The daily worker., 1934-07-06

Innocent Standard Oil
When Taxes" Are Brides
GENERAL MOTORS Corps
u ration representatives re-
Gently had an interview with
Butcher Hitler and found him
a splendid fellow. This huge
Morgan automobile trust, so
closely intertwined with the
Roosevelt regime through General
Johnson, Bernard Baruch, John j.
Raskob and Al Smith, can hardly
find words glowing enough to praise
this fascist fiend.
In the June issue of General
Motors World" magazine devoted
to the overseas operations of this
Morgan trust, there is the report
Of how James D. Mooney, chief in~
ternational salesman for the corr
poration, was greeted with open
arms by Hitler. Then they begin
to ladle out the most gushing praise
to this slaughterer of the German
workers. Mr.. Mooney writes his em-
ployers in Detroit Gust about the
time that Roosevelt was helping
them break the auto workers strike)
that he attended Nazi mass meet.
ing.
GAS HERR HITLER walked 10
n the stand small boy stepped
into his path; he stopped, smiled,
patted the boys cheek and started
again. The boy held out his hand
and the Chancellor stopped again
and shook hands. He opened his
speech by saying that he wished
to report to his people the prog
resS they had made as a nation
in the past year. He quoted sta
tiStics and reminded them Of the
many improvements in the Ger
man economy accomplished under
his plan for giving every one an
opportunity to work to improve
his own condition-and thus to
restore Germany to her place as
leading nation"
DOOSEVELT'S New Deal is then
~ compared to Hitler's program.
Mr.. Mooney, of course, does not re-
late his talk with Hitler about sup
plying war supplies, tanks, motors,
military trucks, and credits to help
faScism prepare for war against the
Soviet Union-at great profit to the
Morgan trust.
ANOTHER big Wall Street trust.
n Standard Oil Co.. also in the
June issue of its official magazine
THE Lamp" tries to explain some
of its imperialist knavery.
Under the title, "An Innocent By
stander in Chaco," the Rockefeller
sheet tries to pose as a much-ma-
ligned bystander in the ferocious
war between Bolivia and Paraguay
Of the Gran Chaco region.
1.-THE Standard Oil Company has
scrupulously endeavored to respect
the rights of both sides and keep
entirely out of either the politics OF
military operations involved" says
"The Lamp" This does not explain
why, when Fort Ballican was being
pressed hard by the Paraguayan
forces, and the Standard Oil inter-
ests were threatened, the Bolivians
drove 5000 of their own men to
death in order to save Standard Oil
property.
THE innocent" Standard Oil ad-
= mits many things, however. They
admit that they have a huge oil
concession in Bolivia near the
Chaco regions but deny there is oil
in the disputed territory. This may
be so, as their surveyors have been
all over it. But they omit to men,
ton the fact that the huge oil de-
posits in Bolivia become a thou
sand-fold more valuable if Standard
Oil can get its pipe lines laid
through Chaco in order to get to
the sea.
They further admit that they
bribed the Bolivian government,
though they don't use the ugly word.
They put it this way:
Briefly, under a settlement
made in 1928, the company ad-
vanced the Bolivian government
a million bolivianos (S362,97S U.
S. currency in anticipation of fu-
ture taxes. -. The company made
this payment with the under
standing that it entitled it to
credit on taxes up to and includ-
ing 1885,"
Everybody knows, of course, how
generous the Standard Oil Co. really
is and how willing it pays taxes
eight years in advance. What could
be greater proof of 'innocence?"
But the fact remains that it was
precisely in 1928 that the Stanford
Oil Co. was provoking Bolivia i1No
war with Paraguay.
ANOTHER confession of it's guilt
-
"A in sending Bolivian workers and
peasants to their death so that
Rockefeller and those owning
Standard Oil could increase their
profits is contained in the statement
of the Bolivian Ambassador to
Washington, who says of the Stand
ard Oil concessions in Bolivia: "It
was not profitable to continue the
exploitation of its oil fields while
unable to export even part of its
production. Precisely so. That's
why a war which would help
Standard Oil become profitable by
exporting its product was so heavily
financed by the Rockefeller inter-
ests.
It is true that Standard Oil is