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

level France and the U. S. each
being stronger in the air than Eng
land. OF course, England did not
propose to scrap her navy. And
her colonial slaves will not forget
that when it was suggested that
bombing be forbidden, MacDonalds
Government would agree only if It
would be granted a special dispen-
sation for bombarding "unciyilized'
tribes who could not in any other
way be made to appreciate the
benefits of British imperialist rule.
Meanwhile the British continue to
build up their navy and to con-
struct at Singapore the most power
full naval base the world has ever
seen in preparation for the looming
struggle in the Pacific. The Eng
fish war budget, like that of other
finance capital giants, grows bigger,
There is already responsible talk Of
adding to the war budget the so
called surplus, the many millions Of
dollars which were taken from the
workers by cuts in relief, slashes In
the dole, and salary and pension
knif1ngs.
Japan
japan has outdone her fellow inn
perlalists in peace hypocrisy. Every
week or so, the world is informed
by various Foreign Office spokes-
men that Japan is the Guardian OF
Peace in Asia (for instance, by maxi
ing war on China, stealing Man
churia, numbering thousands in
Shanghai and conniving with the
Chinese Marking Government to at
tack Soviet China) and that she
will do all she can to help China
achieve national unity (for instance,
by making plans to add North
China to her ManchW'ian Empire.
While Japanese bankers and indus
trialists, the ruthless exploiters. OF
Japanese and Chinese workers, tell
their rivals in Asia, especially the
United States and Great Britain, to
keep their fingers out Of the Chinese
pie, they use stolen Chinese territory
as a huge base for war preparations
against the Soviet Union-witness
the hundreds of millions Of yen be-
ing loaned continuously to the
Manchurisn puppet government for
building strategic railways in the
direction Of the Soviet frontiers
While steadily expanding her lana
ornaments for an attack on tn l
Soviet Union, Japan continues
build up her navy in competitioly
with both the United States and
Great Britain and gets ready to
challenge the inferfority imposed on
her by these two powers in the
Washington and London naval
treaties.
United States
Finally, what about TIE United
States. The Roosevelt Admins
tration's tremendous war machine,
its hundreds of millions for one
of the greatest naval programs ]
history, the many millions fo
INFLAMMATION, motorization, th
authorization for building about
1902 warships and 1,184 war planes
at a cost estimated between $780,
100000 and ,000,000,000, and the
increase of the naval personnel
explain the content of his dis
armament proposals, especially as
set forth in his recent woodrow
Wilson Foundation speech.
U. S. imperialism is subtly dema-
gogic in attempting to dissipate
the anti-war sentiment of the
masses. Signing the Vinson Bill
under a thin pacifist cloak, Roose-
welt declared in formal state
ment on March 81: 1T has been
and will be the policy of the adj
ministration to favor continued
limitation of naval ornaments. 1t
is my personal hope that the naval
conference to be held in 1885, will
extend all existing limitations and
agree to further reductions He,
however, failed to explain that "all
existing limitations" Cthe Wash
ington and London treaties allow
the construction Of the warship ton
mage and war planes listed in the
bill-sbout 1o2 warships and 1,184
war planes. Roosevelt pointed out
that this 1.-THE Vinson Bill is not
law for the construction of
single additional United States war;
ship" 1t is technically true that
Congress must appropriate money
for the construction authorized in
the Virson Bill But politically, in
addition to the fact that the Admin Z
istration has already forbidden the
Shipping Board to sell old ships to
Japan, to prevent the latter from
increasing her munitions from scrap
iron, the Roosevelt machine will
have little trouble in getting what
money it wants.
Lastly, Roosevelt did not poir |
out that the Vinson Bill also aul
thorizes in general terms the re-
placement of all over ags ships
under the naval treaties. Under this
seemingly innocent clause, authority
is given for rebuilding an entirely
new feet of fifteen battleships of
$4,000 tons each, inasmucf as the
existing battleships of the U. S, are
all either legally over-age (more
than 20 years ODD or are due to
become average in the near future.
The only time disarmament tai
is sincere is when the Soviet Unto
speaks. 1t alone actually talks dis
armament at what are announce
as disarmament conferences.
That's the imperiaIist lineup. A
that's why the workers fists will
raised on May LIST more determ
edly and higher this year than
before.