The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
How the Bosses Pre-.
bare the Youth
TOR War
BY j. ADAMS.

THIS SUMMER the U! S. War Department is
again preparing to train more than $4,000
young workers to be used as cannon fodder in
the coming imperialist war In more than so
Citizens Military Training Camps, these young
workers are going to be given the basic and adj
vanced training necessary TO make soldiers out
of them.
These young workers, many Of them unem-
ployed, have been fooled into coming to the c.
M T. G. by vivid promises of months vacation
at no cost to them In the lying propaganda of
the U. S. War Department, the C. M. r. G. has
been pictured as the ideal place for young work
ers to spend their vacation, as the place where
sports activities predominant, where everyone can
have good time, and where the military pro-
gram is limited to, "a few hours of drill and
Citizenship Training"
What is the G. M. I. c.:
Let us see what this really means From the
very first moment that the young workers enter
camp he begins to be imbued with the spirit
of miitarism and patriotism. The entire pro-
gram of the thirty days of camp is so arranged
that the young worker gets thorough and sys-
tematic grounding in the elements of soldering
Throughout the camp period he is being accus-
toned to army life, to living in tent to army
food, to respond unquestioningly to the orders
of officers
At the same time the young worker is drilled
in maneuvers and combat tactics, he is taught
frst-aid, and he learns how to shoot with rifle
automatic machine gun, howitzer, and trench
mortar. Thus at the end of this summers c. M
T. c. there will be another $4,000 young workers
already trained, to be used Immediately for the
bosses war.
We see therefore that the purpose of the Citi-
zens Military Training Camps is far from being
vacation resort for young workers Instead
it is one of the agencies of the capitalist gov
eminent of the u S. for militarizing the youth
for preparing hundreds of thousands of young
workers to be Immediately ready and trained
to be sent to the front line and slaughtered to
defend the interests of capitalism.
Supporters of the c. M. T. c..
The C. M. T. G. is actively supported and en-
dorsed by some of the biggest companies and
bosses in the country. hey realize that it is
in their interest that these camps are being run
Some of these companies, like the Western Elec-
trio, the Edison, and the Lackawanna r. r. lad
the way in inducing young workers to go to the
G. M T. G. by giving them a months vacation
(only two weeks of which is with pay. Many
other big bosses allow their workers TO go to
camp for month, without any pay.
Anti Workingcass Propaganda.
In return, the War Department promises these
bosses that the employees they send to the G.
M. T. G. will come back much more willing and
docile than they were. This is accomplished by
a program of consistent anti workingcass and
especially, Communist propaganda.
Every day the young workers in camp are sub
jected to an hours so-called citizenship" lee
ture where the worst lies about the Communist
movement, the Soviet Union the trade unions,
strikes, and the workingclass in general are
handed out. The main theme of this propa-
ganda is, 'to beware of the reds, and "only by
cooperating with the boss can the worker be
benefited
1t is no wonder that the bosses support and
endorse the G. M. T. c. when such anti working
class propaganda is instilled into the minds of
the young workers.
The Duty of Young Workers.
Despite the fact that the G. M. T. c. is openly
run for the benefit of the capitalist class, the
Young Communist League takes an active part
in fighting this anti-workingcass propaganda
in the camps. The Young Communist League
calls on all young workers who go to the C, NJ
T. G. TO realize that they part of the work
ingclass AMI that they must fight on the side of
the workers against their bosses. 1t calls on
the young workers to refute the lies of the cap
italist governments lying War Department.
The Young Communist League calls on tho
young workers in the G. M. 7. G. TO organize,