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Show MILITARY LAW FIGHT COMING Attempt to Fasten Permanent Draft Law on Country Due in Congress By CHARIES T. ITAXiLIXAN, Secretary of the American Union Against Militarism. WASHINGTON, April 2S. Nov that compulsory military training ha.s been lead to rest, at least temporarily, temporari-ly, the next blg fight in congress will arlBe over the attempt to fix a permanent draft law upon this country, operative not only In war time, but at any time when the administration ad-ministration decides to Invoke It; ac-tuallyt ac-tuallyt a powerful legal machine for strike-breaking. The army reorganization act, now being discussed in the Sonate, contains con-tains some curious language. It provides pro-vides that "Whenever congress shall declare and the president shall pro claim that a national emergency exists," all male citizens between tUe! ages of IS and 4 5, inclusive, "shall be be subject to call for Immediate military or naval service." Permanent Draft Law. Then follows a series o minor regulations reg-ulations setting up the familiar draft machinery and perpetuating It, beyond be-yond hope of appeal. . . The phrase "national emergency" is hardly the language of a soldier. If purely military ends had been in the minds of Senator Wadsworth and his colleagues It is argued that tho bill would read, "Whenever congress shall declare and t.he-.president shall proclaim a state of war to exist." The phrase "national emergency" suggests that the bill was drafted with certain uses In mind, entirely apart from national na-tional defense. Manufacturing "Reds" Brland, when premier of France, smashed the railway strike of 1010 by the simple device of declaring a "national emergency" to exist and by summoning the striking railway workcra "to the colors." Once under military control, the strikers were; promptly ordered back to work, tho ringleaders who stood out wcro court-martlalled court-martlalled and the strike collapsed. Tho ultlmato result was that the railroad workers turned from being a conservative group of state employes em-ployes to the most radical of rcda and tho fomenters In Europe of syn- n dlcalism and sabotage. il Briand's victory vas a Mostly one for the conservative regime In Franco. ' The house trrmy bill conJains noth- ''H Ing similar to the "national emergen-cy" emergen-cy" clause of the senate mcasUY-rft and there would be strong opposition IH to the establishment of a permartu'itt draft law of any kind. It is believed that,' the senate will recede from lea position on this point. |