The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-28


lver as quietly as possible.
Within another month another
action took place. Our Battalion
had been quartered near French
village. In the vicinity were also
many other troops. A French girl
had reported to headquarters that
she had been raped by a soldier.
A frame-up was begun against our
battalion. The officers decided to
line up the company and have the
girl go through the ranks to "iden-
tify" the soldier who was supposed.
to have attacked her. The whole
battalion was confined to camp.
For several days there was gen
eral excitement and discussion
among the men. A small group dis
cussed plan of action. At first
it was discussed that trusted man
from each squad be selected to be
a member of a group that would
take action.
Inc plan was that when the eirl
with the officers passed through
the ranks and the moment she
identified any one these picked
men were to step forward and dis
arm the officers and take them and
the girl to the battalion headouar-
tiers for an investigation. But this
idea was discarded as too danger
Gus. We discussed other proceed
ures. Meanwhile excitement was
growing high. The plan finally de-
cided on was that protest meeting
would be held in the barracks if
anyone in the outfit was ''identi-
fled Although the officers knew
nothing about our plans still it was
clear that they were very much
disturbed at the attitude of the
men.
But to our complete surprise
when the inspection was made
few days later no man was 'siden-
titled and we heard nothing more
OF the charge
Defend The Soviet Union.
As reflect over these experiences
today it becomes very clear that
great possibilities exist for soldiers
taking action even to sop war and
olSorganize a whole army.
OF course, now there is the Com
munist Party to give direction ane
guidance to the workers and sold,
lers to struggle against imperialist
war. The imperialist war is already
on IN the Far East against the
Chlnese people. The interests OF
the workers are directly opposite
the annexation and robber policie,
OF the imperialists. The interest of
the workers is to support the indie.
pendence struggle of the Chinese
people against imperealist Aggression
and annexations.
The Time of Struggle NOW.
Every day the direct attack upo,
the Soviet Union becomes closer an(
closer. This means that now ",
must take action against imperialisi
war This struggle must be carried
on in an organizer manner in tn,
shops and factories against the
shipment of war materials ia
Japan to be used against the Chin,
csc people and for the attack on the
Soviet Union. Real anti-war com
mittees must be set up for the pur-
pose OF watching and pointing out
the manufacture and shipments to
Japan. But this is not all, to really
be against imperialist war prepara-
tions an effective organized strug-
gle must be carried on in the mills
and especially in the war indus
tries.
The big steel mill at Ensley. Ala
bama, where I was working at the
beginning of the last war is all
ready turning out war materials
and is so organized as to be able
to be converted over night to a
complete war basis. Now as then.
the workers in the steel mill at
Ensley are unorganized, not only
unable to struggle to better their
conditions and to struggle against
the wage cuts, but not organized to
effectively struggle against imperi-
alist war. The only way to really
struggle now against imperialist