The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-22
WORKERS
EXPLAIN Boys
week IN MEETS
Outdoor Rallies Show
Up Capitalist Gush
BY Al scHAAP.

Hc lOlAOW1HB PRESS agent ma
terial is being sent to all papers in
Chicago in order to AROUSE" interest
in Boys Week.
Purpose. To interest fathers
and mothers in their own boys. 2. To
emphasize the home as the greatest
institution for character building and
good citizenship. 3. To emphasize
family responsibility toward the boy.
ut is not in any sense a father and
son night, but night in which the
state Of the mother and the rest of the
family is equally emphasized with that
of Dad.)
"Suggestions-Arrange radio pro-
grams when prominent speakers will
make short talks on the general sub
ject, The Boy and his Home On that
evening, mothers will serve special
dinner of the good things she knows
her boy likes. Father will plan to give
the entire evening to his boy; tell him
stories of his own boyhood, games he
played, and some of his experiences;
he will be boy again himself and
make his boy feel that he is really and
truly pal of his; he may make this
an occasion to present him with a
game, baseball, glove, or some
thing that he knows will please him.
Find a homeless boy and add him to
the circle. If there is a radio in the
house, tune in to the splendid broad
casting stations where programs es-
pecially interesting to boys will be
given"
The chairman for Boys Day at
Home is the infamous ex-Judge Kene-
saw Mountain Lands, who won an in
glorious name thruout the country for
the so-called Lands Award" which
attempted to cut the wages Of union
labor and then finally destroy their
union organizations. This same Ian
dis has been responsible for imposing
long term sentences upon radical la
Dor leaders. ]. Louis Engdahl, the
editor of the DAILY WORKER, to-
gether with other Communists, has
been sentenced by the notorious judge
to life Imprisonment because they
dared to tell the workers to keep out
of capitalist war
Along with the Gear of Baseball
dom we find many czars of industry
and the educational system who are
aiding in an effort to see that Boys
Week be put across" by having the
ohi1dwor fool 0frnnorfopfO
Fathers are asked by the Boys
Week founders to take an interest in
their own boys. This can very well
be done by the rich and middle class
fathers, but cannot be done by the
workers. In an average working class
family today the sons of the workers
usually have to work as newsboys or
at some other occupation in order to
keep alive. With the father working
late hours and the mother engaged in
household duties and the boy arriving
fate after work, how is it humanity
possible for the working class fathers
and mothers of America to give the
attention to their children?
And even if time permitted, the par
ents of the working class children
have had no real opportunity to learn
to take real interest in their chill
dren.
The reason for this is very obvious
since the ones that rule this country
only care that the future slaves be
brought up so that they can work at
a machine all day. How can these
homes, most of which are filthy and
not fit for human beings to live in,
become the greatest institution for
building and good citizen
ship? They are great institutions for
revolution.
Is it possible for the workers to es-
tablish a family responsibility toward
the boy, when all the limits ofaShch
responsibility lie in the hands of the
capitalists who employ the boys par
ents, seeking only to give them a
meagre wage. These wages do not
allow them even to assume full eco
nomic responsibility, let alone any
other responsibility.
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good dinners to their children on this
day. Fathers should buy their sons
a baseball glove or a game. Find a
homeless boy and add him to the cir
Gle, the statement says.
Are homeless boys not given proper
attention by the administration, that
parents are requested to find them
and add them to the circle?" Haven't
the working class parents enough to
take care of at present? Why can't
boys have good meals every day,
both at home and in the schools?
Tune in your radio is some more
advice of this benevolent committee
on Boys Week. One would think
they were giving away free radios to
The working class children so that
they can get the hot "air" that will
be transmitted over the broadcasting
stations today.
Observation-Disclosures