The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-25
MILITARY STRIKE
is PLANNED BY
NORWAY YOUTH
Militarists Get Excited;
Workers Keep Shirts on
By DIR. KARL F. M. SANDBERG


League of Norway, organized after
the split, in connection with the ex-
PEELED faction, has in its just adop-
ted platform a plank calling for
military strike. The Department of
Defense has called the attention of
the Department of Justice and Haa-
kon Meyer, the president of the
league, has been visited by the police
to ascertain who proposed the reso-
luton about military strike.
They were informed that it was
committed elected by the league
consisting of Aksel Zachariasen.
Einar Gerhardsen, Rolf Hofmo. Sew
! Jrin Arnesen, Isak Lundsrud and
Haakon Meyer.
The league does not seem very
scared. Harald Eidsaune in an ar
ticle in Arbeiderbladet for Feb. 1,
writes: ut is the intention Of the
league to destroy this class weapon,
1t intends to organize the soldiers in
open revolt against the officers OF
the army and navy. It intends to
destroy all discipline in the army,
fully convinced that this will cause
its complete dissolution. The league
in this way intends not only to dis
arm the overclass but also to arm
the workers in order to overthrow
the present social system by force.
Its actions are well. prepared and its
plans well considered. 1t has several
thousand members willing to sacrifice
both time and work to carry out this
plan, receives considerable sympathy
and can figure on positive aid from
80 per cent of the soldiers.
Indictments, sentences and impris-
onment will not prevent it. On the
contrary they will help to inform the
young workers that there is an or
ganization which carries on effective
Tight against the hated military sys-
tenn. The consequence will be that
the league will grow and its ability
to carry out its program will
increase"
Haakon Meyer in an article in
Arbeiderbladet for Feb. 2 states that
the league, Of course, is the one
which is responsible for the plat
form, especially the delegates to the
annual meeting and that the plat
form aims to draw clear lines for
their activities. The league having
been accused Of pacifsn, he states:
I'VE do not expect any other than
internal war.
"In nearly all countries the work
ing class faces armed battles. We
are willing to take part in such a
war. But it becomes then a question
about weakening our opponents and
arning ourselves. We will military
strike to destroy the, army of our
enemies. Nobody, and least Of all
the young, would understand US if
we said that we would refuse to
carry arms. 1t is not the world war
which matured the revolutionary I'M
Outstanding Of the youth, it is the
Russian revolution, the red army and
fascism with its means Of violence.
1--WE have seen in several countries,
where the heavy mechanism of the
state is too slow for the activities
of the reactionaries, military organi-
cations have been created which
boldly confess as their aim to fight
the rising of the working class.
These organizations have been vic.
torious in some countries. This has
taught us that If the state is not
quick enough to furnish the physical
force needed to down the worker,
the reaction creates it own apparu.
tus independent Of the state.
"In other places such steps are
necessary, the evolution goes safely
in the direction desired by the reac-
ton. We have general CONSUMPTION,
but during the general strike we saw
organized labor and other unsafe
ones weeded out to create safe COM
panies. The state has its safe COM
panies to be used against the internal
enemy.
eve also see discrimination
against non-commissioned officers
who show any sympathy for organ
lied labor. We do not think we can
prevent the opposition arming for
war, do not think we can stop the
reaction creating fascist organiza-
tons or the state developing a class
army. But we can undermine t.
agitate in it, strike against it, try
to make clear what it's aim is and
remind the working class that it can
only rely upon itself.
Nothing can make this clearer
than If the authorities will prevent
us. And we believe that when the
working class sees the army of its
opponents develop, self-prescrvation
will tell it that resistance Is needed,
and that it itself only can create the
means of war, the means Of resist
ance. Our active military line must
build on the labor organizations. In
them we must create a firm will for
defense against any attack on or
ganization. buildings, press or prop
erty created by a rising working
class"
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