The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1924, Page 11

) ; ’ _* Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Military Training Camps Start Campaign. No effort is being wasted by the United States War Department in seeking enlistments for the Citizen’s Military Training Camps, Even tho the date for the actual opening of the camps 1s several months off, posters and advertisements are being plas- tered up all over the country at a very, great expense, During the last two years, the quotas had not been filled due main- ly to the fact that retten food had been served in the camps. The news spread far and wide and even the capitalist papers could not overlook the disclosure that boys joining the training camps might be poisoned be- cause of rotten food. In the advertisements by the gov- ernment this year they assure the youth of the United States that good, wholesome food will be offered. Wheher that is so or not is not so very important (tho the government has failed to take care of the sick and wounded soldiers in proper mani- ner). There is no doubt that brutal treatment awaits the young fellows in some form or other, whether it is intensive training or abuse from the arrogant officers. The purpose of the Citizen’s Mili- tary Training Camps is to biild up an available fighting force in the event of a capitalist war. Tho the armed force has grown to tremendous pro- portions in recent years, the War De- partment has a plan for the building up of a mass armed force which it can put into action at a moments notice. The Citizen’s Military Train- ing Camps are a necessary cog in this new military machine. . The militarists in the: United States have one hope for the success of the Citizen’s Military Training Camp this summer, and that is wide-spread un- employment. the Citizen’s Military Training Camp or the refuse of garbage cans. Samuel Gompers has expressed himself as in favor of this form of military training. While overlooking the fact that the vast mass of work- ing youth are unorganized, Gompers finds time to, express himself agree- able to organizing this youth against labor in the military forces of the United States. The Citizen’s Military Training Camp holds nothing that is in the interest of labor; it is strictly against the good of the organtyed and unor- ganized workers to see its success. More than once have the armed forces of this government been used against striking workers. The Citi- zen’s Military Training Camp is no exception. For information concerning the Young Workers League of Amer- ica, address Y. W. L., 1009 N. State St., Chicago, Ill. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN Al FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, 73 W. VanBurenSt, Phone Wabash 6680 ESET Se ARES SATE AAO ee see ae Se Lew EON EET NE Re: ie SCTE I TR It is a known fact that | It is hungry men are not very particular hof whether they eat the rotten food of | WORKER Blood of the Communards Thirty thousand massacred In the streets of Paris, Nor was there pity To defend the Red Commune. You the bourgeoisie— You the enraged ruling class— You hunted the Communards Betrayal and fratricide— This was your vengeance Awakening of the masses, Stirring of the downtrodden, A sounding of the tocsin, A building of barricades, A lifting of the red standard, This was the Red Commune. Federates, Men of the Sections, People of the fanbourgs, Embattled proletariat of Paris, Your stand on the barricades Was a challenge Forever to ‘be remembered, A heritage, A shining memory! October belongs The Commune By SIMON FELSHIN crying to me! And the blood flowed in the gutters, And the blood flowed in the Seine. For the children, the women, and the old men Because these also fought on the barricades Oh there are wounds that would not heal! Your motto “Liberty, Egality, Fraternity” Was seen to be a pretension and a mockery. And you shot them where you found them. I have seen the Wall of the Fedetates Where you slaughtered the prisoners with mitrailleuse, And you buried them where they fell. Upon the defenders of the Red Commune. Blood of the Communards crying to me! Oh there are wounds that would not heal! Battlecry from the lower depths, Vanguard of the proletariat in revolt— The lifting of the red standard— By ANOTOLY MARIENHOF (This poem is inspired by the October (November) 1917 Revolution. by one of the greatest of the younger poets of Soviet Russia, Marien- to the imaginist school of poets. In later issues of the DAILY we will print other poems by the younger writers, all of them revolutionary, inspired by the great proletarian revolution. Louis Lozowick who is an authority on the latest literature and art of Soviet Russia has sent us a batch of poems and stories which he has translated from the Russian, and they will appear from time to time in the Magazine Section.) s * . s We trample filial reverence under foot. ‘Hat on head, We sit down impudently, Legs crossed and heels kicked up. ot You de not like our bloody langhter, Our refusal to washdagain the rags already washed a million times, Our sudden daring To bark a deafening bow-wow! Ya-a, backbone Upright like a telegraph pole, Not mine alone, All Russians, hunchbacked for cen- turies. Who on earth is now more clamorous than we? Bedlam, you say, No mile-stones nor signposts— To hell! Our red cancan is a splendid sight. You would not believe it: multitudes, Droves of clouds under human orders, And the sky spread out like a woman’s wrap, And not a single sunray. Christ is on the Cross again, and Barabbas Promenading over Tversky Who can stop—who—galloping Scy- thian steeds? : Bowstrings singing the Marseillaise? UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS Did any hear of blacksmith Forging railtrack -bracelets for the globe, Puffing his cheap plug with the air Of an officer clicking spurs? You ask: What next? Next—dancing centuries, We break into every door, And no one dares threaten: take that! We! We! We're everywhere, At the very footlights of the stage; Not quiet lyricists, But flaming clowns. aoa Free like Sa’ eae Bg it singing like Savonarol: Into the fire. .. No matter! Who is there to fear When tiny worlds-of petty souls are vast spheres now? Every day—a new chapter in the Bible, Every page—an inspiration to a thousand generations. It will be said about us: Happy they who lived in 1917. And still you whine: We are lost! And still you whimper! Blockheads. Is not Yesterday squashed like a pigeon . Under an automobile Rushing madly from a garage? AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. There is less talk nowadays in the capitalist press about alleged graft in Soviet Russia than was com- mon before the Teapot Dome spilled its oily freight over the pages of current history. On the contrary the little that seeps thru the capitalist censors about the Workers’ Republic indicates that officials who take liberties with the institutions and property of the Russian workers re- ceive scant consideration even tho in the past they” have made sacrifices for the cause, 2 * > 2 Ex-Senator France of Maryland on his way back from Moscow declared that Russia has the most efficient and businesslike government in the world. I listened to a debate several years ago between John Spargo and Tom Mann, in which the former held that the workers could not manage industry. Our Russian comrades are giving the lie to the renegade Spar- go, despite the obstacles placed in their way by interitationa] capitalism and the reactionary labor. leaders, * = * “Russia ‘has the richest mineral resources in the world, with three times as much gold, silver, oil, coal and other minerals as America,” says Mr. France. Predicting that the gov- ernments of the world would soon be compelled to recognize Soviet Russia, the ex-senator said that sec- retary of state Hughes may be a good provincial lawyer but knows nothing about international law. He depends on Sam Gompers for en- lightenment on that phase of his duty. * b & * The Vatican denies the truth of a paragraph published recently in the DAILY WORKER to the effect that His Holiness was taking steps to recognize Soviet Russia. We give this denial to our readers for what it is worth, our acquaintance with the ways of the pious gentleman on the Tiber not being conducive to unques- tioning faith in the veracity of that servant of Christ, o * * + Edward Young Clarke, former im- perial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan pleaded guilty te a violation of the Mann Act and was fined $6,000, He was convicted of having taken a girl from Houston to New Orleans, One of the principal exeuses the Ku Klux Klan had for inflicting itself on the people of America was its determina- tion to protect American womanhood. -¢ee#e The Swedish parliament defeated a motion to send a commission to the United States to study the workings of the prohibition law here. Suspi- cion was aroused that those who sought the passage of the motion were more interested in sampling pro- hibition liquor than in drawing les- sons from the workings of the act. The Swedes are not easily bluffed on the liquor question, ca * * < The fighting strength of the British navy is now massed in the Mediter- ranean sea for maneuvers. This means of course that England hav- ing disposed of the German fleet and the threat from the Baltic is now guarding the route to the East. The enemy is now France and Italy. The Italian and French press which makes no pretense of not being in- spired by their governments, com- _|ments unfavorably on the presence of the British armada so close to their shores, But the markets of the capitalists and their colonies must be .From the Russian of Anatoly| protected. Ramsay MacDonald does Marienhof by Louis Lozowick.' not want to lose India. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN