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STAND-UP COLLAR IS THE COUNTERSIGN LABOR CLASS CAN DO THE FIGHTING (WC " jgeA J l9l5--:: -li. COM borne. , i Above is the application blank for admission to the "citizens' training camp" at Fort Sheridan, 111., note the words underscored. Has the war department any "shoulder straps" for labor? Jb rank in the United States army the exclusive privilege of wealth? Is place in the ranks the "special privilege" of the laboring man? Men who sought admission to the citizens' military training camp, just broken up at Ft Sheridan, put these questions in effect up to the war department and the answer that came right back from Fort Sheridan sounded something like this: "Stay at home until there is blood to spill, bodies, to maim, souls to rack on the battlefield; then you can FOL LOW us into the fight, and there'll be plenty for you to dol" , J To some of the laboring men who talked about the war department's in difference to their applications for permission to train- in the citizen soldiers' camp, this "Looks as if we were trying to place the army of defense under the control of SNOBS; looks as if our' army is not an impartial weapon of defense, but a weapon to protect the plunder of the wealthy." "The laboring man is awake to the conditions of affairs," says Honore Jaxon, a leader of labor who recruited more than 100 laboring men for training at Ft Sheridan, only to find their applications rejected BECAUSE JHEY DIDN'T HAVE THE. "POCK- -. -- i a i ji n ti n it ihfr'a-g.flsattaiteaafcaflaaai