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netessary to maintain peace and security after the Other countries to break slrises by yalling stria... war, and that until the post-war international situa to arnis. There are powerful and articulate groups ..Should the. tion is claritied. this country should not depart from in the United States thst wonld welcome so con its tradition which has always opposed conscription venient a method of throutling trade union activity. of youth in times of peace. (5) Compulsory military training and service United States. It therefore opposes action by Congress at the would more deeply imbed into the pattern of our present time on bills providing for post-war com. socicty the racial discriminatinn so characteristic Adopt julsory military training. of the military caste system. The well-known Jim The National Child Labor Committee also be- Crow pattern of the armed forces will inlluence every Permanent lieves that, before action is taken by Congress on boy who lives under its conditions for a period this issue which will affect every American home, during his formative years immediately after high Military there should be an opportunity for citizen groups school. throughout the country,including men now in mil (6) This country's adoplion of peacetime mil. itary service, to debate the question. It urges that itary conscription for the third time in its history the pullic schools be used as meeting places where will mean our falling back into the vices of the people and adults may discuss this matter, European military psychology which we have al. fr. . all angles, formulate their opinions, and ex. ways deprecaied and looked down upon. The United press them to their elected representatives. (May, States has long prided itself upon the fact shat we (911). offered a refuge to those who fled the obligation of The Post-W'ar W'orld Council: military conscript service in the benighted countries The Post-W'ar World Council records its opposi- of Europc which labored under this handicap. (July 14, 1911) tion to pending legislation providing for compul. sory, peacetime, military training and service on The Fellowship of Reconcilialion: the following grounds:. We are unalterably opposed to liaving the ques- (l) Post-war conscription will make war econ. tion of permanent conscription seltled in war time. omy a permanency. It'is one way of evading the The proposal to effect sucl: a revolusionary change responsibility of this country's taking the neceseary in our American way of life, and to take so drastic long-iern and constructive measures to harness our. a step toward total regimentation, should be yrcductive capacity for the destruction of poverty. passed upon only after the most careful democratic Its acceptance means the substitution of a military discussion, which is impossible in war tine. W'e and armanent economy for one that is denocrat must therefore decline to participate in any dis ica!ly cortrolled. Its maintenance means production cussion with Government olicials as to provisions of guns, tanks, military clothes, and equipinent for CO's in any coutemplated permanent conscrip. ir.!,..! oi honses, schools, hospitals, and' food. tion set-up, since this would in a measure encourage - d-feat for an expanding economy of the idea that we were willing to contemplate and abundance. acqsiesce in such measures. We most earnestly lope (2) Enactment of post-war conscription means and pray that all pacifists and religions agencies will we are adinitting now, while we still fight, that we take the sane position. (March 26, 1913) I hwe failet t- kecp our promise of a brave new world. We serve notice on the world that our faith Additional copies of this leaflet may be secured from: in thhe post-war period rests, not on international collaboration, but on our own military might. It AmErican FrienDs SeRvicE COmMIttee Ineans that we are preparing the blueprint for im. 20 S. 12th St., Pniladelphia 7, Pa. perialist adventure and for the next war to protect FELLOwshIP Of REcOnciLiatiOn that imperialism. 2929 Broadway, Naw York 25, N. Y. methoDist CoMMISsion fOR worLd fEace OFFICIAL STATEME ITS (3) Acceptance of post-war conscription means 740 Rush St., Chcago 11 . retrcgression of educationa! freedon. Our schools and colleges will have to he geared to creating an NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF WAR of twelve impcrta :t. 1013 Eighteenth St., N.W., Washingion 6, D. C. adaytability to blind obedience and rigid diseipline ratlier than education for democracy. POST-WAR WORLD COUNCIL religious, education :l.. 112 E. 19th St., Naw York 3, N. Y. (4) Post-war conscription means the forging of a powerful weapon against free labor. History has WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE and civic bodies 5 Beekman' St., Naw Yorlt s. N. Y.