The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28

TT is said that the Turks OF the
i middle ages would never KIN any
young Christian boys who happened
by any chance to fan into their hands.
Nor would they condemn them to the
slavery OF the ordinary kind. These
lads of the enemy faith would be kept
separate and be given carefully
planned upbringing and education
calculated to instfl in them the most
extreme fanaticism for the Moslen
cause and most bitter hatred Of the
christian world From these original
ly christian youths the Turks would
recruit their best and fercest troops
those that prided themselves partf
cularly on their DEVOTION to their
Mussulmen masters the Janisseries-
And the whole christian world admit
ted that the greatest force it had to
meet, the greatest obstacle 1t was up
against, were these converted christ
ian Janisseries
Enemies Within the Workers Ranks
A SITUATION like this, only a
"A thousand-fold worse, exists right
before our eyes to-day and yet most
OF us pay no attention to it When the
workers are slowly and painfully try
ing to organize themselves SO as to
be able to offer a stronger front to
their enemy the boss, they often meet
with those who refuse to be organ
led who refuse to join a union OF
any sort because it is "un-American'
to try to use force" or the threat OF
force" Ia strike, etc) against the
boss Who are these people? They
are workers. Whom do they serve
and fight for? The bosses. The Janis
series, at least, were fighting for their
own interests which were at one with
those of their Turkish masters, but
these misguided workers are serving
the capitalists directly against every
interest of their own When patriot
ic- workers who do not believe" in
strikes scab on, their fellow workers
and break the strike, they are doing
the same thing on greater scale.
Who are the soldiers and policemen
that fire at striking workers at the
command of the boss spoken thru
the government? Are they not work
ers or the sons of workers? And yet
they are serving as the Janisseries, as
the tools of their bitterest foes, the
capitalists who grow fat on the labor
of their fellow workers. When, year
in and year out, workers go to the
polls and vote to keep in Office this
or that politician who is nothing but
a puppet manipulated by the House
of Morgan or by the Rockefeller's
when these same workers are deaf
to the call Of the more far-sighted of
their brethren to break with the boss
parties and strike out in a party EN-
ing blindly for the cause of their
enemies? This is the situation: The
workers and the bosses stand opposed
as two separate classes with different
and antagonistic aims and interests
as two armies constantly engaged in
some form or another of struggle.
Yet the strongest support the capital
lists have consists in the masses of
mislead workers who do not see their
position in the struggle and who, con-
trary to their own interests, strike
out blindly in defense of the masters
that enslave them.
"Give Us the Young and We Have
the Future"
HOW can such a remarkable situa-
IL tion come about? Let us turn to
the little story about the Janisseries
for an answer. The Janisseries were
turned into crack fighters for the
Turks because the Turks got hold OF
them young and trained them for that
purpose. 1t was one of the most fun
damental principles of the Jesuits
give us the young, and we have the
future" The capitalists go on the
1000 v,r;no;nIas If thaxy non on1y oat