The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17

can find poor consolation in being
| told that in the next war they will
be blown to pieces by tweIve-inch in
stead Of Sixteen-inch guns or vice
versa. But this is only one part of
the story.
Citizens Military Training Camps
To further militarization, the War
Department is making more elaborate
plans this year than ever before for
the Citizens Military Training Corps.
For the first time, schools have been
opened for the drilling of youth for
the summer military camps. Of
ficers in charge say that the schools
have been established to better pre-
pare the men for their future train
ing. Hand in hand with these &C
tivities, the authorities are extending
their efforts among units Of the Jun
ior Naval Militia Cadets.
With $4,000 men being enlisted for
the military labor camps, the i'm
pending increase in the Citizens Mil
itary Training Camps, and the su-
pervision of the greatest part of the
public works program by the War
Department. Roosevelt is promoting
a general mobilization of labor in
order to have the workers prepared
for induction into the regular army
at & moments notice.
q. S. Supports Bolivian War
The palpably nilitaristi cposition
of the government is we'll illustrated
in its attitude toward the Bolivian
Paraguayan conflict. Roosevelt could
have put stop to the slaughtering
of workers Of the two South Amer
lean countries had he so desired.
Upon assuming the presidency, the
administration could have invoked
and enforced the provisions of the
Kellogg Pact. Bolivia and Paraguay
would have hesitated to send work.
ers to their death if warned of an
economic boycott and halt in the
shipment of munitions.
But the Roosevelt administration
has carried out the will of the Rookie
fellers, the Guggenheims and other
American interests whose invest
nents in Bolivia embrace ownership
of silver, tin, lead and copper mines.
Not so many months ago United
States Ambassador Culbertson con-
ferred with officials of the Chilean
Government to learn if the latter
would permit shipments of NUM-
tions to Bolivia from the United
States shipments of munitions to
Bolivia must pass through Northern
Chile) The Chilean Government.
at that time, advised the United
States that such shipments would be
permitted. Subsequently the State
Department informed Bolivia that
munitions would be moved from the
United States to that country.
1t is true that these conferences
were carried out during the Hoover
administration. But Roosevelt has
shown himself to be in full accord
with the policies inaugurated by his
predecessor.
incidentally, these conferences on
the shipment of munitions give ad-
ditional continuation to the state
ment of the Communist Party that
the Bolivian araguayan war is a
major manifestation of the world
wide clash between American and
British imperialism.
While pushing through the war
program and pegging taxes for the
deeper ensla Eenent Of the American
workers and farmers, Roosevelt hopes
that by glib phrases he will lull the
masses of the people into silent sub
mission. In his last speech, Roose-
welt said to the citizenry:
Throughout the depression you
have been patient"
Roosevelt hopes that this patience
will continue But Roosevelt and his
instructors-the bankers and big in
dustriahsts-ar due for a most dis
agreeable surprise