The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
BY N. SPARKS
Part III (COnclusion).

Granted the war will bring an increase in
present employment, manufacturing munitions
and military supplies. But at no time will the
present huge army Of 100000 unemployed,
which is still increasing, be absorbed by the war
industrial machine. Let us see what will be the
nature and extent Of this increase" of employ
nent IT is true several million workers viii be
employed" in the army as cannon-fodder, but
millions of new workers, women and children
who have up till now lived at home ruined
farmers and their families - will be uprooted
from their homes by the increasing poverty and
forced to the factories, numbers Of them find
ing themselves together with masses Of other
proletarians not in the employed but in the
unemployed division Of the working class.
The naturalization of industry, which has
been taking place since the last war, marks q
tremendous change in the factories and in the
lives Of the workers between the present period
and the period of the last war. This rationale
cation, which means more intense exploitation
of the workers through speed-up and through
the use OF unskiled instead Of skilled labor, OF
women and children instead of men, has been
one of the most essential preparations for war
raising the war-rnaking capacity Of industry to
produce the maximum of war material with the
minimum of labor at the lowest wages. 1t has
been part of the general attack on the condi-
tions OF the workers without which imperial
ist war can be prepared. The factories during
the next war, far from supplying employment
to all, will be the scene OF a colossal replace
ment Of men workers by women and child labor,
not only to release men for the army, but to cut
wages still more by the employment Of cheaper
labor
Military Control
In addition, we will see many Of the factories
working on essential war materials manned by
conscript labor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. often those
not physically fit for the front lines, who are
Conscripted and then sent, as soldiers to work
in the factory This was already largely the
practice in many Of the factories making poison
gas in the last war, and is now a definite part
of the present mobilization plans. In this way,
the bosses force the workers to work on these
dangerous Jobs any number of hours and for the
negligible pay of soldier and threatened with
being shot under military law for any attempt
to strike Practically all the factories making
munitions, airplanes ETC., will be at least under
sem1-nilitary control where special detachments
of soldiers will be stationed in an attempt to
prevent the workers from organizing and fight
Ing for any improvement in conditions or wages.
Political reaction and terror which has already
reached high pitch as witnessed in the Ford
massacre, in Kentucky, in Tampa and in nunner-
Gus other cases. will sweep the country under
the cloak of patriotism" Every attempt to or
ganize, the bosses will endeavor to treat as
treason" and punish with the utmost Vicious
ness
-Cuts-Direct And Indirect
Some workers have the illusion that wages
will be raised again when war comes. To be-
heve this is to completely miss the significance
OF the present wage-cut drive as one of the di-
rect preparations for war. The expenses re-
qufred FOR carrying on modern war are colos-
sal Unde capitalism, all such expenses will
come, not from the capitalists, but can only be
squeezed out Of the workers thru still further
wsge-cuts thru still further lowering their
standard Of living. Even when taxes are appar-
entity put the Bosses these will also be trans
mitted TO the workers thru a rise in prices or
still further wage-cuts.
Besides the wage-cuts, three other methods
will be used just as in the last war to make
the workers pay for the war. First: sales taxes,
similar to the tax that is now before Congress,
raising the prices Of every necessity Of life which
must be bought by the workers Second: infa-
tion---the initiation Of the currency on huge
scale, causing drop in the value of money and
thus steadily cutting the wages Of the entire
working class in one lump by Government de-
cree. Third Forced loans. Every worker who
remembers the last war will likewise remember
how he was badgered and threatened and forced
in the shop, on the Streets in his home every
where he went, to subscribe to the Liberty"
loans, how his children were forced at school
to buy War Saving Stamps. Even the soldiers
and sailors were forced to buy the Liberty Bonds.
BY forcing out Of them their savings, by check
off from their wages-one way or another, the
workers were forced by the horde Of bosses
agents to buy the bonds TO pay for the war.
It is Of the greatest Importance TO note that
besides the wage-cuS drive, all these three
nnetbnds Of vay financing have sIrgany bAs1VYs