The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
World Front
HARRY CANNES
Wall St. Bill Collectors
General Butler Talks
What He Doesn't Say

| MAJOR = GENERAL SMED.
Iu LEY BUTLER admits he
is a disappointed bill collector
for Wall Street in colonial
countries. He makes all this
clear in a speech Ga full steno-
graphic report of which is in
our possession) delivered at Mecca
Temple, New York, Dec. A.
The Major generaI who was
chosen as the most likely candidate
for American Hitler, but turned the
job down, believes the use of the
army and navy for bill collecting
should stop. Nevertheless he has
no objection to American capitalists
continuing to pile up bills of profit
and interest against the Latin
American people.
For 80 years and four months"
says Butler, 81 served on the active
list of the Marine Corps, the great
est bunch of bill collectors this ma
ton ever had And we spent our
time going down to South American
countries. Somebody went down
there and thought it desirable to in
vest lot of capital where you get a
big return. And they sent down an
agent to see President of a South
American country, got a loan, and
gave as security a railroad or coffee
plantation. Well, after two or three
years the railroad and coffee plan
tation don't pay. So the Marines
are sent down to put the President
out because he can't live up to his
word. I have been on nine such bill
collecting expeditions. You go down
there with your men; then you take
over the railroad and run it. Then
you have a new election, plebis-
cite-that's the State Department
word for it. You conduct the cleo
ton so your man wins"
WHEN asked why he continued to
W be bill collector for Wall
Street for SO years, Butler replied,
during the question period, that he
did not know any better until he
got out of the service.
There are a lot of things which
the General only now sees that were
exposed and fought against by the
Communist Party in the U. S. while
he was collecting bills for Wall
Street. And there are still many
more which the Communist Party is
cognizant of concerning which But
Ter is still binder than a bat.
Particularly, the Roosevelt gov
eminent is now preparing not only
for bill collection jaunt, but for
the most criminal imperialist war to
enlarge the territory on which it
hopes to collect future bills in
China and Latin America.
For example, the devil dog Major
General in his racy, popular and
forceful way is just trimming with
anecdotes of war preparations in
other times. Yet he seems to be
dumb when it comes to Roosevelt's
war preparations, his 100000, 900
expenditure for a war that will
make all of the Generals bill coll
Letting ventures when rolled into
one seem like a wet firecracker.
HERE are some of Buffers stories
IL about past graft in war expen-
ditures:
you know in the world war there
were 100000 pairs of shoes made
for 100000 soldiers. Aid if you've
seen those hobnailed shoes you
know they last enough for ten
years. These patriotic shoe makers
made 100000 pairs of shoes.
Twenty million mosquito nets for
100000 men in France = where
there are no mosquitoes! $675 ,0O0,-
600 worth of wooden ships that
wouldn't float A billion dollars
worth Of airplenes that couldn't get
of the ground During the war
they bought IA forty-eight inch
wrenches-and there is only one 49,
inch nut in America, up at Niagara
falls. !. They rode around on freight
cars for a year trying to find some
use for them. There was a $4,000
900 freight bill shipping them
around trying to find a use for
|theml"
NOW there are several comments,
quite appropriate, the general
could have made but didn't. For
example, Roosevelt's closest friend,
Vincent Astor, denied his war
millions were made out of arms and
ammunition. 1t may be quite right.
But it certainly was made out of the
war, out of shedding the blood Of
millions of workers Mosquito net
manufacturers would deny, until
they are blue in the face, that they
manufacture war material. but how
many millions did they make out of
the war. The same is true with
shoe manufacturers, and hundreds
of others.
WHAT we would like to hear from
General Butler is how much is Vim
cent Aston, and his class, making
now out of the billions spent by
Roosevelt for future slaughters in
order to help Wall Street collect
millions in tribute in the world
markets?