The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

SAY it with music" The learning and
singing and commenting upon church
hymns is the method employed. In
still another school one hour every
week-formerly it used to be devoted
to cooking-is taken up with pious
lectures on "the principles of moral
ity and religion" The children take
notes and then have to report.
In a large school in New York the
emphasis seems to be on the ceremo-
nial. Each child steps up to the front
of the room, reads a piece from the
bible, and then kisses the holy book
while the other children sit with
their heads bowed reverently. The
teacher talks to them fervently about
the necessity for every child being re-
ligious and of carrying out the cere-
monial of his religion.
ALLOW at the Workers.
And so on. Fifty more examples
could be given. There is no doubt
that at last the school authorities have
seriously made up their minds that
the workers children must be pumped
full of the religious dope and that the
public schools are there to see that
it is done.
This is a direct blow at the Ameri-
can working class and at the working
class children. The Young Workers
League of New York and it's Junior
Section have heard the challenge and
re ready to answer it. A systematic
plan of activity has been worked out
by the District Junior Committee for
the activity of the Junior Section in
this campaign. This plan not only
takes into account the internal work
within the Junior Group itself-such
as the enlightenment Of our juniors on
matter of religion and the training of
picked juniors as propagandists and
agitators in this campaign-but also
the propaganda and agitation and or
ganization owrk OUTSIDER leaflets
printed and mimeographed--ar to be
issued for distribution among the
school children in the schools, mass
meetings, and protest meetings. Par
ents' meetings are to be held to mobil-
ize the adult workers in the struggle
and to gain their support for the jun
Tors in the school struggle. A call for
a united front is to be issued, labor I'M
ions and labor fraternal organizations
are to be circularized and approached.
Finally, the protest movement thus
intensified and crystallized, will be
given organizational form, especially
in the schools. Thus our Junior Sec
ton will have gone a long stretch on
the road to awakening and mobolizing
the working class children against
capitalism.
Juniors MoboIize Children.
We have already begun to put this
program into life. Groups of protest
ing children are already crystallizing
around our juniors in the schools.
Meetings have already been arranged
for and held.
A big protest meeting of this sort
Will be held this Friday, March IL, at
1901 Pitkin avenue in Brooklyn, at
which speakers from the Y. w. L.,
w. p, and the Foster Junior Group
speakers in Jewish and English-will
explain and discuss the whole ques-
ton.
The following day, March IA, the
Brownsville Section Junior Committee
is calling together a parents meet
ing and the anti-religion campaign will
play a prominent part on the order
ming. When our juniors get real busy
the howl Of the bosses and their SER
wants, the school authorities, will be
heard all the way to Chicago.
Down with the religious poison in
the schools
Down with religion, the tool of the
bosses!