The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Recovery" Measures
In Budget Mask Var
Aid, Profit Guarantee.
Roosevelt Budget Has Billions for Wall Street
MOnOpolies; Organizes the Country for
War Building
By MILTON HOWARD

By MILTON HOWARD
THE WORD Of Roosevelt viii soon
become a proverb-for stiffness Of
meaning.
When millions of jobless demand
relief and Unemployment Insurance
TO protect them against the starva-
ton and suffering which the capt.
alist crisis has brought them, Roose-
velt takes on very sad, noble ex-
preston, and replies that much as he
feels for their needs, the government
cannot afford" to establish the
dole" that it has no money, that
it must balance the budget"
And then he announces in his new
recovery" budget message that the
government will raise $4,000 ,000, 600
not for unemployment insurance, but
for the gearing up of industry for
profits, for war!
But in the very message in which
ne announced this Gall wrapped up
in talk Of 'humanity'O, Roosevelt
promised the toiling masses, the
workers and impoverished farmers,
that the load of national debt they
would have to carry would not ex-
coed $31 600, 100000 by 1885, the most
mountainous load of debt the popu-
Iation has ever had to carry.
And the very next day, Roosevelt
casually informed the workers that
they would have to carry another four
billion to "re-f1nance" (guarantee)
the mortgages held by Wall Street
bankers and investors, bringing the
total government debt to s35, 100000
600!
The same ruling class trickery
characterizes the whole Roosevelt
slo,Ooo,0oo budget
Four Billion War Debt
Within the next IL months RooSe-
welt says he needs S6,000,000,000 for
his emergency" program, and $4,000
100000 to pay off the owners of
Liberty bonds, government securities,
etc
The $4,000 100000 Liberty bond loan
was war loan, and the $4,000,000,0 900
to be wrung from the people to pay
the bondholders is just an example
Of the way the capitalists use the
government to make the masses pay
for the expenses of imperialist war.
Firsd Wall Street reaps q CHASTITY
harvest OF profits from the mass
murder Of war, and then it uses its
government as a collecting agent to
make the workers and impoverished
farmers pay the expenses of the war
in which they and their sons were
slaughtered! Such is one of the func-
tons Of the 2coseyelt budget
NE,5TERCA- w saw that the or
l binary" budget fcr next year
amounting TO s3,543,000 coo, contains
about Sc per cent pure plumber and
swindle i'll the interests of the Wall
Street bankers, investors, big land
lords, and the military machine.
In the ordinary budget for 1884
Roosevelt will spend s92,00O,OO0 for
river and harbor work" that means
military Tar preparations!
Then the 1884 budget provides for
the spending Of $5ll,OOO,oOo for the
Army and Navy directly Exclusive
Of indirect appropriations through
the Public Works Fund}-more prep
arations for war;
And the A, A. A, will get $514,o00,-
300 to help the big farm landlords
get high prices on their. crops by de-
stroying part Of the crop, and driving
the small farmer into pauper1sm
through acreage reduction.
And the annual payments to the
bankers of their bond and loan in
terest will rise next year by $4,000
900 to reach the staggering total
of $842, 600 000-collected in taxes by
Roosevelt and sent right straight
into the pockets of the Wall Street
money changers" about whom
Roosevelt says so many things.
Public Works War Building
NOW for the big emergency" bud
" get. Roosevelt wants $7,52S, 900 900
in the next six months for his ere
eoYery" budget.
The first item is S1227, 100000 for
public works. This "G.-blic works"
program Of Roosevelt has been, in
actually, the greatest war building
program on record in this country
during peace time.
Here are some typical Roosevelt
public works" projects--S238, 000,-
900 for cruisers and battIeships;
S50,O00,000 for army environments,
forts, stations, ETC.; S7,000,O00 for
100 bombing planes; and many more
millions rising to a total close to
$1,000, 00O,000 out of the public
works" fund for war building!
Two days ago, it was revealed in
Congress that the public works"
fund has just granted the Army
and Navy appropriations that had
been refused them by Congress!
II was shown that the Navy got
millions for building high powered
radio stations for military pur-
poses, that the AeronauticaI Blu
reau got more millions that earlier
had been denied 1t by Congress.
All in the name of public works."
The budget as proposed by Roose-
velt quite openly lists under public
works" Gin addition to the regular
appropriations such items as the
following
For War Dept mon
military ..............$ 1871, 100000
For Army ............... $3.50 900
For Navy .........,. 100000
The next item is 100000 900 for
the G. w. A. supposedly for the well