The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
Killing of JobIess
SweIIed DioidendS
Of Arms Makers
Propaganda for Attacks
on the Unemployed
Shown at Inquiry
BY Marguerite Young
tDaily Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 49,
Two business men who supply gas,
bombs and guns now being used by
police and soldiers against the tex
tile strikers sat blandly by today
while the Senate munitions inves-
sigators testified these men sue
ceed in blocking legislation to stop
the use of force against Commu-
nistic or labor demonstrations"
armed the Pennsylvania State police
for unemployed demonstrations and
put bullets into the hands of Ford
police for the Deaborn massacre,
and boosted that, altogether, the
economic crisis has brought an
acute demand for our products"
1--WE should impress upon public
officials" John w. Young, presi-
dent of Federal Laboratories, Inc,
Of Pittsburgh, wrote one of his
agents in March, 1882, that they
should spend money for the pur-
chase of tear gas equipment even
when they cannot afford to pay
salaries" He said the march of I'M
employed upon the Ford plant in
Detroit served as a warning to
other companies, and since then
there is a general movement for
preparing for such attacks" BY
attack" he meant the peaceful
demonstration of defenseless work.
ers. four OF whom were killed with
his guns.
Federal Laboratories has one di-
rector who also heads the Railway
Audit and Supply Service, which
supplies undercover agents or spies
for use in strikes throughout the
country. Another Federal director
is one of the Weirton Steel barons.
Despite the introduction of all
this dramatic evidence that the IN
ternational munitions racket is part
and parcel of the capitalist system,
which rests upon the use of force
to maintain workers in subsection
to the owners of industry, the Sen
ators who are supposedly making a
sweeping" investigation of the
munitions business carefully avoid
ed pointing out the connection be-
tween the domestic" munitions
business and the international
side Of it.
Senator Bone, Dem. Washington
who introduced the evidence of the
strjkebreaking activities of the mu-
milton makers, in fact took occa-
sion to obscure the tie between this
and war-making by issuing a for
NAL statement declaring that the
activities of the munitions men
alone may easily become a menace
TO the peace of nations" 1t is the
activities of all imperialists fighting
for markets that cause war, but
some declared that with the COM
pleton of this investigation solely
of the munitions business every
mother n the world will breathe
more easily"
The demagogic statement called
upon 1.-THE citizens" of South Am
erica to understand" that the Sen
ate committee takes no pleasure in
disclosing bribery, corruption, etc.
of South American officials BY
North American arms sellers. Il
was issued just after Bone declared
that there seems to be grim de-
termination in some quarters tt
stifie this inquiry because it is hurt
ing business" Thus Bone implied
that "the people" of South Ameri'
"a are against exposure of the fact'
whereas everybody knows thai
DIPLOMATIC pressure is being exertee
on behalf. rather, Of BUSINESS me1
hnth in South America and thu
United States.