The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-07
NRA Codes Gear Whole
Economy for War
Production
BY MILTON HOWARD

BY MILTON HOWARD
THE heart and soul of the
1 Roosevelt New DEAF is
war-imperialist war for the
,edivision of the markets of
The world.
Today the Roosevelt gov
eminent conducts a bitter,
persistent and secret trade warfare
against its imperialist rivals, Britain
and Japan. Today Roosevelt is
armed with the unprecedented
power to negotiate secretly for re-
ciprocal trade agreements with the
world colonial markets, with the
dependencies of Great Britain, and
the countries Of Europe. Today the
weapon Of the world struggle for
markets is the weapon of imitation,
of sharpening the market power Of
the American dollar through in
f1ationary devaluation Now the in
tense imperialist struggle for mar
kets is waged mostly by peaceful
means.
But soon the peaceful means will
pass over, will explode, into military
means, and the era Of the second
world imperialist war will be upon
us, an era which will also be an era
Of proletarisn revolutions.
That is the event for which the
entire Roosevelt government is
straining all its energy in prepara-
ton.
The Roosevelt government is del
iberstely and consciously the gov
eminent set up by the monopolist
finance capital rulers of Wall Street
to be the government that will ex-
ecute its war drive for markets.
The Roosevelt government is a
government set up by the American
capitalist class in a period of the
most profound economic crisis the
world has even seen.
The most characteristic develop
ment Of the crisis is the extreme
ruthlesness, the relentless necessity,
which drives the capitalist class of
every imperiaist country to seize
upon foreign markets in which to
extend its exploitation, and pour the
immense mountain of unsold goods
which are strsngling the bourgeoisie
in every country. The basic cause
of the capitalist crisis is the shrink
ing of the world market, the inexor-
able shrinking Of the buying power
of the exploited masses who are
plundered through capitalist wage
slavery.
Therefore, as the shrinking Of the
world market is the basic cause OF
the world crisis, so the drive for
increased markets becomes the sole
path by which the bourgeoisie in
every imperialist country hopes to
Chamber out Of the swamp Of eco
nomic crisis.
And in the present period, this
struggle for markets inevitably takes
on the character of armed struggle
for the redivision of the world.
In this fight for the redivision of
the world markets American imper-
ialism, with Roosevelt at the head,
moves forward with increasing ag-
gressiveness and ruthlessness.
Taken in its entirety, the ROose-
welt program Is the preparation
of the ruling class Of America for
the solution of the economic crisis
by the path Of imperialist war.
American imperialism, consci-
Ously embodied in the person Of
Roosevelt, prepares to hack its
way with sword and fire to an I'M
disputed leading position in the
world capitalist economy.
Huge Armaments
The social promises Of the Roose-
welt New Deal" therefore, are
merely the cloak for the greatest
imperialist war program in the his
tory of the American ruling class.
1t Is this. for example, which ex-
plains why it is that the Roosevelt
government has been able to con-
struct the most gigantic war mach
inc in the history of the country
under the cloak Of public works, -"
etc.
It is fact that the radical
phrases Of Roosevelt have been the
sugar-coating for a record break
ing program of military and naval