The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-14

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4 Young Workers League, Local Chi
cago, held Friday, July 10, at the
Greek Hall, demonstrated that the
Chicago league will carry on greater
activities than ever before during the
summer months.
Not only were plans laid for more
intensive activities, but the activities
will be launched and the Chicago
league will show its strength by car
rying on three important campaigns
at once.
This membership meeting was
called by the City Executive Commit
tee especially to deal with these three
important campaigns which are be-
ing started Immediately, and the mem
bers responded enthusiastically to the
call for volunteers to distribute anti
militarist leaflets, to get subscriptions
for the Young Worker, and to carry on
huge campaign in the printing in
! dustry, the goal of which will De the
organization of nuclei in the biggest
printing plants in the city.
Anti-Miitarist Activities.
In reporting on the campaign against
the citizens military training camps,
as well as against all capitalist mill
tarism, Comrade Gilbert Greenberg
reported that the Chicago league
would distribute 10000 leaflets against
the citizens military training camps,
all of which will be disposed of at
the factories.
How They VIII Be Distributed.
They will be distributed at the big
gest plants in the city, and especially
those plants which send young work
ers to the camps will be covered
Branch No. will distribute 1000
leaflets, Branch No. 2 will distribute
400; Branch No. 3, 5000; Branch No.
4, 1000; Branch No. 5, 1000, and
Branch No. 6, 5000 Besides this
squads will be organized on city
scale to cover two of the biggest
plants in the city.
The Printing Industry Campaign.
Cornrade John Harvey, reporting
on the preparation that had been
made for a campaign in the printing
industry, told of the importance of
conducting a campaign in this in
dustry in Chicago.
Chicago is the center Of the printing
industry, which is one of the biggest
industries in the country. Out Of the
$4,000 workers employed in the in
dustry here, a large percentage are
young workers, as it is greatly by
employing thousands of young work
ers and big percentage of helpers
in comparison to the skilled bindery
workers and printing, that the EN-
ployers in Chicago have been to put
the industry here so much on an open
shop basis.
Different From other Campaigns.
Comrade Harvey pointed out that
there were many live issues on which
we will fight in our campaign in the
printing industry. The rotten condi-
tons in the big open shops, the large
number Of unorganized young work
ers who work side by side with the
union workers, the difficulty to get
into the craft unions, the open shop
1 apprenticeship schools, and many
other issues vital to all young work
ers in the industry will be touched
upon.
This campaign will be conducted
much differently from the campaign
in the mail order industry 1t will
be less of a journalistic and more Of
an organizaional campaign, and
while there will be plenty of interest
ing articles on conditions in the in
dustry and stories on the various
shops, the success of the campaign
will be judged not by the number Of
papers we sell, but by the extent we
are able to crystalize our activities
into concrete shop nucleus results.
viii Last Seven Weeks.
The campaign will last seven weeks,
and instead of having all of the ar
ticles In one issue of the Young
Worker as in the mail order house
campaign, the league will tackle one
shop at a time, concentrating all Of
It's forces at this shop three days Of
one week, when they will start on
another factory, and the work of keep
ing up the campaign will be left to
the area branch in whose territory
the plant is located.
This will not only make it possible
to accomplish more at each shop but
will make it easy for the branches to
continue the campaign there, as dur
ing the whole seven weeks there will
be much interesting material in the
Young Worker, which the young
workers in these shops will want to
read even when there is no special
story about their shop in that special
issue.
The seventh week at the end Of
the campaign. there will be a special
issue OF the Young Worker which will
be sold at all Of the plants and will