The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-06

things. Secondly, that as fighter
for his country that has a statue of
liberty at its gates, and a fighter for
the traditions of the American flag
which is supposed to guarantee free
dom and safety he finds that wher
ever the American flag goes; it is to
carry on a system of military oppres-
sion against weaker nations, forcing
them to comply with the demands of
the American bankers who are car
rying on a system of economic inva-
sion. Or he must fight another cap
italist nation that threatens to offer
severe commercial competition, fore
ing four American bankers" to lose
some of their profits or to fight
against the WorkerP Soviet Republic
which threatens the interest of the
bosses by asking the workers of the
whole world to unite and fight against
the bosses. d
Brutalizes Workers.
The present capitalist government
realizes that it cannot allow the work
ing class youth who enter military
service any liberty and must in every
case exercise a strict military disclp-
line to keep the men in subsection.
To allow an enlisted man to feel like
human being and to have the rights
of human being would make it
almost impossible for the government
and the bosses to carry on their sys-
tenn of plumber in the West Indies,
Mexico, Nicaragua, South America,
Hawaii, Philippines, China, Porto
RIGA, Guam, Virgin Islands, and parts
of Europe.
Recruiting Signs Lie.
The recruiting signs are made to
allure; most of them are gross lies
and lack facts. While some of the
signs are actual scenes that have no
bearing on conditions that prevail in
the navy particularly.
Transport A Horror.
One poster shows the U. S. army
| transport Cambria setting sail from
Brooklyn headed for sunny China. /
could say a word about this transport
trip from New York to Shanghai,
how the officers and their wives and
bunch of politicians sit around in
straw chairs, live in political state
rooms, have music and dances, large
dining rooms, and sailors to wait on
them. While down in the second and
third decks below are a couple of
thousand soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, living worse than dogs, almost
on top of each other, lying around on
deck, on hatchways, in firerooms,
galleys, gangways, scupper ways
everywhere.
On a long trip they are forced to
stand up and eat their food. Men
stand in line to pass the cooks, loca-
ted in the galley. By the time they
get through eating breakfast, little
time elapses and they stand in line
: for dinner and so on. Men come uI
on deck, squatting down to eat in the
scupper ways (gutter) There is ar
insufficient supply of fresh water OF
board. Men go about without wash.
ing for days. Wash room space con.
ditions are terrible, small, unfit, anc
no accommodations for human be-
ing. The upper decks where the of
ficers and women are, have plenty
showers and ideal Mushrooms.
, To He'll With the Workers.
/ suppose when they built the shil
! the construction and repair depart
, ment of the navy, said, "To Hell" will
the workers who come in our navy.
: This is not half Of it. If l coult
: translate and interpret the sentimen
: and expression of men going to sum!
: China, it wouldn't speak well for tn,
navy, for the ships that fly under thu
American flag. of the conditions. an,