The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07

EVERY day mountains of steel are
Il riveted and welded into destroy
ers, cruisers, submarines and air.
craft carriers. Airplanes soar into
the clouds carrying tons Of bombs.
New poison gases crowd the shelves
of imperialism. New guns stand
ready to spatter death among work
ers and farmers at record speeds.
Fleet reviews and war games" re-
hearse the approaching conflict for
prolt-the profit of the Morgans,
Bakers, Teagles, Astors, Rockefel-
lers, Guggenheims, Baruchs, Du-
Points, Harrimans, Schwabs, Taylors
and MELONS.
AS the ornaments pile rises
higher and higher and billions of
dollars flow through the pipes of
the Roosevelt New Deal into war
preparations for the threatening
imperialist struggle for new markets
and for the redivision of old ones,
the reast-beating patriotic" ora
tory, over the radio. in the press
and on the public platform, becomes
more fervid for war and more fran
tic against the mounting anti-war
sentiment of the masses.
Machine guns and tanks, bomb
ing planes and warships are manu-
featured for avowedly imperialist
purposes ard as a supposed war
preventive. Norman H. Davis, in
slider with General Pershing On
j. P. Morgan g. Company's favored
customer lists and Hoover Roose-
welt disarmament" spokesman at
Geneva, advances the familiar
United States proposal for the
abolition of certain aggressive
weapons, possessed by its imperial
istic rivals, as "a method of dis
armament which constitutes a
realistic aid to peace" On the very
same day, Secretary of War Dern,
Utah banker, urges the Military At
fairs Committee of the House of
Representatives to recommend pas
sage Of the Thompson Bill to in
crease the enlisted and officer per-
sonnet of the Army at an addi-
tional annual cost of $35 ,000,0
Thus Roosevelts War Secretary ex-
plains the imperialist war meaning
of the Roosevelt disarmament" ex-
pert's concern for "the general
peace and progress of the world"
President Roosevelt himself shows
how thin is the pacif1st cloak under
which he launches gigantic war
preparation measures. What's all
this war talk about anyway, he says,
before signing the billion dollar
naval construction Vinson Bill.
Why, this bill doesn't appropriate
one penny; it simply authorizes me
to go ahead and build up to London
Naval Treaty strength. Then, three
weeks later, he gives the word to
go full speed ahead with the first
destroyer submarine building under
the Vinson Bill-the SAC, 100000 cost
of which is to come out Of Public
Works" And, concluding his Get
tysburg Memorial Day speech, on
the eve OI ISNlSWiilS WIG SAS"0~S'
"peacetime" armada in the history
of the country, he gives renewed
assurance that the passions OF war
are Wondering in the tombs OF
Time and the purposes OF peace
are flowing in the hearts OF
united people"
New worker and farmer cannon
fodder is wanted. Workers beware
and urepare-AGAINST war.
The alimentary canal of the Blue
Eagle is a sixteen inch gun. The
producer of this bristling bird is
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, war
time Assistant Secretary of the
Navy under woodrow Wilson (who
"kept us out of war" to make the
world safe for democracy and Big
Navy man.
Total allotments. under the guise
Of public and Civil works, Tor
direc. and indirect war preparations
and the total authorizations ana