The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
WHEN WAR COMES

with grinding down OF living standards to q
minimum and increased exploitation OF the
working masses, but places a grievous burden on
future generations In war time there is a con-
slant lack of ornaments, ammunition, ETC.; there
is no surplus" production, no "over-develop-
ment" Of the industrial apparatus, which is such
a prominent feature of modern capitalism.
3. Hence, mechanization, naturalization and
other similar developments in war technology
do not during war lead Gas observed In capitalist
industry today in the chief countries) to re-
duction of the absolute quantity of labor power"
used, e. g. the warning armies, but, on the con-
trary, matter what increased productivity"
Is shown by each individual soldier or group OF
soldiers this growth tends to increase the guam
tity Of ornaments and, consequently, the man.
power engaged.
In spite of all the theories land many of the
hopes and illusions Of the automobile aviation,
chemical and other "FulIerists" Ce4er.Ins IL ...e
theory OF a writer named Fuller, who tries to
make war pleasant" by saying it will be fought
by machines, and not by mem the wars of the
future will be mass wars on greater scale than
the war of 1914-19lS, for the whole OF the able
bodied population will be involved.
4. The mass wars of the future will require
great apparatus, and first and foremost, mass
production with supply, transport and commu-
nicatons organized on similar scale.
This apparatus is of necessity so closely in
terwoven in the very fabric of the whole national
economy that one truly say that they are
insolubly merged.
= The whole of the able bodied adult population
will be called upon to shoulder arms All will be
involved, women, juniors, invalids and wounded
men who have recovered; while various groups
of "irreplaceable" highly skilled workers will be
employed on war supplies in the factories, in
the counting houses, in agriculture and trans
port. In the wars of the future such work for
war needs will not only be considered Just as
important as the actual fighting at the front,
but if anything viii be considered even more i'm
portant as having decisive bearing on the out
come of the war.
Mobilization of Industry.
From the military point of view there Is hardly
any substantial difference between soldier
handling his rifle and the worker or woman
worker employed producing the rifle or the raw
materials semi fuel and food sup
ply, ETC., essential for the prosecution of war
The breakdown of any of these services will one
and all, benefit the enemy who is therefore out
to drive his advantage home.
AS we know, the very character of military
operations especially when waged by means of
aircraft submarine chemistry and pacteriology)
will strike the peaceful" population Just as hard
as the men in the front lines Today the peace
full, population can be got att and destroyed
despite all the barriers set up, no matter how
well-equipped in spite Of all the fronts
The line of the denarcstion between the army
and the civil population which several military
experts frankly admitted had been worn dan
gerously thin during the last war; will be prac-
tically completely wiped away during the war of
the, future, for war operations will inevitably In
yolve every family, every economic unit every
individual
The significance of what bourgeois writer's call
the moral condition OF the troops and popula-
tion is therefore clear. All progressive military
experts now include the general mood" and
other "imponderables" in the so-called "poten-
tials" OF war regarding this to.be one of the most
important factors.
ITO Be Continued)