The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-02
Y. ". |. MEMBERS
THREATENED BY
FEDERAL AGENTS
Stop the Distribution Of
Anti-War Pamphlet

While distributing leaflets at Grand
Central Station yesterday morning to
recruits leaving for the citizens mill
tary training camp at Plattsburg, N.
Y, three members of the Young
Workers (Communist) League were
stopped by agents of the department
Of justice. After the leaflets were
confiscated the three young workers
were run out of the railroad depot.
One Of the department of justice
operatives questioned them. When
they said that they were Commun-
lists, he told them that he had helped
secure the indictment against The
DAILY WORKER staff earlier in the
week. He threatened to visit the
headquarters of the Young Workers
League and the Workers Party, To-
Gated at to8 East 14th ST., and ruin
everyone | find there"
He then asked who is the leader of
the league. When he did not get
reply he growled, "Is it Kaplan? I'll
get him yeti"
They were told that they were
lucky because he did not have them
in room where they "would be taken
care Of" .
Several hundred leaflets were given
out before the federal detectives were
aware of the distribution. Many of
tn recruits refused to give the leaf
/ lets to the captain who were around
to collect them.
The three members of the league
who distributed them are, Philip
Frankfeld, B. Cohen and l. Shiffman.
The leaflet reads in part:
"Today you are leaving for camp.
Most of you are going for the first
time, others have been there before.
Before you leave, we want to say a
few things about the CMTC to you
and we want you to think it over.
''We are faced with the prospect of
another World War. Of all the i'm
perialistic powers, America is the
most ruthless and aggressive. Thou
sands of American marines are still
in little Nicaragua, "pacifying" that
country for the bankers of Wal
Street. Warships and marines are
in China, defending the investments
of Wall Street and trying to crush
the heroic struggle of the Chinese PEG.
pie for freedom. Great Britain Us try,
ing to provoke war against Soviet
Russia, the only Workers and Farm
| n1.cf hA A
lea is taking the lead in suppressins
all Of the little countries in Latir
and South America, in creating /;
large navy and air force, and IN mill
tarizing and prussianizing the youth
"The citizens military training
camps is one of the means to traii
the future cannon fodder that vii
fight and die on some far off battle
field. The CMTC's help to prepare
for war--it is a military institution
first of all. The slogans employed il
order to attract you to the camps ar,
: nothing more than smoke screens t.
hide the real character of this wa.
breathing place. Build your body,
Enjoy a good vacation, etc" arr
snares to entrap the unsuspectinl
ones into the tentacles of the military
!, machine. More than that, the CMTC'
are supported and endorsed by bis
bankers, industrial concerns and rail
roads for another reason too.
"The CMTC's get the approval o.
the U. S. Steel Corporation, Penn
, sylvania Railroad, Standard Oil Com
pany of Gary and Rockefeller, becaus'
? anti-labor and anti-union ideas ar
instilled into the minds Of the re
cruits. The lectures given on citizen
ship are attacks on the labor move
t ment, on all progressive tendencie
: within America, and particularly OF
4 Soviet Russia"