The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13
On the
World Front
Zone He'll of a Business"
Wall St. and Armaments
"AH South America VIII
Be Involved
BY HARRY CANNES

1 would have written the let
ters and evidence actually adj
duced from munitions manu-
facturers and statesmen at the
Senate arms inquiry, in 1.-THE
form of fiction, the capita list
press would insist that his ina 9ina-
ton was diseased.
All of the charges of wholssale
graft by the munitions manufac=
turers, the role of Morgan anda
Rockefeller in instigating war ins
order to make profits; the Bet
that the Bolivia Paraguay war 10
only the prelude to a more gigantic
slaughter throughout Latin Amer
lea betbeen American and British
Imperialism, are sustained to the
hilt.
If anything at all, the Daily
Worker completely underestimate
the extent Of the inperialist depre-
dations.
CECRETARY of State Hull an~
" Senator Nye, chairman of the
committee, directly apologized to all
of the grafters and to j. P. Morgan,
the due Points, and to John D.
Rockefeller for the incontrovertible
evidence Of their bloody guilt
brought out in the hearings.
In his public letter of apoloaR
addressed to Cordell Hull, NYa
states: "The committee deeply rSr
grets that false impression may
have been created, and that state
ments m d e by manufacturers
agents abroad, although believed by
them, may be unfOunded as far as
those high persOnages are con-
cerned. :"
NOW what are the facts? Curtiss-
" Wrights sales managers and exp
ecutives in letters they never be,
lieved would see the light of day
wrote that they personally handed
brides to presidents, generals, con-
suls and other government Officially
of Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Paragua,
and almost every other Latin Amer
lean country. They knew they were
doing crooked, murderous business,
and they knew the forces behind
them; but brazenly admit the job
must be done and they might as
well get the money out of it.
The Roosevelt State Department,
representing Wall Street interests
in Latin America, knew of this
this graft, and approved of it in
the struggle for war preparations
against their rivals for Latin Amer
lean domination.
Frank Sheridan Jones. represent
ing the Remington Arms Co. and
the Federal Laboratories in South
America, in letter dated Dec. 81.
1888, addressed to Owen Shannon.
of the Curtis5- Wright Co. at New
York land both corporations have
their leading strings in the office
of j. P Morgan and Coz stated:
1--WE certainly are in one hell Of
a business, where fellow has to
wish for trouble so as to make a
living, the only consolation be-
ing, however, that If we don't get
the business some one else will.
1t would be terrible state of
affairs if my conscience started
to bother me now"
WHETHER the individual sales
" men pay out huge brides,
whether tens of thousands of Latin
American peasants have their
brains and CUTS spattered over the
battle fields, cannot bother the con-
science of Mr.. Jones, because he
knows the Wall Street bankers will
pursue their war policies and push
the arming of their puppet govern
ments regardless.
Mr.. Webster of the same Nor
gan-controlled Curtiss- Wright Cor
poration, writing to Mr.. Travis in
Peru (another agent of Curtiss-
Wright, reveals that behind Para
quay is British Imperialism and in
back of Bolivia is Standard Oil; and
furthermore, the Bolivia Paraguay
war is only the prelude to a greater
slaughter in which they must work
last in order to reap a greater har-
vest of profits.
Mr.. Webster's own words follow,
II am firmly convinced through
personal conversation, while in
Buenos Aires, that moral and
financial support is coming and
will continue from Argentina
twhere British Imperialism is
dominant-H. GIL on behalf of
Paraguay, and Bolivia will be re-
quired to find similar support
either through Standard Oil Com
pany, or through wealthy nation
ais such as Patino, whose BUSH
ness and financial interests are
at stake.
Il am of the opinion that be-
fore these two comic opera wars
are finished in the north and
South that practically all South
America will be invoIved-so
watch your step and play your
cards accordingly"
WHEN 10000 Paraguayan and
" Bolivian workers and peasant,
are slaughtered for Standard Oil OF
British bankers, that's only comic
opera war. The real thing is yet
to come.
Even while the hearings go on
American arms firms continue ia
pay graft, to supply their puppets
with munitions, reap a golden har.
vest of profits out of the slaughter
of the toiling masses.
American munitions manufac.
turers continue to build explosive
manufacturing plants for japanese
imperialism, load nearly eyery ship