The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
CARLSON Tells
FORUM OF YOUTH
LIFE IN RUSSIA
Youth is Taught to Sing
While Learning

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ers Party, held every Sunday
night at the lodge room in the
Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren,
and Ashland, is meeting with
marked success.
On Sunday night a good
crowd became enthusiastic at
the speech Of Victor Carlson
upon the lives of the working
class youth in Russia.
Carlson told how the Soviet schools
do not dragon children into accept
ing without question anything at all,
least of all the forms of their own
government. In America the children
must accept the idea that all govern.
ment forms are fixed, final and per
feet In Russia, children are taught
to look critically upon their govern
ment, to understand that it is a part
of all social processes and subject
to change.
A Red Army Kid Orderly.
Even the kiddies in Russia" said
Carlson, take more interest in poll.
tics than adults in America. / was
interviewing a little chap in a uni
form and with gun strapped on him
half as big as he was. He told me
he had been with the Red Army as
an orderly for four years, after get
ting away from the white guard who
had killed his daddy He asked me
about the Workers Party and finally
told the he thot we didn't have a
good party as it hadn't overthrown
the capitalists yet.
"He told me that as the fronts were
liquidated, what Russia needs is good
Communist managers for industry
now, instead of so many soldiers, so
he was going to school, He had his
arms full Of books on political sci
ence. And he Was about II years
old, a typical product Of revolutionary
children in Russia"
The Work Schools Function.
The Young Communist League Of
Russia has $4,000 members, Carlson
said, and is trying for a 100000
next year. It is much larger than the
Communist Party. Educational pro-
grams of the Soviet government are
always submitted to the Young Com.
imunist League before final passage
The league has much administrative
power over everything concerning the
young people.
In Russia, says Carlson, a new form
of school, the work school," is de-
veloped. It combines theory with
practice and it is even more effective
in wiping out the division line be-
tween manual and mental labor.
There is coming to be no barrier be-
tween them in Russia. Production is
understood as a social effort. Indi
vidualism fiourishes best in the com
prehensiveness of communal think
ing.
No Child Labor in Russia.
Under sixteen, labor is not allowed
Even between sixteen and eighteen
only rarely Then only six hours
day, part OF which must be educa.
tional study. But all time is paid
Communal farms are springing up
everywhere, largely conducted by
young Communists, teaching modern
agriculture to the backward peasant
masses. Communist youth do the
educational work in the armed forces
10000 are in the Red. Army teaching
the peasant soldiers to be capable
workers as we'll as giving them po-
litical training.
Y. w. L. Take Notice.
The Communist youth helps to
maintain the high spirit of the
workers generally when they are
weary from the strain demanded Of
them by the struggle in its hardest
days. They help to hearten the tired
and cheer the discouraged. They are
not afraid to sing. Indeed they are
always singing.
The league. like the party in Rus
sia, is based upon the job. It is po
Iitical organization functioning in the
factories. All difference between
worker and intellectual is being dis.
solved by making the two combined
in cacn and every worker capable OF
ali sorbing and developing knowledge,
said Carlson. His speech aroused
great interest and many questions
and speeches from the noor