The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-06
WAR PROFITEERS
BACK MILITARY
TRAINING CAMPS
Big Corporations Pay
for Propaganda
BY CARL HAEssLER,
Federated Press Correspondent.

AS 1900 youths enter the Citizens
Military Training camp at FIT. Sher.
idan and smaller numbers pass thru
the gates of similar camps elsewhere,
they are not told that the propaganda
that brought them there is supported
by the biggest and most notorious war
profiteers and war contract corpora
lions in the country. Congress appro-
PIRATES the money for the camps. But
the supply and munition magnates
and bankers put up the cash for the
agitation that produces the camp ap-
propriations and drums up the boys
to go there.
No Secret.
It's no secret. So contemptuous are
the financiers and industrial barons OF
the feeble opposition to imperialism in
America that they prominently display
their work and their responsibility for
it, acknowledging that they write the
checks to make the propaganda and
lobbying possible.
Their vehicle Is the Military Train
ing Camps Association of the United
States, with principal Offices in the
Tower Bldg, Chicago. Executive sec.
rotary George F. James laughed when
The Federated Press told him It was
suspected that the munition mongers
and profiteers of the country were the
moneyed angels of his outfit He pulled
out beautifully and extensively print
ed illustrated pamphlet, The Story OF
the Camps.
1o6 Corporations.
On the last pages of the pamphlet
are displayed the names of 112 indivi-
duals and 106 corporations that spon-
sor the camps and, as the heading puts
it, some are contributing to the local,
state or national expenses incident to
this type of civilian cooperation with
the war department" None of these
expenses arise from the camps proper
but only from the propaganda, lobby
ing and recruiting for them.
Try to recall the half dozen most
notorious profiteers of the last war
Try to remember the principal i'm
perialist banks, the most bitter open
shoppers. In out of 5 cases you will
find their names among these 112 in
dividuals or 1O6 corporations. Here
are some Of them, culled from The
Story of the Camps:
All Proflteers.
]. P. Morgan &, Co., u. S. Steel Corp,
Pennsylvania Railroad System, Arm
our & Co., Swift & Co., S. S. Kresge
Co., Init. Harvester Co., Sears Roebuck
& Co., Western Electric Co., American
Sugar Refining Co, Sinclair Refining
Co., U. S. Rubber Co., National City
Bank of New York (Rockefeller), Cen
trail Trust Co. Of Illinois (Dawes),
Kuhn Loeb & Co. foreign and rail
road bankers), American Car G. Foun-
dry Co., among the corporations.
Among individuals may be selected:
w. w. Atterbury, Edsel Ford, James
A. Patten, julius Rosenwald, Rodman
Wanamaker, George Wharton Pepper
and David Reed (the Mellon senators
from Pennsylvania, Henry w. Taft,
Albert c. Richie (the Dupont Powder
governor of Maryland), Charles G.
Dawes, Cyrus H. Mccormick, and Guy
e. Trip of General Electric.
A canny Soul.
Secretary James is a canny soul. He
has a warm corner in his heart for the
Communists because they are not OPP
posed In principle to military training.
"Of course" says he, "if the Commun-
list idea produces the best results for
the country we shall all be for Com
munism."
He did not say whether he was au-
thorized to speak for his hackers.