The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
Officers Tell How to
Shoot at Unemployed

FROM the 18th to the Oath of June,
L the 10Th Regiment, United States
Marine Corps Reserve, underwent its
annual two weeks training period at
Sea Grit, New Jersey. A battalion
each from New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania comprise the regiment.
From the very first day we ar
rived in camp, the men in my COM
pany we're extremely dissatisfied with
the food rationed out to us. The
food, in addition to being little in
quantity, was poor in quality. Po-
tatoes and bread, about the cheap
est commodities on the market at
present, were sparingly issued.
During chow time spoonful of
potatoes and two slices of bread,
along with the other food which was
served in none too generous por-
tions, was the general rule. The
coffee we drank tasted more like
dishwater than anything else. Every
time we went for chow, complaints
were heard from all sides, even the
non commissioned officers protested
in no uncertain terms until, after
about three or four days Of rising
dissatisfaction, the chow improved
noticeably-still nothing to write
home about.
The Roosevelt new DEAF has
given hundreds of millions Of dollars
to bankers and big corporations in
the form of income tax refunds, but
where workers are concerned, it has
to economic.
Pay Cut Without Warning.
When we we're paid off, we found
we had gotten IS per cent cut in
pay without a single word Of this
pay cut being said beforehand. All
this happened after Roosevelt an
nounced his new deap-for the
bosses and capitalists.
One afternoon we listened to a lee
trre that undoubtedly brought many
worker to realization OF his class
position.
A captain from the marine bar
racks in Quantico, Va, during the
short time he spoke, exposed, with
a callousness and brutality that was
almost sickening to me, all the
viciousness and hatred the American
bourgeoisie bears for his wage slaves
and to what lengths it will go to
preserve the sacredness Of private
property. Especially against that
section OF the unemployed workers
who have the courage to come out
and demonstrate in the streets in
their fight for bread and the right
to live like human beings.
Small Wars"
He began his talk by referring to
the campaigns and occupation by the
marines Of Nicaragua, Haiti, China
and other colonial countries as
small wars" Hardly worthy, ac-
cording to him, of being called wars.
He went on to explain that the duty
of marines as sea soldiers is pri-
marily that of a landing force.
This means that marines are car
ried on battleships to places where
war is on to be placed ashore and to
llSu1 Uiic odiilC do HAaAely AicH w
regular soldiers.
The most important part Of his
lecture was that we must be ready,
he said, as men wearing the uniform
Of the U. S. Marine Corps and the
high ideals for which it stands, to
be ready at all times to carry out
any orders that our superior Off
GERS might give us.
Some Of the orders he mentioned
that we might be likely to receive
are: l. To be ready to fight against
the foreign enemy; 2. To be ready
for riot duty, that is, to fight against
workers like ourselves, against our
own fathers and brothers, If need be.
Machine Guns Against Workers
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