The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
new RECRUITS
FOR RED ARMY
TENTH MAY DAY
Inspiring Celebration In
Moscow
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
Especial to the Daily WOrker).

the overthrow Of czarism. 1t is a |
whole decade since the old order top
pied and fell The Union of Soviet Re
publics lives and grows in strength
and power
That is the thrill that sweeps the
mighty hundreds of thousands of
Moscow's proletarian hosts on this
international Day, with the many tens
of millions out over the Soviet Union,
The great stands that paralIel the
Kremlin Wall filled early. The lead
ing spokesman of the Soviet Power
fill the Tribune on Lenin's Mausol-
cum. There is Stain, Bukharin, Rye
Eof, Voroshilof and a host Of others.
The Invincible Army.
And out over the Red Square! It
! is filled with the soldiers, sailors, cav
airy, airmen, artillerymen, the clench-
ed fist Of the Proletarian Dictator
ship
Ten years before, at the first con-
gress Of the Communist International,
the soldiers of the Red Army had
marched in this same Red Square,
many shoeless, clothes tattered, bleed
ing feet, reddening the cobblestones,
but spirits undaunted, hard as the
granite pavement in the struggle
against the capitalist foe.
Today every Red Army uniform
sparkles with newness. The. equip
ment could not be better. And the
spirit-the spirit of the social revo-
lution-still lives, glowing strong as
ever.
On the second as the clock in the
huge tower Of the Kremlin strikes
nine, every unit Of this fighting host
snaps to attention, and from as many
corners Of the Red Square, half a
dozen Red Army bands thunder "The
international" The song of the re-
volution is the song of the Red Army
Army Halls Leaders.
On prancing steeds, Clement Vor-
oshilof, the Peoples Commissar for
the army and navy, and the chairman
of the Revolutionary Military Coun-
Gil, with the renowned cavalry leader,
Budenny, ride in review along the
rigid lines of these defenders of the
Soviet Union. Booted and spurred
and in brilliant uniforms, the military
attaches of capitalist lands, Poland,
Finland, England and others watch
and must wonder as each Red Army
unit, in its turn, thunders new cheers
for Voroshilof and Budenny as they
pass.
The review is over. Voroshilof
mounts the Tribune of the .Lenin
Mausoleum. What is he going to say =?
But we are not compelled to wait
long. Voroshilof uses no delicate
words. His words crackle like rapid
machine gun fire, and the microphone
takes them up and spreads his May
Day message thru amplifiers to the
listening tens of thousands in the
Red Square, to the hundreds Of thou
sands in the city beyond. It is a mes
sage Of Incorporating struggle
against the challenging power OF
world imperialism. Voroshilof points
out that the world is divided into two
camps. On the one hand the Union of
Soviet Republics. Against it the i'm
perialist nations. The issue is clear
The Soviet Union must be prepared
for every emergency. The Red Army
was ready.
The best sign of preparation was
theNswearing in of a great host Of new
recruits for the Red Army. Voroshiloi
spoke the pledge and the new detach.
ments repeated it after him as fol
lows:
81, the Son of the Toiling People
citizen Of the Union Of Soviet Social
list Republics, take upon myself thC
name Of soldier of the Workers anC
Peasants Red Army.
Facing the Toiling Glasses Of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and of the whole world, / take upor
myself the obligation 10 bear thii
name with honor, to study thorolI
/ the military art and to guard the PEG
pies property from any damage O
! nuisance. / pledge myself, earnestl!
and everlastingly, to carry out tn
, Red Army discipline and to obey with
out hesitation the orders of the com
manders who are appointed by tn
Workers and Peasants government
81 pledge to restrain myself iron
q all actions which would harm the dig
nifty of citizen Of the Union of Sow
T let Socialist Republics, and to direc
a all my actions and thoughts to tn
) great goal of the emancipation Of al
toilers.
: "r pledge myself at the first ca
d Of the Workers and Peasants govern
ment to take my stand in its defens
against all menaces and attacks b
k enemies upon the Union Of Soviet Sc
e cialist Republics, and pledge mysel
: not to spare my strength or my lif
:. in the struggle Of the Union Of Sovie
e Socialist Republics for the cause Q
Socialism and the fraternity Of a
e peoples.
( "If / sidestep wilfully from thi
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