The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
By CYRIL BRIGGS.

WAR is already on in China. All the elements
" for another world slaughter are present today
in the Far East The imperialists are rushing
forward their war preparations. In the United
States the war industries are secretly turning
out huge amounts Of war materials. The bosses
are trying to popularize the approaching war in
the minds of the working class. They are en-
gagged in spreading the most dangerous illusions
as to the meaning and consequences of the COM
ing war.
The illusion that war means return of
prosperity" is being openly peddled by bour-
geoiS economists and the capitalist press. Stop
ping at no crime against the working class, the
fascist leadership of the American Federation
of Labor and the yellow socialists" are ably
lending their aid to put across this lie The
working class is being told that war will end
unemployment, that war will provide jobs for
the 100000 unemployed workers in this coun-
try. The workers are being asked to believe that
by permitting themselves to be sent forth to be
manned and slaughtered they will be able TO es-
cape the misery and starvation to which they
are sentenced under capitalism.
The grandest way dying capitalism can find
out Of the crisis in which it is engulfed is TO
throw millions Of workers on the battlefields to
slaughter each other. This is the high wisdom
Of the capitalist system. Its most enduring
solution" is to slaughter the surplus workers for
whom it can no longer provide employment, to
whom 1t refuses the right to live. In sharp
contrast, the workers see unemployment totally
abolished in the country of advancing Socialism
in the Soviet Union.
Mass butchery OF the workers as the ONLY
way out of the crisis for the capitalists was
openly proposed by Otto r. Mallery, leading
bourgeois economist. in speech before Wash
inOt ton fIpio oyol aiefe m zoos
The New York Times of Dec. 80, reported that:
"Mr. Mallery asserted that no government
had ever stopped depression except by war
and while 1t was dangerous to try to halt
depression, IL also dangerous not TO attempt
to do So"
The Whaley Eaton Service in confidential
letter sent out to its clients on Feb O. 1882, re-
ferS as follows to the use of this device by the
Japanese imperialists in their present war on the
Chinese masses:
ut Is an old device. in the face Of such
unsatisfactory domestic conditions to divert
the public attention to foreign fields to give
employment in the army to the idle, TO depend
on foreign exploitation 10 pay the cost and
actually enrich the treasury"
This device is being resorted to not only by
the Japanese imperialsts but by the United
States and other imperialist powers.
Employment in the army! Sending the work
crs forth TO slaughter 10 enrich the capitalists
and their treasury, they at present refused
single dollar for relief and unemployment
insurance, This is how capitalism tries 10
solve unemployment. This Is its way out of
the crisis-at the expense of the likelihood of
the masses!
The capitalists openly gloatng over the
slaughter Of Chinese workers by the Japanese.
They are openly gloatire over the rapid develop
ment of the Japanese war moves against the
Soviet Union. They are supporting those war
moves. They are uniting, within their sharpen
ing antagonisms, for armed intervention against
the Soviet Union. for the destruction of the VIC
torious Five Year Plan, for the partition and
looting of China On Nov. 10, 1881, the N. Y.
Post gleefully declared:
Prosperity Stocks went up So did bonds
n the mere rumoY Of war"
The prostitute writer's among the iatellectuals
are being modified to put across the vicious
Illusion that war means prosperity" to the work
ing class Fl. l.. Mencken, writing in the Balti-
more Sun of Feb O. 1882 under the caption
'The Japanese Bugaboo' declares
"hs for me, confess frankly that i, would
not annoy me TO hear that the Jaaancsc Am
bassador had been given his passports. The
war would blow mp tho depression as nealy
a. Prohibitions agent expIodos still Every
factory would begin TO belch smoke and the