The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
Stop the Shipment Of Arms and
Ammunition to China!

railroads would dividends. There
would be good jobs at high wages for all the
unemployed, and the busting of banks would
cease. 1t would delight me, above all to be-
hold the pacifsts, and especially the clergy
among them, tearing up their pledges to object
cOnscientiously, and bowling for blood. give
public notice that, if war comes, 1 shall be a
patriot myself and that shall do all my pro-
fteering at home, and try to make it pay
The last time missed some good chances"
Mencken not only lies about war blowing up
the depression" but coaks his lies in the most
brutal cyncism and disregard for the misery
and bloodshed that irncerialist war inflicts upon
the masses
Workers! What are the facts? Will war
mean good jobs at high wages for all the I'M
employed"-twelve million workers? War pro-
duction is already proceeding at great rate
Passaic, N. J. is veritable hot bed of war
production The Botany Worsted Mills recent
ly completed huge government order for
army cloth. 1t was given another order at
And what did the Botany Mills do for
its workers? IT reduced their wages 30 per
cent War production prosperity!
The Manhattan Raybeston Rubber Company
also in New Jersey has just completed a gov
eminent order for $1,000 gas masks. And right
away it handed its workers 20 per cent wage
cut. More war production prosperity!
The Pickanniny Arsenal at Dover is working
with fifty per cent more workers than during the
World War. 1t is turning out huge quantities
of 5-inch shells. A large shipment of these
shells has been shipped already to the West
Coast for transhipment to the Far East. And
here again the wages of the workers have been
ced until now they get only an average of
$3.50 day.
From all over the country, workers are send
ing in reports to the Daily Worker of the fran
tic production of materials And in each
case, they report cut in the wages OF the
workers
Wages in the war industry are being reduced
to a minimum, because the capitalists are able to
use the crisis in other branches of industry and
in agriculture, to bring pressure to bear on
wages in the war industry.
War means increased misery and starvation
for the workers. By declaring the existence of
"a state Of emergency" the bosses will proceed
to every brutal method at their disposal to
suppress the struggles of the hungry unem-
ployed workers, TO beat down the revolutionary
struggles Of the masses. Already, the bosses
are paving the way for the coming war by an
intensified attack on the Negro masses. on the
unemployed fighting for relief and social in
sursnce, on the striking miners and other
workers struggling against starvation wages.
The war is now being prepared at the expense
OF the hunger and misery among the tong
masses. Billions Of dollars re being poured
into the war preparations while the bosses and
their government deny relief to the destitute
unemployed millions and their families and
children.
And for what workers. will we be called upon
to fightp
For the protection Of the $3.50 100000 invest
ments Of the Wall Street bandits in China! For
the protection Of the investments of the Stand
ard Oil Company and other American companies
which are exploiting and depressing the workers
in this country, and shooting us down when we
strike against starvation wages, against the wage
slashing campaign in which they have been en-
gagged for the past year or more, with the open
cooperation of the A. F. of L. leaders and the
socialists"
Workers. Do not permit the bosses and their
socialist" and A. f. Of L. 1ackeys to lead you
into world slaughter as they did in the last
Worl Warl Do not be deceived by the vicious
illusions they are attempting to inject into your
minds that war means prosperity" Do not be
deceived by the fake psci6st gestures of the
Socialists Fight vigorously against the war
plots of the inpcrialists Defend your class
brothers in Chinal Defend the Soviet Union,
the fatherand of the proetariat! Build uni
ted front against imperialst war; Join and
strengthen the Communist Party which leads
tbs night against irnperialist war.