The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
By n. SPARKS.
Article 3.

Article 3.
nuRING the last war the propaganda ma
u chine of the U. S. government masqueraded
under the name of the Committee OF PUBIC
Information" 1t did not spread capitalist war
propaganda-Oh. No! 1t only gave out lnor-
nation" 1t gave out 75,OOO0OO booklets ana
pamphlets. not only in the U. S. but in the
neutral countries as well. 1t flleo the press
with syndicated stories.
It modified artists to draw war cartoons. IL
doctored up photographs from before the war
and distributed them as authentic proof OF Ger
man atrocities 1t created such a hysteria that
almost every person with beard or foreign
accent was looked on as possible German spy
It organized the "Four-Minute Men"-75OOO
Chamber OF Commerce Men, Rabbits and pro-
fessionaI and amateur patriots, whose business
it was to interrupt all shows in the theatres ana
deliver a 4-minute flood of hate against Ger
MANY. Germans" "slackers" and Reds and
bully the AUDIENCE into subscribing for the Varl-
Gus Liberty" Loans. Seven hundred and fifty
Ave thousand such speeches were inflicted upon
the suffering public.
Millions of billboards throughout the U. 3.
and the neutral countries were plastered with
wilson's hypocritical phrases about the war
to End War" In Soviet Russia, the Commit
TEE began the mobilization of all decent ele-
meltS against LIE plO-ICAAlA@AA 1SASAAN'-->1
until the Soviet Government kicked them out,
and they found their way to the great demo-
GRAFT" Kolchak 1t forged and distributed the
Infamous "Sisson Documents which pretended
10 show that Lenin and all the BolshevikS were
merely German spies.
Professors we're drawn out of the colleges on
every hand into the service of the Committee
The church modified under the slogan OF the
Rev. Henry Van Dyke I'd hang every man who
lifts his voice against America entering the
war" The A. F. of L., under Gompers, had a
special committee to cooperate with the Com
rittee of Public Information" John Duncan
vce-president of the A. F. of L., was sent with
the Root Commission to Russia, where he ad-
dressed the Petrograd Soviet on the virtues OF
American democracy and the Union Label
Howat OF the United Mine Workers and Spargo
Of the Socialist Party we're sent to Italy.
Not only was the mind Of the masses poisoned,
but the victims were made to pay for the poison,
The newspapers raised their prices from one
cent to two cents (and the evening papers to
three cents) The Committee made nearly
100000 profit on its four feature films Per
shings Crusaders Americas Answer" etc,
not to mention its short subjects. In addition
the Committee became the dictator to the en-
lire movie industry Not single reel could be
purchased by any exhibitor who refused to show
the war films of the Committee This system
Of dictatorship was then extended to neutral
countries, succeeding finally in completely
driving out the German films
Such was the picture of the American lie
spreading machine at work Today the war lies
Of both sides are revealed and discussed in
cynical scientific detail by bourgeois writer's
under the heading of propaganda technique
in wartime" But not single word is spoken
about the even greater and more poisonous It's
sue of lies that was spread against Soviet Rus
STA from the October Revolution through all
the years of civil war The reason for this is
clear The war with Germany is over. But the
war between the capitalists and the Soviet
Union is not and has never been over. 1t has
merely passed through a period of armistice for
the past ten years, and is now being prepared
By the capitalists to burst again into flame.
Many workers think that an attack against