Lazarus Baer Marcowitz

Registered for draft on June 5, 1917 as a C.O.; assigned to 16th Company, 152nd Depot Brigade, Cantonment Headquarters, Camp Upton (New York), July 17, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); classified as a 26; interviewed in Feb. 1919, on the charge of disloyalty, by the Special Board of Inquiry at Disciplinary Barracks [at Leavenworth?]; sentenced to 15 years in prison; sentence remitted on Aug. 20, 1919, according to Kreger letter, because of his being a "sincere" conscientious objector and his conduct good during confinement; was a member of the Socialist Party; courts-martial trial #117635; sent memo to Captain Arthur McClure on May 1, 1918 declining military service: "I know I am only going to be another subject to be crushed by the iron heel of capitalistic ruthlessness and their unconscious but willing whipmasters but until I shall by pain have my consciousness driven out of me, I will not yield."