The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-03
make War on War;"
|Labor's Slogan for
"Goose-Step Day."
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.


sway over Wall Streets growing colonial possessions,
especially in the Philippines is in the front rank Of the
moblizers for Defense Day." That is his job.
Secretary of War Weeks is pulling all the DID, familiar
tricks that the mtarists have always Employed to make
worldwide interests of capitalism attractive to the youth of
the nation.
Secretary War Weeks looks over the statistics and
finds that the mills the mines the factories while they
have been producing huge profits tor the great trusts they
subnorma and physically unfit candidates for the murder
machines of
For the masters of bread need strong healthy, alert
young men to fight their wars 50 that they can fight them
successfully against the strong healthy robust alert young
of foreign mperalisms whether of Great Britain
France Japan
Secretary Of War Weeks aments for the purposes Of
that about one-ha of population subnormaI
and that the country suffers annually loss of 81 900
by preventabe illness and durable physical defects of its
citizens"
Secretary of War Weeks doesn't worry about develop
ing nation of intelligent healthy and children
for the purposes of peace for the building better cvIza
ton He states his fears openly and frankly that this po
pulaton with its so per paces the
in the position Of having defend itself with tied
behind its back which, 's bad Bad for Wall Street and
its gold.
Weeks has cure for this problem He does not urge
that the standard of living be raised He does not demand
that the children be taken of the factories He
seek shortening Of the workday, the lettering of work.
ing or housing conditions.
All this ptifu puppet the Wall Street war-makers
has to offer to suggest that 1.-THE medical in each
their fellow citizens Sept. H. defense Test Day"
This confession that the wages of the workers will
needed the depend upon charity of
doctors day. six after the great ended in
order that they might their bodies to become
fodder for the next war.
at may be too late" confesses Weeks for any con-
structve action on nationwide scale to eradicate the
physical weakness of the present generation, but is
certainly not too late to prevent the onoomng generation
Thus, evidently hopeless of patriotism of DOCTORS
Weeks pleads that fathers and mothers will ply
steal condition OF their children Investigated but he did
add in order that they be better fertilizer for blood
OmsOned soil of some foreign land in the next great
In the great capitalist war the dead alone totaIed
nearly 100000 young to be exact just 7975ooo In
Guiding the wounded the casualties went up at
Yearbook for 1912 And the only victory was the triumph
of the profteering dollars of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Thus the issue ooose-step Day. Sept H. 1924" in
the United States becomes quite clear Will the masses,
the wanakes prepare for the Or will masses
of workers and farmers prepare to make war the next
capitalist war?
William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the United
Of President Roosevelt more than Two decades ago Taft
and Roosevelt did what they could to put budding American
militarism on its feet
But it was RooseveIts Secretary of War Taft, who as
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court only
Gently declared legislation restricting
labor of children 1t is under the rule of Chief
that increasing number of children being driven
labor before their Time when they should be in school, de-
veopng in the mills and factories all those diseases
ments that make the American population nearly so per
Just 466 defective And the only worry Of the big capitalists
is that these children will good murderers in the
next
Thus capitalism is revealed in all it's barbarism When
It does not feed the nations youth to the machine
drives into the equally deadly of capitalist industry
Against the capitalist slogan of Prepare the Youth Of
the Nation for the Next War;" the Communists
demand Arouse the youth of the nation for against
wars OF the great capitalists Arouse the workers for the
war to end War-breedng capitalism"
Sept IL, this next week, should be mobilization Of all
workers and farmers to spread the call for great
struggle to sweep this barbarous and bIoodhlrsty social
system called capitalism off the earth forever.
TILE AMERLCAM IARQR MOVEMENT