The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-25
A WAR VETERANS CALL AGAINST WAR
Article II


With an the war preparations going on ct the
present moment 1t is quite certain that the talks of
peace will be replaced by the talk Of the glory of
dying for ones country" Let those who the
tended victims of such propaganda be told by those
who experienced these glories in the last war who
were exposed to them for months and years.
There are millions Of veterans the world over
who can paint with the colors of reality the gories Of
"dylng for ones country These glores then will take
the form Of drowning in the mud of the trenches and
in the swamps OF the batt1efelds These glories will
be reduced to being burned suffocated in liquid
flame and poison gas attacks; they will be drawn in
the form of being torn to shreds by shrapneI only the
lucky being killed completely; they will take the
form of starvation of old men, Of women and
children in concentration camps; they will look like
mass infection by poisonous diseases and deadly germs
Thousands upon thousands of Serbian boys herded
as prisoners must still remember how shacked on hand
and feet, they exposed to killing blizzard as a
punishment for some infringement of the rule in the
prison camp; they may have taken a dry crust of
bread to still their hunger; they may have fshed
bone out Of the garbage dump of the guards kitchen
their hunger may have caused them to eat the soap
given to them for washing They will still remember
how thousands upon thousands died in these camps of
Cholera other epidemic diseases They may still re-
member the deadly regularity with which the sretchers
carried out Of the bunk house every morning at
six o'clock the prisoners that had died during the night
They will still remember how those dead were stripped
Of their clothes their identity fixed on tag tied to
Their toes they remember the clothes flung to the re-
tnatnlng living TO cover their nakedness They
still remember how these dead were practically
Of skeletons who had been starved into resstess
victims Of any Illness disease that may attack them
They must still remember the beatings inflicted upon
the prisoners upon the slightest provocation.
The veterans Of the Serbian army the veterans
OF the Dvna division the veterans of the Austrian
army guard in the Braunau camps, the Czech
physicians who served there must still remember all
those horrors that common to- oil prison camps
The veterans of the Austrian army must still re-
member the chains their wrists and ankles; they
must still remember being strung up the pole with
their hands tied behind them they must still rereni-
Der their exposure before the trenches with chained
hands with the artillery of their army firing from
behind and forcing their regiments to advance into the
he'll on the front.
They must remember the shootings behind the front
OF those that were looking for their safety by deseron
because they rebeed against the orders They must
remember the hundreds of Serbian prisoners all called
"Konlitatchi" and hanged In the yards Of
Che barracks; they must still their challenging
voices in the last torture They certainly remember
their comrades who forced to become execution
sas they must sn their pale perspng faces their