The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

wages, and time to threaten the timid
with the "corrals" used in 1913 By
Wilson and Gompers.
Until the day arrives when the
hungry millions refuse to be fed any
longer with such demagogical and
misleading words as Senator Wag-
ner'S, THE national concern about the
success Of the recovery program rises
above the narrow interests of any
particular group" the Roosevelt ma
chine will confine itself to dealing
with sporadic outbursts Of protest.
despair and resentment But when
that time is past, militant labors
mettle will be tested in ruthless
and brutal new capitalist offensive.
New muzzles, new guns!
THE latest encyclical of the Federal
Emergency Administration of Pub
lie Works, the principal feeder Of the
monsuous war machine which is be-
ing constructed to slaughter workers
in the impending imperialist war for
markets, bears eloquent testimony to
what the Roosevelt administration
stands for and points to.
Out of public works" allotments
totalling little more than two biz
lion dollars, 1867, 692, 430 went for abb
solute war preparations-$233, 600, 900
for a navy second to none" In adj
dition, 1896, $40, $50, public works"
sum even larger than that which Is
being spent for the identifable DEATH
dealing instruments, went for ac-
tivities intimately connected with
military preparations-$321 ,037 ,315 for
the Civilian Conservation Corps
camps, $24,833, 535 for the Coast
Guard, 100000 for the Panama
Canal and $5o,o0o,o00 for the Ten-
nessee Valley development.
Lest there be any doubt of the mile
tary nature Of the civilian conserva-
ton camps, a veritable breeder of fas=
cists, one need only refer to the re-
port made to Roosevelt by Colonel
Duncan K. Major, Jr., on July 2, 1893.
According to the New York Times.
the Colonel stated that the conserva=
ton corps mobilization had been the
most valuable experience the army
had had since the World War" If
there is any doubt Of the significance
of the expenditures for the Panama
Canal, one should read the graphically
Illuminating Army and Navy journal
for October II, a propaganda fortress
for the military clique: ITO win Pan
American friendship, President Roose-
welt, in a White House press con-
ference, thought it perfectly absurd
that the Panamanian government
could not have its own radio station
and referred to the complaints Of
Panama merchants at the destructive
competition Of post exchanges and
colnissaries in the Canal Zone. I
(the staff columniSt-S. W. suggest
that the President have second
thought. Should he do so he will
realize the necessity of American
control over communications at the
canal ;" emphasis mines. W. And
finally, If any one doubts the signific-
ance Of the Tennessee Valley expend-
iture, he need only be told that this
valley is the seat of Muscle Shoals,
the worlds greatest nitro
gen manufacturing plant. Nitrogen?
yes, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In his enumeration Of allotments
for public works." Public Works Adj
Harold L. Ickes an
nounced that ut has been calculated
that IS per cent of every dollar OF
the $3,300,0oo,000 fund will go for
wages -" Now, aside from the fact
that even II IS per cent Of this huge
sum did go for wages it would not
Justify the collosan slaughter prepara-
tons, the Calculation" (by whom7)
is obviously false, the thousandtli
repetition of Navy Department. and
profit propag anda.
Where did you get the IS per cent
figure?," asked the publicity depart
nent Of the Ickes organization. From
the Navy Department and our own
engineers" was the an
5wer.
DUT if we look at the most recent
y breakdown survey of material and
abor, the pamphlet entitled "Relativs
Cost Of Material and Labor in Build
ng Construction, 1931-1932," issued
October, 1882, by the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics,-its fig
res included classes of work involved
n ship construction-we see that "for
he Is cities taken Is a whole 61.6
Der cent of the money spent in the
erection Of buildings went for ma
erial and 1854 per cent for labor"
Yes, irrespective Of what Maxim
iitvinov, Peoples Commissar for For
ign Affairs Of the Soviet Govern
nent, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
PRESIDENT OF the United States, agree
Ipon, the class conscious worker will
repare himself to resist the onslaught
( new muzzles, new guns, new mobil-
cations.