The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Preparedness" FOrerunner
Of Rapidly oachingWa

WITH lightning speed Roosevelt Is building the navy,
" army and air forces Of Wall Street to plunge
this country into bloody, criminal imperialist
war in an effort to solve the capitalist crisis and
re-divide the world plumber
preparedness is now the cry. Wall Street is
already prepared for war Assistant Secretary Of War
woodring has declared the army is ready at any
moment for war Col Williams, National President
Of the Reserve Ofhcers Association. says that with
navy second to none" the United States is ready
for war
In secret, the House Military Affairs Committee
is perfecting plan for 1000 new war planes at a
cost of S8OOOOOOO
Now the Roosevelt regime is entering the phase
Of preparing the minds OF the American masses for
a world imperialist slaughter.
February 1922 has been set aside as National
Defense Week The radio, screen, stage schools,
colleges and meetings, will hum and buzz with war
talk
A campaign Of the foulest jingoism, well-larded
with the usual pacis phrases, is about to be opened
up to stir up the war spirit for American imperialism
The dominant note will be peace" Military
preparedness" will be put forward as guarantee Of
peace" But the experience Of all capitalist countries
shows that it does not lead to peace but is rapid
forerunner Of war. Under the of peace" the
Roosevelt regime viii seek to arouse the vest chau-
whist hatreds to win the American workers for the
plumber policy Of Wall Street.
TIE seriousness of the war danger becomes inpelhng.
The war machine of the Roosevelt regime has
reached gigantic proportions engulfing the whole
country. Only a spark is needed to set the whole
mess ablaze and to plunge the American workers
into the most criminal brutal and bloody war the
world has ever seen.
American Imperialism, with its jngoist propaganda
to spur the naval race with Japanese Imperialism,
is aiming to spill the blood Of the Japanese ana
American workers.
The Roosevelt imitation program is sharpening the
battle between England and the United States for
markets for world financial domination at the expense
Of the toiling masses Of both countries
While Japanese Imperialism moves its army col
umns, its military railroads. it's plots and war bases
nearer to the Soviet Union, the Japanese lords
meet in secret naval conference with Wall Streets
representatives to aay their conflicts in the
against the Soviet Union
Minister of War Hayashi's speech on Wednesday,
is direct invitation to Wall Street to join the Jap
anese war lords in war against the common enemy
Of world capitalism, the Soviet Union.
NURINCI preparedness week our struggle against war
will be put to the highest test and we should be
ready to meet it. Against the jngoist propa-
ganda, in every city and hamlet we should answer
by the mobilization Of our forces against war. We
should spread counter-pr propaganda among all
workers. in the shops at the very meetings called
by the masters We should reply everywhere with
leaflets telling Of the detectives of the Roosevelt
regime give revolutionary plan Of action against it.
We should mobilize more theoretically to stop all
war munitions shipments to organize to cripple the
moves of Wall Street.
Against the impending attack by japanese i'm
pertslsm the workers fatherland we should forge
the strongest united front for the defense Of the
Soviet Union
In reply to the vicious chauvnist propaganda Of
Yankee imperialism, should strengthen the bonds
Of international solidarity of the Japanese and Amer
lean toilers in struggle against the slave
holders, for the defeat Of their war moves for the
transformation Of their imperialst war into civil
war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union