The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13
VI ar Plans
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Shown By
Arms Sales
Action of Roosevelt TIE
Militarize Jobless
Is Revealed
BY Marguerite Young
Especial to the Daily WORKER

AGpECAal W Aut OdAtl hhAhtAt
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. r.
The sale of more than $3.50, 100000
worth of powder and other war
stuff by the Dupont munitions
dynasty during the World War, i'm
perialist holocaust that killed mill
ions of workers and farmers, was
noted today by the Senate arms in
veStigation. The corporations net
taxable income averaged around
S64000000 dollars during the years
1915-1918, while its total invested
capital ranged from $128000,000 to
S199, 100000 millions.
From the brothers Lamont Pierre,
1renee, and their cousin, Felix, the
Nye-vandenberg Committee heard
the beginning of the history Of an
imperialist family fortune-built by
war-which now forms vital part
of the bedrock of American capital
ism.
Direct evidence that the Roose-
welt government stopped sales of
war materials in order to devote all
SURPRISES to militarizing the unem-
ployed under the fascist Civilian
Conservation Corps program was in
serted in the committees record
when the following letter from
Burdette S. Wright to c. w. Web
ster. both Curtiss- Wright officials,
on April II, 1888 was read:
Due to the establishment Of
military training for the unem-
ployed the Secretary of War has
suspended all sales of surplus
material by the War Department
it is not known just when this ban
will be lifted"
Hardly had this proof of the mill
taristic Roosevelt policies leading
toward both Fascism and war been
introduced without benefit of en-
phasis by any investigating Senator
when the committee was informed
that President Roosevelt last June
held conference with an airplane
corporation president and therein
discussed the latter's frankly jingo-
istic viewpoint. This was developed
by A. L. Hiss, the committees in
vestigator, who submitted mem
orandum which he said he was in
formed had been discussed by
Roosevelt and Thomas A. Morgan,
president of Curtiss- Wright Corp,
president of the Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce and execu-
tive committee member of the St.
Louis post of the Army Ordinance
Association.
Witnesses on the stand, officials
of subsidiary of Wright,
said they could not confirm Hiss S
information but they did not deny
it. The memorandum, addressed
to Morgan and said to have been
left at the White House by him,
declared the United States aviation
industry must be helped to build
its exports for the sake of national
defense because of the more pilots,
ETC., abroad, the more knowledge
(foreign military secrets they would
bring home.
Evidence before the committee
shows, conversely, that the more
Americans sell abroad the more
American secrets they sell. The
Morgan memo also decried Con
gressional Investigations, embargoes
pacifst talk and propaganda"
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 12.-
An indication that the Senate In
vestigating Committee is ready to
get from under the implications OF
their own official records came yes
terday-before today'S session
opened with startlingly foul evil
dence regarding the American De-
partments of State and Commerce.
active participation in the war
making activities of the munitions
makers.
The Senate Committees nervous
ness was disclosed when chairman
Nve (Rep., North Dakota) wrote to
Secretary of State Hull, saying that
"the Committee deeply regrets that
a false impression may have been
created, and that statements made
by manufacturers agents abroad
although believed by them, may be
unfounded-and the Committee re-
grets that the opinions of these
agents seem to have been construed
as necessarily rejecting the opinion
of the Committee" which is one way
of casting doubt upon the Commit
tees own evidence. And one way
too of saying that. true or not, the
evidentce at this time is not neces-
sarily sponsored by the Committee
Follows Secret Confab
This unusual procedure followed
a two-hour secret confab between
Hull and Nye. The Senators let
ter was handed out along with a
statement by Hull that he believed
in the righteous nature" of the
Investigation, which he declared has
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