The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
The Arms CeSSbeOl

EFFORTS are already being made, as pre-
IL dicted in the columns of the Daily
Worker. to smother important testimony
in the arms investigation in Washington.
Senator Nye has promised not to ask the
du Pont brothers the extent of their po-
litical contributions. Desiring not to
embar1ass candidates in coming elections" says
United Press dispatch, the committee DECIDED 10
postpone such disclosures"
The great munitions manufacturers are not
separate and apart from the great basic industries,
the great banks and the government: on the con-
trary they are inextrcably intertwined with the
wealthy capitalists and ruling class politicians.
These are not merchants of death standing apart
from the government and the decisive sections of
the ruling class; they are simply that part OF
the ruling class whose merchandise happens to
be lethel instruments. No effort Of Senator Nye
can change that situation can make it appear that
the du Points are somehow different than the rest
of the ruling class and its government. They are
all implicated-the Morgan and Rockefeller banks,
the u S. Steel the War Department and other
parts of the governmental apparatus
Mr. Nye and his committee would try to make
1t appear otherwise but worker should be
fooled Nye and the capitalist politicians sense
the great anti-war spirit that is abroad in the
lions of farmers and lower middle class people,
the section of the population whose interests Nye
and his committee pretend to represent. To them
Nve SAYS that he has discovered the roots of
"a special group of wicked capitalists who manu-
facture arms. TO solve the problem he proposes
that the government take over munitions manu-
facture.
But every worker should ask himself the ques-
ton Are not munitions made for armies and
are not armies the means of carrying out govern
ment policies?
Did not the War Department know all about
the manufacture Of these arms? Did it not
these arms to kill Nicaraguan workers and peas
ants to collect the debts Of the Chase National
Bank in Haiti, to fight the Chinese Revolution,
yes, to shoot down strikers at the textile mills
and docks of the United States?
THE workers of the United States must see this
1 traffic in death, this monumental racket,
part of the whole diseased capitalist system. To
do away with the arms racket, one must do away
with the system that breeds war, the capitalist
system and set up a revolutionary workers gov
eminent, a Soviet Government. Only thus can
that cesspool Of international intrigue and corrup-
tion-a tiny whiff Of which the investigation
afforded us-be done away with.
The Daily Worker urges all workers and other
anti-war fighters to demand in ringing tones that
the munitions investigation be carried without
concealment. Every single document must be
brought TO light. The name Of every individual
connected with the manufacture and trade of mu-
nitions must be given publicity.
Workers should demand that the hearings be
broadcast over the radio networks. Let us see
where the taxes wrung out Of the masses go. Let
us 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-these vast
funds to go for unemployment relief and insurance
for bread and not for bullets
Demand an embargo on all shipments of mu-
nitions to fascist Germany and to Japan for war
on 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 L. s. Congress Against War and Fss-
cism in Chicago September g. 20 and 30 Get
your union, fraternaI society or cultural organ
ization to send deIegates