The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-27
n. R. A. Sword Rafting

NO BLUNTE admission to the essential war char
II acter Of the whole Roosevelt New Deal has ap-
peared than the statement made yesterday by Assistant
Secretary Of War, Harry H. Woodring. Speaking be-
fore the Womens Patriotic Society, this leading
expert Of the liberal Roosevelt government declared:
TT is interesting to note that great many of
the Federal agencies which have been established by
the President in the present economic emergency find
their counterpart in form another In lie.
the War Departments) contemplated set-up for in
dustrial mobilization"
And then Roosevelts army chief cooly informed
his hearers that the War Department has already COM
peted its plans to place the $4,000 largest industrial
plants under immediate military supervision on the
day that war breaks out
So it is no longer a secret that the entire NRA
program is a program that is gearing industry for
productonl That is why Roosevelt's N.RA codes
speeding the Capitalization and concentration of
American industry, that is why the N.RA has taken
pains to set up the strikebreaking Labor Boards.
It Is a sinister fact for American workers that the
war Department in its plans announced yesterday
by Woodrng conteplates "a labor Administration to
insure an equitable distribution and treatment Of
labor"
These Labor Boards, which will in time OF war,
make every factory military prison for the working
class, already exist in the NR.A.l
We can already see in the strikebreaking NRA
the beginnings of what is meant by the Equitable
distribution of labor" The workers can see il in the
sharp wage cuts in the brutal speed-up spread
ing of misery through the spreading of hours of
work. In time this oppression will be increased
hundredfOld
Here in these industrial war plans geared to keep
tine American working class at the factories and mines
with the club of military oppression can
be seen the brutaIy aggressive imperiahst war plans
a american imperialism.
JgkLL STREET IMPERIALISM builds its war ma
" chine day and night. The tension between Jap
aaese, British and American imperialisms grows.
japanese and Wall Street imperialism both look
with greedy and jealous eyes at the huge Chinese
markets They both itch for the domination of the
Chinese masses, from whom they will be able to
wrest the profits Of imperiaIst-colonia expoita
lion Roosevelt builds with imperiast aggressveness
Navy second to none"
Both the American and the Japanese masses feel
yhe lash OF the intensified exploitation Of their own"
capitalist class both mperalist governments lunge
closer to war for profits.
In this imperialst war which the Roosevelt I'M
periast government brings closer every day. it Is the
millions Of toilng workers and farmers who will pay
the bitter price in blood and suffering, while the Wall
Street monopolsts will reap their swollen war profits
The imperialist war that Roosevelt prepares for
the masses will not restore any Of that mythical pros
perity" that the mongers are already promising
TO the impoverished toilers
II will bring intolerable rise in the cost of living
It will bring reaction and violent suppression Of all
strikes and struggles of the the shops and
factories for higher wages and better working cond-
tons 1t will bring untold suffering for the families
Of the workers
The Roosevelt government Is letting loose a
steadily advancing Of jingOsm, chauvinism, and
propaganda. We have not moment to lose in
fight against it! The Roosevelt government
coaks its preparations and detectives with clouds
Of pacfisn. And then the will explode sud
denly" out of violation Of "om honor" "our