The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 4

Gov't peace Wisconsin, etc d, “disclos- actically ev- ‘That Hearings Reveal U.S. War Preparations have suggested two or three that you have been rushed in this matter, and I may say to you that any supplement that you care to add to the remarks that you have de will be gladly received by the mission.” Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board in the last pointed out that : is a death grapple between peo- | ples and economic systems,” which | Sounds strangely like a recognition of the fact that the Soviet and the American economic systems are quite ferent and that war against the Soviet Union is not far off. Arthur J. Lovell, vice president d national legislative representa- e Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen, wish- sure the Commission that the of his brotherhood would loyal to the imperialist machine t war came. ptly by pointing out how many union brethren had served e last war. They were not only | France and along the front, but | one special corps, known as the Ri sian Railway Corps, served in Russia and they did real service.” ed tog his of der of Give the People Their Own War Power (Inc.) in 1927, and author of Just One Check onsWar, 1928; How to Stop International War, 1928. and Shastid Propesed Peace Amend- He illustrated | ALL OUT AUGUST 1 . DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION! | | States Bordering U.S.S.R. Armed Imperialist Camps (This is part of a larger study on “The War of Intervention Against the Soviet Union and the Second International.” It exposes clearly the preparations for the attack on the Soviet Union through the ever Sreater arming of the vassal states | surrounding the Soviet Union. While the arming of the border - States by the Wmgerialist powers is Pushed to the utmost the imperial- ists are piling up their own arma- ments, both land and nayal, for the attack on the Soviet Union. The United States spends 82 cents out of every budget dollar for war and has the greatest expenditure for armaments in the world.—Ed.) he oe By P. R. DIETRICH, While production is continuously | declining in'all other branches of | industry as a result of the tre-| mendous economic crisis, we note a | stupendous boom in the war indus-! try of the imperialist powers and of their vassal states. This is particu- | larly true of France, England, Italy, | as well as for Poland, Rumania, | Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia “and the Baltic states. The economic crisis, + therefore, has obviously not brought | the development of war industry to burdens for the toiling masses, de- spite their financial difficulties which are increasing daily, the governments of the capitalist countries are sys-| Second place in regard to the ex- | pansion of the war industry among the states bordering the Soviet Union is occupied by Poland. There the development of war industry is pros ceeding in different ways. Firstly, ; in building government factories of a purely military nature; secondly, in developing private industry of the sort that can very quickly be reor- ganized into war industry. Along | with these goes on the creation of semi-governmental factories of a general industrial character, which, however, in case of war, can be util- ized for military purposes, At the present time there are about 40,000 workers employed in Poe land’s war industry, in twenty large factories either owned or subsidized by the government. Of these, six are munition factories, three gun- powder and explosives, two machines sun factories, four airplane, two air- plane motors and two for armored cars and tanks, In the event of war more than halt of Polish industry can be reorgane ized for military purposes. Among the western border states, Rumania, after Czechoslovakia and member of . a standstill. Quite the contrary.; Poland, possesses the strongest war * “a! congres: 1 committee in 19, a ees eae esae cow Despite the aggravation of the econ- | industry, which had investigated war graft in | °4 PY Secretary Hurley as the “foun- omic crisis. with all its unendurable | With the support of French, Eng- lish and Czech capital Rumania has of late years been laying the foun- @ation of its own war industry and has adopted a series of organiza- ments to the Constitution of Va- nol arene awed their expendi- | tional measures in order to’ be able ious Lands,” presented his patented ? ‘That the expansion of the war in- | °° Utilize the rest of its industry in int or charcter.” | device for a cure for war under cap- iy Tament in| C250 of War. Are Iists right now tal tr the = Hines bs @ dustries and of general armament in| z tceeceaet sulba the cabnts dhe tie SRE ee el | all capitalist countries, partly caried| ‘The brie beeen ig wren erested h nt t . ip | me “3 i eq | Sented of the basis of war indus! ae jthe following: “The Russian Govern- By HARRY GANNES. | nalistic opium and how it is created. | workers. {2 flock of stool-pigeons” employed, Out openly and partly in concealed | ry president ds Life Insurance ment stands as the greatest known menace to the peace of the world.” What will happen to the mythical il 1928, and associate member of the War Industries Board during the last war | An editor, who admits he was a| | panderer of poison ideas to the mass- | right side of the church. | a 5 y sexi ie if id magazines News” we have a man who is still| by sexing the news an editor of the New York “Mirror,”| and setting the pace for all the tab- Gauvreau tells the story of his life devoted to jazz journalism. The book les, has given us the inside story of| is in fictionalized form, but the char- One of the tabloids has a clever idea on carrying out the lying cam- paign about forced labor in the So- j real they would photograph a sim- ilar, enacted episode in the editorial ‘and frame-ups were as ordinary as running the paper off the press daily. | When Rothstein, arch gangster of ing about Rothstein’s pavment of | $50,000 to a Tammany Hall boss for | the right to run gambling houses | forms, serve first of all the prepara tion for the war of intervention, hown by the following facts:§ 1 French imperialism is exerting | in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Ru- mania does not by any means ex~ aust the auxiliary industrial re~ Sources which these countries will Tights of free speech, press and as- | 5 ‘ acters are easily recognizable. The/ viet Union.. Gauvreau invented an! New York was killed, Gauvreau got i . Lagan ont et rs se 3 i the tabloids. It is not a confession, | Fs iF 2 y effort to strengthen the fight-| have at their disposal in case of inne he ener |Semblege during the next war was! icy as old prostitutes were wont to|OWner of the newspaper is MacFad-| idea that stood them in good stead.|» story telling of the inside life of or Walks BMleraoary “eg Gee aseae sek e blane Pe ae by Herbert B. Swope, editor inquige in in order to be on the|4en, of the McFadden publications|1f Gauvreau wented to pitture 2) Rothstein. Just before the serial tell- | the support of the entire powerful the pro- |of the “liberal” New York World| In “Hot | Who has made himself many millions | bed-room scene and make it look | { war industry of France, England and the other capitalist countries. In ac- cordance with this, the construction | daily poisoning the minds of the|loids. McFadden appears in “Hot office and then paste the heads Of | --mgtartad wae sete3 the serial . SS fof their own war industries in these | “Just as Taw materials, cdpital (Sle) | masses with the foulest lies and dis-| News” under the name of Bunny-| the individuals involved into the| wes ordered killed. Why? Vcountries is accompanied more and tortions, writing how the business is| Weather. | manufactured picture. Great stuff,) «7 was getting close too close | more by the construction of strate- | | done, bragging about his ability to} Gauvreau, brought up in the best/ he thought! i to the truth!” | | gic railways and military harbors, Now we must rouse up hatred against the Soviet Union! “Play up| forced labor!” That's the instruc- tion that rings in all the editorial Offices of the capitalist ‘sheets. | mislead his hundreds of thousands of | traditions of American capitalism, | through his editorship of several New | England newspapers, gets his first | job on a tabloid. Bunnyweather gives | him his instructions, and Gauvredu 1 oth-- } masses. fill their minds with any kind of degeneracy, but don’t get “too | close . . . to the truth!” | | intended for the transportation of ~.‘e.pattmies and for military shipping. ~~'|"Néw Railways and Military Harbors, ‘These measures, as well as the readers. It was the Chicago Tribune, pow- erful Midwestern newspaper of the the great teel Westinghouse those people would the eae) io. take their They were that in- favor of war that all they had for was 2 as precisel; before the war vesses were For example. rR. M. Lov- ett of Chicago University filed for irsertion in the record the articles 2n economic planning that had ap- “peared in the Nev public by Geo. Soute, Srom: and L. L. Lorwin (Li former pal of Emma G now a re- spectable pr ics, “Benjemin C a somewhat ““eynicat but energetic liberal, who heads tt People’ Lobby, pre- large-scale war present economic sys. ti fact 4 id operates to put t so afraid of another will start to “cooperate” and hence there will be no war! T1 is pre- war stuff of the sort we heard ut- tered way back in 1913 by such {practical” pacifists as Norman An- gel. « Ben Marsh hastened to straighten out bis posttion with the Commission by assuring them that “I am not ageinet the Government; I am al- ways for gradual change —sometimes they have to be rapid — by peaceful methods. I should try to change (the government) while we have po- litical parties, so that if the people in an-orderly: way want to change things, we can. That is our salva- ertion.. That is why I do not like the hard-and-fast. system that they have + in Russia, for one thing.” Norman Thomas, the Socialst Par- ty-leader, contributed the following “I do want to congratulate the Corunission (Hurley and his gang of War mongers—Ed.) and the coun- try upon the dawning, if somewhat muddle-headed conviction, that when it comes to a real emergency like war, the ever-blessed profit system won't. work without an immense de- gree of control. As a socialist, I re- Joice in this, even as I rejoice in the demonstration given by the late war that planned production is essential.” | When Mr. Thomas had finished his various pacifist observations, the secretary of war said “Mr: Thomas, I want to thank you | he found none of 5.” He | ‘mod- | en by the munitions | of | tates | 2-|or produced i and men are conscripted or controll- |ed, so must public opinion be dealt | with in time of war. It must be or- ganized and paraded under drill mas- |ters. Censorship and propaganda are the agencies of domination. . . For home censumption all wars are defensive and all are based upon the questions of national honor.” Swope urged the necessity of what he called “positive propaganda,” which “however naive at times shall proclaim our virtues, sublimate our aims and accentuate our successes and indict the views of the enemy }and minimize his achievements.” The actua! industrial preparations of the War Department were brought out in some detail by military offi- mission. Some of the outstanding acts revealed in this connection | were the following 1. Some 1,795 factories have al- |Teady been “allocated to production” | of war time supplies and some 30,000 | more are being surveyed for the same | Purpose. Those companies that might decline allocation will simply have | their source of raw materials cut off. 2. Some 14,000 industrialists hold reserve commissions in the army. They are working with the War De- partment, planning the capacity and | requirements of industry in war time. 3. Special “raw material procure- ment plans” have been prepared for at are desc! as “strategic” and ais, those not mined this country. 4. The procurement planning divi- sion of the War Department alone employs about 150 officers, full time and part time, and has about three hundred civilians and clerks work- ing in it. 5. The War Department has pro- jects for the “control of the price of labor” end “control of labor mi- grations* in its full drawn Plan for} Industrial Mobilization which oceu- pies about 125 pages of the report |of the War Policies Commission. The elaborate charts and diagrams in the report all include important sections jon the mobilization of “labor facili- ties.” 6. These plans of the War Depart- ment -call for the closest. Coopera- | tion with and utilization of the lead- jers of the American Federation of Labor, as shown in our article in the Daily Worker, July 18, 1931 | Sradually secured a hold over Amer- ican industry and will in the coming war have a complete dictatorship | over all industrial equipment and labor. | 8. In view of tine close connections | between the War Department and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and its Special Com- mittee on National Defense, which lobbies in Congress for War Depart- ment measures, it can safely be Pre- dicted that normal war profits w'!! he enjoyed by the capitalists of tne United States duxing the next impe- ralist war. ‘| every day, the role of the tabloids cials who appeared before the Com- | 7. The War Departrient has thus | | rabid imperialist McCormick inter- | ests, that invented tabloid journalism | through the New York Daily News. ; Basically there is no difference be- tween the tabloids and the regular, | full-sized capitalist sheets. The Chi-| | dressed up in different garb, in its | Chicago “respectable” sheet as it has jin its New York tabloid. | With war preparations going on | in preparing the masses for war gets clearer every day. Gauvreau’s story of the inside manufacturing of news| gives us a very good idea how it’s done. We see the tabloids in action now. The. most recent example was | workers? the editorial in the New York Daily | Gauvreau. News “The American-Russian War,’ in which the argument that war) would be for the profit of Rocke- feller and Morgan and Ford were “answered” beforehand. The N. Y. | Mirror and Graphic, in the German plots. | situation, were so anxious to plug for war that they gave the game | away when they talked about the war against Red Germany and Rus- sia. every page.” | prides himself on his ability to carry |" out instructions no matter how low he must crawl. Bunnyweather wants to reach the masses. “Remember that I am the champ- |cago Tribune has the same policy, | ion of the common people. | | print anything that a scrubwoman in a skyscraper cannot understand. Talk, to them in pictures, flaring, Sit down on the curbstone and chat with them. Cateh| their eyes so that I can pour my message into their brains!” What is this burning message that McFadden—we. mean Bunnyweather wants to pour into the brains of the | “Sex and money,” says glaring pictures. The money is for Bunnyweather who has no scrupples in squeezing! the life savings from the scrubwomen | by getting them to buy worthless land | The pictures are semi-nude chorus | girls enticing the reader on nearly) With them go moral sermons written by skypilots at the rate of $1,000 a week. There is an interesting incident in| In this lower form of capitalist | connection with the pictures to show picture of a worker beaten in Ven- He says: dictator; they paint in some Russian scenery. A gory article is written, and they offer the photographic proof! Strikes, revolutions, conditions of the masses, war preparations, an un- derstanding of the realities of life, this was all taboo, Gauvreau writes. Most of the news is manufactured to order. For months the readers are fed on the Peaches Browning degen- eracy, manufactured, Gauvreay tells us, from the whole cloth by the Graphic. Even murder was allowed, to manufacture news desired by the tabloids. Gauvreau tells how he. plan- ned a murder himself but he says he stopped just in time. “T realize how I had skirted to the abyss of murder. It was a long road to travel in a short space of two years. What was I now? At best, Never | @ panderer to the barest cts of mankind.” This chest-thum ing is really praise and an attempt of Gauvreau to show he really wasn’t as bad as A -bright young panderer takes a} ezuela by the Wall Street: protected | | read by the workers and Gauvreau's | description of the type of individual who usually run these pages is in- teresting. Referring to his sport ed- itor, he says: “He instructed his men from various dens of vice by tele- | Phoning at irregular intervals.” | At election time the paper got its instructions on whom to plug for. Or- | ders came from Tammany Hall. Drunken and doped editors wrote the editorials The “highest class” edi- torial and newspaper men were al- ways begging to be employed. The book is written in the | tabloid st nt | the booze-filled editor can see north- |ing but the ‘glory of the chase after | circulation. That millions of workers | are drugged with capitalist poison, ‘with lies, with the pandering to the “basest instincts” bothers this pen- prostitute not at all. He still has an important job carrying on the same type of work in a loftier style. The book is a good description of | the filth and slime the capitalist press feeds to the workers to keep them from overthrowing the dunghill |ewspaper life we get a better | that Gauvreau and his type do not} he could be. | glimpse into the mechanism of Jour-| stick to semi-nudes to mislead the! Bunnyweather told him to "keep of capitalism which sprouts such Poisonous weeds. OW Negro soldiers’ in the World War were re- fused treatment at base hospitals, denied medical aid by dainty white nurses and doctors who “could not soil their hands with Negroes,” forced to do all the scavenger work in camp, set to work as stévedores unloading cargoes, and finally sent to the front untrained and without equipment when the German offensive made it necessary to use them as reinforcements, is told by 2 Negro World War veteran in the current issue of the Southern Worker, Communist week- ly organ in the South. Denouncing the war preparations of the bosses against the Soviet Union, this World War vet- eran says: “The Russian workers got freedom after the jast war. I am an American Negro and I will tell you what I got. Stevedore Work in Jim Crow Camp. “I was drafted into the army June, 1918, and I was sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio. There I was sent to the Negro Jim-Crow camp which was in swampy land along the river. Instead of drilling, all the Negroes were set to work un- loading coal, cutting wood and doing the hard- dest kind of work.| Our food was rationed out to us and there was no thought of giving enough, “If any of us failed to eat that war bread, that tasted like dirt as much as left a crumb on his plate, that man was punished by being given extra work. We were given no training at all. No Negroes were given target practice or permitted to shoot their guns in the U. S. “After ten days of this we were sent to Camp Humphreys, Virginia, This was a Southern camp under Southern officers. As soon as we arrived the Southern officers started in to show ‘these damn Ohio niggers’ their place. They said to us, ‘You niggers want to say “Sir” to a white man in this camp.’ Fight Discrimination. “The food was so bad and the treatment so harsh that five days after we arrived there was a riot. It was caused by a plantation boss offi- cer who drew his pistol on about 50 Negroes who did not salute him. They took his pistol Experiences of A Negro War Vet away from him and made him dance. The gen- eral in command then issued an order that officers would only carry pistols when on duty. All Southern officers always wore Pistols, when in command of Negro troops. We wre then given rifles, but no ammunition. and sent to Deaansrear | | ERD 4 [Bene || stl B Tals I Worn Camp Merritt, New Jersey. Every day we were lined up and searched for ammunition. The officers were afraid to have a single Negro have one cartridge while in the U. S After a final search of the Negto troops for cartridges and at the same time issuing am- munition to the white troops we were loaded on the U. S. S. Leviathan, Made Grave-diggers On the way to France 500 white soldiers died of the flu. We arrived in Brest right in the midst of the worst epidemic of the flu in history. From 250 to 300 deaths a day. When the white officers found that very few Negroes were dy- ing of the flu, they made the Negroes do all the scavenger work in camp. The Negroes all furnished details to dig the graves and to load and unload the dead bodies and to cover up graves, “We did this two weeks and then were sent to the front to an artillery camp. The food was awful and the Negro soldiers were not allowed to go to town and mix with the French people. It was here we learned that General Pershing had requested the French government to Jim- Crow the American Negro. Pershing told the French that Negroes were not good enough to associate with white people. He asked the French government to keep French wolaen away from Negros. Wounded Refused Car. “We were next sent to the Argonne Forest to the 349th Field Artillery. |After the battle the 92d Negro Division with its wounded was sent to the rear to refit and receive replacements. It was then decided to send the Division's wounded to a base hospital. Right here we saw some of the democracy of the U. S. A. we were Supposed to be fighting for. “This base hospital near Treves, France, had lots of Red Cross nurses and was organized in Texas and Georgia. These American white nurses put up such a howl about nursing Ne- groes that the officers refused to allow the American Negro wounded in this hospital. The Negro wounded were then laid on the ground and we were told that white women could not nurse Negroes and that we would have to fur- nish tents and nurses and care for our own wounded.| The wounded Negroes, some of whom were gassed, laid out on the ground a half a day until some Negro soldier notified a French general and the Negroes were taken to a French hospital, ‘a “Get Back to Your Place.” “Back in the U. 8. in 1919, we were up against the same old jim-crowism. In Camp Upton, N. Y., we had a race riot on account of our tearing down jim-crow signs. Officers told all southern Negroes to go home when discharged and get back in his place. They also told them that it would be a good idea not to wear their uniform home, that southern white people did not like to see a Negro in a uniform. “You all know that 1920 was the greatest lynch year in the history of the U. S. Do not be cannon fodder again. Remember your treat- ment during the World War and after. Dem- onstrate on August Ist! No war against the | industrial base, already highly de b _ i, ing capacity of its allies along the western frontiers of the Soviet Union —Poland, Rumania and Czechoslo- vakia. The means of transport which must connect the industrial bases of the coming intervention in France and England with Poland and Ru- mania, the principal issues of the attack, do not seem sufficiently se- cure; so every measure has been taken to strengthen as far as pos- sible the industrial bases for war in Poland, Rumania and Czechoslo- vakia. A further fact of importance is the financial expansion of the leading munition manufacturers of Western Europe, primarily the French firm of Schneider-Creusot andthe English firm of Vickers, into Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Chief Arsenal of the Army of Intervention. z Czechoslovakia has become ‘the Principal arsenal of Eastern and Southern Europe. It is at the same } time the connecting link of the Pol- ish-Rumanian-Baltic armies, since tt has much better transport connec- tions with these countries than have | France or England. ‘These facts ex- Plain why French capitalism ..has. made the most of Czechoslovakia’s veloped before the war, to expand and develop its war industry to an enormous extent. For its activity Schneider-Creusot has made use’ of an entire financial system, in the form of two large banks, the “Union Enropeenne,” with a capital of a hundred million francs. and the “Union Parisienne,” - ‘These banks have played a special role in developing Czechosolvakian war industries and especially the Skoda Works. Tremendous Earnings of the Skoda % Works. _ The “Skodowak,” the factory news- pager of the Skoda Works, publishes the following announcement: “A con- ference of the financial consortium of Schneider-Creusot-Skoda was held recently, at which the final balanc? for the year 1930 was read as {G- lows: Gross earnings, 257 million crowns (37 million more than in the preceding year); net earnings, 68,- 876,000 crowns (one million more than the preceding year); 127 mil- lions written off the books (43 mil» lions more than the preceding year), dividend per share again amounts to 90 crowns.” Thanks to the efforts of French and Czechoslovakian capital «there are at the present time in Czecho- slovakia six rifle and machine-gun factories, five artillery works; fif- teen cartridge and shell factories, four factories manufacturing -dir-. Plane motors, eight gunpowder and explosives factories, ten factories for manufacturing gas poison and anti- poison gas materials. * In these enterprises more than 70,000 workers are employed and in construction of war industries, are -}-Carried out with the co-operation of French capital, which grants credits | to the governments of Poland and ; Rumania. Among the objects of this construction we may mention the Polish military harbor of Gdin- gen, near Dantzig on the Baltic Sea; the Rumanian harbor of Constanzo on the Black Sea, the great harber of Saloniki with a special free port for Yugoslavia. To this list must be added the Polish railroad Gdin- gen-Upper Silesia and the construc- tion of railways in Rumania and Bulgaria, with the intention of cre~ ating direct rail connection fron: | Saloniki via the Danube bridge, now | being built near Rustohuk, to the | eastern centers of Poland. All these | railway constructions, according to | the plans of the French general staff, are to serve the purpose of guaran~ ‘teeing rail and water counections bew tween France-England and Poland Rumania. independently. ‘The preparation of intervention is eyidenced further by the continual transportation of arms from France to the small states on the western frontier of the Soviet Union. The latter have imported from France guns to the value of $40,000,000, hand grenades for $60,000,000, ma~ chine-guns for $13,000,000, canon for $38,000,000 and technical materials for $20,000,000. Billions for Armaments, The growth of the official. mili- tary budgets in the chief countries, Erance, England, United States, Italy “BHid Japan, is shown by the follow- ing figures: In 1914, the military budgets of all these five countries, amounting to 1,182 millions of dol- lars, in 1930 to 2.324 milllons of dol- jars. That means that the expendi- ture was doubled. In the border states, Finland, Esthonia, Poland, Latvia, Rumania, expenditures grew from 121.8 millions of dollars’ in 1923 to 177.7 millions in 1930, And. this growth has not come to, a stop in 1931. All these measures show how . feverishly imperialism is carrying out its preparations for the war. of ine tervention against the Soviet Union, Ford to Fire More | Workers in August Detroit, Mich. Dear Daily Worker: In spite of the fact that about 05,000 workers were discharged by the Ford River Rouge plant since June 15, the annual “vaca- tions” at the Ford River Rouge plant did not even get started yet. The real vacations will begin in August. And do not’ wonder if you hear next time from Detroit about revolt of auto slaves. Where- ever you go here the air is great~ ly charged with the grievances of: ‘workers. The bosses: fear the workers and drive to their shop offices under police protection. © The workers when they see the bosses grind their teeth and clinch their fists and do not be surprised case of war the number of workers could be increased to 300,000. * Soviet workers!” ‘ Fight Against Imperialist War Danger! All Out August First! Polish Armaments Industry, 7. “when you hear about revols of afito workers—N. M. = Demonstrate!