The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Against Hunger and War


Welt is asking the American masses to eat less
in order to permit the Wall Street monopoIies to
compete better against their British imperiast rivals
Soon, the Roosevelt government will ask the
American masses to go into the battlehelds of i'm
periast slaughter to protect these Wall Street in
Vestments and profits.
That is the fundamental meaning of the latest
Roosevelt proposals for the deyauaton of the dollar
and the setting up OF immense financial engine in
the form OF $2OOOOOOOOO equalization fund"
Roosevelt through this latest financial move, is
now telling British imperialism that Wall Street i'm
periasm is determined to keep the dollar below 80
cents as sharp weapon in cutting away from British
influence the markets Of Latin America China and
India.
All this means that the day is swiftly drawing
closer when the present intense fnancial-economic
warfare between the leading nperiast powers will ex
plode into bloody world imperialst war
For it is inevitable that the Wall Street and
British imperialts will find that other weapons
besides financial and economic ones will be neces-
ssry in the fight for markets
ALREADY the International atmosphere is percep-
"A tbly growing more tense
Leading British bankers demanded yesterday that
the British pound be driven below the American dol
lar even if means that France is driven off the gold
standard.
And already yesterday the British pound dropped
quickly away from the French franc and sank several
points against the American dollar. This gives in
dcation that British imperialism is getting ready to
reply to the Roosevelt nfationary drive even il it
means the emo of its temporary financial tie-up with
France The nfatonary drive for markets is inten-
styling the instability Of the whole world capitalist
structure, leading it closer to war.
These developments give further confirmation to
the analyses Of the 18th and 18th Plenums Of the
Executive Committee Of the Communist Interna-
nona describing the end of the relative sterilization
Of capitalism and the steadily growing uncertainty
and instability of mperalst diplomatic international
agreements.
WHAT DOES all this mean to the American masses
" to the millions Of workers and impoverished farm
ers who are now feeling the heavy lash Of the Roose
welt N.RA. slavery?
It means that the entire American working class
is being pundered still further through sharp slash
In the buying power Of their pay envelopes 1t
that every American family will find it harder to get
bread milk, coal, clothes, and shelter
1t means that the Roosevelt government is using
the State to drive down the cost of production
for the Wall Street monopolies Through permitting
them to pay their workers in cheapened dollars giving
them greater power to compete against their British
rivals for the profits of the world-colonia markets
IL means in other words that Roosevelt is help
ing the Wall Street mOnOpOlies to step down harder
on the American masses in order to leap outward
for imperialist expansion for prOfts.
Hunger, infatonary wage slashes, and imperialist
warthese grim capitalist blessings stare from every
pore of the Roosevelt gold devaIuation program
This blow against the American workers and their
families can be returned
HIGHER WAGES TO MEET RISING PRICES!
This must be the immediate demand Of the American
working class The fight for this demand squarely
meets the whole Roosevelt plan to protect the Wall
Street inperiaist drive for markets at the expense of
the American masses.
Organized struggle against the high cost of living
Against the N. r. A. strikebreakng arbitration"
codes!
For immediate increases in wages of all Amer
lean workers to defeat the masked wage cut of the
oeyaIuated 6ollar
For struggle against the Roosevelt war prepara-
lions that part Of the whole Roosevelt financial
programI
For unemployment insurance for all jobless work
ers, to be paid by the government and the empIoyers
For the Immediate turning Of the huge war funds
to committees of obless workers for an unemployment
insurance fund.-
For United Front of the oppressed masses against
the Roosevelt Wall Street offensive!