The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Arms Firm Linked
To Strike Terror
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use Of tear gas in riosing and kim
dred disturbances was more hU-
name than shooting" IN. Y.
Herald Tribune, Sept. 20, 1884, re-
porting Young's testimony before
the Nye committee investigating
arms manufacture
Shipment Of arms is no; confined
to Bolivia, Paraguay, Cuba or to
points where American workers are
striking for q higher standard Of
living. By no meansl Federal Lab
oratories have relations with Japan
and are discussing the sale of GER
tain patents on arms with the Jap
panese military oyerlords - arms
that will be used for war against
the Chinese SoyietS and the Soviet
Union.
Fascist Germany and a number
of the countries in the Baltic area
have received arms from American
munitions makers, not the least of
which is the Federal Laboratories
Company.
These same people who talk with
disgusting sanctimony about law
and order" know no level to which
they will not stoop in order to ped
die their wares.
Reverend Paul Young, a brother
of the president Of Federal Lab
Ortories, Inc, a missionary and
member of the Christian Mission
FRY Alliance, evidently feeling
that his material reward for sarv-
ing the heavenly hosts was insult
ficient, made a tidy bit on the
side by demonstrating tear gas
bombs of the Federal Laboratories
Company before a group of Ecua-
dor government officials.
Six hundred dollars was the price
the same company paid Lieutenant
Commander James H. Strong while
he was still an officer of the U. s.
Navy for helping to obtain for them
Colombian government orders. That
those higher in federal circles were
unaware of what was going on seems
hardly possible in view of the fact
that Strong was then a technical
advisor to the Colombian advisor,
lent by the U. S. government
Strong resigned from the Navy on
Feb. 10, 1884 and is now in charge
CT aviation for Colombia. In view
Of this connection in Colombia one
cannot doubt that not a little OF
that governments currency passes
over the counter of Federal Labor
atories, Inc.
The spectacle of ships, loaded to
the gunwales with munitions, can
not be viewed indifferently by the
American working class, either by
those who must man such vessels
as the Moro Castle, or any other
section of labor. A powerful roa-
cf protest against these things must
so up!
Seamen and longshoremen who
have raised the question of the
shipment of munitions-principally
through the militant Marine Work
ers Industrial Union should be con-
graduated. In the coming seamen's
strike, the issue of the shipment OF
munitions on the Moro Castle and
other steamships should be brought
to the attention of the entire toll
ing population.
Workers everywhere must demand
that the Senate committee ir1veSti-
eating arms make the proceedings
of the probe entirely public, broad
casting them by radio. Names Of
every single manufacturer, politician
and military man involved must be
published. Names of ships and the
amounts of arms and explosives car
ried must be published.
Toiling America should demand
a one hundred per cent tax on the
profits of the arms makers. Mill
tants at the convention of the
American Federation of Labor anc
in local unions should demand thai
marine workers refuse to transport
arms. The veterans whose pension,
we're cut should have these cuts
restored at the expense of the
profit swollen munitions manufac.
turers.
The demonstration recently helc
at the Federal Laboratories, Inc.
in Pittsburgh is an inspiring ex-
ample and should be followed by
many others at other such plants
All f1ghers against iEnperialist
war and against attacks upon the
working class should give their
utmost support to the Second U.
S. Congress Against War and Fas-
cism now going on in Chicago.
The lessons of the shipment of
munitions on the Inflated Moro
Castle, which the Daily Worker
proves today in graphic form,
must not be lost on the toilers of