The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Big Capitalists, Navy Men Work Together
For Huge Profits in Z. S. War Building
Workers in War Indus
tries Being Modified for
War Production

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vistory Board are General James G.
Hartford, chairman Of the board OF
the Radio Corporation Of America,
and former Secretary Of the Treasury,
Woodin. This board has held confer
ences with leading industrialists or
the question of plant mobilization.
The Transfer Of Naval Officers
Coincident with Dungans appoint
ment Is that Of Rear Admiral J. J.
Rahy. He has been ordered from the
Charles-on Is. c. Navy Yard. to
command the Naval Operating Base
at San Francisco. This transfer.
which has to do with the feet il
the Pacific waters, Is to take effect
Feb. %. It Is pertinent to point out
at this juncture that Japan, fully
sensible TO these movements, is max
ing violent attacks on the plans Of
the United States government,
through Vice Admiral Suetsugu its
Naval commsnder-in-chief.
On the heels Of these attacks comes
the meeting next week Of Japans
Diet, at which time the largest mill
tary budget in its history will be
adopted.
But Rahy's transfer is not the only
one that relates to the war breeding
Pacific area. A commander and two
heutenant-commanders have been or
dered from duties here to the Asiatic
Station. Commander A. M. Charlie
ton Is to leave Schenectady IN. y
Tor the Orient. Lieutenant-Com-
manders F. D. Powes and J. A. Ter
hume will leave the o. s. S. Antares
and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, respec-
lively, to take up duties at the Asi-
attic Station.
Captain G. A. Dunn has been de-
tached from Puget Sound to replace
DUNCAN at the Brooklyn Yard. Lieu
tenant-Commander E. F. Barker also
has been ordered to the New York
depot. The Brooklyn Navy Yard will
receive a n.%nber Of large contracts
for new war craft and repair work.
Senator Copeland has told officials al
the yard that he will seek an imme-
date appropriation of about $23 ,0oo.-
wv AVA IOllokA ACbNJIA WDIk.
Public Works" for War Purposes
The activities of the Navy Depart
ment are bound up closely with the
Federal Emergency Administration of
Public Works. The government has
denied that the Public Works Admin
istration is involved or engaged in
promoting military program. Never
theleSS, high Naval officials have been
ordered to duty, embracing the su-
perVision Of public works" Lieuten-
ant-Conlmander L. F. Gaffney has
been shifted from the BROOKLYN Nav
Yard for work with the Public Works
administration. Lieutenant Com
mander T. F. Darden, Jr., also has
been ordered to work with the ad-
nlinistration.
In the face of these maneuvers.
Great Britain has inaugurated q move
Oh its own, which will eliminate in
a demonstration of Naval strength.
WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF
WAR VESSELS OF THE UNITED
STATES FLEET.
Even as these lines are being writ
ten, an armada Of the most powerful
ships of the British Navy is about
to steam out toward the west Insiss,
The flagship Of this squadron is the
giant battleship Nelson, built at
cost Of s35 100000.
The British fleet will reach the
Caribbean waters at time when the
heroic Cuban workers are Struggling
TO free themselves from the Wall ST.
lmperialists and their lackey regimes
and to establish their own govern
ment. Officially, Great Britain's war
Ministry has characterized the feet
movement as a cruise" to its Car.b-
bean possessions A cruise of such
nature ordinarily would consume
three weeks time, or, at the most.
a month. But the British armada is
leaving the Gibraltar with food and
coal to last three months, AND PRE-
PARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY.
This demonstration is to be a mean
lngful gesture for the benefit of the
wall Street bankers and industrial
lstS, and similar to the one the United
states Navy has recently staged for
Japan. ~
With the Geneva disarmament eon.
ference having completely collapsed.
the inperialist powers are franticaIIv
Jockeying anew for trade and arrns
ment advantages and concessions. The
lerce economic battles. which are
having their echoes in the capitalist
press, already have crystaIized IN
clashes In South America, that have
sent thousands Of workers to their
death. These clashes are but Qlarinc
manifestations Of the acute trade
rivalry between the United States and
Great Britain, and emphasize the
acuteneSS OF the war danger.
Again the arrest on Tuesday OF
IlVe japanese taking photographs OF
airport ana shipyard sites on the New
jersey coast and the alarm eyinced
by officials incident thereto. further
stresses the steady drift to imperial
ist war.
President Roosevelt, while appess-
ing the pacif1Sts with his Statements
on the preservation of world peace
has theoretically started the ebis
push" FOR a carnage of death that
VIII make the last war seem like
sSirmish by comparison.
The war plans Of Roosevelt and his
wan Street bosses can be halted only
by the solid, determined and united
front Of opposition on the part of the
workers and their class allies.
1t is the duty of every worker, intel
lectual, student. and small business
man to Immediately get behind the
program Of the American League
Against War and FasciSm.