The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-29
LINGO SURROUNDS
DANCE HALL WITH
ARMED SOLDIERS
But No Trace Is Found
of Leaflets

A group of six girls, all member!
Of the Young Workers Communist,
League in New York, attended :
dance given by the Citizens Mill
tary Training Camp at Fort Han
cock, Saturday, and managed to dis
tribute bulletins, leaflets, and stick
ers in many of the buildings of the
fort. After they had completed the
distribution Of the anti-imperialist
leaflets, they returned to the dance
hall and proceeded with the dancing.
For a time all went we'll The
jazz band continued to play and the
lingo officials in charge of the occa-
sion remained blissfully ignorant of
the fact that leaflets reading. Don't
Become a Scab and Strikebreaker, +"
Demand the Withdrawal of Mar
ines from China and Nicaragua"
Defeat the Imperialist Attack on
the Soviet Union" and Free the
Philippine Islands from the Rule of
Wall Street." had been placed under
the notice of the young recruits.
Lieutenant Finds Leaflet.
But suddenly. a lieutenant, his
face flushed and irritated, appeared
In the hall and ordered the dance
stopped. He had discovered one of
the stickers with the Young Work
ers (Communist) League slogans
printed in glazing black on it. Soon
soldiers with cooked guns surround
ed the dance hall, with orders not
to let single person leave until
the "culprits" responsible for the
distribution had been found. A
search was Immediately instituted,
with no one of the $50 young people
gathered in the hall allowed to leave
Guns of No Use.
But after a quarter of an hour,
not a single trace of leaflet had
been found on any of those in the
building. Finally, irritated beyond
measure, the lingo lieutenant and
his aides were forced to quit their
search for the unknown leaflet-dis-
tiibutors, and allow the dance to
continue.
One of the leaflets distributed on
the night of the dance read, in part.
as follows:
"To all Fort Hancock Recruits;
You are now getting your second
free trip You are going to Coney
Island. You will be taken to Luna
Park.
"All of this is pure bribery. The
camp authorities want to make you
believe that they are great fellows.
They want you to forget the real
purposes of the Capitalist Military
Training Camps. They give you
these little treats in order to hide
the real issues.
Score Lieutenant Walker.
"What has Lieutenant Walker
been telling you? He always starts
off his lectures by reading last
years letter to the recruits. He
tells all kinds of fairy tales about
the Communists. He gives the
flukiest kinds of explanations
about the statements in the leaflet.
He tells all kinds of lies about the
Communists, who they are, what
they stand and fight for.
"What is the real position of the
young Communists to the question
of capitalist militarism? Why do
the Communists fight against the
C. NJ. T. C.'s?
eve young Communists fight the
C. M. T. C.'s because the young
workers and students are trained to
be used to defend the millions Of
dollars invested by the bankers of
Wall Street in China, Nicaragua,
and other places. What investments
have the young workers in Near
aqua? Why are American marines
killing the brave Nicaraguan peo-
pie? What are American gunboats
and marines doing in China? Why
is American capitalism preparing to
fight against the only workers and
farmers government in the world
Soviet Russia? All because of the
interests of American bankers in
those places. All because Soviet
Russia defends the interests Of the
workers and farmers in Russia it
self and throughout the world"