The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
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0ACdJ DIkEdAM ss,.'ss's' ta'@ pOuhuS
United States ......244.6 dollars
Japan .............."-.....o191.8 yen
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France. =. 2,273.S francs 25.S
Italy. .... I171.6 Ira 1853
u. S. A.. 1149 pounds 4s.s
G.. Britain. ills dollars 1909
Japan. go. 1853 yen 1888.
So far as Germany is concerned,
the report states; Despite the
drastic restrictions imposed by the
Versailles Treaty, Germany's 1884
1885 military, naval and air outlays
are only 1913 per cent less than the
total cost of the great imperial
army and navy in 1913"
Though the same report further
on expresses mild doubts of the Of
fetal Nazi figures, saying "Unos1:-
cial reports have spoken in less Dip
lomatic language of industrial and
military activities which point o
armament preparations on large
scale"
THE fact is that the whole Nazi
l budget bristles with concealed
war expenditures that if carefully
examined would lift the total for
war expenditures far above that of
the Kaiser's government in 1913.
It is no accident whatever that
Japan and the United States lead
the list in war preparations over
the year 1913. Japan's main OBJ
jective is war against the Soviet
Union. American Imperialism is
preparing for war of new colonial
plumber in Latin America, and
especially in the Far East, where
its interests are not entirely in con-
flict with Japan so far as the OBJ
jective of smashing the workers
fatherland is concerned. The main
bone of contention is who shall
profit most by it, and how will it
affect the struggle for the control
of China.
IF the figures published by the
1 Daily Worker Washington Bu-
reau are compared to U. S. war ex-
penditures in 1918 (and these fig
ures are far more accurate than
those of the F. P A. report) it will
be seen that the New Deal expendi-
lures are neck and neck with Japan,
or over 300 per cent greater than
in 1918!
With its counting house impair
TALLY, the F. P. A. lists the Soviet
Union along with the capitalist
powers on the question of expendi-
lures for the army and other de-
fensive forces of the workers
ia herland.
WHILE the capitalist countries,
W confronted with a growing gen.
eral crisis, are attempting to ex-
plode themselves out of it by new
criminal imperialist war, the Soviet
Union is sweeping ahead with So
cialist construction. The Soviet
Union does not desire and does not
need one inch of foreign territory
or markets or spheres of invest
ment. While every capitalist power
thirsts after new colonies and
markets, as Hitler's butchers thirst
| for Ems Thaelmann's blood, the
| Soviet Union goes to the extent Of
selling the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way, which the Japanese militarists
were ready to seize through war.
Every move of the Soviet Union on
the field of international poll les is
for peace. The Red Army is the
army of the defense of the prole-
tartan revolution and cannot be
mentioned in the same breath with
the war machine of finance capital.
The danger of war does not lie
only in the figures of war expendi-
lures, as the F. P. A. emphasizes,
but in the whole policy of imperial-
ism-imperialism entering the stage
of fascist reaction and further de-
cay, confronted with the rising
forces of proletarian revolution.
Contributions received to the
credit Of Harry Cannes in his So
cialist competition with Del, Mike
Gold, the Medical Advisory Board,
Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and
David Ramsey. in the Daily Worker
drive for $4,000. Quota-S500.
Cor,, n E,;r 81 M
Chas. Lonandin .......... LOO
Previously received .....S112.67
! Total to date .........s114.s7