The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
On the
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

ROOsevelt's Embargo Joke
Costs 5000 Lives
Munitions Ads
Labor Party on War
IF THERE is a United States
4 embargo on arms to Bolivia
and Paraguay, neither the
leading American munitions
manufacturers nor the Boliv-
ian Consul-General have heard
of it. A recent issue of
Bolivia" a magazine issued by ths
Bolivian government in this coun-
try, looks more like a catalogue of
war supplies than a prospectus for
a tourist.
For example, the Morgan-con.
trolled Curtiss- Wright Export Cor
poration, at 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
has a full page advertisement ex.
toling the military superiority of
the CurtissW Wright Osprey plane.
There is picture of the plane
mounted with murderous machine
guns. The American bombing plane
manufacturers inform the countries
to which they are not supposed to
be able to send arms that 1.-THE
Osprey has been especially deveI-
oped for Latin American require
ments." They further advise the
puppet Bolivian government, which
is we'll oiled with Standard Oil
Company'S money, that "a consider
able quantity are now in use in the
air forces of number Of Latin
American countries"
opposite the ad for bombing
v planes, General Motors (another
Morgan concern) offers to supply
trucks and other means of trans
portation for the warning armies.
Below the General Motors offer
is an advertisement Of the Colts
dbGAlG TllCcl lllo Neutrality-suspicious.
Comany. The Bolivian officers, who
are supposed to be barred from re-
ceiving arms from the U. S., learn
this of the Colt officers Model Re-
volver:
Its silky smooth action, its
crisp, clean trigger pull, its self
iointing balance and hand filling
grip-these are the features that
lend confidence to the shooter in
the face of the stiffest kind Of
competition"
Just as the above was written
cable report was received from
Asuncion, Paraguay, stating:
Three thousand Bolivians are
known to have been killed during
Yesterdays fierce fighting in the
Fort BalIivian area of the Gran
Chaco, it was announced officially
today"
Which means that more than one
Paraguayan worker or peasant felt
the silky smooth action of Colts
revolvers.
THERE are more portentous arms,
/ advertisements in the same issue,
such for example as the one OF the
Amrican Armament Corporation,
which in its own way tells the Bo-
livian Government not to mind
Roosevelt's little joke about the en-
barge. 1t informs the Bolivian au-
thorities that at La Paz, Bolivia,
they can find Messrs. Webster and
Ashton, who are their exclusive
representatives in Bolivia, ready to
supply them with whatever they re-
ouire of the following; Aerial
bombs. grenades, field, naval, anti
aircraft and airplane guns and ar
tillery ammunition of the most adj
vanced designs for all types Oh
American and European guns,
rifles, machine guns and war
vessels.
THE same firm that supplies tear
1 and vomiting gas for nearly all
the breakers in the U. S. also
informs the Bolivian Government
that it is ready despite the embargo
10 supply every tye of po'snn gas
They urge the readers of BOLIVIA
to send for descriptive catalogues.
A partial list of the products of the
Federal Laboratories, Inc, Pitts
burgh, Pa, cable address, Federal
lab" is supplied as follows: gas
weapons bullet proof vests, armour
plate shield, Thompson submachine
guns, gas masks, aerial hCrnbs, NOR
tars, airrlane starters and smoke
screen apparatus.
THE same issue of this magazine,
! inadvertently gives the lie to the 4
claims of the Standard Oil Com
pany. IN the June issue of the
Lamp" official publication of the
Rockefeller Corporation, they deny
any connection with the Chaco war,
claiming there is no oil in the dis
puted territory. In the issue of
Bolivia" of May-June there is an
article entitled "Bolivian's Oil Dis
tricts," with map showing wide
strip of oil lands, exactly at the
spot in the Chaco region where
thousands of Bolivian soldiers have
been forced to shed their FLOOD to
ensure Sta.riard Oils domination.
IN the face of the rapidly sharpen
ing war danger, the British Labor
Party recently took definite steps
to support British imperialism in
the next world war, and to do all
possible to hog-tie the workers in
their struggle against war.
1T is recognized" says the
Labor Party statement, published