The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-06-26
Washington
SCENE
By LEN DE CAUx

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after months of study. The die
tatorship is all set up in bills pre-
pared by the War department, pre-
scented to Congress, and passed by
the lower house of Congress, and
passed by the lower house of Con-
gress. While the Tom Blantons
and Tom Connally in the Capitol
rant and rave about Communism
and Fascism, the War Department,
lquietly in it's own little way,
FORCES ahead filling in all the out
lines of the fascist picture.
Many pictures have been drawn
and many books and pamphlets
written about the horrors Of the
next war. Nowhere is the picture
of the meaning Of war and its
horrors more completely detailed
than in the official Senate docu-
ment modestly titled Report on
War Department Bills S. 1716-S.
1722." War and its meaning to
workers becomes crystal clear.
What does the War department
propose for industry? 1t proposes
to grant to the President the power
to fix wages and prices. 1t pro-
poses to grant to the President the
power to purchase and sell any
products, to license and control
production, distribution, and sale.
According to the report of the
committee it gives industry power
to say how much it will charge for
its goods and how it will conduct
its business.
This it does, the committee en-
phasizes, because it controls the
strings of government and because
it has the government backed into
corner when it comes to enforc-
ing its wishes. Industry can strike
against supplying war materials
to it's government but it's govern
ment, as a faithful servant, cannot
force compliance with it's wishes
from industry.
For labor the War department
poses a military dictatorship. This
is the plain language Of the COM
mittee. 1t provides for a complete
machinery to break strikes. It
provides that DIRECTORS to war may
be shipped into front line trenches
to have their objections riddled by
bullets. 1t proposes that every
male citizen over Is years old shall
automatically become a member Of
the army upon the outbreak of
war, subject to military law under
which he remains until six months
after the President says there is
no emergency.
The war department proposes
golden profits for industry, sub
lection for labor.
Under such plans, revealed only
after the Senate Committee
wrenched from the War depart
ment it's cloak of secrecy, there
can be little doubt about the bene-
ficiary of war. Pious industrialists
weep crocodile tears on Memorial
day. They throw their hands up
In horror and say, eve want no
war" They are either fools or
liars.
By war, according to the gov
eminent department specializing in
that subject, industrialists stand to
gain all, to lose nothing. Their
profits become sacred. The threats
to their profits in the form of a
demand from labor for a share in
them and demand to stop The
slaughter, are wiped away bv the
might and force of the Army and
the government. In war the In
dustrialists, the munition maker,
sits home and counts the harvest
pauSlng only to shed more croco-
ollie tears, toss out the skulls and
bones, and wiring the blood from
dripping hands. Other men fight,
die. The leech sits safe and
counts the harvest.
No more do ''reds" and "paci-
1lsts" have to rely on "alien doc
trlne" to prove the nature of war
and its meaning to the workers.
IN document of United States
Senate. prepared more than two
years labor, is the proof.
Ihere are the figures to show.
to the penny, the profits made dur
ing the last war and there is the
Proof that the same thing will
occur IN the next war, in a more
intensified form. In direct lang
uage is the statement, "War for
the United States means dictator
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