The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
SAME FORCES WHICH CAUSE :.
UNEMPLOYMENT DRIVE TO PLUNGE
WORKERS INTO A NEW WAR
Boss Sheet Admits That
Industry Is All
Ready for War

| WINE C-AG.9,7loymenC grows. re-
flecting the sharpening economic
crisis, the bosses speed their war
preparations. Professor White of
Michigan not long ago admitted that
capitalism needs a war now more
than ever-to get more markets and
to kill eff the unemployed.
Early in the crisis, March. 1880
THE Nations Business" a magazine
that speaks for the leading exploiters
published an article entitled. "Edu-
eating Our Industry For War" The
bosses, this article says, are inter-
ested in knowing who's going to
win the next big war? And why?'
They go on to show that industry is
being modified for war The unem-
ployed viii be showed into the slaugh-
ter.
The preparation of The capitalists
for war is not an abstract matter. It
is an immediate, everyday PROPOSE
ton. They are going ahead with it
now. "The Nations Business" puts
the problem bluntly They say
Military exparts and leaders of
industry agree that, other things
being nearly equal. the nation
whose manufacf Iring plants can
| most quickly be turned up to quan-
| tity production of cannon, shells.
searchlights, fuses, gun carriages
and whatnot will win a victory.
War is now fight for factories, a
battle Of machines
Industry can quickly be turned IN
to manufacture every "whatnot" to
kill workers. But when workers
starve, die for lack Of food, freeze for
want of clothes and houses, industry
is stagnant
The capitalists have definite
plan for war This question of speed
ing up industry for war and getting
it ready to manufacture the neces-
sary death-dealing instruments has
all been worked out by the United
States government with the co-opera-
ton of the bosses.
Millions have been spent on the
plans alone. Billions have. been ex-
pended for the army and navy, to get
them prepared for this coming war
But not one cent is spent for the
relief of the unemployed.
Every unemployed and employed
worker should remember this fact:
The same forces that cause, the econ
onic crisis, that throw millions out
of work, drive to war. Untold hor-
rors are being prepared by the capt.
talists for the workers. Unemploy.
ment and starvation is only part CT
the process. Soon there will cona
war with its blood and misery fot
the workers. The bosses admit they
are prepared for it. 1t is part OF
their system. 1t is part of the strug-
gle for markets, for colonies, for
division of the spoils wrung from the
workers and the colonial masses.
The fact that the factories are
being educated" for this coming war
shows that the entire working class
is being drawn into it--not only the
unemployed but the employed as well,
whether they go into the army or
are forced to slave In the shops under
military domination.
The fight against the war prepara-
tons is connected with the fight
against the burden of unemployment.
Both have the same foundation
capitalism and its greed for more
profits at the expense OF the work
ers' health and lives. To end war, to
end unemployment. the capitalist
system must be smashed. The fight
for unemployment insurance is
step in this direction. Stop the war
funds. Demand they be. turned over
to the unemployed in the form of
unemployment insurance. Fight for
the cash bonus for the veterans, but
base this demand on transferring the
war funds to all the unemployed.
Every worker will be drawn into
the next war and every worker should
fight against it now. Learn from the
last war. Garry on the fight against
war now and if it comes turn it into
a civil war against the masters who
fatten on the misery OF the workers.
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