The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30

oUowing statement on behalf of the Central
War in Washington. Cavalry, infantry,
machine guns, tanks, motor trucks laden
with ammunition, gas bombs. The bugles
sound, the drums beat, the army advances
bristling with steel. America has its bloody
Thursday
Against whom is the U. S. making war
on the banks of the Potomac? 1t is advanc-
ing against the former army of the U. S.,
the present Bonus Expedtionary Force.
This Is how capitalism pays it's rank and
file soldiers.
Blood has been spilled at the very steps
of the capitol, the blood of those very men
who fought the war to make the world safe
for capitalist profits.
This blood is on the hands of Hoover.
It is on the hands of the capitalist class,
represented by Hoover.
What is the veterans crime? Why was
it necessary to call against them the Federal
Army They demanded their back pay for
war time; they did not wish to wait till 1915
to get their wartime wages. They were
starving and homeless today. They de-
manded relief
Hoover, Hurley, Macarthur, Glassford,
gave them instead clouds of tear gas and
volleys of bullets. The soldiers who had sur
vived the trench warfare in France fell on
the battleaeld within the shadow of the
White House.
This is nothing new in the practice of
the rulers. Didn't they shoot and kill work
ers in Kentucky? Didn't they kill hungry
workers at the Ford plant in Detroit? Didn't
they massacre workers in the hunger dem
onstrations of South Chicago? Didn't they
spill the blood of workers in St. Louis
Isn't their attitude towards the workers de-
handing unemployment relief and insurance
one long bloody trail of shooting, clubbing,
torturing, gassing, lynching?
Class War Against ToiIers!
This is the class war conducted by the
capitalist class against the workers and
farmers who are suffering in the present
crisis for no fault Of their own.
Now the class war has been extended to
the former soldiers.
When the rulers need them to fight their
battles overseas they pampered them and
glorifed them as American crusaders .
fighting for 'war to end war;" to make
the world safe for democracy When the
war profits, increased thousandsfold by the
workers and farmers, had been pocketed,
and the former soldiers, thrown out of en-
ployment by their ruthless robbers, began
to demand bread, they got bullets.
49, The Real Hoover Program.
4 Billions to the bankers; bullets to the
toilers-that is the program of the ruling
class headed. by Hoover.
The fires of the Washington battle throw
lurid light on the capitalist system and
its leaders. So this is what the war was
fought for? This is what any war is fought for
under, the leadership of the Hoovers! This
is what the capitalists actually need the
army for now-to secure their profits. They
need the army NOW-to prepare for another
war ito secure more profits, in the meantime
to shoot and kill those who do not wish to
put up with starvation.
Behind the corpses in Washington looms
the menace of a new frightful world slaught-
er. Hellfire now for the Chinese masses
Death and destruction for the Soviet Union
This is the Hoover, Roosevelt program, aid
ed by their lackey, Thomas.
The fire of the Washington battle shows
clearly the division Of the classes in this
country. On one side, the miners Of Ken