The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Step By Step

gTEP BY STEP. day by day, the Roosevelt govern
ment is leading the American masses toward
the wholesale slaughter of imperialist war.
Hardly a day passes now without bringing to light
some evidence Of persistent deliberate organization for
war by the Roosevelt government.
The report of the Daily Worker Washington cor
respondent printed in yesterdays issue revealing that
the top administration machinery of the NRA. is
quickly establishing the closest possible hook-up with
the War Department through the appointment OF an
other military expert certainly significant Of the
war preparations Of the Roosevelt government.
General johnson has appointed as head OF the
strategic Planning Division of the N.RA. a man ex-
pert in the rapid organization of industry for pro-
duction. This man, Colonel R. H. Montgomery, has
been part OF the Hoover War Department. and has
served American Imperialism as a member Of the War
Policies Commission.
IT is necessary to remember that the whole Roose-
welt N.RA program is directed toward gearing up
the entire American economy to efficiency and
Capitalization.
Let not forget that Roosevelt has in his posses
sion secret memorandum delivered to him several
days ago by his advisers Prof Tugwell and Peek re-
gardng the immediate survey of every American fac
tory with the objective of asceraining its place in
relation TO needs.
The MIRA codes the forced destruction of the
marginal" that is to say, the small non-trlstiied
producer in agriculture OIL cotton etc. the govern
nent intervention in speeding the further truStihca-
ton of the telegraph telephone and radio industries
together with the constant appointments of military
to strategic positions in the industrial divisions
Of the NRA and the survey OF American industry
for purposes-an these day to day actions of the
Roosevelt government give overwhelmingly cumulative
evidence that the government is deliberately organizing
for warl
That explains why the Roosevelt government is
now engaged in the most gigantic program Of naval
and military building this country has ever seen
Within the past nine months Roosevelt has poured
over s1,oOo,OOOOOO into direct war expenditures
That also explains why the voice of official pacifsm
IS growing louder every day-why Mrs Roosevelt for
example, is indulgng in the most gushing kind of
pacst sentmentalty while the machines of war prep
sraton DAY and night! For, this rise in off,
cia pacifsm is always the forerunner of war It is
the snnokescreen it is the camouflage behind which
the Wall Street imperialist war-akers can go about
their war preparations unhindered
Now Roosevelt drives the American workers and
Impoverished farmers deeper into starvation through
the NaRA scissors of rising prices and cheapening
currency AS he does So he prepares to complete their
suffering by sending them to the inlperialist war
shambes-an to protect the profits and investments
Of Wall Street imperialism
In the factories. shops, unions, everywhere where
the toiling gather the day to day war steps
Of the Roosevelt government must be wrested from
the obscurity in which American capitalism tries to
conceal its plans and revealed to the workers for
what they areplans to hur the masses into slaughter
for Wall Street imperialism