The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
MiLitariism and the Labor Movement

Under the caption And It's Meaning" the
chicago Tribune admits quite openly the armynavy game
department propaganda hghpowered kind In the words
the craftsmanship it gigantic Selling" scheme
press Tribune In bodface box headed
~ArmyNavy Tie Brings Recruit Stampede Here" the
Examiner says:
nidhipmen parading playing football here
prcpdted stampede recruiting Offices All yesterday
Maj a. his aids at 107 W. Van Buren, street
eager ooudbe rockies night they sent fifty
to training camps
This year the navy received only beggary
Tribune pleads pteousy for the milarists
1t says:
We here in Chicago pledged ourselves
fresh effort the army and from its present
that pledge ith display of profound emo
that promises to become historic
Chicago sol keep that pledge thot
young in gray and the yo~ng men i" blue
shall come Of army and macy Of the
United States fully adequate eUey need and emergency and
maintained IN the perfection Of effectiveness
many people of the middle west have
been pledged to support orgy miarist activity but
Tribune powerful capitalist interests
speaks deadly when they that the
become the greatest military and naval power on the
globe
Much buster on the job miarizng nation than the labor
opposing it. the department leaves few fields OF
unexpored Witness how exploited the victory of Gene
Tunney, former marine Jack Dempsey by issuing him
eutenans featuring pictures of him in uniform
Particularly the field Of sports where the youth of the nation
can effort the milarists busy The
competition enthusiasm of translated into marism
by golden alchemy Wall Streets millions and in their behalf
needed combined effort the part of all sections
the which will bring home to the working class
faces becoming merely appendage of
imperiaist machine
against sports because they utilized by the
tarss systematic organization Of trade union and work
society organizations and nationwide ag
combining of the sordd and
warfare together with clear explain
alton nation safely situated within natural
barriers each side there being
created war psychology which will be whipped into frenzy
against which refuses allow American mpera to
their overlords
1t is ntoerabe purposes of the American ruling
class so obvious anyone stops think with the industries
already up and skeleton dv
sions with personnel composed of the capitalists and
their executives already up needing only be filled in with
oscrpted workers. leadership the trade union
en should be permitted ally themselves with the mtarists
Green on navy day whole executive council of the
Detroit convention.
campaign against marism instrument for further en-
Shaving the masses imperasc PERIOD must become
major part campaign of the left wing the trade unions
Nor must the farmers sections of the middle class
upon whom taxation weighs heavily he neglected
point the antmarist must the pro-
IRAN of mperiasts they be allowed
out their really stupendous propaganda schemes unchaenged
1t nav full significance Of the mtarst program
viii he brought American working class only by the
bombs and machine that will be used
against workers strike but in the meantime it is
sacred duty expose especially those leaders of
labor helping prepare boodbath for the whom
today they deceiving