The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-28
Children From the Steel
Mills Take Music Prizes
From Offspring of Rich
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the yellow press that tOade to the rich it's first
duty is quite startled in admitting children of the
Gary Ind, steel district have first musical
test participated by children from the gold coast districts
to the north of Chicago that know only of the steel mills
thru the red glare that comes across Lake Michigan and OF
the stocyads thru the odors carried wind from Pack
ingtown, to tantalze arstocratic nostrs.
The kept press is snobbish the class it speaks
for It labels as the exception anything extraordinary
achieved by workers.
1t aghast the of children whose horizon is
married by the ugly plants of u s. Steel Standard Oil and
Portland Cement, to mention only few, in competition
against children who live continuously In atmosphere
ated by Wekep lawns, farspreading trees singing birds
and spacious gardens.
Yet that is what has happened. The Gary team took
first place with of TAO out $50 points, while the
from WImette, the north shore millionaire colony,
had be with second place. with another exclusive
center of the arstocracy Lake Geneva third This for
the grade schools The Gary high school team didn't do
good only managing tie Lake Geneva for first place.
The overwhelming majority of the children Of labor
robbed Of the opportunity Of going to high school.
This achievement is only indication Of what the chill
dren of the working class could accomplish IT the heavy
burden of capitalist industry only lifted from their
youthful shoulders If they could only have opportunity
to develop But the blight of the black capitalist plague
falls upon them, before they born takes huge
toll among them while they young; children, especially
when they babies die fast in the shadow of the steel
mills Young if they remain in Gary are fed to the
mills with the Indifference that pig ron coal and
poured into the hungry of this industry.
Every of carries within its hard surface the asp
raons and hopes well the blood and agony OF the
The longing that leaps the privately owned steel
industrys high barrcade of obstacles higher life must
be strong indeed 1t usually dies sborn Poets tell of the
great power of music 1t must have power to live in the
hearts of children in the steel district.
The names of these children from Gary, who the
music prizes show their nativity alien to 100 cent Aeri
canism There is Earl MalInger, Alex Kahn Charles Sea-
man, Robert Buchsbaum Lois Kingman, Charles Bruce,
Anna Petro, Mary Pero, May Berg, Cecilia Brunswick
of Italy, Germany the British isles and other distant
lands These children that the American ruling class
trying keep out of the United States with its restricting
immigration quotas.
Capitalism has but future for children; to develop
them into "hands-hands" for its Industrial machine.
1t does not care develop them for anything higher
immediate industrial needs This is shown IN the
capitalist of the public schools How garing the
Union Of Soviet Republics where the develop
ment all children for the big things OF live the first con-
sderaon of the social order striving for complete
realization thru Communism.
No WONDER them that in this well in every capital
ist land the ranks children grow the struggle against
the capitalist is their worst foe The armies OF
Red Youth every nation, the Red Youth of the working
class, continue grow in numbers with the slogans upon
their lips Capitalism must go!' "Hai Communism"
Greater youth coming to realize that there
no escape under capitalism just as the whole work
ing class with greater unanny rallies tor the final triumph
the last expressing class -
The brilliant of the steel districts children IS
prophecy what the whole working class once released
from capitaisms binding chains, binding upon mind and
body can achieve day of that release Is coming with
the triumph of Communism the victory Of the workers.