The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-25
SEAT FOR EVERY
KID, is GANNON'S
SCHOOL SLOGAN
Party Official Attacks
Firetrap Buildings

A seat for every school child In a
safe school, is the slogan James T.
Cannon, chairman of the Workers
Party Of America, suggested for
the DAILY WORKERS campaign
against fire trap schools.
"The conditions existing in the j..
N. Thorp school and exposed in the
DAILY WORKER are shameful. /
feel sure that there are no schools
along the North Shore that are in
the same condition. / am very glad
to see the DAILY WORKER 60
after these conditions and am sure
they will be able to arouse the work
ers to the danger their children are
facing" he said.
Find Conditions "Rotten"
The exposure of the conditions in
the J. N, Thorp school contained in
yesterdays DAILY WORKER is only
one example Of rotten conditions in
the public schools of Chicago. Mem
bers Of the Young Workers League
and of the Junior Section of the Y.
w. L. have long known of these con-
.ditions from members who attend
public schools. 1t is not only in
Chicago that school conditions are
rotten, in every large city in the
country they are the same.
The Young Workers League Isl
glad to get behind and help the
DAILY WORKER in it's campaign
for better schools and exposure Of
present conditions. In the investiga-
ton of conditions the Young Workers
League is willing to place the entire
resources of their organization at the
disposal of the DAILY WORKER.
We will do all in our power to help
get better schools for the children
Of the workers.
Workers Made Goats
The refusal Of the board Of educa-
ton to recognize the existence of fire.
trap schools is part of the boards
political plot to keep down expenses.
As in all public economy plans the
workers are the ones on whom the
economy is carried out.
The part time plan now in vogue in
many of the crowded schools of Chi
cago supplies the bosses with part
time child slaves. When not in school
many of Che public school pupils work
at home helping their parents earn a.
living in all sorts Of "home indus
tries"
The Young Workers League and
the Junior Section Of the League will
fight increasingly against fire trap
schools, and part time education and
calls upon the Chicago Teachers Fed
Grafton to join a joint campaign
against these evils.
Part-Time Democracy
"The proud boast that free educa-
ton in our public schools is the
foundation of the American demo-
eracy looks rather cheap when we
realize that nearly all the children
attending public schools in the cities
of America are housed in schools
such as the one described in Wednes-
days DAILY WORKER. Part-time
democracy is the only result that we
can expect from part-time education.
The overwhelming majority Of the
future workers of America will re-
ceive only a public school education.
They should receive the best possible
education. How can they get a decent
education in miserably inadequate
schools?
"The Workers Party in Chicago
will get behind the DAILY WORKER
in its campaign for better and safer
schools and help TO arouse the work
ers Of Chicago 10 the. educational
needs of their children
That is the statement Of Arne
Swabeck, organizer Of district s Of
the Workers Party Of America re-
garding fire trap public schools and
the campaign Of the DAILY
WORKER for better and safer
schools.