The Milwaukee Leader

WHAT THEY ARE THINKING OF
The appointment of Hanford MacNider to the post of assistant war secretary puts another Fascist banker into the federal government of the United States. MacNider was a commander of the American legion. Hell-Maria Dawes is the other Fascist banker. His pet organization is called the Minute Men of the Republic. The legion and the Minute Men are the official nucleus for the same thing that British Fascists are organizing with the connivance of the Baldwin government in the shape of the O. M. S., or organization to maintain supplies.

The avowed purpose of these organizations is to form armed reserve corps to assist in strike breaking, or to take the place of regulars when the government finds it inconvenient to be officially identified with such activities.

These are the forces in our government which will help General Amos Alfred Fries to "gas" strikers. The chemical warfare service book has the details of such "service" worked out as if it were a matter of every-day military routine.

While governments everywhere else meet in international congresses to bar gas warfare from future wars, the old party government of the United States has worked out in minute detail plans to smother its own citizens, if they should refuse to work at the terms dictated by the employers.

The chemical warfare service book instructs the army and its Fascist reserves in different degrees of treating "mobs" with gas. They can give strikers a mild dose that will make them sneeze and cry. They can also give them a stronger dose that will make them dizzy and force them to run. And they can fix them so that they won't be able to run.

The interesting thing about gas is that it is nonpartisan. It will reach anybody within the gassed area, even if not in the "mob." As the service book says in its bland way: "Gas, being heavier than air, will generally cling near the surface of the ground, ordinarily rising not over 30 feet. It will fill cellars, hallways, mine shafts and extend in every direction in which a breeze is blowing."

So now you know what our old party leaders are thinking of when they speak of industrial preparedness. Be prepared!

POISON GAS FOR WORKERS
The chemical warfare service of the United States army, headed by Gen. Amos Alfred Fries, gets out a service book for the instruction of officers and men in the art of gassing strikers. The book calls them mobs. The cut to the right shows how minutely the "service" has worked out the details of asphyxiating citizens who have their own ideas about improving their lot.

"A mob understands that the fire of machine guns or rifles cannot reach around the corners of a building or through a street barricade," says this precious book for future murderers. "But with gas the mob understands that when a cloud is turned loose, this cloud will cover all areas."

of scientific murder, if possible" -this possible is rich-"consideration should be given to women and children, so as to cause them no undue injury." At least no more "undue" injury than the women and children of the strikers received in the Ludlow camp which the murderers of the employers burnt with machine gun fire, killing dozens of them.

What the chemical warfare service considers as no "undue" injury, may be seen by the following passage from its book: "A sneezing or vomiting war gas will interfere with breathing and a tear gas will practically close the eyes of a man." Also of a woman or a child. The baby killers!

"The cloud is invisible, and though it usually can be detected by its odor. this detection often comes too late to prevent the gas taking effect.

"The greatest injury which may occur in a mob when gassed will be the physical injury caused by trampling, fighting and stamping in the efforts made to escape the gas clouds." But, of course, if this happens to women and children. it won't be any undue injury.