The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 11

The Yo HE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE and its Junior Section have en- tered the election campaign to sup- port the Workers’ Party candidates with its typical enthusiasm. The ever growing army of the young pro- letariat will hear of Foster and Git- low thru the agitation the league will conduct. Present indications show that the youth cre becoming more interested in politics as a result of the latest developments exemplified by Tea Pot Dome, open shop cam- paigns, ete... . The contrast be- tween the activities of the Y. W. L. and the dead carcass the old Y. P. S. L. becomes obvious when judging the activity and influence of the two or- ganizations. Under the leadership of the Work- ers’ Party and Young Workers’ League, the American youth will be protected from the deadly effects of the shallow petty-bourgeoisie philos- ophy of the LaFollette sort. Getting names for petitions, selling literature is work fitting in with fhe qualifica- tions of the league membership. Young Workers advocating Commun- ism makes adult workers react favor- ably to our propaganda. The league membership is already mobilizing its forces for the coming campaign with interest and determination. In the school, as well as the shop, mill and mine, support for the Communist nominees will be solicited. The kin- dergartens and playgrounds will re- ceive their share of Communist propa- ganda thru our Junior comrades. Mili- tant enthusiasm, stamina and energy will be furnished by the Young Work- ers’ League to develop this campaign successfully. In this campaign the Young Workers’ League is afforded for the first time an opportunity of becoming active politically. The open shop campaigns which succeeded in reducing the pay of the adult workers, created a swelling in the ranks of youth labor. The lower- ing of the living standard of the young worker has made him a little more Politically conscious. The exposure of the government scandals in Wash- ington has made him more skeptical of America’s boasted democracy and less willing to lay down his life for it. Listening to discussions in the pool rooms, on street corners and other Places where the youth congregates, one becomes convinced of this. This presents a fertile field for propaganda and the election campaign will be the best medium for accomplishing it, We must prevent the germs of re- formism from being planted in the minds of the youthful toilers. To con- vince them that under capitalism they will ‘remain wage-slaves and experi- ence its concomitant miserable ef- fects, is our task. In proportion to their own growing political enlighten- ment, we must start the young work- make them relentless, uncompromis- ing fighters for the Young Communist International.. -One of our chief slo- gans in the election speeches should call for a mass Young Workers’ League. We must show the young workers that LaFollette upholds the capitalist system and as this order of society is robbing them of all appor- tunity in life, LaFollette, too, is re- sponsible for their present intolerable condition. While the Young Workers’ League is busily engaged in furnishing politi- cal direction to the working youth, the disintegration of the stinking carcass of the old Young People Socialist League is proceeding. Only under the leadership of the Young Workers’ League and Workers’ Party, which says that the young workers form an integral part of the working class, in contradiction to the vulgar conception uth in the Election is now engaging itself in this work very strenuously. It is obvious that young people can get signatures for our petitions much better than the adults. Each branch has elected its campaign committee to co-operate with the party’s political groups. When visiting the branches and see- ing how seriously they take them- selves to this work, one cannot help but admit that’ the youth is being in- itiated in political activity. Each branch is lining up the territories, which they will canvass for names. Hearing young workers advocate Communism on the Fa box, and other meeting places, €ncourages and brings confidence back to many weary adult workers. Being ap- proached by a young boy or girl solic- iting his name for the petitions of Communist nominees, creates a differ- ent impression of the movement in THE NEW WAR By OSKAR KANEHL. Hate songs are raging thru the streets. On wide places the patriot-mob is crying. ry For arms. War! And for new blood. The president of republic is kingly behaving. Minister-braggarts are beating up for recruits. Swordmen are cleanfmg their orden-buckles. Hirelings are fattened. Machine guns, hand grenades, sdldiery * Drills on peace-fanatical working people. Power practices on faintness. Takes prisoners. Besieges. Storms. Marches in. Celebrates victories. Shoots. Freedom-fighters are dying at flight-trial. Prophets are slain. Offering blood is streaming. Murderers have charter. But— Man is coming upon you. One morning you will not awake. The skull of your chieftain will shatter. On the barrier of men. The lances of his truest slave will split. Your hell-heaven will be torn. Across in two. Stars are rising. Transl. Paul Acel. Cae cmc of the S. P. which endeavored to take them out of the class-struggle and manufactyre toys for them, can the American working youth abolish the causes responsible for its aggravating position. ; The Young Workers’ League is par- ticularly qualified to perform the es- sential jimmie-higgins work in the coming election campaign. To get the maximum propaganda results will re- quire much energy and effort. Who can lay more legitimate claim to these —than the revolutionary youth. Speakers to address meetings. peti- tions to be filled, selling literature and thru agitation getting many young workers on record favoring Commun- ism, are some of the tasks to be’ ac- ers on the correct road to victory, and complished by us. The membership (Continued from Page 1.) babies, altho he has been away many years. But Tony drinks his share of the mule, and parries Ahe good na- tured crudities thrust his way by his comrades with his twinkling inscrut- able smile. Valie, the youngest of the quintet, has not yet learned to repress his thots. “God, what a waste of good drink! Not a woman around to kid with. Let’s take a walk. Ish’t there @ woman in this town we can be bril- liant with, until the effects of the moon pass off?” Valie’s honesty finally partially breaks down the reserve of the min- ers, and the talk centers dn sex. It is for the same purpose as the intellec- tual, high-brow sex talk of the Green- wich Villager, but it is more raw. The men boast of hold-ups, of raping and whores. They discuss the notorious women of the town. They cutdo each other with tales of daring escapades of perverts, of almost morbid: incid- tion of the Young the eyes of the American worker. I have heard it remarked many times, “The Communist movement has more active young people in it than any other organization of its kind in the country.” The school room will hear the names of Foster and Gitlow men- tioned quite frequently this year. The teachers will be unable to spread the usual capitalist propaganda during the time of these elections—without meet- ing organized opposition from our school nuclei. In the mock elections to be held in the schools this year the Communist candidates promises to get many votes from the students. The nature of this work is important. This field falls directly under the jurisdic- Workers League The White Mule | ents which are .yariations of the sex theme? There»is much in common to this circle of workers—much that has drawn them together on the grass be- sides the bottle of white mule. Deep in his heart each man has ideals, and each knows the others have ideals. Perhaps Kentucky Joe doesn’t want to live in a “batch shack” with men like himself—whom the civilized world of the big citizens would call “drunken roughnecks.” Perhaps Louis fought in France because he still had illusions of democracy. No doubt Tony still thinks of nis unfaithful wife abroad. And Valie—is’ he to travel the same road? But there is a stronger ‘passion binding these men together. They are the stuff of which revolutions are made. Each one, on numerous oc- casions, has demonstrated his. fear- Jessness of the “boss” and of the sys- tem of bosses. Hach one has worked from childhood in the bowels of the earth. Each has gazed on the death of a beloved comrade at the hands of neglect caused by profit worship. Each has seen his hopes for respect- ability—for a decent living, dashed. Each has taken part in the sacrifices of the early struggles for the miners’ union, and each understands the treachery of modern union official- dom, By gracing each others presence they grant each other the accolade— the honorary degree that belongs only to the revolutionary worker. Each man has poured out his few pennies to keep the movement going. Each has passed thru the measles of de- fiant individualism and of piqued iso- lation. Now they support their work- ing class daily, and slowly absorb the tactics of revolutionary Commutism. But the group has given way too- freely to the moonshine, Their voices have been too loud for their own good. The Ku Klux Klan divides the work- ing-class, and Tony and Joe, Louis, Gus and Charlie have dared to fight the Klan, They-know each coward- By BARNEY MASS and we can say confidently that the work will be well done. | Last but not least is our Junior Sec- tion, They will also contribute their share in the work. In the kindergar- tens and playgrounds, the names of Fos- ter, Gitlow and Communism will often be heard. The young comrades are assisting in getting names for the party’s petitions and they function very aggressively. Coolidge, Davis, LaFollette and other coteries of this ilk, will have their dirty hides rip- ped off, once the juniors get after them. No party can boast of receiv- ing this kind of support but_only the Workers’ Party of America. Side by side with the Young Worker, and Daily Worker, the Young Comrade, official organ of the league’s Junior section, will aim its editorial batter- ies at the enemies, The “Young Com- rade” will explain in its simplified style to all the workers’ children, the necessity of fighting for the Com- munist standard bearers and joining the Junior Section of the Young Work- ers’ League. The slogan of the league and its Junior Section is “Line up the youth and children for Communism in the coming elections.” We have many ac- complishments to our credit and now we have the chance of chalking down to our record another one. We can demonstrate our capability in taking equal responsibility of the campaign, in proportion to our resources, by do- ing the following tasks immediately: (1) Getting petitions filled with names to place our candidates in the field. (2) Speaking on the soap box, in front of the factories and in the halis for our ticket. (3) Selling The DAILY WORKER and other litera- ture, wherever the workers gather. (4) Take the election to the factory, mill, mine and school room. The style of the movement.is to become young Communist fighters. The activity of the Workers’ Party reflects itself in the Young Workers’ League. The league members are be- coming acquainted more intimately with American politics as a result of their activity. The demand of the party for practical Communist poli- ticians will be supplied from the ma- terial that is being developed by the Young Workers’ League. Let us make the following slogans resound thruout the country and’ enlist the healthy, lusty throats of the youthful toilers in this country to help us make ourselves heard: 7 Down with the exploiters of youth and child labor. Down with tne pdetrayers of the workingclass of the LaFollette type. Down with Coolidge, the strike- breaker and Morgan’s man, Davis, Rally to the support of Foster and Gitlow who represent the only means that will do away once and for all with youth and child labor and that is the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” ’ ly atrocity of the Klan weakens that organization of cut-throats. They know that the sacrifice of a few in- dividuals, shot in the back, solidifies the union workers and works them up to fighting pitch against the Amer- ican Fascisti. Now sixty red-faced men are crawl- ing toward them, along the ditch in the coal dust road, behind the tall grass. Rifles point at them thru the wire grass, sliding toward them like silent serpents, with Maxim silencers attached. The rifles draw closer and closer. The beasts behind them close in. There are a few silent shots. The K. K. K. has paid its latest visit. The one hundred percent Ameri- cans have delayed fire until less than ten feet from the group. They have fired so close that the gun wadding sinks into the hard filesh of the revo- lutionists along with the soft lead. Blood again.stains the ground of the largest producing coal county in the world, It is crimson blood,