The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
STRONG WAVE OF
ANTI-MILITARISM
SWEEPS NORWAY
Norwegian Youth Fights
Conscript Service

Especial TO The DaVy Worker)
KRISTIANA. Norway, March 80.
-(By MaiD- The Norwegian Left
Young Communist League, The Social
Anarchistic Society of Norway. and
the Norwegian Synd.calist Federation
have sent a joint call to the Norwe-
gian Youth of military age, to refuse
military service.
They have the support of the Nor
wegian Workers Party and request
the support of all union men in their
demand for the adjustment Of the
military work and the dissolution of
the class army; they also request
boycott against military transports
and manufacture of war supplies.
They claim that the only object in
keeping an army is 10 use it against
the internal enemy" to crush down
labor every time it rises in fight for
its reasonable demands.
Several editors of papers have been
indicted for publishing articles about
the military strike. The first case,
against Olsen-Hagen, editor Of "Lste
Mar in Stavanger, was tried March
22nd. and resulted in judgment of
six months jail sentence and depriva-
ton of citizens rights for ten years.
Appeal was taken.
An anti-military meeting was call
ed by Stavanger Workers Party and
Stavanger Young Communist League
the same evening, with crowded hall
passed a resolution calling the verdict
distinct class judgment and an attack
on the general freedom Of speech and
thought. The executive committee of
Rogaland County also passed strong
protest against the verdict
Immense Protest Meetings.
March Goth, an anti-military meet
ing called by Kristiania Workers
Party and the local Of the Young
Communist League, broke the record
for meetings held at the hall Of the
Kristiania Federation of Labor in its
81 years existence. The large hall
was packed and three overflow meet
ings arranged. The military strike
parole was called the liberating word,
the action that cuts thru talk and
theories. The meeting expressed sits
full cooperation with the work Of the
young league for boycott of military
work by the working class military
strike) and sees in the desperate
prosecution instituted by the authori-
ties proof that this is the line they
fear" Oscar Torp, chairman Of the
Workers Party, said: "The army is
modified against the workers and
to protect the strikebreakers. Strike
breakers are the dreg of society for
whom we all have contempt"
A state that uses military to pro-
tect strikebreakers must be broken
up. An institution like the army, that
is used for protection of strikebreak-
ers, must be destroyed Strikebreak-
ers must be made ouraws.-We shall
place our army, our organizations,
against the class army. We will not
not quit the fight until the military
establishment lies thrown and tied by
the force with which we shall march
forward"
Fighting The Military.
Haakon Meyer. president of the
young league, emphasized that the
army is class army. AT the time of
the general strike organized workers
were sent home as not reliable. Safe
companies have been formed. The
working class must fight this army.
1.-THE strikebreaker is considered a
shameless person. We will create the
same sentiment against those who
protect the strikebfeakers. In our
position towards the military we are
not satisfied to only refuse.-We must
be willing to and prepare ourselves
70 take up the battles that will come,
also the military. And we shall win
so that we on our own foundation can
establish our own Dictatorship" The
overflow meeting called: Down with
the military. Forward to direct ac-
ton!
March 9th, the police indicted the
following members Of the Young Com
munist League Of Norway, on account
of anti-military actions: Thorbjorn
Dahl, Henry w. Kristiansen, Burger
Madsen, Jorgen Vogt, Edw. Sjolande,
Carsten Aasebo, Bj. Lindahn, Arthur
Arneson, Harold Olsen and Eugene
Olaussen.