The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
" Prepare for N e w
World War" Main Aim

Every time that revolutionary
propaganda leaflets are distributed
among the men, the officers, imme-
diately upon learning this fact, send
senior nom commissioned officers
around to collect every bit of litera-
ture, that they can possibly find.
have seen men, not in this particu-
lar instance, when literature was
given to them, take it and conceal
it about their persons, and later,
when the usual collections are over,
60 off by themselves and read it.
In spite of persecution, in spite of
arrests, this distribution Of revolu-
tionary literature and propaganda to
servicemen must go on. Five and
six years ago, during the boom days
of se-called prosperity, many service
men were to all practical purposes
almost immune to revolutionary
propaganda. Today, in the worst
crisis capitalism has ever known, a
changed attitude exists. know from
personal experience that many a
man who would laugh and refuse
literature in those days, today
eagerly accepts it.
Soldiers and Sailors Are Workers
The overwhelming majority OF the
men constituting the enlisted per-
sonnet of the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps are workingmen or Of
working, class origin. Although these
branches of service are comprised
mainly OF workers, they do not rep
resent the working class as such, but
represent the interests and armed
force Of the bourgeoisie and are used
by the. bourgeoisie or ruling class
firstly, to fight abroad or for the
protection against a danger coming
from abroad, in short, against the
foreign enemy.
Secondly, in times Of internal I'M
rest, such as great strikes or demon
STATIONS, the bourgeoisie uses the
armed forces of the state against the
interior enemy" This interior
enemy" is none other than the op-
pressed working class of every capt.
talist country which goes out into
the streets on strikes or demonstra-
tons when conditions for it become
unbearable. In either case, the men
in the armed forces fight against
workers like themselves, against
their class brothers.
Importance of Propaganda
1t is for this reasan that the Off
GERS. strive with every means within
their power to keep the men under
their command from becoming polit-
ically minded and class conscious. 1t
is very easy to see that once these
workers become class conscious they
will no longer be loyal tools or
cannon fodder of capitalism, and will
follow the road our Russian class
brothers have taken and establish q
social system in which the bloody
monster of militarism will be abol-
ished.
1t is also for this reason that men
in service make such fruitful soil for
the teachings of Marx and Engels.
Therefore, it is Of the utmost i'm
portance that the Daily Worker and
other literature, in spite of all OBJ
stacles, be brought to these workers.
Every worker at present in SER
vice, or whoever expects to be there,
should read the Sixth World Con-
gress Communist Resolution on
War. This wonderful little book
contains much valuable information
with which every worker should be-
come familiar. The words of that
great leader of the working class of
the world. Lenin--"The struggle
against militarism must be carried on
now, daily, hourly" should become
the watchword Of every honest and
sincere class conscious worker who
wants to do his bit in preventing an
other irnperialist world slaughter. To
this task. we must bend our every eff
fort