The daily worker., 1926-08-25
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Strikebreakers.
! that the real object Of the camps is tc
train soldiers for service (1) against
an opposing military power, (2) in the
colonies or China or Central America
defending the property of American
capitalists and suppressing colonial OF
semi-colonial people (3) In strikes
against workers. These things are
not mentioned. In the entire publicity
for the camps the fact that those who
enroll will be given military drill and
instruction is entirely secondary, is
mentioned only in a casual and incon-
seQuential way.
How II Works.
TAKE a working lad Shaving away
L nine or ten hours a day for, say,
the international Harvester Co. or the
Western Electric Co., both OF which
have given their official endorsement
to the camps. Literature is handed to
him containing page after page of
lurid "come-along" publicity similar to
that We quoted above. He sees en-
dorsements from the president, sena-
tors, congressman, cardinals, bishops,
generals, and the officers of the com
pany for which he works.
All his expenses are to be paid.
His boss will make it easy for him to
get OF for the thirty days required,
he will certainly not be discouraged.
He looks upon the whole affair, and is
made to look up it, as mere vacation.
What He Finds.
WELL, what happens? Perhaps he
w goes 20 the camp. He gets his
uniform and gun and other equip
ment. He goes into regular military
training. Off1cers of the regular army
are assigned to the camp to fulfill the
training requirements OF the regular
army. The lad discovers that for
every 20 hours of so-called "recrea-
tion" he gets 80 hours of military drill
and instruction. Before he went he
was promised a class in citizenship 4"
This proves to be nothing more nor
less than a propaganda course, given
by well-drilled army officers who refer
constantly to mimeographed outlines
prepared by the war department for
the purpose OF instilling a militaristiC
viewpoint into the so-called student
In later article we will deal in de.
tail with what is taught in these
camps. So far as physical training is
concerned, the entire four-year course
in the G. M. T. c. calls for only 40
hours Of systematic physical exercise
BY far and away the greatest part oil
the time at the camps is given over
to gun instruction, drilling and les
sons in the rudiments OF military
science.
Is it any wonder that the G. M
T. C.'s have the hearty endorsement
of all the largest bankers and corpo
rations in the country? Is it any won
der that the military clan nurses then
along as a babe and watches then
with pleasure as they grow year by
year?
Training for strIke-Breakers.
THE c. NJ. T. C.'s are training
/ i grounds for future officers and
men in the service of American i'm
perialism rampant. AS these camps
grow and more and more of the nations
youth is brought within the pale oi
the militarists the possibility OF ag
| gressive war is multiplied. Every
year thousands of lads are turned
loose from their thirty days drilling
and training and propagandaimbi bibine
to go back to civilian life with an en-
tirely different attitude than they had
before. They are more obedient tc
their bosses, they have been instilled
with the worst forms of chauvinism
they are prejudiced against the work
ing class (the training course in citi
zenshfp takes care Of this, as we will
show later and they have started OF
the way to become conscientious
strike-breakers and troops in the
forces Of American Imperialism fol
service wherever the requirements Of
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