The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1927, Page 11

COMRADE Edited by the Young A Page for Workers’ SECTION Pioneers of America and Farmers’ Children THATS THE SPIRIT Workers’ children should be always ready to help the workers when they fight against the bosses. That’s what the Young Pioneers said and did when the workers of Passaic were striking against their bosses. They went on the picket line; they collected money for food for the strikers and their children. They did everything they could to help the workers win. Now we hear how the workers’ children of Gal- latin, Pa., have helped the miners who are striking against the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The bosses had hired some scabs. The workers’ ehildren de- cided that the best way to show that they were with the strikers was to refuse to go to school with scab children. So this week, as soon as the scab children walked into school, all the workers’ children who are with the strikers walked out. That’s the true Pioneer spirit—always ready to help the workers, Don’t you want to be always ready for the cause of the working class?. Join the Young Pioneers of America and fight together with the workers and their children against the bosses in the school, factory, field, or mine. Write to us and we will tell you how to join. oe wee Cur Letter Box Bom ae oe oe We'll Fix Those Capitalists Dear Comrades: While at recess my boy friend and I made out we were playing soldiers. We took a vote. We choose a boy on the capitalists’ side and a boy on some other countries’ side. We did not know what side it would be. So my boy friend said it should be the Communists’ side, for he is a miner’s son and his father told him about it. So he chose me, and, of course, the others would not be on our side. The other boys said, “Now fight.” But we would not. We said, “You ought to win for you have all the boys in our room and we have only two.” Then they piled on us for saying that. We two will fix those little bums, and the workers will fix the _ big bums.—-LEE PACKER. U; & Ghould Withdraw. Her Battleships Dear Comrades: I think that the United States should be ashamied of herself and withdraw her bat- tleships and sailors, and leave the people or help the people to fight for their freedom in Chfha, or Nicaragua, But no, United States won’t do that because she is a capitalist country and has a bosses’ government.—ANNA VOGONIS. . YOUNG COMRADE SUB Send subscriptions for the Young Comrade to Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., N. Y. C. % year sub 25c—1 year sub 50c. NGG 6 iin cho te es iE BRerece N Rie S beaibiee\ dK eiettea sosade ne GUTORE Sissi wees cu esé eau sie ed gum evn aeeiho ie ces a ee ac Grane Pes eae Sa eeeiS AMS a. (Issued Every Month). © : ee re Tema eee veepnaistinalintal sci THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 32 This week’s puzzle is an addition and subtraction puzzle. The answer is some one we all hate. Let’s see you do it! BANK + POLICE + SHOPS + SAY — COAL -—- PAY — HELP — SKIN - 2 Send all answers to the Daily Worker Young Comrade Corner, 33 First St., N. Y. C., stating your name, address, age and number of puzzle. Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 31 ‘is: BUILD A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF SACCO AND VANZETTI BY JOINING THE YOUNG PIONEERS. The following had the cor- rect answer: Mae Malyk, New York City; Edmund Nudelman, New York City; Jack Rosen, New York City; Anna Galaga, New York City; Lillian Zager, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mae Feurer, New York City; Madeline Fin- kel, New York City. More Answers to Puzzle No. 30 Grace Zelnick, New York City; Ethel Menuch, Detroit, Mich.; Leo Wolin, Chicago, Ill.; James Mish- kis, Chicago, IlJ.; Mildred Silver, Chicago, IL; Syl- via Horinstein, Detroit, Mich.; Dorothy Kirin, New York City; Morris Gusman, Detroit. Mich.; Milton Relin, Los Angeles, Cal.; Lillian Zager, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Anna Tuhy, Chicago, Ill.; Mae Malyk, New York City; Luz Vilarino, Inglewood, Cal.; Liberta Vilarino, Inglewood, Cal.; Emma Sechooler, Chi- cago, Ih. “HOKUM ITEMS, | BUSINESS 3 AWFUL. a ea RING SIDE SEAT AND RR FARE TO THE DEMPSEY FIGHT WITH EACH PR OF SOCKS- Pioneers Teach Teachers Dear Comrades: A month ago we took up Russia in our public school. It was for our geography lesson. There are five Pioneers in school. Another comrade and I stood up and told the teacher we could tell the class something about Russia. I told them why the revolution was started in Russia, and what kind of government they have there. My teacher said that the U. S. would not need a revolu- tion like that because our government is very good to the people. She also said, “I don’t think we would have such a revolution here. But, if we do, it won’t come for another hundred years.” Then we began to speak about capital and labor in the U. S. My teacher said, “Everyone except the government workers, like the police, are paid enough.” I said, “That many people are willing to work but they can’t find work. Besides, they are not paid enough for their work.” My teacher said, “It is a lie.” Well, comrades, my teacher, that other comrade and I had a discussion. Finally at the end of our period my teacher said to me, “We didn’t study any geog- raphy about Russia today only history.” The next day when my principal came in my teacher told her that there were some Bolshevikis in the class. The principal called me out and spoke to me. She said that I must love my country and all that bunk. As I live in the Co-operative House near Bronx Park she asked all the children living there if they be- longed to a club and what it was for. Anyway now she leaves us alone. But, we have to. watch out how we speak in school. If all of you would think about it you would see the lies that are put into your head in school—_RUTH YOUKELSON. Com, Rizak Makes a Correction In my article “The Thirteenth International Youth Day” (New Magazine Section of The DAILY WORKER, Sept. 10, 1927) I stated the following: “The reply of the working class youth to these vile attempts of Washington to militarize the youth must be this: we refuse to enter the Citizen’s Military Training Camps because we refuse to go into the coming war. We will not shoot our brother workers, we have given enough lives, to the capitalist class. The only war we shall go into will be the war against you—the class war.” Such a formulation can lead to a wrong concep- tion and more than that it smacks of pacifism. The Leninist conception is to fight the imperialist war before and after the war is declared. When the war is declared and the mobilization commences it is the purest kind of pacifist sophistry to issue the slogan of boycott the war. On the contrary during this period we will enter the war with the aim of turning the imperialist war into a civil war, in other words, for the defeat of our own’ bourgeoisie. We are not opposed to all wars. If the imperialist efforts to throttle the Soviet Union blossoms into war, we are in favor of the war of the Soviet Union for the preservation of the revlution. We are in favor of the war of the colonial masses against their im- perialist oppressors. We are certainly in favor of’a proletariat which has learned to use arms against its real enemy.—I. RIZAK. THE REAL AMERICAN LEGION (Continued from Page One) a razor, and hanged and rehanged until his head was nearly torn from his body. Also his corpse was mistreated after death. The Legion is guilty. The malice of the Legion and its lumber company officials followed the rest of the captured workers into the court room at Montesano where they stood trial for the death of Grimm. It reached out with deeds of violence into all the lumber camps around and terrorized the neighborhood. It arrested in his home Eugene Barnett, a man who had no connection with the defense of the I. W. W. hall in Centralia, and framed him with the rest. He was an able or- ganizer of lumber workers, somewhat prominent. Seven workers were convicted of murder in the second degree, even intimidation of the jury could not force them to make it first degree, and one, Loren Roberts, was adjudged insane, but placed in the state penitentiary with the rest, where he still stays. The jury asked for mercy, the judge gave none—25 to 40 years was his sentence. The men are still in prison—the Legion has erected a monu- ment to itself in honor of the raiders, in Centralia. e ae Nine of the jurors have signed affidavits that they do not believe the workers had a fair” trial. Some of them admit that the jury was intimidated by the Legion. Everybody knows that the Legion- naires in uniform established themselves in large numbers in Montesano, crowded the court room, and loudly and publicly demanded death for the workers on trial, and for all who should falter in their “duty” to persecute the T. W. W. This is the real American Legion, as it shows itself in its deeds.