The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-27
How Is the Campaign for The Military
Training Camps Getting On?

the lines of democratic dictatorship
of the proletariat, peasantry and sec
lions of the petty bourgeoisie, makes
the possibility of another interven-
ton on the part of the U. S. probable.
The attempt of the British bourgeoi-
sic to provoke a holy war of the cap
italist countries against the USSR,
has evoked some sympathy in certain
American circles to judge by Ambas-
sador Herrick's speech on Decoration
Day. And the American imperialists
have not yet settled for all time it's
own little affairs in the Caribbean,
altho it has defeated the Liberal fore
es in Nicaragua temporarily.
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THE American patriots of Wall st.
are responding to the world stu
alton by intensifying its war propa-
ganda at home. The utilization of
Lindbergh, for war purposes is a case
in point. The demand for more APP
preparations for airplanes, the recent
organization Of the Junior Aviators'
League, the intense agitation carried
on for the CMTC's and similar mill
tary institutions are clear enuf ex-
amples. And the American youth is
to a greater extent than ever befoma
reacting favorably to this war propa-
ganda. 1t is not too hesitant to join
the CMTC's, etc. because it has not
been disillusioned as to the exact ma
ture of patriotism, nationalism, and
is still imbued with certain bourgeois
prejudices. We must be clear on this
point, that in spite Of the nearness Of
war, the youth is not hesitant to
join these military institutions. If we
understand this much, the question Of
our tasks and activities in our fight
against the militarization of the youth
will be much clearer.
| ATTIC the exact figures are not
a given as to just what percentage
of the recruits are young workers
yet the fact remains that the orienta-
ton of the War Department is to-
wards the young workers. The state
ment last year made by Major-Gen.
Summerall "that up to the present
time we have had a majority of stu
dents attending the training camps.
What we want now are the young
people from all walks of life" Also
in the international bulletins put out
| by the CMTC headquarters there is
whole chapter on the advantages
for the employers in sending their
young workers to the camps. There
has been a steady increase in the
number of young workers attending
the camps. In 1925, it was only 5
per cent, in 1926, it was close to 10
per cent.
THE YWL must stress its anti-mil-
tarist work amongst the young
workers. However, we must not ig-
more nor underestimate the impor-
lance of working among the students.
We must expose the hypocrisy Of the
| American bourgeoisie to the Ameri-
can youth, by continually pointing
out its acts Of aggression against
other peoples for the protection of
| Wall Street investments. The League
should show the young workers and
students that they have no interests
to protect in those countries. The
revolutionary vanguard must not fall
prey in one way or another to the
pacifist illusions created by the
American imperialists, and must at
all times expose this double-faced
policy of American Imperialism. And
lastly, the figures in the New York
Times of June 10th, proves the power
of the propaganda against American
imperialism to break its growing hold
upon the youth.
In our future propaganda against
the Citizens Military Training
Camps, we must forget the old argu-
ments of "rotten food" long hours of
drill" and other petty matters which
were our main basis of argument.
Today, we must expose the military
nature of the CMTC's and stress that
phase, however not forgetting the
petty abuses which do exist in the
training camps.
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