The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29

ployes, $4,000 from city employees,
and $4,000 from the police depart
ment."
The total amount of war bonds sold
in the II counties Of Wisconsin, &C.
cording to Pixley in wisconsin in
the World War" is about $3S5,SOO,.
72O.
Workers Used as Cannon Fodder.
LaFollette's progressive, peace-lov-
ing state was as lavish with the work
ers lives, as it was with their money
in the last capitalist world war. On
page SO Of the Report of the Adjutant
General of Wisconsin, for period end
ing June 80, 1918, we find:
ITO date Of this report there have
been forwarded to the different camps
under the calls as made by the War
Department:
g. Selected men to num-
Der approximately ........... 80, 900
Wisconsin National Guard
to Camp Macarthur ...-........ $4,000
"Enlistments ............................ 10000
Total furnished Army and
Navy since the beginning
OF this war .........-.-...11S,0 900"
Finally, in the announcement by
Governor Blaine, August 2, 1924, on
the proposed Defense Day plans, we
are told that the number Wisconsin
sent to the front reached a grand to-
tai of 1854. LaFollette's guberna.
torial candidate then goes on to de.
clare proudly:
"Wisconsin's military record re-
calls the major components of the
Iron Brigade and the major compon.
ents of the Thirty-Second Division. It
recalls the fact that in no war during
its history had Wisconsin failed to
answer the call for national defense
or within its own boundaries known
industrial or military disorders. and
the fact that on July IS, 1918, when
American arms stemmed the tide in
the second battle of the Marine. one
out Of every fifteen soldiers wearing
the American uniform in France came
from Wisconsin"
Hate Wisconsin MiIitarism.
The workers OF Wisconsin have at
no time had any illusions as to the
extensive military preparations going
on in the state. The following ap-
pearing in the Milwaukee Leader of
May IL, 1921, shows the misgivings of
the workers aroused by the record
breaking military appropriations voted
in the state:
The efforts to increase its person.
mel and give greater power to the Ma.
tional Guard are viewed in labor cir.
cles with mistrust and open declara-
tions that it is not done with an eve
to an outside foe, but to prepare to
put down labor.
Labor men claim that Fort Sheri.
dan was located midway between Chi
cago and Milwaukee by the capital.
istic interests that guide the military
policies, so that regulars will be on
hand to meet labor troubles"
The great service the Wisconsin
National Guard is to the Badger state
bosses can be seen from the fact that
under the usual pretense of riot and
violence, several companies of troons
were rushed to terrorize the workers
into submission in the Cudahy strike
OF August, 1919.
In the strike of the meat Guitars
against the Cudahay Packing Com.
pany, one of the beef trust firms Gov.
ernor E. L. Philip of Wisconsin
rushed three companies of National
Guardsmen from Camp Douglas
fully equipped and prepared to stav
for an indefinite time, in order to
mediate the dispute" against the
workers.
Supports Wisconsin MiIItarlsn,.
Robert Marion LaFollette has been
consistent supporter of the military
system in Wisconsin. In his message
as governor he declared in 1908.
The people of Wisconsin should
recognize their Importance and take
just pride in maintaining the Guard
The model OF efficiency in the
military service in this country is the
United States Regular Army; and
every effort should be made to bring
the militia as near this standard as
possible"
Then, in February, 1923, an effort
was made, because OF the strong la.
Dor opposition to the rapid strides in
militarism that Wisconsin was max
ing, to abolish the National Guard.
Even Mrs. LaFollette lent support to
this movement. Senator LaFollette
then came upon the scene and led a
vigorous opposition to this effort TO
abolish the Guard.
The bill to do away with the state
militia, hated by the workingmen. had
passed the assembly. Preparations
were afoot to fight for it's adoption BY
the state senate. But LaFollette. the
self.etyled anti.militarist. aoon anteroA