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He published signed manifestoes declaring that his conscience would not let
him do other than publicly desert if he were drafted. He urged all other
workingmen to do the same.
He was drafted.
He publicly deserted.
He was found and brought back in chains for a court martial. After escaping,
through the help of rank-and-file socialists who also had been drafted and who
had attended his lectures, he spent the balance of the war in a windowless
attic room, writing highly subver-sive pacifist pamphlets. He eventually fled
to the United States, entering it as an illegal alien, a status that was not
changed until 1945 when his son was drafted for another war.
Written 1952 / Published 1953
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