The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Army Available Against
Social Revolutions
Said Signer
G.H.Q. STAFF CALLED
Whole US. Apparatus of
Combat Groomed For
Instant Action

NEW YORK.-Acting Sec
rotary of War Harry H.
Woodring recently issued con-
fidential invitations to a care
fully selected list of news
paper editors to send repre-
sentatives to the War Depart
ment's largest peece-tirhe officers
maneuver i'll New Jersey from Sep
tcmber 2 to g." one of his letters,
reproduced on this page, reveals.
The town or section of the state
where the war maneuvers will take
place is not announced
These early fall military activi-
ties, to be staged on a scale remin-
iscent of actual World War scenes
but few months after the greatest
'peacetime" review of the fleet by
President Roosevelt, cast glaring
spotlight on the tireless prepara-
tons of the Roosevelt administra-
ton for ''M-Day." This "M-Day"
is the War Departments officially
designated day when Geographic
orders for instant industrial and
military mobilization will be flashed
throughout the country.
THE maneuver will consist of the
concentration of the officer person
mel of General Headquarters and
two Armies and the advance to
and conduct of battle" Woodring
Assistant Secretary of War, inform
ed the chosen newspaper executives
whose special men will cover the
battle"
at is the desire of the War
Department" Woodring revealed,
Gin the conduct of this exercise
to simulate the actual conditions
of war as much as possible"
Woodring's directions for the
September battle" maneuvers re-
call his article in the an. 6. 1884,
Liberty magazine, in which he
boosted that the Army stands ready
to trottle workers and farmers
revolution, In fascist style he
wrote
Our Army happens to be the
only branch of the government
which is already organized and
available not only to defend our
country, but to cope with social
and economic problems in an
emergency. 1t is our secret in
surance against chaos.
Let me speak frankly! If
this country should be threatened
by foreign war, economic chaos, or
social revolution, our Army has
the training, experience, organiza-
tion and men to support the gov
eminent"
To this day, despite repeated
questioning, no one in the Roosevelt
Administration, including its head
the President, has repudiated Wood
rims fascist broadside. Woodring, in
fact, remains in his important post,
even in the teeth of War Depart
ment contract irregularities which
CdulC w C1lC ou1AdSC QAl4AlS bllO ldUC
Federal contract scandal. In this
connection it is significant that
Woodring, under the National De-
tense Act of 1920, is charged with
supervision and control of the
great industrial-War Department
network known officially as the In
dlstrial Mobilization Plans.
Woodring Wants Secrecy.
On the day that workers, far
mers, intellectuals and all other
militant opponents of imperialist
war demonstrate throughout the
United States against war and fas-
cism, Woodring is notifying certain
editors that THE correspondents
will be chartered in camp at the
Genera, Headquarters and will be
subject to such regulation as would
be the case during actual hostli-
ties"
TT is requested that no publicity
be given to this exercise until after
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