The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29

the Joy and the growth in body and :
mind by the students cannot be con-
veyed, however, they must be expert
enced.
Our school had ffty-seven students,
two instructors, a cook and lady
helper. One can imagine the problem
our director had. Fifty-seven active,
young people on his hands to educate,
feed, discipline, and provide lodging
for for five weeks and then return
them to their homes healthy and sat
isfled and ready to do Communist
work. 1t is to the credit Of Com
rade Hayes that this he accomplished
The method used to accomplish this
task is very interesting.
The responsibility of administration
was given to the student body.
The first two days of school was
spent in organizing for the work
ahead and in getting settled at our
various living quarters. The students
were lodged at fourteen different
farm houses in the vicinity Of the
school. The farthest being two and
half miles away and the nearest
quarter Of a mile. The two ladies
and six boys stayed at the hall.
The student body organization was
in two sections One was the student
branch Of the league and the other
was the student council with the
working committees. The student
branch was "a model league branch
with officers and committees. Much
of it's work was practice for branch
training, that is, we went thru the
formalities of branch functions and
to gain experience. However, where
there was chance to do real work
| 1t was DONE The officers and COM
n1ittees of the branch were as fol-
lows:
Organizer.
Recording secretary.
I Membership secretary.
Treasurer.
Literature agent with committee
of two.
Educational director with a com
mittee of four.
Social director.
Sport directors: One girl and one
boy.
Yowlec committee of seven. (This
was the staff of the Wall newspaper.)
/. The executive committee, composed
of all officers of the branch.
New officers and committees were
elected each week so as to give stu
bdsnts experience in branch work.
There was some exceptions to this
however. The social committee was
permanent thruout the course for it
had the task of providing constant re-
creation and entertainment for the
student body. Also the first educa-
tional committee was made permanent
due to the nature of it's work. A uni
form record Of our meetings was de-
sired so the Office of recording secre-
tary was made permanent.
r The other officers and committees
performed their routine branch func-
tons and whenever actual work was
to be done they took it up. For ex-
ample, the athletic directors organic
ed two track meets and a track team
that took part in the events at Su-
perior. They raised money and
bought balls and bats for the play
grounds and conducted the drill dur
ing exercise periods. They lined up
student base ball team and played
local team. They also conducted
swimming parties.
On July Fourth and fifth, the stu
dents held two street meetings at
Superior, Wis, distributed five thou
sand anti-imperialist leaflets, sold
twenty-five dollars worth of defense
stamps, took part in a Finnish district
track meet, disposed of a hundred
DAILY WORKERS by selling them on
the streets. In this work all the
branch committee took active part.
The literature committee handled the
literature. A defense committee was
created to supervise the sale of de-
Tense stamps. The educational com
mittee furnished the speakers and so
on. Beside establishing the Yowlec.
wall newspaper, the educational
committee organized group study cir.
cles, made an outline of the courses.
and helped provide designs for
posters.
With the exception of the student
committee and those marked perma-
nent everyone took his or her turn
at work. On the bulletin board was
chart with all the names of the
students. Each morning one saw by
that the chart II he was on a work.
ing committee for the day. Chair.
men were appointed whose duty II
was to see that all necessary work
for the day was done by the com.
mittees. This was done to silence
the confusion that resulted from the
committees not knowing their parti.
cular tasks each day.
The work Of these committees was
routine. The kitchen committee
washed the dishes and cleaned the