The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-29
Education" in the Training Camps
Course
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Law ana OFQGFs
I only unprepared in the last war but
that if the British had moved on Wash
ington while he was in Valley Forge he
would have been wiped out and that
Washington was sacked by the British
in 1912 because we were unprepared."
Also, Bryan said 1--WE don't need an
army; in twenty-four hours we could
put an army of million men in the
field! Gentlemen (This, is what the
company commander must say-evi-
IDENTIFY with drama) forty-four thous-
and men enlisted in our last war, the
balance we drafted"
Every boy that goes to the military
training camp is sent out a potential
lpropagandist to bring more boys to the
camp next year and also to plug for
support from other sources as WITT
ness: Garry away from this confer
ence the will to support, defend and
promote, IN your community, a true
spirit of Amerieanism. See to it that
insofar as possible, the men who re-
present you in government support
this movement both morally and f.
nancially (this plainly means-insist
! that your congressman vote for bigger
military appropriations) This work
Of preparedness, such as that in which
you are now engaged must have more
than passive support from every
loyal American who is not fanatically
inclined"
The @Red" Movement.
pUT what do you suppose is the big
- gest part Of the course? Take the
chapter lengths. what the Army Does
Besides Fight is given three pages.
Preparedness" three pages, ''Fire
Prevention" two, "Sanitation," three
but the chapter entitled Facts About
the Red Movement and What 1t
Means to America" occupies EIGHT
pages. Which would seem to indicate
that this were the burden of the song
contained in this so-called course in
Citizenship"
l am not going into the details.
They are far too hackneyed.
1t is the same old tune. Breaking up
the home, Matchmaking women and
children. abolition of religion, aboli-
ton of private property. There are
eight pages Of this, mind You. These
eight pages are for the use Of the
officer He is expected to enlarge up
on the theme. You can imagine what
it must be like when it reaches the
ears of the "citizen soldiers"
They Mean Strikes. Il
THE dire warnings contained in this
4 chapter are summed up; ut would
be well-nigh impossible under the
constitution at present for any group
or organization to impose their will
upon the country, so long as the in
dividual citizen faithfully performs the
duties of citizenship" You can de-
pend upon it that when this sentence
leaves the mouth of the officers,
group" becomes "class" and duties
of citizenship means military training
for defense of the country, which in
case of strike means private property
owned by the bosses. This is the i'm
plication of the whole course and it
certainly is the implication of the SEN
tence above.
"Law and Order"
ENOR example in the next chapter,
1 Law and Order" which gets less
than three pages: what cooperation
should exist between the police and
army, navy and state militia when
called out in times of public danger,
riots and disasters" Is any worker
reading this unfamiliar enough with
the history old and recent Of his class
in this and other countries MOTTO know
that strikes are included as public
danger?
Such is the type of citizenship
training" that young men between II
and "a years of age getat Citizens Mil
itary Training Camps. 1t is training
planned and devised for the purpose
Of moulding the minds of the students
not into Citizens" but into soldiers.
The war department is interested in
making troops not voters. The courses
are scientifically planned to- do just
this, to give the kind of intolerant
jingoistic training that make ODE
dent infantrynen. g. u