The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
LIMOGES GETTING
NERVOUS DUE TO
Y. W. |. ACTIVITY
Prosecution Attempts
Fail Again
By PAUL CROUCH

The military authorities are des-
9erate. They have spent millions
70 lure young workers into the "Citi-
zen's Military Training Camps.
The capitalist press has been mobi-
lied in the service of capitalist
nilitarism. The campaign was sue
,essful. Thousands of young work
ars were deceived by the promise
IF vacation, and the attraction
If the uniform. They came to the
camps like sheep, blissfully ignor-
ant that they were to be trained to
murder other workers for the prof
is of their own masters. Yet the
angry outbursts of the military
authorities are not the cries of vic
lory. What has happened?
Medal for lingo Essay.
At Fort Hancock, New York, a
medal has been offered for the best
essay on how to combat Communist
propaganda. Officers there and at
many other camps have devoted
long lectures in their efforts to de-
ceive the young workers, and to
Guild up lingo spirit in their des-
perate attempt to fight the revolu-
Sionary message of working class
solidarity being brought to the arm
ed forces by the Young Workers
Communist League.
The offer of prizes for ways to
combat Communism will be without
success. All the medals of the capt.
5alist state cannot produce any es-
say telling how to stop the spread
Of Communism in the armed forces.
The very fact that the war depart
nent, with its millions of dollars,
huge printing presses and thousands
IF ''chaplains" and other propagan-
lists, is frightened by mimeo-
graphed camp papers and the activi-
lies of very small but militant
group of young workers is of the
greatest significance.
Prosecution of Y. w. l..
An investigation is being conduc-
led BY the military intelligence"
service of the army, and the depart
nent of justice has announced that
t will propose special laws against
the anti-militarist work of the
Young Communists. John Porter
has been sent to Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, with the purpose of separ-
ating him from the Communists in
New York and to subject him to the
brutal tyranny of Col. William
wild Bill Morrow, the present
,ommandant, who was in command
Of Alcatrez when Walter Trumbull
and the writer were imprisoned
there.
League Members Defy Army.
The military authorities are we'll
aware of the fact that there is no
federal law under which they can in
terfere with the anti-militarist work
Of the Young Workers (Communist)
League. At Camp Devens, Mass,
League members told the officers
that 1--WE have a right to distribute
papers to the soldiers and we will
continue to do so". At the National
Guard Camp, near Chicago, II
league members were arrested and
the capitalist press began premature
rejoicing at the prosecution" of the
young Communists, but the author
ties had to release the League
members without trial.
Will Intensity Efforts.
Whether threats or actual terror is
used by the army czars, the Young
Workers (Communist) League will
continue its struggle against capt.
alist militarism. The desperation of
the war department when anti-mili-
tarist work in this country is just
is another. evidence that
class consciousness in the armed
forces is fatal blow to Imperialism.
While the government gives military