The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
BIZ a Worker Correspondent


GARDEN, Mass, (By Mail).-
The theoretical as won as practical
training of our revolutionary youth
is highly necessary, therefore the
Young Workers (Communist) League
has with the aid of sympathetic or
CARNATIONS been able to hold sum-
err courses in various parts Of this
country where the teachings of
Marx and Lenin may be- expounded
to the youth.
The New England Training
School, of which | am a student,
has been in existence for the past
three years. This year we are
studying various interesting and i'm
portant features of the revolutionary
struggles.
The instructors, Kruth, Glotzer
and Bloomfield are giving us good
and systematic training. They not
only act as instructors, but as COM
rades and enter into our activities
and sports as well as instructors in
physical development.
Recently at our regular unit meet
ings we decided to distribute the
young Worker" to the soldiers of
Camp Devens, 26 miles away from
our school. This issue dealt with the
Porter Case" and the struggle of
the Y W. C. L. against the Citizens
Military Training School and mill
tarism.
Work in Armed Forces.
1t was early in the morning when
we started and the soldiers at the
camp were having inspection, so we
separated in groups of two as we
only had six comrades for this work
and we started distribution. At
first we approached the soldiers
very timidly but as they seemed to
be interested we started talking to
them. For the most part they did not
know about Porter, some had heard
something about him, but quite diff
ferently chan explained in the
young Worker" We asked a few
why they had joined the army. The
answers were almost all alike. 81
joined the army because had no
job and nothing else to do" One
Negro soldier became very conf
Dental and told us that he had been
disabled during the World War and
was in the army so that after serv-
ing while he will be pentioned, that
he had been promised $3.50 month
and only receive $35 and with that
he had to support a family. This
same soldier who is a veteran very
angrily denounced the army in their
exploitation of their men and that
the keep the Negro soldiers seggra-
gated from the rest of the soldiers.
When we heard that, we i'm
mediately asked him in what part
of the camp they were and he very
readily took us to them, but they
were all in their barracks so we
decided to go up to their quarters.
AS we entered they flocked about
US and simply grabbed the papers
from us. Immediately discussion
started and we were sorry we could
not stay to continue it, but we had
to leave for a meeting. We left
after getting their promises to write
to the young Worker" about their
conditions.
We returned to our specified meet
ing place and there were two
who did not have as much luck as
we had. They said: I'VE had almost
distributed our papers when an
automobile came up with two Off
GERS in it, they made us get in and
took us to their headquarters where
our papers were taken away from
us and were told that if we were
caught coming there again they
would arrest us. Then the third pair
came back with the same story. We
were sorry it happened, but glad
we gave out as much as we did. 1t
taught US that we must continue our
activities more than ever now in
getting not only to the soldiers, but
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