The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-28
YOUNG WORKERS
LEAGUE RESENTS
PACIFIST CHARGE
Is Against Capitalist
Militarism
By HARRY CANNES.

ny HAM NTkAIN&NIlos
Imminent failure of the campaign
to enlist the youth in the Citizens
Military Training Camps is driving
the capitalist press to desperation.
Brent Dow Atkinson, a Christian
pacifist, is made the object of vi
cious attacks launched by the COM
bined Chicago brass check associa-
ton, the American Legion and a
number Of other pro-militarist or
CARNATIONS.
Militarists Losing.
It was not the innocuous talk that
Allinson delivered before the Ep-
worth League meeting in Evanston
recently that evoked the prolonged
attack that is being carried on, but
the fact that there is little indica-
ton that the American youth are
ready to be dragged into another
world war. At the Northwestern
University the Students Military
Training Reserve Officers Military
Training Corps are losing members,
while the ex-soldiers openly pro-
claim their refusal to take part in
another slaughter fest.
Lively c[AALt-lAAAAJ<ALN anu
organization in the country is being
connected with the Young Commun-
ist movement, the Young Workers
League of America and its Junior
Groups. It is claimed that the
Y. w. L. is the brains behind the
entire anti-military and pacifst
propaganda in the United States.
The ridiculous charge has been made
that Trotzky is personally super
vising the anti-military propaganda
spread by Allinson and others.
Not NOn-Resistants.
The Young Workers League is
definitely an anti-military organiza-
ton but is far from being connect
ed with Tolstoian or Christian paci-
fists. The anti-military campaign
carried on by the Young Workers
League of Amerba is not conducted
in secret but is an open, working
class, militant fight against the
growing Imperialism and growing
ornaments in the United States.
The last report of the United States
War Department showed that the
military forces in this country had
grown by about so per cent in the
past 10 years. United States capt.
talists are financing military opera
tons in Mexico and the South
American republics.
A Crazy Charge.
That the anti-military CAMPAIGN
carried on by the Y. w. L. and the
Junior Groups is inspired bv
Trotzky is a ridiculous assertion and
IS. based on the fact that the Young
Workers League works in close har-
mony with the Young Communist
international in carrying on its
military campaign. The headouar-
tiers Of the Young Communist Inter-
national are in Moscow but have no
direct connection with Trotzkv. The
military program is outlined bv the
young workers themselves, who are
members Of the Communist leagues
all over the world and is carried out
by the members of the organization
and so many of the outside Young
workers as can be gotten to realize
the danger to themselves Of capt.
talist wars.
Whereas the capitalist press is
trying to isolate the anti-rniIitarv
struggle carried on by the only
revolutionary youth organization in
the United States, the Young Work
ers League, to a fight against
American militarism, it must be
clearly pointed out that the Y. W. /.
IS cooperating with the young
Communist Leagues everywhere as
1t recognizes that the entire CAPT.
talist world is involved in modern
imperialist wars.
The present anti-militarv pro-
gram of the Y. w. L. was adopted
at its last convention, MAY. 1929.
and has formed the basis of the
anti-nlilitary campaigns carried on
by the American young Communist
organization.
Militarism Spreading.
american capitalism is arnninp
itself as well as are the European
nations" declares the resolution on
militarism and nti-militarism. This
warning has not proven over stress
ed. The British Labor Party since
taxing over power has authorized
the increase of the naval strength
OF Great Britain; South America Is
spending millions for ornaments:
and In the United States stupendous
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