Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-30
What Are We Waiting For?'
By Pvt. Jack F. Naslich.

a dlffssen. theory
Amongst any bomber crew
For the loveliest thing Of which one
could sing tthis side OF the EIeevenly
Gates
Is no blonde or brunette
OF the Hollywood set,
But an escort Of P-38's!
The writer adds to the above: Also
fleets Of Technocracy's Flying Wings
and one hundred per cent war effort at
home by Total Conscription of Men,
Machines, Materiel and Money, with
service from all and profits to none.
Conscription of labor alone is a
Fascist legislation. Likewise conscrip-
ton Of wealth Is of Communist legis-
lation Either one alone would disrupt
the national unity And the structure
Of Americas economy compels and de-
mands that we Americans abandon the
confusing haphazard conflicts of pri-
vate and group interest in order that
we may win this world war and thereby
defeat the enemies Of America and win
the peace for America. Therefore, the
only American way is to conscript labor
and wealth. Must our effort be sapped
by the prerogatives of business, by labor
officialdom and by political. expedi-
.ncy? Must American affairs blunder
along without coordinated national OPP
leratfons? Do we not realize that poll
tico-business methods are incompetent
| in total war? We conscript our fight
ers, why not all men and women? All
means of production, distribution and
services? Why should not all citizens
serve on the same basis of pay as the
Armed Forces? Is this business or war?
Why not suspend dividends, rents,
profits, dues and taxes?
We, as Americans, ought to ask our
selves, as Technocracy points out and
asks: Can America achieve a fight
| ing morale and internal efficiency
while some Americans gain wealth and
economic advantage in war prices, war
profits, war wages, and war racketeer-
ing, while other Americans give their
lives?' Think this over. After all it
involves all our necks!
The Armed Forces have their D-days.
Let's have the fortitude at home to in
augurate the M-day-the four Ms.
Total Conscription of Men, Machines,
Materiel and Money, for the duration
and six months after termination of
the war
The writer states: The knowledge,
the information and the data obtained
on current and historic events, plus a
little research, was inspiring indeed.
And the contents of this article and it's
implications have only been so con-
firmed by contacts and observations in
the Army as to what we must do to
win the war today and the peace to
follow tomorrow
The trend of events, increasing in
magnitude and in time of historys
greatest war-Total War-has created
extensive complex problem more mas
sive than practically all history COM
bined prior to World War I and II.
/ Today, Americans land especially those
in the Armed Forces), in spite of their
lacking the apparition of science, en-
gineering and it's methodology, are un-
consciously and instinctively instigat-
ing solution to win the war in the
shortest possible time and the peace
to follow. Business and politics are
suffering claustrophob Incredulously
they do not understand that the solu-
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standing and equivocal conception OF
the material (physicaD makeup, struc-
ture, functions and operations of the
physical world we occupy and to the
means whereby we live.
In fighting a Total War, we must
realize the first obvious and primary
objective: to win the war as quickly as
possible. Total War demands Total
Ian of design. The problem basically
and fundamentally involves manpower,
technology, resources, material and
money. Therefore, our necessitated
plan for victory imperatively calls for
the installation of a design to cor
respond to the problems or conditions
existing The design required is Total
Conscription. We have no alternative
but to call on Americas greatest tech
nicians, engineers and scientists to OPP
crate the control. They are response
BILE for the creation of the same con-
trolls. Men, they are!-who under
stand the mechanics of the world and
it's people the functions of the North
American Continent. To hesitate now
can consequently direct us to chaos and
humiliation.
| We, as Americans, and especially
business and politics, cannot conceive
the fact that it involves all our necks
alike. We are all in the same boat
whether we liked or not The Price
System in North America became preg-
nant by the fast advancement OF tech