The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-11
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ton? Of course not. The camps
are part of the war machinery of
the U. S.
Listen to what the New York
Times has to say about the matter:
Zone danger of a democratic form
of government is that the rudiments
of military training are too long and
too much neglected by the citizenry
working CLASSY which ultimately fur
nishes officers as well as soldiers. Our
regular army is small.
ut is handicapped by an inadequate
corps of non-commissioned officers"
TUESDAY, March q Therefore, the
training camps. The C.M.T.C. is a
school for the future officers and SOL
diers. The C.M.T.C. prepares and
trains the youth of America to be
good and loyal citizens, i. e., soldiers.
The promises Of free vacations, good
food, sports, physical development are
held as bait. And then when the poor
young dub arrives--he finds out for
himself that it is not at all vacation.
The C.M.T.C. recruit drills 51s
hours day. From z a. m. to 1890
p. m. with only 20 minutes rest in be-
tween. These drills are quite strenu-
GUS and vary from rifle instruction to
calesthenics, from infantry drill to the
manual Of arms. RegimentaI parades
are often held in the afternoon, when
the heat is most sitting. The food is
not too good and the most popular
laxative is &C pills called C.M.TC.
pills by the recruits.
God of Battles.
theoretically, the church is snpa-
ratd from the government, yet every
recruit is forced to attend some kind
of religious service. These religious
services are used to spread propa-
ganda against the labor movement,
against the USSR, and for the glorifi-
cation of war. The lectures on "citi-
zenship" are nothing more than the
rankest kind of propaganda against
the entire labor movement of America,
against the Communist movement in
particular, and against the Soviet Re-
public.
In July Of last year the Communist
movement according to an all-wise
lieutenant was born in Albania in the
year 1776, in August it was born in
Bavaria, according to the same au-
thority. It is because of this double
function of the C.M.T.C., that of train
ing soldiers and producing scabs that
$50 large factories in New York City
and vicinity have endorsed the camps.
Good for Boss.
The following explanation is Of
fered in the General Information bull
letin issued by the Second Corps Area
officer for 1927 for this endorsement:
They (employers) did not merely
register their. support for patriotic
reasons, looking to the security of the
country and the stability of our in
situations: but also because experience
proves that camp training brought
them more ambitious, efficient, and
conscientious employees" This effici-
ency and conscientiousness means
young workers with anti-labor and
anti-union ideas instilled into their
minds. And in spite of that, the Exc
cutive Council of the A. F. of L. has
also endorsed the training camps.
The campaign for the C.M.T.C. this
year will be more intensive and more
than it was last year. The
growing conflicts which face Amer
lean Imperialism in the East, in La
tin and South America, make it inn
perative for the American militarists
to redouble their efforts to nilitarize
The youth of America. The Workers
Party, and especially the Young
Workers League, must intensity its
activities against this further mill
tarization of the working class youth
of America.
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