The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
TELLS aBENEFITs OF WAR"

TELLS >"BENEFIESt OF WAX
Dear Friends:
A few lines to my old shipmates,
and, of course, the marines whom
had a few interesting experiences with
I believe most of you are workers
and 1 want to ask if you have ever
stopped to think what we are asked
to defend-"our country"
Bosses Are the Danger.
Well, if it ever was in danger il
is now-from the bosses, the Wall
Street class which robs the workers
and even uses the government tc
swindle the people as in the oil deals
and now has the CUTS to ask us tc
fight for them. At present they just
ask us, but as soon as they start q
big war they draft US and we get
lousy, T. B., legs off, and other things
which those bosses which cause tbs
war always manager to escape.
Then what do we receive as our re.
ward? Well, first we have unenlploy-
ment, child labor, the degrading sight
Of ex-servicemen begging for a liv.
ing. sehts of state police clubbing
ex-servicemen on strike and in oul
HOSPITALS bossing from ones wht
never experienced service. What rea
benefits do we get for killing work
ars in China, Nicaragua and all owe
the world We get none, but just tn
opposite Of benefits-worse conditions
at home.
Used Against Workers.
I have seen crippled ex-servicemel
cleaning toilets, in fact paying TO.
this privilege, to beg in the toilets
Would they do this if they were no
forced to do so? While those VIII
cause the wars. do they live or woulC
they want to live as we do?
am American by birth and ais
worker and know the class I an
in is the suffering one and know tho
we are not murderers but just work
ors in uniform who don't think wha
we are doing.
But when we do, this mighty army
which is trained at present to op
press unarmed workers all over tn
world, will go to smash, and we vii
use our training to establish a work
ers' and farmers government for tn
class which produces everything use
full but is robbed by the common
enemy of all workers-the capitals
system!
The bosses are always ready t,
take US and use US to further thei
interests, and when we start think
/ ing and cease to be their tools the
we will fight for our own interest
instead of against our interests 70
the bosses.
Use Training for Workers.
When we take notice of the pas
injustice to our class and recogniz
that an injury to a worker by tn
capitalist class is an injury to al
We will then use our training to Sc
that the industries which our labo
has built up is placed into the hand
of the workers and farmers Of thi
country.
[ / again state I am an America
and want to see the resources of m
country and means of production,
the hands of those who produce a
wealth. And workers, whether 70
are in the army or navy, what's tn
difference--we are all workers and lie
US think and believe me the fiend
who caused the last slaughter wi
, not repeat it without opposition lik
before-but will have a lot of worE
ers, including those in uniform, fight
ing against them,
Write to the DAILY WORKED
Column, agree or disagree with wha
| say, but think about these thing
if you are a worker-because the mas
ter class is getting ready to use u
! again in another war Soon
-.-"NAVY MAN"
Philadelphia, Pa.