The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
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LENlN MEETING
TO EXPOSE ARMY
And WAR DANGER
Pershing Tells About
Soldiers Waking


"The blatant greed of American
capitalists and the reckless deter
mination of Wall Street to capture
and keep for itself Latin American
and other markets at any cost make
it imperative that the growing war
DANCER be emphasized unsparingly
at the coming Lenir Memorial Meet
inP."
So stated George Pershing, cousin
of General Pershing, yesterday in
an interview on an "actual war sit
uation." The memorial meeting is
to be held Saturday evening, Jan.
10, in Madison Square Garden. The
revolutionary kinsman of the arch
enemy Of the working class was
emphatic in his analysis of the war
danger situation.
Straight To War
"The United States, by its I'M
warranted, brutal and thievish in
tervention in Nicaragua, by the
PRONUNCIATION of the fake Kellogg
'peace pact and lis open antagonism
toward Soviet Russia is moving
steadily and inevitably to a new
war. a fresh butcheriug of the
worlds workers. But" declared
George Pershing, "the workers of
the world must not be caught I'M
awares this time. They must be pre-
pared to FIGHT for themselves and
against Wall Street.
"The I.enin memorial meeting of
fers an opportunity to appraise the
workers Of the facts. There can be
no more fitting occasion to expose
the war preparations of the govern
ment than at the rally to commence
rate the fourth anniversar of the
death OF Lenin, the great leader of
the first workers and peasants re-
public"
Pershing. who had a generous
taste of United States military ser
vice. asserted that the soldiers are
waking up.
"The men in the army are begin
ming to hold their noses, ANYTIME
the word democracy is mentioned.
They know their sorry lot and they
witness the wanton extravaganza of
TIE officers. Democracy? Piffle! The
soldiers are opening their eyes.
"Take the Hawaiian Islands. for
instance. where ] was stationed. Of
the twelve to fifteen thousand SOL
diers stationed there, about eighty
per cent of these American young
men are diseased. Bost of them are
constantly under treatment. The
facts are not revealed 1t is not
nice to ak. The capitalist editors
are too tender-hearted to tell their
readers the truth. These men, hun
dreds of them are victims of venere-
al diseases. These ailments are con-
taeious. But what of that? Wall
Street must have its defenders, its
protectors. So more and more men
arr sent to erdaneer their health.
"For a soldier to t ak of these
things means to face a military
court and serve behind bars. ! know
for I have been there. Yes, behind
the bars"
Pershiug told Of letters he is re
cciving from time to time from
American soldiers now fighting the
workers in Nicaragua.
Everywhere the soldiers 90. the
natives eve these servants Of Wall
Street with extreme hatred. The
Americans are disguised. They
would like to get back home. They
are beginning to realize it is none
of their business TO be there.
Gas for the revolutionary leader,
Sandino. we'll, he is the hero of Nj
caragua's masses. He has captured
guns. telephone equipment and am
munition from the marines. The only
thing he didn't get from the Ameri-
cans is medical supplies and that is
because ;here isn't any to GET
Preparations are going forward
rapidly for the Lenin meeting. The
speakers will include Jay Lovestone,
executive secretary of the Workers
fCommunist) Party, and William q.
Foster. An entertainment program
will feature numbers by the Freiheit
Gesange Verein, by Jascha Fischer
mann, Soviet pianist, and a Soviet
sports spectacle by the Labor Sports
Union.
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