The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

lAO VIZ navy 4ODDy. IL Is estimated
that during each Of the next seven
years (even assuming no larger
naval programs are drawn the
United States will be spending three
times as much on the navv-new
construction and operating expense
AS it spent just before the World
Warl And all these vessels will be
built very definitely for q war tn
protect commerce on the high
seas" life and property" I'D
American interests tel Is
used by the State Departn2 1t
spokesman TO denote Wall Streets
investments overseas.
War industries and the trade in
war materials are booming. No
figures touching the export of arms
can give us any notion of the
amount of sales made, for at least
80 per cent Of the peace time sales
are made to home governments and
are, Of course, not reported in the
export figures. But it is evident from
all reports that war shipments from
the United States, about which the
government refuses all vital ilfor-
nation are on the increase.
us. Sells Arms to Japan
Fragmentary reports tell of vast
" increased shipments of manga
nese and sulphur from Gulf ports
to the west coast. Ships pass thru
the Panama Canal almost daily car
rying scrap iron, nitrates, lead, cot
ton linters. Shipments Of aluminium
and the vitally important nickel
from canada have increased sub
stantially. Shipments of another
war metal, molybdenum, by the
leading American company, have in
creased over 100 per cent above last
year. The enormous shipments to
Japan Of locomotives, nickel steel,
airplane engines, tanks, wagons,
lumber, trucks, scrap iron and other
materials for Japan's Manchurian
war base have already been noted
in the Daily Worker,
An investigation" of the "muni-
tions trust with a meager appro-
priation Of $4,000 to pay for the
jobs ordered by the us. Senate,
but will undoubtedly do no more
than previous hearings have done
exactly nothing-to take excessive"
profit out of war. The DuPonts, the
Schwabs, the Morgsns and the Mel
Ions can laugh at such feeble pro-
tests For they own the government
that Is making the Investigation.
Jobless Trained for War
Typical indications Of US. prep
aration for imperialist war are seen
likewise in the f-congratulatory
expressions of high army officers
over the excellent practice in re-
cruiting guln-fodder the army has
gained from the herding Of unem-
ployed youth into the Civilian Con-
servation Camps, especially the re-
yealing statements of Assistant Sec
rotary of War Woodrtng. =
There is also the recent airma
business, obviously a method
checking up on the air preparedne
Of the nation, opening the way to
further appropriations for war
planes. The speeches of Senator
Black and army aviation chiefs have
made 1t plain that air preparations
was the main aim of the recent ex-
posture of mail contracts. On top
Of this came the recent appoint
ment of "a combined military and
civilian committee" headed by for
mer War Secretary Newton D.
Baker, which is drafting elaborate
plans to increase the wartime effect
iveness Of the Army Air Corps.
Economic preparations for war
seen also in the proposals for merg-
ing the wire, cable and radio facil-
tiles of the country into a giant
system of governmental controlled
communications services.
Prepare Butchery of Workers
Activities of the Industrial War
College and the Procurement Plan
ming Division of the War Depart
ment similarly reveal the steady
progress being made in migrating
all the industries of the country in
to wartime supplies department
and labor RECOMMENDATION system that
would, among other things, abolish
strikes and take away the last yes
tige of civil liberty from the work
ing class. Gull details on this de-
velopment are contained in the La
Dor Fact Book, VOL 2, soon to be
published) This program of pro-
curement planning and educational
orders" has recently received fresh
support from the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States, whose
special committee on national de-
Tense gives 100 per cent backing to
the most jingoistic programs of the
war and navy departments.
Only the working masses know
what war really means and what it
costs in life, blood, disease, poverty,
hunger. famine. While the capital
lists are cashing in on profits (they
ran, in the last war, in many in
stances as high as 1000 per cent or
more) the workers are being butch
cred in the close-packed trenches
or wiped out like flies by horrible
lethal gases. While "Steel Common
Scars in Million-Share Day" WAR
time newspaper headline) for the
benefit of the parasite class, the
workers will be forced into the
shambles by the Gen. Hugh john
son, and their fellow draft officials
1t is clearly the workers who forrk
the reliable battalions in the strugE
gle against war. 1t is they who arg
capable of turning the imperialist
war into a struggle against the sys-
tenn of exploitation that creates
wars. In such organizations as the
League Against War and Fascisn,
workers and farmers, as we'll as all
sincere enemies of imperialist wars,
can forge the weapons of defense
and offense that will finally over
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