The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1927, Page 10

% % & Young Comrade Section OUR LETTER BOX Fight Child Labor—Join Pioneers, Dear Comrades: What is the difference between an American worker’s child and a Russian werker’s child? The difference is that the American work- er’s child in most cases must go to work, either before school, after school or the whole day. ‘Che reason is because his father does not make enough money to support his family, which means that the boss does not give enough wages. The boss likes Child Labor because its cheaper for him and he makes more profits. He does not care what happens to the children who work for him. That’s why WE PIONEERS are fighting against Child Labor ‘in America. YOU should join us and we should all stick together and make this country, a good country like Russia, where there is NO Child Labor. Your Comrade, BILLY TAPOLCSANJI, “T pledge allegiance to the workers’ flag.” By ROSE MIOVIC—Akron Pioneer Group. One day we were saying our pledge in the school. Then a girl friend of mine got up and said: “I pledge allegiance to the workers’ flag.” The teacher got sore and said: “You say it as I’m telling you.” But she won’t. The teacher took her to the principal. The principal gave her a dirty look and foreed her to repeat what he said. He also gave her a whipping. The girl cried. Then the teacher took her back to the class room. “Now you say the pledge,” said the teacher. And the girl said: *“T pledge piesa workers’ flag,” . big silence....“to the Answers to Questions 1.—The difference between a capitalist and a worker is that the poor worker has to work for the capitalist. And the capitalist gets FAT on the poor man’s LARD. That is why the worker is SKINNY. 2.—The worker has to work his head off and gets almost NOTHING. 3.—The rich man does NOTHING and gets EVERYTHING he wants. 4.—The difference is that a poor worker ates but the fat capitalist does NOT work. Helen Mortz, More who have answered correctly or nearly cor- rectly:—Helen Pentaller, Agnes Takacs, Rose Lam- bersky, Rose Herczeg, Elizabeth Szebeniyis, . DO YOU BELONG? IF NOT, WHY NOT? Do you belong, where? Why, the YOUNG PION- EERS of course, Don’t you know that the YOUNG PIONEERS of America is the only workers’ chil- drefs’ organization (club) that fights for the work- - children throughout America, no matter whether t are white, biack or yellow. Don’t you know that the YOUNG PIONEERS fight in the schools - > against ihe teaching of bunk, such as, strikers are lazy people and a bunch of no-good Bolsheviki. They also fight against the teaching of religion, which is forced on the children whether they want it or not. They figitt for better conditions IN the school as well as OUTSIDE of the schools. They also help their older brothers and sisters and their parents to fight azainst the crae! bosses who pay small wages, forcing young chi'dren to go to work. The YOUNG PIONEERS of America stand side by side with their older comra ics who are fizhtine to make America as well as he rest of the world a better place for workers and their children to live in. Why, everybody knows that, or they ought to know that. But it will do nobody any good if you only know it. You must join the PIONEERS if you are a worker's child and help them help you. . THE LITTLE GREY DOG (Continued From Last Week), “T must drown the dog,” answered the coachman. At that the eyes of the little boy filled with tears, he took the dog in his arms, held him close, and begged, “Don’t do it, just see how darling he is!” “I must do it, Benjamin. The master has Om- manded me. If I don’t obey him he will punish me severely.” The little grey dog licked Benjamin's face, looked at him with his large eyes that seemed to implore him, “Save me, save me!” “Give me the dog,” pleaded Benjamin. “I will hide him well, so that the master will not see him.” The coachman thought for a moment, then re- plied, “Good, you may hide him. But,” he said warningly, “you must not betray the fact that I have given him to you. If the master should ever see him, you must say that you saved him from the river. Then he will give you a bad beating. . .” “That doesn’t matter,” cried Benjamin eagerly. “As long as the little dog is allowed to live.” The coachman laughed, removed the string from the neck of the dog, and Benjmain ran to the hut with him, patting him, kissing him, full of joy. At evening when Benjamin’s parents came home, he slowed them the dog, and the parents also were happy because they had to be away from home all day and always feared that the little boy might go to the river, fall in and be drowned. But now he would stay near the huts with his play-fellow, so that he mignut hide himself quickly in case the rich man might pass by. It was as though the little grey dog knew that Benjamin had saved his life. He did not leave the side of the little boy, obeyed him, and showed him- self to be quite intelligent. Benjamin spoke to him like a person, and the dog looked at him as wisely as though he understood every word. Benjamin’s parents were young and strong, the best workers on the sugar plantation. Therefore the severe overseer was satisfied with them and beat them less often than he did the other slaves. On that account, they were both, in spite of their hard life, satisfied, and in the evenings when they returned to their hut and their little Benjamin, all three of them were gay and happy. ~ Benjamin’s mother Hannah was also an excellent seamstress, she knew how to weave pretty beskets from reeds and rushes, and was a very good cook. One day the eldest daughter of the rich man, who lived with her husband in the north, came to visit her father. She was glad to see her old home again and everything seemed to her more beautiful than in the forth. She complained of the trouble she had in getting servants in the city. “These whites are not nearly as desirable as the blacks,” she said. “They cannot be driven to work with whips. You should present me with a good slave, father, so that it will be more comfortable for me. My husband will be quite angry about it, for the peo- ple in the north are crazy, they claim that the blacks are also human beings, and that slavery should be abolished. But he loves me dearly, and will be glad if he sees me happy.” The rich man thought a while and said, “The young slavés that I own are all clumsy, incapable; the old ones of course could not become accustomed to living in a large city and would be more trouble than help to you. Whom can I give you?” Young Comrades’ Corner / ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER. Dear Comrades—One day my teacher said that Russia was a bad country. I asked her why it was and she said because it is a Bolsheviki country. I don’t see why it is a bad country when it is really truly a free country, not like in America. I am sub- - scribing to the Young Comrade because it tells every- thing the way things are, not just,the opposite like the English papers do.—P. F. Last Week’s Puzzle The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 3 is STRIKE. ' That’s what workers do when they want to fight against the bosses for more pay or better conditions. Here are the comrades who answered the puzzle correctly: Joseph Goldfield, New York City; Jacob Freeman, B’klyn., N. Y.; Lillian Cohen, New York City; Vera — New York City; Bernard Kamindky, Pa- terson, N. J.; Michael Nichiporuk, Endicott, N. Y.; Hannah Gross, New York City; Aaron Leib, Pater- son, N. J.; Jacob Silver, Phila., Pa.; Ralph Freda, Hoboken, N. J.; Reuben Wolk, New ae City; Zella Margolis, New York City. xt Our Page By JOSEPHENE NIKORAK. is for our PAGE we read. is for the UNION so good is to READ this page. is for the PIONEERS is ja the Young Pioneers of AMERICA is for our GOOD.Comrades is for EVERY word in this page. —G— Bony waco ? ® a @ More Answers to Puzzle No. 2. Laurie Laukkonen, N, Y. C.; Anna Hirt, Detroit, Mich.; Elizabeth Hirt, Detroit, Mich.; Olga Smolak, Detroit, Mich.; K. Povelones, Clinton, Ind.; Rose Janeba, Delmont, Pa.; Verona Dayner, Fredericks- ‘town, Pa.; Lillian Infantina, Rochester, N. Y.; Michael Zagmester, Gasport, N. Y.; Nelli Kazlus ski, Nanticoke, Pa.; Linnea Frigard, Maynard, Mass.; J. Lukashewich, Utica, N. Y.; Benjamin Brovet, De- troit, Mich.; Joseph Golden, Windsor, Ont.; Philip Markus, Detroit, Mich.; David Friedman, Detroit, Mich.; Leon Levine, Detroit, Mich.; Nora Burgin, Brookline, Mass.; Joseph Corem, Hammond, Ind.; Jacob Freeman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; K. Dimitroff, Massillon, Ohio; Laura ;Borim, N. Y. C.; Milton Relin, Rochester, N, Y¥.; Catherine Colich, Willard, Ohio; Esther Widrevich, Phila., Pa.; Lillian Cohen, Bronx, N. Y.; Florence Wehun, N. Tanawanda, N. Y.; Walter Wehun, N. Tanawanda, N. Y.; [Ethel Jafie, Chicago, Ill.; M. B., Passaic N. J.; Peter Kvetkas, Medford, Mass.; Elizabeth Hudecek, Buf- falo, Ni Y.; Mary McGoff, Newport, R. I.; Alli Hill, Maynard, Mass.; Selma Cahen, Bronx, N. Y.; Mathew Ycelenchik, Niles, Ohio; Minnie Ross, Chel- sea, Mass.; Charles Sidman, Washington, D. C.; * Irving Klein, Stamford, Conn.; Rose Palley, Coney Island, N. Y.; Mae Feurer, Bronx, N. Y.; Abraham Nachowitz, Bronx, N. Y.; Alice Kelly, Revere, Mass.; Marie Johnson, Grandy, Minn.; Florence Arkin, Chicago, Ill.; Celia Karpiloff, Los Angeles, Calif.; Alfred Smith, Wilmington, Mass.; Rose a Chi- ; Miland Slivka, Wilkinsburg, Pa cago, Ill; This Week’s Puzzle No. 4. This week’s puzzle gives the name of something that all workers should belong to so that they can fight against the bosses altogether and win easier, Let’s see how many comrades can answer it. Try and do it! My first letter.is in UP, but not in DOWN, My second is in NIGHT but not in DAY, My third is in CITY but not in TOWN, My fourth is in WORK but not in PLAY, My fifth is in NEVER and alse in Now, When workers join me, I make bosses bow. What am I? Send all answers to the Pioneer Editorial Com- mittee, c/o Young Comrade Section, 33 East First Street, New York City, giving your name, age, ad- dress, anid number of puzzle. DON’T DRINK THIS. If the man in the picture is a SUMVUCL s LACHER and the stuff m the bottle-is PATRIOTIC BUNK, who is forced to drink it, and where? Victory By SIDNEY NADOLSKY. Four Passaic mills went back to work, And four are still on strike They’re going to keep it up, Until they get first what they like. They’re going to strike some more, some more, They’re going to strike some more, Until they get what they poset ' They’re going to strike some more. WORKERS By JULIA DAGILIS. My mother and father are workers, I’m a worker too, ~ I always read the Children’s Page, And see what I can do. AC ae SS ARE + aceon ec SR AR POMERAT Eason