The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

S. A. retired, Delafield, Wisconsin,
has been specifically designated, I
am informed, to handle this Job. He
has been connected with st. Johns
Military Academy, one of the big
private military prep schools for
Well-to-do boys, since 1894. Pres
ident of the institution since 1928.
Farrand and other key military
men are said in wall street to be
using their Influence in their mill
tary groups and in military school
associations to interest the heads Of
these groups to take a more active
interest in public affairs and pro-
tecting the Constitution. This is
because the United States is dotted
with private military academies for
rich boys.
The Department of War has sent
letters to all graduates Of these pri-
vate military academies, asking
them if they wished to take occa-
sional training in order to become
Reserve Officers of the United
States. This was obviously first of
all a war move, but it may well
serve to train storm troops as well,
and apparently Big Business has
though Of that.
I asked Clark why his Crusaders
adopted a military form of organ
ization, and often put a military
flavor on their activities.
Il don't know he said.
He sat in his office at the Cru
saders headquarters, a handsome.
deeply carpeted suite at 100 East
And Street. On a table in the outer
office (there are a string of small
offices in the suite) at least 20 diff
ferent piles of literature, all expsn-
siVely printed, were stacked. He
said the whole purpose" of rein
cooperating the organization was to
expand. Ten million members he
wants!
win those 100000 pay dues?"
NO No dues."
Don't you need money to keep
that kind Of an organization to-
gether?'
We are not a centralized organ
ization."
Mum on Money Source
But it takes a great deal of
money to run central office such
as this, alone, not to mention the
cost of conducting propaganda on
the scale you're doing it with radio
breakfasts, booklets and leaflets and
publicity"
THAT will be supported by volun-
tary contributions"
Big ones. :. Who gives you big
Sums?"
THAT 1 really don't know" Mr..
Clark clamped his hands behind his
head, leaned back in his swivel
chair and eyed me determinedly.
The business Snd of this is all out
in Chicago"
You just got fifty nationwide
broadcasts from Columbia. Didn't
someone have to pay for that?"
That" he said, was just a mat
ter of cooperation.
1 asked him whether Col. M. P
Murphy was associated with him,
He's getting behind the Liberty
League. We have no connection
with It'll" he exploded. That's a Big
Business outfit. We have no prop
erty to protect. I have no property
my only chance for a comeback
is return of confidence of bust
ness"
I asked him just what his atti-
tude toward the Liberty League is,
and ne exclaimed, ooh, heavens!
Well cooperate with any organiza-
ton that is working against I'm
American trends, but they've got a
lot of big fellows leading them and
were not going to have any Official
connection with them. The people
don't like it. Why, look at this
And he tossed me letter he had
received from a Crusader, one Elmer
Branded, Louisville, bitterly com
planning that he had "discovered''
that the Crusaders were mixed un
with the Liberty League, and, if So
he was getting out. I saw CLARK S
point. I asked him whether he was
worried about 'radicalism in the
ranks of labor.
Likes Green and W0lI
"I don't know to what extent ali
this talk is authentic" he said.
frowning. 1.-THE A. F. of L. is pretty
sound certainly Mr.. Green and Mr..
Vol have expressed themselves in
a sound enough way. Of eoursc. we
don't care where radicalism is-in
the ranks of labor or anywhere,
we're"
opposed to it,
Eyes" re paused. That is, we're
opposed to it until we see something