The daily worker., 1932-06-06
Who Are the Friends and Who
Are the Enemies of
the Veterans?


TNHE army worker veterans moving the con-
tinent their way to Washington cannot achieve its
aims reach it's goal does who the
mics must fight and defeat in its struggle for the bonus
The ex-servicemen cannot be like the hero in famous
opera who declared he would lick the enemy he finds
him. The of the struggle for the bonus surround
the movement their agents inside its ranks and try
ing sap it of its strength and rob it of it's mancy In
that they hope to steer it into safe channels for the
ruling class.
The of the workerveerans the bankers and
the trust magnates and their in Washington
Herbert and the politicians of the Republican and
Democratic parties The enemies the small and big pol
cans of all stripes from national Senators to local ward
hes of the boss parties in all cities These the people
who plunged the workers into the last and at the
pense of the lives and misery of the millions of oers piled
up fabulous fortunes for the handful of monares that rule
the country From their swollen fortunes coined out of the
blood of the at the front and those at home in the hell
holes industry they threw crumbs to the soldiers
turning dsusoned from the war make the world safe
democracy in order to hold them shaced to the system
of private property They granted the bonus but dated its
payment far enough in the future that they could rob
them of their back for the bloody labor of destruction
forced upon the worker veterans.
The enemy of the ex-servicemen is the officer and
boss-doinated American Legion The capitalist clique that
this body promised the workerveerans the bonus but
when confronted with the demand for immediate payment
lined up with their masters the bankers and rejected the
demand.
The enemies of the ex-servcemen the American
Federation of Labor bureaucrats and their socialist allies
who lined up with Wall Street in the last war; helped put
the draft and in league with the Legion Off
and the Hoover government in denying the claims of the
exservcemen From Hoover to Green from Roosevelt to
Norman Thomas the capitalists and their agents united
against the worker-yeterans.
Against this reaconary bloc, the ex-servcemen must
form their united front Alone strong their num-
bers and the power of their cause they will be defeated in
battle Who the friends of the exservicemen with
whom the united front be formed These the work
the factories groanng under the whplash of the stag
ger plan and the burden of the capitalist wage attacks The
friends of the veterans the unemployed engaged
determined struggle for relief from starvation The best
friends of the worker veterans the militant workers
organizations and the Communists who in the front
ranks of the fight for relief from the onsaughs of capital
The Communists who form active part of the march
the most reliable friends of the veterans who will not sell
out the movement to the capitalist politicians and surrender
to the government of exploitation and oppression These
in general the friends and enemies of the veterans
But the present march of the exservcemen and their
fight beset by number of immediate enemies against
whom the struggle must vigorously be taken up These
the politicians and soopgeons of the bosses and the
ernmen who trying to steer the movement away from
militant fight They those in their ranks who
busy engaged in preventing the unity of the ranks of the
marching veterans and raising hue and cry about Com
mun dnning into the of the veterans that they
be patriotic they must be loyal to their naton and
men BY needing this cry of PATRIOTISM the veterans will
be playing into the hands of the boss class who will deo
aze their ranks and keep them divided and dsorganzed
The exservcemen must unite their ranks by ryng to the
slogan raised by the Workers Ex-Servcemen's League
"a joint rank and file committee of all marchers'
The ex-servicemen have powerful friends. Enormous
masses of toilers who are hungry and starving result
of the crisis and the capitalist attack in dep sympathy
with their demands If the latter will write upon the banner
the demand for immediate relief and government
to the unemployed they will draw these millions close their
side The ex-servicemen will strengthen their
with the demands raised by great of workers. flight
against imperast war; defense of the Soviet Unon" mot
cent for mperialst war; a funds for the unemployed
and exservcemen and in their turn the factory workers
and those thrown upon the streets will make their
fight stronger with the demand for the bonus Thus united
front of slaves will be formed that will break down all
barriers put up by the capitalist enemies Close ranks
worker veterans Clean out all tools of the BOSSES Elect
honest rank and file leaders and join with the Workers Ex
Servicemens League for victorious STRUGGLED
l, ,vr, really high taxation the Senate
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