The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
C.C.C. Camps
Reveal L. S.
War Set-Up
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
(Continued from Page y

head, and long time angel of the
Democratic Party, and admitted
co-author of the fascist Swope
Plan, is N.R.A. Administrator. The
Generals research" experience is
standing him in good stead. An
other war will crown his career.
He once told the press: II have
a sentimental attachment for the
old Post Office Building, for there
I conducted the draft"
Lieutenant -Colonel George
Lynch, recently transferred from
the General Staff of the War De-
partment, is the Chief Administra-
tive Officer of the N.RA. General
johnson considers Lynch zone
of the best brains in the War De-
partment"
General c. C. Williams, former
Chief of Ordnance Of the U. S.
Army, worked quickly in the short
time he was an MIRA. Deputy Ad-
ministrator. The Oct. 4th Army
and Navy Journal the "Spokes-
man of the Services Since 1863"
tells the brief but Illuminating
tale. "They are saying at the
N.RA. headquarters that Major
General c. c. Williams, formerly
Chief of the Ordnance Division of
the Army, who is negotiating
codes for the chemical industry,
has been getting more codes
adopted with less friction than
any other deputy administrator.
Nice work, General" The chemical
industry is an integral part of the
chemical warfare section of the
War Department.
COLONEL r OBERT HESTER
y MONTGOMERY, until recently
chief of the Research and Planning
Division of the N R. A., contributed
to this Roosevelt planning" the
benefit of his experience during the
World War as chief of the organiza-
ton and methods section in the
office of the Director of Purchases
of the Army General Staff, and as
organizer and member of the War
Department Board of Appraisers.
The Colonel, who is a member Of
the administrative board of the
School of Business of Columbia
University and a former member of
the faculty, served the Hoover Ad-
ministration as a $4,000 a year Sec
rotary of the War Policies Commits
sion
Jesse I. Miller, the executive
director of the National Labor
Board, the strikebreaking organ Of
the New Deal, sharpened his ruling
class social and economic viewpoint
as aide-de-camp during the World
War to the late Major General
Enoch Crowder, the Administrator
of the Draft Act and Army superior
of the then Major Hugh S. johnson.
Charles F. Homer, the high
pressure head of the four minute
speakers during the World War, the
man whose job it was to make the
worker and farmer believe that the
war for innperialist booty was a
''war to end wars" and war ito
make the world safe for democ-
racy," is an N. R. A. special As
sistant Administrator in charge of
Volunteer Committees for the Blue
Eagle. In other words, he helps
direct the mass propaganda de-
signed to make the worker and
farmer accept the clawing of the
strikebreaking Blue Eagle-and like
1t.
NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary OF
IL War under Wilson, now highly
paid open shop corporation lawyer,
represents the continuity between
the last imperialist World War and
the preparations for new one.
Eaker is the chairman of a sroup
selected by the War Department
ito make a constructive study OF
the Army Air Corps" The person
mel of this group-tne chief OF the
Air Corps, the president of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology. the Commandant Of the
war College, the director of Aero
nautical Research OF the National
Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics Enhanced under Public
Works"), expert flyers and aero
nautical engineers, the Assistant
Chief of Staff of the War Plans
Division of the War Department,
the President of the Stutz Motor
Co.-indicate clearly that the Baker
group will seek to coordinate the
general military, scientific and in
dustrial-military activities of Off
cial, business and technical organ
izations. "Mr Bakers acceptance
of the invitation to serve" an
nounced Secretary Of War Dern on
April 10, 1884, will bring to the
group invaluable experience result
ing from his great work as Secre-
tarv of War in the World War and
subsequent thereto, at the time OF
the reorganization of the army IN
1920"
Other New Dealers who won
their imperialist war spurs under
Woodrow Wilson'S banner include
George Peek, a member of Baruch's
War Industries Board, who is
directing the foreign trading opera
tions in the Tory atmosphere of the
State Department.
The list of army officers who are
busily engaged in coordinating the
N. R. A. and the industrial mo-
bilization division of the War De-
partment is a long one. General
Johnsons June 7, 1884, announce
ment in official release No. 5518, is
typical. Major w. L. Clay, U. S.
A., assigned to special field duty in
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