials for these countries. The
banks which direct these financial
operations are controlled by the met
allurgists of Creusot.
| All this does not prevent the
French and British imperiahsts from
constructing armament factories in
Rulnania and Poland and from en-
surfing the material basis for their
construction IN Scandinavia and
Czchoslovakis.
1t is especially the new branches Of
ornaments which progress with such
feverish rapidity: aviation, artillery
especially heavy long range artil-
lery), new mechanical units, eng-
nous tanks, chemical ornaments. Sc
cretly the drive goes On to discover
the most ghostly poisonous gases