The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Ejaculation" Against Red Propaganda.

TN the war game between the defending forces of bues
representing the United States army and the reds,
invading forces the ngoists tried experiment in what
reptile press describes nocuaon against red propa
ganda The theory being that the soldiers administered
small doses of the virus they will be able to throw off the
real thing just who vaccnaed is supposed to be
immune from smallpox
While the 'red" invaders were devastating Trenton
preparatory to Philadelphia and then swift de-
scent upon New York, propaganda sheet called The
Daily Ananas, using certain forms of expression familiar
readers Daily Worker showered upon
of the defending blue forces explained to the militia
men, by their commander Brigade General Cornelius Van
ederb, that such propaganda part of warfare cacu
aed to break the morale of patriotic armies Some of the
Headlines interesting, and read: Bues Poison More
Wes Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily" "Blues
Fear Red Bayonets Munous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel
The eminent Mr. Vanderbilt authority patriotism
his ancestors especially Cornelius Vanderbilt the
first founder of the Vanderbilt fortune That worthy
active during the civil stealing money from the govern
ment while Lincoln and the northern forces fighting
against the Southern seceedes He sold rotten ships to the
and swinded it mail subsidies thus placing
his family definitely the road to opuence Now the pro-
geny of old Cornelius busy commanding troops antic
patton of mperas in order further to multiply the for
tunes of Vanderbilt and his Glass; and trying to nocuate
soldiers against "red" agitation.
That the armed forces of the United States are being
trained for against the Soviet Union is perfectly OBJ
vou not only because of the term red used to designate
the attacking power but also because of the nocuaton
campaign against revolutionary propaganda But the army
quacks who try emulate the medical quacks will discover
that their virus is mpoten Conscrpt imperas armies
fighting for predatory ruling class have to be kept in
ance have to be continually under Illusions the moment they
realize that soldiers much fodder in the hands
of the agents of the bankers and ndusraits they
susceptible to revolutionary propaganda.
Such propaganda will merely voice the thoughts of thou
sands and eventually millions of soldiers in the mperiast
forces and will not all from the enemy but will find
fruitful soil in the ranks of the armed forces of the i'm
perias powers There enemy power that utilized
revolutionary propaganda in the ranks of the czarst
of old Russia but the army nevertheless at the given
moment went to the side of the revolution When OBJ
ectve conditions for revolution at hand that when the
ruling class longer able to rule in the old and the
working class longer endure its lot there exists
effectively revolutionary situation Given experienced
gavanze the disconnected forces into nsureconary
the revolution becomes inevitable No incubation
arrest the course of history
But what is of pressing interest today the motive
hind the propaganda aspect of the war game The i'm
perasts, the Vanderbs and their k talk about invading
red forces because they fear invasion by the Red Army
but because they themselves engaged melting invason
of mercenares into Soviet territory and because they hope
to invade the Soviet Union with American soldiers
der pretext of war of defense.
That the jingoes recognize the potency of The Daily
Worker evidenced by their carcature The Daily Ananas
sort of backhanded compliment which shows that the
Days influence is felt in the camp of the class enemy
Let the reply to the war game of the imperass be
strikes and demonstrations August 1st International Red
Day Against Imperas War and Defense of Soviet
Union.
In New York City the workers will down tools four
o'clock in the afternoon of August LIST and march Union
Square where the great demonstration against the
iingoes will take place.
In every big center ir the country similar demonstra
tions will take place The workers of America must show
their international solidarity with the workers of other
tries who will strike and demonstrate against mperast
that day. the fifteenth anniversary the outbreak the
world