The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
YOUNG WORKERS
LEAGUE warning
ON MILITARISTS
Fighting Boy Scouts,
" and the Rest
By HARRY CANNES.

particularly the Young Workers
League and its Junior Groups.
Several members Of the Young
Workers League and the Junior
groups have been called for ques-
tioning by teachers and principles
who want to aid the capitalist news
papers in their endeavor to snuff out
any opposition to their war prepare
tions.
United Front, Anti-War Meet.
The basis for linking up the AL
linson and other pacifist movements
with the revolutionary anti-military
work carried on by the American
young Communist organization is the
joint students and young workers
meeting held in June Of last year to
found a united front of all elements
willing to join in a concerted attack
on the growing naturalization of the
United States. Brent Dow Allinson
represented the mildest of pacifist
elements, while the Young Workers
League of America thru Martin
Abern and AL. Albright stressed the
Communist military and >anti-mili-
tary program and refused to co-ordi-
nate with any of the milk-and-water
pacifists present. No agreement for
work was arrived at at the Wauke-
gan Students Conference.
Y. w. L. Anti-Nilitary Leaflet.
The Young Workers League has
since been carrying on a lone cam
paign against militarism particularly
in the schools and thru the Young
Worker and the Young Comrade. Re-
Gently a special anti-military leahet
was printed pointing out the imme-
date war dangers.
Particular emphasis was laid by
the league on the use of the boy
scouts, the Y. M. c. A. and other
capitalist youth organizations as mill
tary units by the American govern
ment. In the last war the Boy Scouts
were organized into an effective mill
tary unit and were widely used by
the militarist forces in carrying on
the war. The Y. M. C. A. became the
educational unit for the army with
the express purpose of making bet
ter soldiers out of the young men
who were drafted.
Against Y. M. c. A.
Hence the Y. w. L. anti-military
campaign has been directed with all
the force at its command particularly
against these organizations and the
citizens military training camps who
disguise themselves as benevolent in
situations.
There is very little indication that
the young workers will be frightened
into meek submission to militariza-
ton. Pressure is being exerted on the
students by pointing out that the Y.
J w. L., a Communist youth organiza-
ton, is most energetic in its demands
against the struggle against arming
} for future capitalist wars.
Boy Scouts A bud.
Two military campaigns now being
conducted by capitalist forces are
are meeting with obvious failure.
The attempt to enlist the boys of the
working class into the Boy Scouts is
falling short of the mark set by the
organizers of this movement; and the
call for young men to enlist in the
Citizens Military Training Camps is
not meeting with a responsive nod
from the young workers in this coun-
try. They still remember the rot
ten, shrinking food served in 1922,
and the brutal officers who made life
miserable for the young wage slaves
who were unfortunate enough to en-
list in these camps.
Vets Are Wise To Wars.
Disguised by the wholesale graft
in the veterans bureau and the fail
ure Of the bonus, the world war vets
are proving to be discouraging Hle-
ment to any war attempts on the
part Of the imperialistically inclined
American capitalists. The mass ex-
odus from the American Legion and
the drop in the number Of students
who want military training, is the
inspiring cause for the anti-red and
antirpacifist campaign now being put
over by all pro-militarist organiza-
tions in the United States.
Our War On Militarism.
"This is the time to stress our
anti-military work." declared Martin
Abern, secretary of the Young
Workers League; 1--WE had planned
national anti-military campaign
for this spring, irrespective of the
action Of the pacifists or the Ameri-
can Legion and the Tribune, and are
going to keep up our work among
the young workers and students. We
realize that our organization is not
Of mass size; but we know that the
American youth is Disguised and dis
illusioned about the sacred nature
of American capitalism and is not
ready to lay down its life for the
bloody dollars Of the Morgans and
Rockefellers. The endeavor should be
to arouse the working youth to o
realization that the anti-military
struggle must be a Communist one
and should steer clear from the dan.
gerous shoals Of pacifsm.
} 1.-THE Citizens Military Training
Camps and the Boy Scouts will re.
ceive our special attention. We call
upon the working children and the
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