The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1926, Page 3

f | ©* thousand textile operatives re: a ‘ WARLORD FACES TRIPLE ATTACK | ONHEADQUARTERS (Contonese Ar Army Nears Iron and Steel Center (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Aug, 23.—China’s war vf liberation from domination by the puppet generals of foreign powers is rapidly shifting into the Yangtze valley. Marshall Wu Pej Fu has given up the attempt to crush General Feng Yurhsiang’s nationalist army north- west of Pekin, and is rushing with what troops he can muster to the de- fence of his headquarters at Hankow. Hankow, Hanyang ‘and . Wuchang, three towns all near the junction of the Han and Yangtze rivers, at the head of ocean going navigation on the Yangtze, are the center of modern China’s iron industry: Even more im- portant im the present crisis, there is & great modern arsenal at Hanyang. The merchant class of! Hankow have provided warlord Wu with most of his supplies and equipment, getting part of the money for this purpose, so it is reported, from American and Eng- lish sources, Now this strategic center is threat- ened by nationalist movements from three directions, General Tang Shang- chi, commander-in-chief of the Kuo- mintang army and personally in com- mand of the forces advancing north- ward through Hunan province, has issued a statement that he expects to occupy Hankow within thirty days. Practically all of Hunan province is now in his control, The Kuominchun army has executed a strategic retreat in good order from Nankow Pass, where the terrain was 80 cramped that Wu Pei-fu and his ally Chang Tso-lin were beginning to use the siege artillery they have ob- ~tained from Japanese and English sources, This retreat to prepared posi- tions enables the troops of Feng Yu- hsiang to strike southeastward, and | endanger Wu's headquarters at Han- kow, as well as his communications with his ally. The third menace to Wu’s hold on * Hankow is trom Shanghai itself. This important city and the country south of it is still under control of General Sun Chuan-fang, another idol of Brit- ish and American capital, though prob- ‘ably not as reliable from their point of view as some others. But Sun’s troops are going over in large numbers to the Kuomintang, and he himself seems to be vacillating. Wu and all his foreign friends are desperately efraid of a blow from the direction of Shanghai. In China the military movements are not always indicative of the ac- tual state of affairs, The important thing is the gradual permeation of all industrial and peasant China with the idea of a government of workers and peasants, strictly opposed to foreign capitalistic domination, As this feel- ‘ing spreads, the effect of the recent military victories gained by the allied armies of Chang and Wu over the nationalist army of Feng fade to in- significance, and the tide of war swings over tc the side of fresh revolu- tionary forces. i eee Extraterritoriallty Denounced. PEKING, Aug. 23. — The Chinese government has announced that it will not renew the treaty with Belgium granting control of civil and criminal cases involving Belgian citizens in China to the Belgian court instead of Chinese courts, This is the principle of “extraterritoriality” which is the main question up for discussion by the present mixed commission sup- posed to be taking evidence now in Peking. The Chinese government seems to be in position to overrule whatever decision the commission makes by the simple process of not renewing the treaties as they lapse. The Sino-Japanese treaty expires Oct. 20, and treaties with other countries s00n. , ee, Aid SHANGHAI, Aug, 23, — Fighting is reported from Szechuan province be- tween nationalists and the troops of Wu Pei-fu. Invasion of the province of Kiang-si by Cantonese forces is momentarily expected, A strike of ten has broken out in Shanghat, and is attributed to Kuomintang (National Peoples Party) propaganda. The workers, however, prs plenty of reasons besides this for as conditions are very bad dual all these foreign owned mills, ‘The arsenal at Shanghai is working overtime, manufacturing munitions for Wu Peifu’s army. The Cantonese is advancing towards Hankow r its base at Changsha. It is well pam and its morale is high. of the American Worker indent, It’s only 5 cents, Get Corres; Detroit, Attention! Wanted by employed couple two rooms or one with sleepin porch in Northern Detroit, with meals Monday to Friday. psf Mollenhauer, Cadillac GINSBERC'S Vegetarian Restaurait " 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. By THURBER LEWIS, EXT to enforced military service the kind of institution that best meets the frenzied and insatiable de- mands of militarism is “voluntary civilian training” on a large scale. In a comparatively new country like the United States, only now developing a strongly centralized government, en- forced military service except in time of war is a very difficult and belated change to initiate. So the jingoes must be satisfied with something less. They have created what are known ag Citizens’ Military Training Camps. Theit Father Is Gen. Wood. The germ of the idea that grew into the 40° Citizens’ Military Training Camps that now. dot the United States each summer seems ‘to-have been first born in’the’ mind of that idol of all 100 percent Americans, Leonard Wood. It was+in/1918, Wood was a major- general and: chief-of-staff of the United States army. Something was needed to arouse interest in. ‘national de- fense.” The world war was already brewing in Europe, Wood, as chief- of-staff, knew.what was.going on, It was no accident that in that year he was instrumental in setting up at Gettysburg and Monterey what he called “college camps,” in which young men were given military train- ing for short periods. The war began in Europe, In 1915 and 1916 more than a dozen camps were opened at Plattsburg and a dozen other places thruout the country known as “business and professional men’s camps.” These gentry seemed veritably to smell the war that was coming. They wanted to have gold bars on their shoulders when it started. And sure enough, these very camps were the forerunners of the officers’ training camps of the war years, 1917 and 1918. Business Inspired. HE fact that the United States won the “war to end war” only served to make armament and military train- ing all the more “necessary.” By 1920 a frantic demand went up from all the jingoes in the land for an enlarge- ment of the military. The white- haired and grizzled old thumb-tack pushers in the war college and the bronzed campaigners in command of the corps areas looked upon this prop- aganda with great glee and helped it along. An organization of “Platts- burg graduates” had been formed in 1916. It was called the Military Train- ing Camps Association and was com- posed entirely of business men. This was made the nucleus for the new movement, A lobby was set up in congress. Money was needed to establish mili- tary training camps on a wide basis. During the session of 1920 congress was persuaded to give the funds nec- essary for the establishment of ten camps with an enrollment of 11,000. Thus was the C. M. T. C, launched. I 1922 congress gave money enough to core for 20,000 in the camps, 25,000 in 1923, 33,000 in 1924, 35,000 in 1925 and this year 50,000 have been sent to get on speaking terms with Springfield rifles and.machine guns. The Military Training Camps Asso- ciation itself is stronger than ever. Its chief business is to supply the agi- tation and propaganda for the C. M. T. C. It has a sort of semi-official standing thru unqualified endorsement from the president down to division commanders of the army. Under the direction of a “chief civilian aide to the secretary of war” it maintains “corps area civilian aides” and “state civilian aides.” These civilian officers direct the publicity work for the camps and aid in the recruiting of as many youths as the congressional appropriation for a particular year will handle, (Continued from page 1) its organizations and its officers, can do much to acquaint the public mind with what General Summerall and his officers are doing toward the develop- ment of young men mentally, morally and physically, “I promise that it will, be our pur- pose to tell what we have seen and what we know as a result of our visit here. We-ghall go from here with a pleasant memory and a better under- standing of you and your work in this citizens’ military training camp. We promise you we shall go out and tell our people of what we have learned.” The General Replies, In reply to Green, Major General Summerall said: “The call to arms has always been answered by the boys of the land. What has been will be again. If there comes a crisis, no propaganda nor false doctrine will prevent you, or those who come after you, from fol- lowing that flag and keeping it aloft. | History shows our wars have csot us the needless sacrifice of the flower of our young generation, and all because the country has sent them out unpre- pared.” Guests of Coolidge, The A. F, of L, heads were also en- tertained here by the Elks and Rotary Clubs. They are to be luncheon guests today of President Coolidge at Whits Pines Camp, While in New York ‘state they cre accompanied by two state troopers assigned to their}. risa Governor THEADAILY WORKER hat is the C.M.T. C. Page Thre ———— ee Next Best to Enforced Universal Training—How They Began—Amending the National Defense Act —Lurid Publicity—Training Strikebreakers. In this second of a series of articles on the growth of militarism in the United States the writer tells the history of the Citizens’ Military Tralning Camps from thelr birth In the Jingo brain of the arch-mill- tarist, Gen. Leonard Wood, to thle year’s War Department accomplishment of collecting 50,000 youths be- tween the ages of 17 and 24 to undergo regular army training for 30 days. recrults to this new military machine, slogan “building men.” leges. Here Is a ploture of some of the lads In tralhing at the Camp Custer unit of the C. M. T. C. military service without the odium of the name. Every year there are more It Is made all the more deadly by reason of parading under the It le nothing better than a different way of gaining the benefits of universal It Is a new way of training a reserve army for strike-break- Ing and coolnial duty. Tomorrow's story will deaj with the R. O. T. C.—militarism in the schools and col- They make a de- jected looking crew and some of them are doubtless weary with the harsh routine of regular army drili—especially since the propaganda that got them to go to the camp spoke only of “lots of hiking, basket-ball, swimming, movies, etc. The boys are discovering that they get precious little of these things and plenty of sharp commands from regu- lar army officers and regulation drill to make them into good reserve cannon fodder for the next imperlalist war, or strike-breakers to be used against workers in their own country. ee rere er Wa ul sy NS William Green and the C. M. T. C. The funds for the Military Training Camps Association are supplied by corporations, bankers and business men, ‘Who they are and why they are’so generous with their aid to this institution we will tell in a future arti- eee | & ‘The Requirements, (HE Citizens’ Military Training Camps are open to young men, examiinied and found to be physically fit, between the ages of 17 and 24. Enrollment implies a willingness to undertake a four-year course of in- struction entitled, consecutively, basic, red, white and blue courses. Military instruction for the first year is for infantry service only. After the first year the choice lies with the candi- date to take up instruction for service with infantry, cavalry, engineers, ar- tillery or signal corps. The object of the course is to train aspirants for commissions in the regular army or the officers’ reserve corps. The camps last for thirty days and the government pays all necessary ex- penses, mileage included. The large percentage of the time spent in the camps is given over to strictly mili- tary training, and there are classes under the title “citizenship,” as well as a limited amount of entertainment on Sunday and evenings. This latter recreation, however, is plainly given only as a means to.attract prospective soldiers to the camp. It would look too decidedly raw and could not be motor tomorrow to Montreal to at- tend a regular meeting of the coun- 2 List of Members, Accompanying Green were the fol- lowing members of the Executive committee: Vice Presidents Frank Duffy, James P. Nooonan, James Wil- son, Martin F. Ryan and Daniel J. Tobin, treasurer, and Frank Morrison, secretary. Peter J. Brady, who {s @ major in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and is president of the Federation Bank and Trust company of New York, also made the trip. press-agented near as well if the en- tire time of the camps were devoted to the arts of: war. Live Publicity, f Mee publicity service of the army that operates thru the press as the “army inférmation service,” aided by the Trainfig Camips Association men- tioned above, carries on an intensive propaganda each year prior to the en- rollment date for the camps. The propaganda, of course, goes on all year round, but just before the camp opening it becomes particulary in- tense. What fs the basis of the ap- learn military discipline? Do they say tell the young men that they want them to learn how to shoot? To learn how to operate machine guns? To learn military discipline Do they say frankly that the training camps are branches of the armed service set up for the sole purpose of extending the military power of the nation for a future wi No, Saniples of Propaganda. HAT the lads told? Here are some samples of the propaganda. From a circular entitled, “Why Not Camp With Uncle Sam?” we read: “With true yfnkee pep, Uncle Sam has outdone every other coun- try on earth in staging the C. M. T. C.’s, They are the world’s greatest man-building centers and are turn- ing out the coming world’s greatest men, THIRST KILLER CAVANAUGH DRY GROWN PRINCE Czar Andrews Favors Ex-Policeman WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 23.~ Still one more announcement that the national dry Jaw will be enforced came from the office of Lincoln C, Andrews, chief prohibition officer of the United Stat “a The latest white hope to be handed is inflicted and a complaisant judge imposes a fine, and order is upheld and enforced in the city of Chicago, wearing clothes at the expense of the people they are tect. the politicians and the underworld the gangsters bear a charmed life the gangster who is too negli accumulate legal fees goes anywhere within the shadow of the gallows, no “Can you afford to miss them? “No! You can’t, play the game against the fellow with C. M, T, C. training. And. unless you get it, too, you'll soon be a back number. “There's thirty rousing days ar- ranged for you, crammed full of hik- ing, baseball.and drilling; of foot- ball, shooting.and tennis; of boxing, entertainment and movies; of track and field sports, sham battles, and week-end trips.” “Silent Cal” Helps. HE more dignified boosts for the camps are statements from some of the nation’s “great men.” Here is a bit of the soft soap that President Coolidge was persuaded to write about the camps to be expressly used in publicity to rope in the youngsters for mhilitary training: “These camps are an essential in the plan of national security, They promise obedience to law and re- spect for the institutions of a well- bred society. Young men are helped to physical health, mental vigor and moral excellence, Social understand- ing and democratic feeling are de- veloped; love and reverence for the flag are the natural outcome of the training. Courtesy in act, sympathy in feeling, tolerance in thought, are the ideals.” President Coolidge, or whoever wrote the above blurb for him, as well as the lowliest press agent in the service of the war department, knows that the real object of the camps is to train soldiers for service (1) against an opposing military power, (2) in the colonies or China or Central America, defending the property of American capitalists and suppressing colonial or semicolonial people (3) in strikes against workers. These things are not mentioned. In the entire publicity for the camps the fact that those who enroll will be given military drill and instruction ig entirely secondary, is mentioned only in a casual and incon- sequential way. How It Works, IAKE a working lad slaving away nine or ten hours a day for, say, the International Harvester Co, or the Western Electric Co., both of which bave given their official endorsement to the camps, Literature is handed to him containing page after page of lurid “come-along” publicity similar to that we quoted above. He sees en- dorsements from the president, sena- tors, congressmen, cardinals, bishops, generals, and the officers of the com- pany for which he works. All his expenses are to be paid. His boss will make it easy for him to get off for the thirty days required, he will certainly not be discouraged. He looks upon the whole affair, and is made to look up it, as a mere vacation. What He Finds. ELL, what happens? Perhaps he goes to the camp. He gets his uniform and gun and other equip ment, He goes into regular military training. Officers of the regular army are assigned to the camp to fulfill the training requirements of the regular army. The lad discovers that for every 20 hours of so-called “recrea- tion” he gets 90 hours of military drill and instruction. Before he went he was promised a class in “citizenship.” This proves to be nothing more nor less than a propaganda course, given by well-drilled army officers who refer constantly to mimeographed outlines prepared by the war department for the purpose of instilling a militaristic viewpoint into the so-called student. In a later article we will deal in de- tail with what is taught in these camps. So far as physical training is concerned, the entire four-year course in the C. M. T. C. calls for only 40 hours of systematic physical exercise. By far and away the greatest part of the time at the camps is given over to gun instruction, drilling and les- sons in the rudiments of military science. Is it any wonder that the C. M. T. C.’s have the hearty endorsement of all the largest bankers and corpo- rations in the country? Is it any won- der that the military clan nurses them along as a babe and watches them with pleasure as they grow year by year? Training for Strike-Breakers, ga ©. M. T. C.’s are training grounds for future officers and men in the service of American im- perialism rampant. As these camps grow and more and more of the nation’s youth is brought within the pale of the militarists the possibility of ag- gressive wer is multiplied. Every year thousands of lads are turned loose from their thirty days’ drilling and training and propaganda-imbibing to go back to civilian life with an en- tirely different attitude than they had before. They are more obedient to their bosses, they have been instilled with the worst forms of chauvinism, they are prejudiced against the work- ing class (the training course in citi- zenshtp takes care of this, as we will show later) and they have started on the way to become conscientious strike-breakers and troops in the forces of American imperialism for service wherever the requirements of Wall Street call, OES EAN ws srcbdaditc nasal mr banat valtaas | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) This is the way law HY? The police must do some- thing to justify eating food and Pposed to pro- Because of the alliance between Smith, They will |tichwheationers, NEN " ort! the job of damming the intoxicating flood is Thomas J. “Honest Tom” Cavanaugh of Philadelphia, Tom will need all his “honesty” in his present position. vf Cavanaugh is a former policeman and served in that capacity in Phila- delphi: Both facts are considered qualifications for the job. Should Cavanaugh's honesty prove normal he should be in a position to retire with a comfortable competence after two or three months. As Charlie Chaplin would say: “they all do.” matter how many murders may be charged to his account. The police arrest gunmen occasionally and then turn them loose. The gunmen are only slightly inconvenienced and the Police save their face, Should a po- liceman behave decently—an almost utopian dream—his ward boss will see that his feet will have a rest from the weary task of massaging the side- walks. Beer Gangsters Found in Resort of Wealthy HALF MOON LAKE, Wis., Aug. 23. —An echo of Chicago's interminable gang was reached here yesterday when a police squad armed with rifles, re- volvers, machine guns, tear gas bombs, shotguns and clubs came up, from his home town and arrested “Polack Joe” Saltis, alleged chief of beer runners and under indictment for the murder of “Mitters” Foley about two weeks ago. Along with Saltis were taken “Lefty” Koncil, said to be the ma- chine gunner of the Saltis-McErlane gang, “Three-Fingered Pete” Kazinki; many times convicted of robbery and burglary and Nick Kramer, bodyguard of Saftis. The arrested men had not been fcognized by the residents here it wy way different from other . . ECENTLY an assistant state's at- torney was murdered while in the company of two well-known bootleg- gers with a murder record. The two bootleggers were killed at the same time. Their pal, the prosecutor, ap- peared in court the previous week and asked a jury to impose the death pen- alty on one of them, This sounds queer, and it is queer. Also funny. But everything is queer under capital- ism, and the queerest)thing of all ts that this consistent, nauseating, hypo- critical without Cowgirl Killed in Rodeo, Riding an outlaw “bronco” for the amusement of 12,000 spectators at the Rodeo sponsored by the Chicago Chamber of ,Commerce at Soldior’s Field, Mrs. Louise Hartwig, 26, Montana cowgirl, was trampled to death when ghe was thrown from her wild mount. he leaves a peebee and baby, sabe is 3 abatement and apparently without arousing the slightest interest on the part of the public at large. Ne © |APITALISM has corrupted Ameri- can social life as perhaps no other economic system in the history of man has done before in any given time or place, Corruption and its attendant evils run riot thruout the land, Yet outside of a few “nuts” who hope to reform society by injecting doses of christianity into the spiritual veins of those in power and the radicals, who know that corruption is a child of the exploitation of the many by the few, the great mass of the people look on with indifference, shrug their shoul- ders and read about the latest mur- der, rape, incest or divorce scandal, ie @ UT don't take this tale of woe too seriously! Revolutions don’t ha) pen every minute, but the mills of evolution are always grinding. Intel- ligent workers are not interested in shoveling capitalist dung ont of sight to make things more agreeable for the nasal organs of the ruling classes, ‘They have a bigger job on hand; to shovel the capitalist system into the incinerator of history. When that job is done the producing cl will seize their trusty vacuum cleaners and give society one good houseciea: ing. Social filth is a bed-fellow of capitalism, ‘In a socialist society it will be taboo, Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred Elle and Robert Minor % il 4 en a saat + 0 POLISH CABINET FALLING APART; TREATIES F Al Pilsudski Discharges H Personal Enemies WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 23.—Piisi ski continues to act like a bull in china shop, and is now engaged wrecking the cabinet he himself bu up after the short but bloody revolt last May. While the induStrial depr sion continues, and is made more 1 vere by the failure to conclude : agreement with Germany which wou allow of the disposing in that count of the Polish harvest, the Lithuanian Ukrainians and Upper Silesians, ; well as the Jews, are beginning: make their protests againat persec tion by Polish chauvinists felt abroa The league of nations and. the -en mies of France in that alliance « capitalist powers are not moved t the opposition and exploitation of tt Polish industrial proletariat, as prol tarians. But the question of the: raz of Vilna will not down, and Lithuant continues to regard it as a cause; fc war at any time war offers the sligh est chance for s Therefore the Pilsudski regime pw sues the contradictory policy of © ficial overtures to Lithuanian, and m tention of Vilna, of shooting strike to pieces, and oppos ter of finance, Klarner, measures are to capitalistic, Klarner will probably resign, sa well-informed friends of his, becaus the attacks on him thru the Polis! Legion and its press could not cor tinue without the countenancing o them by Marshall Pilsudski On th; other hand, the situation is compli cated by the fact that Klarner con ducts all the negotiations with th American delegation of experts, th Kemmerer commission, which ha suggested most of the plans for found ing a dollar bank, stabilizing currency consolidation of government banks and allowing more freedom of trade for which Klarner is himself now be ing publically reprimanded thru the columns of Glos Prawdz, Pilsudski’s newspaper, Marsnaii Pfilsudski 1s meanwhile making his position souhder in the army by cashiering all officers who have ever shown enmity towards him. The excuse given is that they have served ander Austrian, German or Russia flags in the past and are there- fore unreliable. Pilsudski himself never refers to the fact that he did this once, also, and fought on the German side during the great war. Police Commissioner Boasts of How Police Aid Strike-Breaking NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 23. — A barefaced admission that the police are doing all they can to break the strike of 40,000 garment workets of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, ts contained in a let- ter sent to Henry H, Finder, president of the Industrial Council (of employ- ers), by Police Commissioner Mo- Laughlin, In fact McLaughlin explaing to the bosses that the police are doing all they can, In part the letter reads: “I think you will agree with me that the police are doing their part and you must get more action from the courts if you are going to make Dro- gress, “Turning these people out with small> fines or suspended sentences onty en! courages them to continue.” In further comment upon the letter, made public by Finder, he declares that he is now going to put pressure on the police court judges to make the fines and penalties heavier for arrest ed pickets, He says: “The police are endeavoring to curb violence, but they report their efforts are nullified by the failure of the magistrates to co-operate. We have taken the matter up with Police Com- missioner McLaughlin.” ps SPECIAL ISSUES. SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 renth Anniversary Issue of the Workers (Communist) ty, a record of the American Communist Movement in special § articles and art work, Get your bundles for your meetings! SATURDAY September 4 Special ’ Labor Day Issue The American Trade Union Movement in articles by out- standing figures in the American labor movement—with the best work of American labor artists, 4 Order a Bundle NOW! — 3/2 Cents a Copy 4 LTO ATTY 8a 1 ABs we