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Americas Road to Peace by Harry W. Laidler The Roosevelt Big Army and Navy Program, and the Administration's Foreign Policy Are Roads to War; A Program for Peace; Only a Socialist America Can...
...These workers are building permanent National assets...
...Much of the money spent on military equipment last year, even from the standpoint of the militarists, was wastefully spent...
...The Maverick ball on neutrality, which failed of passage, vent further,- prohibiting loans to belligerents and denying passports to any American visiting warring nations...
...n it* m* army and navy program, in ft* Pacific narai maneuvers, ia its recent dealiags with Russia, and its support of reactionary goveminent* in the Caribbean, it has weakened the ranee of aeece...
...Our interest, however, is not in the General's strategy...
...entitled, at all times, to a decent living, under American standards, and let the chips fall where they will...
...The Pacific naval maneuvers further stimulated this race, a maneuver which, as Admiral Reeves declared, brought together "the greatest armada under one command in the history of the world...
...the whole world develop aa eee* j a slice, d* mocTeVcy *umJ i^+tlwrc heed, in the place of lajaethiaf industrial aatecraey aad human »orld free from the eaaree esf IDAHO LABOR BACKS HILLQUrr WORKERS' RIGHTS AMENDMENT By a New Leader Correspondent ^AMPA, Idaho—The Idaho State . Federation of Labor meeting in this city rejected by two votes a proposal for a third party which had been urged by Howard Y. Williams of St...
...world are passing through the most serious international crisis since the World War...
...7. We must reduce our tarnf walls and tear down the economic barriers to world peace...
...Financial Pirates The amount provided for this work is roughly five billion of dollars...
...The report was made at the request of the Secretariat of the Labor and Socialist International...
...The War Department backed the McSwain House bill that would treat war profiteers with kid gloves but give great authority to the President to conscript manpower...
...CONFIDENTIAL" ONEAL REPORT "DISCOVERED" BY TROTSKY SLEUTHS L--• - ¦ ¦ • - For many months the various Communist sects have taken a special interest in the Socialist Party and hardly an issue of a Bolshevik gazette appears without some reference to the party, often several columns being devoted to it...
...It is the age-old kindly gesture that always precedes a subtile attack by one posing as a friend...
...Only a Socialist America Can Insure Lasting Peace TODAY the nations of the...
...By George Q. Lynch Editor, Pattern Makers' Journal and President Pattern Makers of North America, affiliated with the A. F. of L. QENfiRAL JOHNSON says: "With a brief for organized labor in my heart, I have«now to fight organized labor as hard as I can...
...When the General says: "that's all there is, there ain't no more," he is talking through his epaulets...
...Fkilure on the part of this administration to do it will only lend impetus to the "less constructive proposals cf the Coughlins, Longs, ToWnsends et al...
...The bill authorized am increase of nearly 40 per cent in the enlisted strength of the army—from 118,750 to 165,000...
...Nevertheless, it employed recognition ant non-recognition as weapons to change the political situation...
...excess of budget estimates and nearly $86,000,000 more than was appropriated last year...
...This can,be accomplished by the simple , expedient of a more equitable dis(tribution of the National wealth...
...j. - . 1. We must set about hoi Wing a great political - movement of the masses dedicated to a warleas and a cooperative w or Id . . 2. We must rltuna nil immediately )f our Representatives that'Amerca take the lead not in arming-Ho he teeth, but m disarmament, tart ing with the total abolition of battleships, aircraft carriers, subnarines and bombing plane...
...The report calls upon the Roosevelt administration to observe the spirit as well as the letter of the non-intervention declaration made by that country at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo...
...That influence is small, indeed...
...A Bad Compromise . It might have been helpful also fat the American Federation of Labor...
...The | amount can be increased to a point , where all able and willing workers I can: be absorbed into Federal employment, at living standards, doi ing socially necessary work...
...It is so "confidential" that the original will be reported by Oneal to the National Executive Ceommittee of the Socialist Party at its next meeting...
...Bat the New Deal hould have brought a change...
...i If we, can suffer that loss for no j better reason than to' perpetuate private exploitation and profit, theii we can easily afford more thai the five billion now appropriated for public works...
...Nevertheless, we have been piling up greater armaments as the years have advanced...
...with the great mass of the colored population in Africa and Asia viewing the conflict as one between white exploiters and the colored race...
...Arbitrary Views If we are willing to accept these arbitrary statements as facts then the General "goes to town" with flying colors...
...In general, this organization j took a position on world revolution [of a much milder nature than in I former years...
...American delegates, I ! however, boasted loudly of their influence on the American labor movement...
...6. We must take the profit oat of the munitions industry - and other industries connected witlf war...
...On the debit side, the Administration struck a blow at peaceful international relations by its big army and big navy policy...
...and that it may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president, or anything else it may choose...
...v • Vertical form of organization in cases where it does not, destroy a craft union is favored in a "resolution which was adopted...
...Such recognition but followed the traditional practice of the American government...
...A man working two days at $10 can enjoy no better standards than the man who works four days at $5...
...j 3. We must strike s blow at militarism wherever it exist* see nsist that all military institutions ie excluded from our school* aad colleges...
...However, we can see no good-reason to accept all or any one of them...
...Laurence R. Wilder, Chairman of the Board of the Gulf Industries of Pensacola, declared he had been the lowest bidder for destroyers in 1933, but had failed to get the contract because of a previous agreement among the "Big Three...
...We have set about cleaning up the mess in the Virgin Islands...
...had taken this position when the matter of public works was under discussion in the Senate...
...5. We must pet manning illw*T Kellogg Pact, which Sledges this country to renounce war a* an instrument of national policy, and we must, as individuals, refuse to have a part of tee war machine...
...In defense of his $19 to $94 wages he follows this course...
...He declared that cruiser prices had gone from $8,300,000 in 1932 to as high as $16,500,000 in 1934...
...We have negotiated a trade treaty with Cuba...
...The entire history of our activities in the Caribbean," he declared, "is an object lesson of the futility of involving ourselves in more responsibility for situations over which1 we do not have adequate control.' Carleton Beak, in the New Re .public of July 3, maintained that if the American Ambassador ir Cuba had not thrown his weigh' on the side of the reactionaries Cuba might today be enjoying: under the Grau San Martin administration, a popular, orderly and legal system...
...On the.other hand...
...The refusal of the Cuban authorities to permit an American group of radicals to investigate conditions in the islands' is fmtsajr indication of the situation there...
...The Socialist Party is ready, he said, if any partyt is needed other than the two major ones, and is already established in Idaho...
...Graham vigorously opposed the resolution...
...And now Washington has assumed the role of interpreter of public opinion in Cuba by announcing its own satisfaction with the existing regime in Cuba and declaring that it has the overwhelming support of the Cuban people...
...Vhat is desperately demanded Jn he State Department m a coafjirehension of the need of adapting var Caribbean policy to the rtaw irdei, and a personnel that vtfcl enow how to carry out this dee•ate and important assignment^ After torpedoing the London Economic...
...It said nothing 'about making loans to belligerent countries, and it gave the President discretionary power as to when Americans traveled at their <rwn risk...
...Jenks maintained that American policy was standing in the way of Cuban reconstruction...
...The Congress also appropriated nearly $127,000,000 for new warships...
...To agree that they were willing to shorten the work week to -a point where the earning would not exceed the amount per month set by...
...We mast endeavor within the nation to substitute a cooperative, a Socialist order of society, for the present planless and chaotic capitalist system...
...is analysis of the international relations of the Roosevelt administration indicates policies making far and against international conflict'On the credit aide, the Administration undoubtedly took a Whs step in urging the StandardVacuum Oil Company to cancel its contract for the exploitation of the oil resources of Ethiopia...
...The American company would have thereupon brought pressure to bear on the American gwernment to protect its rights aad it* employees...
...In this controversy the basic questions to be answered are: "Can an American citizen support a family on an income of from $19 to $94 a month...
...And finally we cannot justify substantial wages in America by pointing to the existence of other substantial wages...
...We have had too much of that already...
...The Commission hopes," it reported, "that the ambiguous activities of American diplomats in in¦ fluencing the internal composition of governments will come to aa end...
...Recogntion of Russia While giving encouragement to the forces of militarism, the President muddied the waters in our relations with Russia- President Roosevelt's recognition of Soviet Russia was a good omen in international relations...
...It sent a curt • letter to Russia and our relations | with this nation are now tenuous, j In view of the world situation, this | exhibition of nerves is indeed un, fortunate...
...Leland H. Jenks of Wellesley point out that the "good neighbor" policy has been much less beneficial than the Administration maintains...
...Partly era.result ox,the intervention of President Roosevelt's two latest Ambassadors in Cuba, that island is now in the control of a dictator...
...The Hillquit Workers' Rights Amendment to the Consttution of the United States, introduced in the last Congress^by Vita Marcantonio, was endorsed by -the convention...
...civil liberty is a thing of the past, opposition political parties have: been crushed, the labor movement has been wiped out and many of, Cuba's best sons have been jailed or driven into exile...
...This can be accomplished by taxation and6 legislation...
...But was it necessary to sanction « financial settlement which gave implicit approval to the acts of :he dictator...
...IS...
...Let us state clearly that a worker is...
...He estimated that $10,000,000 was a fair price for a cruiser...
...During the session witness after witness testified before the Senate Munitions Committee of the collusion between the "Big Three' shipbuilding companies in the making of bids, collusion that cost the country millions of dollars...
...The Administration during the year maintained that America no longer believed in dollar diplomacy...
...The big army and navy policy of President Roosevelt's administration is giving an additional impetus to the mad armament race in which the great powers of the earth are now engaged...
...Patting labor on the back he attempts to steal its conditions by a process of strategy long known as '^Greeks bearing gifts...
...We are not concerned with the General's argument in favor of dividing poverty by spreading work...
...Imperialist Ceerciea The long report of the Foreign Policy Association on "Problems of .the New Cuba" is of the same, general effect...
...It increased the appropriation for enlarging the personnel of the national guard, for expanding the citizens' military training camps, etc...
...But this administration was, frozen out...
...The theory of "half a loaf has become out-moded in,fact of our National abundance...
...Dr...
...Fortunately, we have withdrawn the marines from Haiti...
...Aad, ia the nature of the case, the Administration has Seise nothing fundamentally to wars , eliminating the profit system, which contains within itself thy seeds of modern warfare.' : The Administration, in its action n the Standard-Vacuum Oil capract, in Its signing of the neurality bill, hi its reciprocal trade reaties and its adherence to -the nternational Labor Office and jits iroposal to affiliate - wtt§T Jfce Vorld Court, has pursued a Jp»rvard-looking international policy...
...It was Thomas Jefferson who, as Secretary of State, declared on March 12, 1793, in connection with the recognition of the revolutionary French government: "We cannot deny any nation that right whereon our own government was founded that every one may govern itself according to whatever form it pleases, and change these forms at its own will...
...Our own responsibility luring the 18 years in which Washington cynically - destroyed •very attempt at self-government nd imposed its will by foveS.J* mdeniable...
...So far as carrying a brief for labor is concerned, his past record precludes the acceptance of anything quite so nonsensical...
...The proposal was rejected after a spirited debate in which James D. Graham, president of the Montana State Federation of Labor and1 member of the National Committee of the Socialist Party, participated...
...The' Trotsky organ turns Hawksbaw by printing this report as a "confidential" one...
...Mosses Mast Act If we are to avoid war, if We as i nation are to make the world afe for peace sad democracy, we nust do many things...
...During the year our government likewise refused to join with Japan in seeking a 50 per cent cut in navies with the total abolition of battleships and aircraft carriers...
...The marine corps-trained army, which Santo Domingo does not need, shoots down all who protest against the corruption and ruth'lessness of the government...
...The State Department got the jitters...
...He contends the following to be irrevocable and unchangeable: 1. There is only so much money to be spent on public works...
...It carefully avoided all semblance of intervention...
...The-convention also protested against the importation of jobless workers by the U. S. Employment Service into localities where local workers are unemployed and the protest will be forwarded to Harry L. Hopkins...
...However, such authorities as Dr...
...Their compromise gained us nothing...
...Was-the company willing to risk a war involves 120,000,000 people for a few artra dollars in the pockets of its ftockholders ? The Neutral Policy A second step in the right direction was the neutrality bill passed by Congress at the insistence of Senator Nye, Congressman Maverick and other progresgsives and, it must be said, without the encouragement of the administration...
...Heal Americans, proud of their natfonal traditions toward progress, do Inot want advice from administration spokesmen on how to share poverty...
...We are entering a new era, not trying to preserve an old one...
...Facts amply support the belief that we not only can, but must, have higher living standards to maintain an economic balance...
...It is obvious that in a controversy within a section affiliated with the L.S.I., if the Secretariat seeks information regarding it a request for information will go to all sides involved,in the controversy...
...They should not have been taken seriously...
...Under these conditions, the people of the United States must take every possible precaution to remain eat of the conflict...
...9. We must abandon ell imperialist practices in the Orient and Latin America, and we must organise democratic international economic organizations dealing with investments, raw materials, the flow of currency and credit from a world, rather than a national point of view and, finally...
...The President reproved the committee for giving publicity to these statements, but said nothing whatever about the disastruos policy of fortifying the Canadian border after so many years of friendly relations...
...3. To pay higher wages therefore, would not allow the reemployment of the desired number...
...j Dictatorship, continues The Me~ ,ion, is likewise ia the making in Haiti...
...Advancement by compromise of principle seldom bears fruit...
...Earring the last session of Congress our army and navy appropriations increased to the colossal •am of $830,000,000, over three hrnea the pre-war appropriation, the highest sum in any peace year •ad far beyond that in any for•*> government not actually en$*ged in war, while expenditures 08 the army and naval establishments during the fiscal year 1936, ¦eluding allotments to be made "oaa the work relief fund, will Probably approach a billion dollars Military Appropriations The War Department Appropria*•»• Bill, signed by the President April 9, carried an appropriation J* about $402,000,000, nearly $23,•w^W in...
...There is not a suggestion of-economic or social reform...
...And can our" National wealth be administered to warrant better wages...
...During the hearings before the House Military Affairs Committee high officers testified that the appropriation bill would permit the construction of camouflaged air bases near the Canadian border at an estimated expense of $120,000,000...
...Now, it is unadulterated bunk to say that a Nation with a potential annual wealth production in excess of 90 billions yearly, cannot afford more than paupers' wages to effect this commendable program...
...Must the American People ' Be PaupeMzed...
...Dictatorship prevails in the Efc minican Republic, "as the liieaijj consequence," as The Nation Mb it (April 17) "of our mi liter* intervention...
...Tttp situation, to be sure, was inherited by the Roosevelt Administration...
...2. It can't be increased...
...The General made much of this in his argument favoring poverty...
...The good neighbor policy of this Administration," he declared at the Virginia University Institute this summer, "surrounded Cuba with warships during the months that followed the revolution against Machado in August, 1933, and maintained armed forces in Havana harbor until after the conclusion of the trade agreement last summer...
...They should,not have agreed, actually or tacitly, to any amendment that did not establish a recognized normal work week at sound prevailing rates...
...The Third International, after j seven years, met this year in Moscow...
...We have adopted the "good neighbor" policy...
...The boasts were largely idle...
...Prior to the World War we were spending about a quarter of a billion dollars annually on our military establishment Since then we have signed the Kellogg Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy...
...The fight for oil has long been a source of international conflict...
...Suspects have been ruthlessly killed by military order...
...Unfortunately, the bill was a compromise measure...
...Compromising on that basis was a compromise against American home life...
...Never," declared the National Council for the Prevention of War (March 11, 1835) "did the war profiteers show their power to greater effect than by this program during the Nye investigations, at the very time when their vast profits by fomenting war fears are being exposed...
...We mast, sjss as a people boycott nations engaged in aggressive warfare...
...He contradicted Williams' asertion that the workers and farmers control Minnesota, claiming that Minnesota is ruled by "big business...
...In the matter of doing useful Federal work in exchange for a livelihood, we are not concerned with the existing amount appropriated for the work...
...No one will deny that as a> breezy and clever spokesman for special privilege the General is hard to equal...
...We point to the fact that even under the "New Deal" the amount going to special privilege is increasing each year . What is to prohibit...
...His method in argument is to posit some highly questionable points as a premise and then proceed logically to his desired conclusion...
...Incidentally, the alleged "translation'* is by no means a good one, the meaning of many sentences often being obscure...
...Industrial and financial buccaneering brought on this depresi sion which has cost jus about 35 billion yearly...
...The occasion for the fight was the calling of a strike against the $19 to $94 wages to be paid on public-works...
...It is not relief or charity...
...4. That $19 to $94 a month is more than private industry would pay for like work on a yearly average...
...Should the Committee of the League of Nations fail to prevent war between Italy and Ethiopia, a world conflagration is almost sure to follow...
...8. We must do everything poal sible to build up and democratise international organizations dedicated to arbitration and concilia*tion of differences between tee nations...
...I And after all, the Roosevelt administration did promise to do just that thing...
...The tyranny and terror are unprecedented in that little nation...
...That is what happened in this instance and that is all there is to this "confidential'' report by Oneal...
...A motion by Congressman Marcantonio to strike out the $3,453,000 for military training courses in college was voted down...
...In face of the arithmetic all the General can mean is that the present allotment cannot be increased without subtracting from the amount now going to special privilege...
...They must likewise pursue an international policy which' will strike at the roots of war, for, if this war is averted, gives the continuance of present economic and political conditions, Khar international crises are bound to occur within the not diataut future...
...Dollar Diplomacy The last Congress failed to pass any bill taking the profit out of war...
...That can always be changed...
...with Nazi Germany ever watchful of its chance to extend its rule over southeastern Europe, and with Japan taking advantage of every move to push forward its imperialistic program in the Far East, the explosion in far-off Africa is likely to spread rapidly to every part of the globe...
...This act directs the President upon the outbreak of war between foreign countries to isue a proclamation making* it illegal to sell arms, ammunition or implements of war to belligerents, creates a National Munitions Control Board, provides for the registration of companies engaged in the manufacture of inanitions, prohibits during war -me the stopping of submarines a American ports, except under specified conditions, and directs the President, whenever he finds it necessary to the maintenance of peace and the protection of lives, to proclaim that "no citizen of the United States shall travel on any vessel of any belligerent nation except at his own risk...
...4. We must extend and strengthen the recent resolution on neutrality jo as to include loans to be Rigs rent countries, and we must insist without qualification tfent our cHSsens embark on vessels of bolligSfset* or in belligerent countries solely on then- own risk...
...We are no longer imperialistic...
...Nor are we interested in . his personal viewpoint...
...the President was an unwarranted compromise...
...That bill was vigorously ¦ fought in the House and torn into shreds...
...There "is nothing unique in the General's approach to the fight...
...The Naval Appropriation Bill signed June 25 carried total appropriations of $458,000,000, a large increase over last year...
...a reversal of this trend...
...To be willing to accept a prevailing rate under such a compromise may have appeased private contractors, but our interest should notUe with the contractors...
...Conference, the .present Vdministration lias done little,Hpf inything, during the last ,l*sv oward grappling with the impsrant problem of international cayeney stabilisation or of war debts...
...His admixture of fact and fiction form an almost perfect camouflage against the identity of his real purpose...
...The Idaho laws are, in addition, so strict as virtually to prohibit the establishment of a new party in the state, he said...
...With a half dozen of the European countries who control most of Africa fearful that any change in the status quo might jeopardize their interests...
...The September 14 issue of the "New Militant," organ of the Trotskyites, carries a story under a five-column head on a "Confidential Report by Oneal to the 2nd International" on the Socialist Party of the United States, claiming that it had obtained "the report in a German translation" from which the document was retranslated into English...
...If this American company had begun operations in Ethiopia, it would, sooner or later, have come into conflict with Italy, particularly since that country declared that it would regard the contract as invalid...
...Paul of the FarmerLabor Political Federation...
...We are as a nation ¦ ao danger of invasion...
...We have announced that we are opposed to our old practice of military intervention in Latin America...
...They will span rivers, improve highways, erect buildings, control floods and remove grade crossings...
...It must be remembered that this is a public works project...
...In recognizing Russia, however, the United States secured a promise regarding propaganda which it has interpreted to mean that Russia would not permit delegates from this country to the Third International to express on Russian soil their Communist beliefs...
...We are concerned mainly with the fact that the General is an administration spokesman and expresses a view characteristic of a wrong approach to important national problems...
Vol. 18 • September 1935 • No. 38
