The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 10

RUTHENBERG YOUNG COMRADE DRIVE Gomrades, we have pointed out to you last week that the best way in which we could honor Com- rade Ruthenberg and carry out his slogan “Let’s Fight On!” was by joining the Young Pioneers and bygsubseribing to The Young Comrade. This week We, are going to tell you about the big special Ruthenberg Young Comrade Drive that has been started by the Young Pioneers of America. In this drive the readers of the Children’s Pages must take an-active part. The Young Pioneers are going to offer many prizes to those who get the most sub- Sctiptions.- A very pretty picture button will be given to each child who gets at least one sub. Any- one can do that. Any child who gets 50 subs or mere will be given a week’s stay at the nearest Pioneer Camp free of charge. That sure is some prize. The third prize will be a surprise prize. We won’t tell you what it is.. The one who gets the most subs will get that and he won’t be sorry. Now, the question is how are we to get subs? We will tell you a few ways. @—You must become a subscriber yourself. »—Talk to your schoolmates and friends about the Young Comrade. Show it to them and get them * to“subscribe. ; 3.—If you belong to a club, dramatic, sport, social orsany other club, explain to the other members what the Young Comrade stands for, speak to each member personally and get every one to subscribe. 4.—Visit the houses of your neighbors, relatives, friends, and speak both to the parents and to the children about the Young -Comrade. : “D.—Get your parents to help you. Make them take you to union meetings, affairs and clubs. Try to Bet those organizations as a whole to contribute, and get each one present to contribute. Get your friends to he!p you. “Phese are only a few suggestions, but they will siftely give you an idea of how to do-this work. ia Comrade Children’s Page Readers, get on the jok, fil! out the Ruthenberg Subscription Blank, ain FIGHT ON by getting Young Comrade subs. ® OUR LETTER BOX ¢ DESCRIBING A SCAB. Wear Comrades: I am a girl of 13 an@ *n the ighth grade. We live near a mine which is work- ia since 1917, a seab mine as I call it, The chil- m ef the scab workers go to our school. We always tease them and call them scabs and fight aik the time. We tell them we fight for our free- dom, for our fathers to zo to work in the mine like union men and not like your fathers working taking our fathers’ jobs away and our mothers’ sa children’s bread away. They keep quiet then. In account of us fighting with these scabs a deputy was coming to guard these children, As soon as the school board or politicians heard about it they Wad a case, saying that the deputy must not come near the school. He must take care of Pittsburgh Coal Co. ground not the public road. But before Sat a little boy was coming home from school for lunch as the deputy was guarding those scabs. looked through the little boy’s pockets and ared him almost to death. One of these deputies Pe a Lithuanian. I wish I could get to speak to him. I would tell him something. He is from ranton. I will continue the other part next week. +HELEN BALSES. * A a ALL CHILDREN WELCOME. Dear Comrades: I just wish to inform you that just organized the branch of the Young Pioneers the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 8409 West Jef- ferson Avenue, Detroit) Mich. Our next meeting ll be held next Sunday. All children are wel- me.—-ANNA HECK. POEM : By WM. MURPHY. ioneer, Pioneers, you know very well And Pioneers can tell o t if you want to put a rope around their necks You'll have to work hard by heck. AS The Boss *° Gets The Sack PL ; Edited by the Young + A Page for Workers’ IN THE PIONEERS ESTHER WIDREVICH and BELLA MILLER, Then we have our meetings here, They are cheerful full of cheer Tn the Pioneers How we talk about the news And then we all give our dues In the Pioneeys. Then we have the roll call And we answer “Always ready.” We end the meeting full of seng And poems too all along In the Pioneers. A Letter From a Teacher. By M. R. I am a schocl teacher. Children are put under my care. Who are these children? Nincty-five per cent of them belong to workers, good, hard factory workers, who send their children to school hoping that they will not have to slave in the future. What happens. These children of the workers are taught certain subjects—reading, writing and arithmetic. Is that ail? Of course not. Their most important subject is Americanism. What is Americanism and- why is it given first importance in the public schools? Why are children daily taught the pledge of allegiance to the flag? To continue the present system under which we are living—to poison \the child’s mind while they are young, so that they will not waft any other system. In other words to make him think as the bosses think. What happens to teachers who refuse to do as they are told? What happens to any teacher who criticizes the present form of government? They are thrown out of the schools. The publie schools have become the tool of the capitalist class, and they use the schools to kill any real thinking that the children may have. The teacher thus becomes the tool of the capitalists. To fight this the children of the working class must join the Young Pioneers where they will learn to think. YOUNG REBELS Y is for youth who leaders shall be O is for oil which capitatists own U is for unjon with which we agfee N is for noksence, which into our minds is thrown. G is for groups which we organize. ‘ R is for Russia that country of ours. ; * E is for end which with eapitalism will be B is for bunk which teackers tell for. hours. ; E is for endeavor a workers’ world to create. L is for Lenin whose ideas we follow. S is for bosses’ stuff which we will not swallow. MY TEACHER. This is the first time I am writing to you, I am nine years of age and in the fourth grade. My teacher is the same like all teachers are. She teaches us pretty well to salute the flag and many other foolishness, but she never says a word about the working class. She does not like a workers’ organi- zation —HELEN CARLIAS. , THE SCAB ANNA BLASKOW, A seabl A scab! He’s on the bosses’ side If he don’t shut his gab He'll get it in the eye. RUTHENBERG SUBSCRIPTION BLANK LET’S FIGHT ON! against the bosses by sub- scribing and getting subscriptions to ‘The Young Comrade. Fill out this blank and send it with 50 cents to the Pioneer Editorial Committee, 33 First Street, New York City. This will entitle you to one years (monthly) subscription, Pe eee te Aer ope wae | 14 AMMO Ri Ss ‘: POMOC OOOH rere nnsane . State Namie ..... Address ... ee ey Young SECTION Pioneers of America ‘LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 6 is R | E | D- ol eae Eh ae ee RE Here are the names of those who answered the puzzle correctly: Sarah Titefsky, New York City; Joseph Gold- field, Bronx, N. Y.; Mae Feurer, New York City. More Answers To Puzzle No. 5. _Violet Lappin, Paterson, N. J.; Henry Samek, Clifton, N. J.; Bennie Caruso, Chicago, Til.; Beatrice Schwartz, N. -Y. C.; Jennie Lukashewich, Utica, N. Y.; Mollie Wilinsky, Detroit, Mich.: Gertrede Victor, Chicago, Tl.; Michael Zagmester, Gasport, N. Y.; Elianor Ivanoff, Post Falls, Idaho; Mildred Strapee, Remsen, N. Y.; Milton Relin, Rochester, Ne YS THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE NO. 7. This week’s puzzle is a dandy. It spells the name of members of a workers’ ehildrén’s organization. It has eight letters. Do-you think you ean do it? My first letter is in PEOPLE but not in MEN, My second is twice in INDIAN btft not once in TEN, My third is in OVIET but not in ITALY, My fourth is in UNION but not in FASCISTI, My fifth is in STRIKE but not in STAB, My sixth is in WORKER but not in SCAB, My seventh is in REBEL and also in TRUE, ‘My eighth is in SCHOOL. and in TEACHERS too. Together I’m something that you all ought to be To help us win our liberty. How do you like this puzzle? Can you solve it? Send your answers to Pioreer Editorial Committee, c/o Young Comrade Section, 33 First Street, New York City, giving your name, age, addréss and the number of the puzzle. O... HEALTHY SLAVES Dear Comrades: 1 thought it might interest you or the Young Comrades who read the children’s page, how we are taught to become worthwhile American citizens in school. They say that must have health. But to be healthy we must Tive in a house with nice and clean surroundings, we must have good warm clothes and eat wholesome food. They tell us that we should learn te save while young. But they don’t tell us where to get the money to save. For a man who has a big family to support, will be glad to live anywhere as long as he lives under something. ° Not because he likes to live there, but he. can’t earn eneugh to even LIVE. Anyhow they just want us to be strong and healthy, so when we are ready to work, the capitalists will be able to get more out of us.— JOLAN MARSE, CLASS STRUGGLE IN WEST VA, By MARGARET JANCSAR, I used to live in Cliftonville, West Va. One sum- mer day, July. 17, 1922, Monday morning, (I re- member it as if it was today. I'll never forget it in all my life) I awoke and heard a bullet whistle thru the house. I went out to see what it was and, 1 saw some soldiers, so I told my mother there is a world war. My mother told me not to be afraid of the soldiers. She told me to go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. As I was going hetwéen the hills, twp soldiers came running towards me point- ing their guns at me. I was scered. But they saw I was a girl so they said that I can go and I went and bought the bread. As T was coming. back from. the store, I saw a man running from a hill. He ran so fast that he fell down and the soldiers caught him and beat him until the bled came from his body. When they were tired they took him to jail. You see! What the soldiers do to workers when P etkeihir wkas ws they go on strike. Boys, don’t join the army. From Off ‘The Worker's Back * a ne RR RN RRR AR Sa EN NNER mentee me a armen