The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10


5urers' scandals. But the
senators take great care only
to skim the surface, and not
to rake too deeply where the
iuiciest and largest hunks of Inc
formation lie. 1t is quite probable,
too, that before they go much furs
Their the ladle will be snatched out
of their hands as it was in the
finance investigation.
WHAT is the aim of these Inc
" vestigations which show inter-
national graft of the armament
manufacturers? World capitalism
is plunging ahead as never before
toward war. Armaments costs ara
swallowing up the dwindling gov
eminent income. In Japan, for exc
ample, the acknowledged military
budget takes so per cent of the
total budget; and the actual direct
military expenditures certainly con-
sumo around TO per cent. A SIM
liar situation exists in the United
States, England, France, Italy, Ger
many.
Who has eyes can see munitions
being piled sky high can see ire
mendous warship n military
plane construction Instinctively,
the masses dread and hate these
gigantic war preparations. Some
body must be blamed for it without
endangering the whole war program
of imperialism. The patriotic sheep
must be divided from the profit
grabbing goats.
The task was already begun by
several enterprising journalists in
this country and by various peace
organizations in England. The fun
damentel thesis of the Senate in
vestigation was already stated in
the popular books, Merchants Of
Death" and Blood Iron and Prof
its" and in England in the BLACK
International
THE big bad wolf Of world arm
L aments are not imperialist gov
ernmentS, not the decaying rotten
capitalist system which drives to
criminal war as the only way out
of the crisis, but the individual
ornaments manufacturers. In fact,
these ornaments manufacturers fail
in their patriotism. For their own
profits they sell arms and war Sc
crets to the potential imperialst
enemies. Their profiteering ham,
pers adequate war preparations.
Here two birds can be killed with
one investigating stone. The blame
for some Of the obvious war prep
arations can be put on the NUM-
tions manufacturers, and the cost
for still further arning can be low
cred by exposing the graft of the
mystery" zaharoffs. who are no
mysteries at ALL
The anti-munitions books, and,
we shall discover it later in the
Senate investigations if they are
allowed to go on, declare that the
munitions manufacturers actually
create wars in order to consume
more of their products. The pur-
pose here, of course, is to cover up
the real war maker-imperialism
and the whole course of the CAPT.
taliSt class in their struggle for
world markets, for new colonies and
plumber.
That the armament manufac-
turers strive for war, nobody will
deny. But they are merely the
high pressure statesmen
1t is not because Morgan, Schwab
e. Co. desire profits chiefly that
Secretary OF the Navy Swanson and
Roosevelt call for a navy second to
none. 1t is because Roosevelt, ex-
pressing the interests of American
imperialism, desires to have navy
capable of grabbing markets and
colonies second to none that huge
barrels of profits are piled up for
the warship builders,
THERE is ten times more mystery
i about the war profits and in-
trigues of Morgan, du Pont, Mellon,
than there ever was about Sir Basil
zaharoff. zaharoffs lie is as open
as Mae West, as compared to that
of Wall Street bankers who con-
troll munitions manufacturers in the
United States.
In the Senate investigation, as
startling and sensational as the in
formation adduced is, it must be
pointed out that the senators with
malice aforethought picked out the
relative small fry to begin with.
This gives du Pont and Morgan
time to cook UP their stories, if they
are ever called at all.
We may be sure that whenever the
shoe pinches too close to the Roose-
welt regime land since the Roose-
welt regime has the greatest war
construction program since the last
world slaughter this cannot be
avoided, the investigations will
either stop or go into secret ses-
sion.
IT is quite fitting that the gang
of perverts, dope fiends, homo-
sexuals and sadists who rule Gers
many should pronounce their pro-
gram on the women question. Hit
Ter on Saturday devoted an entire
speech to the future of women in
Germany. He put the question very
simply. German fascisln has only
one outlook for women, he said
/. they must become clild-bearing
animals. ''The idea of women's
rights in politics" he said, sis a
product of decsdent Jewish intel
lectualism.' That's giving too much
credit to Jewish intellectualisrn.