The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-09-20
The ARMS CESSPOOL


The Senate investigation into practices of the mod
ern amuntons manufacturers has quite startling effect
upon large numbers of innocent people who have been taught
to believe that the arms industry is business GRAINED full
of patriotism of the purest color Some now shocked
and due to that fact of the kept newspapers feel
themselves obligated to write editorials expressing
their establishment the sinking pool of filth graft and
corruption that has been opened before them.
But already strings are being pulled nvestiga
ton has barely started Already the Roosevelt government
itself quite busy and rather openly to stop of
the disturbing revelations from being published For
egn governments protesting and last but least the
most powerful financial hackers of the munitions industry
Chase National Bank etc. putting pressure smother
important testimony
Although Senator Nye crying that he will not let the
commission be gagged the pressure most effective Nye
himself has promised not to ask the DUPONT brothers the
extent of their political contributions. Desiring
barrass candidates coming elections says United Press
dispatch he committee decided postpone such dscos
ures' And pointing upon documents in front of him,
Stephen Raushenbush secretary Of the Senate committee
says eff these cables publishes it might mean actual
destruction of life and property" Meaning war And the
president of the DUPONT trust seconds the motion Il agree
that they should not go into the record"
The great munitions are not separate and
apart from the great basic industries the great banks and
the government; the contrary they nextrcaby in
terned with the wealthy capitalists and ruling class poll
cials These not merchants of DEATH standing apart
from the and the decisive sections of the ruling
Glass; they simply that part of the ruling class whose
Senator Nye change that situation make it appear
that the du Points somehow different than the rest of the
ruling class and its government Tehy all implicated
the Morgan and Rockefeller banks the u Steel the War
Department and other parts Of the governmental apparatus
Mr. Nye and his committee would try make appear
otherwise but worker should be fooled Nye and the
capitalist politicians the great anwar spirit that is
abroad the land the antiwar sentiment that pervades
millions of farmers and lower middle class people the Sec
ton of the population whose interests Nye and his commit
tee pretended represent To them Ne says that he has
discovered the roots of special group of wicked
itaists who manufacture To solve the problem he
proposes that the take munitions manufac
ture.
But every worker should ask himself the question: Are
not munitions made for armies and not armies the
of carrying out government policies?
Did not the War Department know all about the manu-
facture of these arms Did it not these to kill
Ncaragan workers and peasants to collect the debts Of the
yes to shoot down the strikers at the textile mills and docks
of the United States?
The workers of the United States must see this traffic
in DEATH this monumental racket part OF the whole d-
seased capitalist system To do away with the racket
must do away with the system that breeds the cap
itaS system and set revolutionary workers govern
ment Soviet Government Only thus that cesspoo of
international intrigue and corruption tiny whiff of which
the arms investigation afforded usbe done away with.
The Producers News urges all workers and other anti
fighters to demand in ringing tones that the munitions
investigation be carried without conceament Every
single document must be brought to light The name Of
every individual connected with the manufacture and trade
of munitions must be given publicity.
Workers should demand that the hearings be broadcast
over the radio network Let us where the taxes wrung
out of the CO. Let who profits by the sale of
tear gas used against strikers.
Workers must use this occasion to demand a 100 per
cent tax on munitions profits vast funds to go for
employment relief and insurance for bread and not for
bullets.
Demand embargo on all shipments of munitions to
fascist Germany and to Japan for the Soviet Union
Give the most energetic support to the forces which
fighting the munitions makers and the system of
which they part! Support the Second u S. Con-
gress Against War and Fascism in Chicago September
28 20 and 30! Get your organization to send deegates
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