The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Fascist Court Plans Quick Trial for Matthias Rakosi

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Council head, Donald r. Richberg,
in one of his special reports to the
President, the real wages of manu-
featuring workers, between June,
1888, and June, 1884, decreased IL
per cent. That Roosevelt is correct
when he states that corporate
profits" increased considerably" is
borne out by the 1884 net profits
report made by 392 companies to
the Standard Statistics Co. This
report showed that these concerns
made an increase of 600 per cent
over the corresponding period Of
1888.
War Appropriations
What the new billion dollar
Roosevelt War preparation drive
signifies for workers and poor
farmers and their allies is apparent
when it is realized that the more
than $500, 100000 budgeted for 1886
does not include the hundreds of
millions which will be taken from
the four billion dollar employ
ment" fund for the extension and
enlargement of the successful work"
of the fascist-tinte Civilian Con-
servation Corps. 1t is certain that
the total for the c. c. c., which
Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring hopes will provide capitalism 5
economic storm troops" will go
we'll over the 1901 ,037,3l5 (allocated
under the guise of Public Works')
estimated for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1885.
Furthermore, the new military
sums budgeted for the fiscal year
ending June 1886 follow right on
the heels of regular War and Navy
Department 1885 appropriations
totalling 1856, 736,9S4 and so-called
Public Works ALLEGATIONS for war
ships, airplanes and ammunition
which came to $4O6, 222, SOB. This
1884 or fiscal year 1885 total, which
comes to $972, 959, 487, it will be re-
called, does not include the 1882
sum for the new air corps head
quarters. 1t does not include the
S525 900 which was used for for
tifying the highly strategic Panama
Canal, or substantial part of the
$25 ,326,740 which was used to out
fit and officer the Coast Guard, one
of the strongest potential war SER
vice adjuncts of the Navy. Nor
does it include any part of the
hundreds of millions allocated to
Army engineers for rivers and
harbors, substantial part of which
went for seacoaSt defense for chan
nelling and dredging and surveys
of the ocean floor for submarine
operations in addition to supplying
War Department engineers with
continual war training. Nor the
$50,000,000 Tennessee Valley Ad-
ministration, a great part of which
is involved in the construction of
the worlds largest integrated cleo
trical power production system, OBJ
viously huge power reserve for
war plant operations.
National Guard Funds
Similarly, the 1902, LOT, 1853 provided
by the new budget for national
defense does not include such
mon military activities" as the
S5l, l66,020 listed for the War De-
partment's Quartermaster corps,
the Signal Corps and the Corps of
Engineers. Nor the 100000 for
the operation and maintenance" of
the Panama Canal, exclusive of
sums for sanitation and civil
government
The domestic equivalent or fascist
side of the War Department looms
significantly in the budgetary total
of $S0,812, 1913, or an increase of
$l,8l0,424 for the National Guard
which was used as the main strike
breaking force of the employers
during the 1888 and 1884 strike
waves. =. provision is made
for the entire cost to the Federal
Government for the equipment,
maintenance, and training of the
National Guard, except the pay and
allowances of commissioned officers
OF the Regular Army as instructors, :"
the budget declares.
The Navy Department section,
Additional Enlisted Men," tears
away the pacifist cloak under which
the New Deal government has
launched its program for navy
second to none in preparation for
the threatening imperialist war in
the Pacific. THE estimates (s489. :
S71,34D provide for a gradual in
crease in the enlisted strength of
the Navy from $4,000 men on July
l, 1895, to $500 men on June 80,
1886. This increase of 1000 men
Is considered necessary to man the
new ships that will be in commits
sion, to increase the complement
OF men on the larger vessels, and
for increased requirements for avia-
ton activities.
This follows three days after
President Roosevelts Friday dec
laration, II believe that our
own peaceful and neighborly atti-
tude toward other nations is coming
to be understood and appreciated
The maintenance Of international
peace is matter in which we are
deeply and unselfishly concerned. !"
The Presidents resume of the
financial plan of the Budget for
1895, as compared with 1884 and
1895, all of which for 1886 is an es-
innate seven-twelfths of which is
an estimate for 1885, and all known
for 1884, shows:
Receipts of 1922 100000 for 1896
as against 1923 100000 for 1895
and $2,763,ooo 900 for 1884.
Total regular expenditures Cop
erations and maintenance of regular
departments and establishments
Veterans pensions and benefits. in
| tereSt on national debt. fay refunds